Evening star., 1900-07-24
Congressman Little6eld Believes That
Bryan is Beaten.
CARRY LESS STATES THAN IN 1896
A. Critical Arraignment Of Demo-
cratic Sophistries.
THE PARAMOUNT" ISSUE
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star

| at lhis pI ISstS llttlS Clly iOE lew uouES lOE
chat with Mr.. C. E. Littlefield, member of
| Congress from the second district former
ly represented for many terms by the late
| Nelson ]. Dingley.
Mr.. Littlefield during the last session
jumped into the front rank of the debaters
| in one or two speeches of unusual strength
| and eloquence, and though in his first term
| in Congress, achieved prominence the
| republican side of the House quite out of
| the ordinary for new member. Mr.. Little
| field speaks with great force and directness,
| is emphatic in his declaration of the success
| of his party in November and attacks the
! principles for which the Nebraska states
! man stands with quiet sarcasm and logical
| reasoning.
Bryan Will Garry Fewer States.
"At what do you place the republican
| majority in Maine?" he was asked.
| Il estimate 1t at from 5000 to 10000
| Under unusual circumstances it has once
| or twice exceeded these figures, but other
| wise considerably below l think there is no
| question about the republicans holding their
| present congressional representation"
DO you concede Mr.. Bryan as many
| states as he carried in 1887
mo. 1 have not made any estimate of
Bryans strength outside of the south, but
Casting Noiiu4lioHS justify lIle lIltlcIlCt
| that it will be less than in 1886
Imperialism Not an issue.
what in your opinion is the effect upon
the people of both parties of the issue of
alleged Imperialism, upon which the demo-
| Gratis are SO tunefully and persistently
harpng?'
Il do not see how the question of empire
or imperialism can be an issue in this cam
While he 10 r,lo md
ly proclams against empire and imperial
ism and proposes to make 1t paramount
I find nothing in the republican platform
that commits it to the idea of empire or i'm
perialism, that justifes the inference
that it has any such purpose; on the con-
trary, it failed to specifically indorse the
congressional action that could legitimately
be held to give rise to that inference
The republican party proposes that the
republic snail fearlessly faithfully and
| properly discharge the duties and RESPONSE
biities devolved upon it by the treaty Of
Paris. More than this Is not required or
proposed by the party In its platform. The
treaty of Paris is not only an accomplished
fact, but the fact that it could not have
been ratified without the aid of seventeen
democratic votes and the personal influence
Of Mr.. Bryan leaves the democratic party
and its candidates equally responsible with
the republican party for its existence. 1t is
now the supreme law of the land. and as
such must be obeyed and sustained by
both executive and people
Our Duty in the philippines.
1.-The establishment of law and order, the
protection of persons, life and property
in the Philippine archipelago against in
surrection or violence from all quarters IS
the constitutional duty of the President,
and in its discharge he must be sustain
ed by all right-t thinking people. The au-
thority to which the people of the archipel-
90 had he look
lection prior to the treaty was Spain We
have driven Spain out. and in SO doing
have assumed her duties and responsibility
ties, and We must manfully accept and
discharge the responsibility. This is not
imperialism empire: it is simply an eX-
qualification of the fundamental PROPOSE
ton upon which our Institutions rest, that
ours is a government of laws and not of
men,
'"The turning over of the people of this
archipelago to the tender mercies of Agui-
naldo and his codictators and assassinS
would result in atrocities and horrors par
alleled only by the infamies now being
perpetrated in China upon Christians by
infuriated Chinese barharians. The bitter
unrelenting hatred of the Aguinadeans for
the frars of the Catholic Church is well
known. Aguinaldo's ultimatum always
has been that the friars must be either
turned over to him or driven out of the
country, and substantially that the prop
erty which they hold be conhscated. We
could not with honor admit such a propo-
sition.''
Display of Democratic Weakness.
DO you not consider that the democrats
have fallen down hard the question
of the Philippines, and that, in attempt
ing to ride horses in opposite directions,
have been left sprawling upon the ground?"
Il most emphatically do. While many
rambling suggestions were made and there
a great deal of carping and fault find
ing by democratic representatives during
the last session of Congress, it is to be no.
ticed that no democratic representative or
senator undertook to formulate any meas
ure, even tentative one, for the DISPOSE
ton of the Philippine archipelago. They
apparently preferred to leave the subject
to the inocuous method of a declaration
in national platform The republican
party, wisely recognizing the puerility of
declaring for any definite plan before all
the conditions to be met with fully as
certaned and maturely considered, pro-
poses to give them the highest degree of
self-government consistent with their well
fare and our duty, and to secure it to them
by law
The Gold Democrats.
Has it been your observation that the
gold democrats are returning to the demo-
cratic party?'
1T has not. I think the gold democrats
with this persistent iteration of the 16 to l
idea are now, more than ever, inclined to
vote directly for Mckinley as the only
means of effectively interring that fallacy
The reaffirmation of the Chicago platform,
with the special prominence given to the
16 to fetish. strengthens the republicans
here. Silver on that basis does not appeal
to the conservative element of the demo-
cratic party. 1t has been decided against
them once and the fact that Bryan so
dominated the convention as to compel in
sistence upon it discloses a dangerous ten
dency to perpetuate an exploded theory,
matter how disturbing and injurious the
agitation or disastrous the results might
be to the business interests of the country
They are constant menace to stable busi-
ness conditions"
Bryan Boss of Bosses.
1.-The opposition has considerable to say
about 'bossism' and bosses In what class
do you nominate Mr.. Bryan in this trot for
political supremacy?'
I'm the first class. Mr.. Bryan's complete
domination of the democrats and their alb
solute subserviency to his demands are un-
fa1 in lit