The representative., 1900-10-25
M'KlNLEY CAMPAIGN OF DENIAL

MklNLEY CAMPAIGN OF DENIAL.
The campaign of the Republicans will go
down into history as "the campaign of de-
nial." William Mckinley Is at the bar of
public opinion charged with grave crimes
the alleged inspiration Of destiny" but
no despot has had the assurance to masQue-
rade in the cloak Of duty.
Mckinley and his cabal have not even
the courage of their convictions to win
them followers.
They have been accused Of militarism.
They deny 1t.
They have been accused of fostering the
trusts. They deny It, They even go further
and deny the trusts.
The plea Of mot guilty. has been entered
time and again. Escape from responsibility
is apparently the only hope Of Hanna and
his co-conspirators for the consequences of
the indtscretions to which they have forced
their presidential puppet The Indictment
Is too straight to be quashed; the evidence
too clear to be doubted. If the people de-
clare for Mckinley it will be because they
believe in imperialism, trusts and militarism
with their accompanying duty and destiny
treacle.
President Mckinley says there is no such
thing as imperialism in this country. Every
body who thinks knows better. Imperial
ism means the government of others with
out their consent. Mckinley is governing
Porto Rico today without the consent aud
against the Will Of the Porto Ricans. This
is imperialism. He is trying to govern the
Filipinos by military force. This is imperi-
aljsm.
Mckinley denies, Hanna sneers at MILL
tarism. In 1893 the regular army was linn
tied to $4,000 men. In point of fact it was
no ,b,rc
100000. In 1898 the army cost about S33,-
100000 annually; the cost of the army this
year is $135,000,000. But we are told that
there are not soldiers enough. What does
this great increase in two years mean if not
militarism?
and he knows he lies. He is at this very
moment dickering with a gigantic trust to
stop the coal strike to save his puppets at
Washington. He himself is in control of
the Bessemer Ore Producers association,
one of the most iniquitous of trusts, when
has succeeded in doubling the price of Bes-
semer ore since 1898.
The campaign of denial does not deny.
It's attempted evasion is simply a confession
of weakness.-Boston Traveller.
Why does this Boston Democratic
leave half untold Why does this pa
per arraign the Republicans when Dem
ocrats are guilty of the identical same
charges? Democrats of Kentucky pass
ed the infamous Goebel election law and
virtsally disfranchised all but Demo-
Gratis in Kentucky. This is government
in our own country and of our own citi-
zens without the consent of the govern
ed. This is imperialism of the worst
type, right here at home Democrats
have done the same thing in Mississippi,
North Carolina and other Southern
states. Half the South is disfranchised
and governed without the consent of the
governed. 1t is the work of Democrats,
who are now crying out against i'm
perialism and government without the
consent of the governed. Let Demo-
Gratis abolish Imperialism in the South
before they prate about Imperialism in
Porto Rico and the Orient.
The two worst examples of militarism
this country has ever seen was the use
of troops by Cleveland at Chicago to
help Pullman win strike, and the use
of troops by Gov. Stunenberg, of Idaho,
to help the Rockefellers win the strike
and imprison the miners in the Idaho
bullpen. This was the work of Dem
ocrats and the Democrats now pretend
to be anti-militarism.
When we come to the trusts, Dem
ocrats are no more consistent. The
Havemeyers, of the sugar trust, are
Democrats, and the five sugar states
are Democratic, and the senate sugar
schedule that became law under Grover
Cleveland's reign gave this sugar trust
$14, 100000 protection. ]. X. Jones, the
Hanna of the Democratic party, is at
the head of the round cotton bale trust.
and New York's big four Democrats are
members Of an ice trust.
These are the men, this is the Demo-
cratic party that is pretending to stand
against Imperialism, militarism and the
trusts. This is the party that has never
kept promise. This is the party that
has fused and destroyed every reform
party. This is the party that has al
ways been all promise and no perform
ance. This is the party that stands be-
tween the people and all reform. This
is the party that compels the people to
continue the fight between the two old
frauds. E.. A.. T.