The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-24

We are going to divide this edi-
torlal in two, because we have
learned from experience that peo-
pie are more apt to read short edi-
torials than long ones.
Democracy having failed to OBJ
tain tbs office with free silver as It's
main argument, seeks now to win
the spoils. by advancing another
issue: free silver as we have seen,
is to be RELOCATED and spat upon
and labeled as of no account.
The great and important ques-
ton before the American people
according to the democratic organs
is that of expansion. Just as four
years ago they went back to the
Constitution to prove that free sill.
yer was the rock upon which this
country was founded; they now
bark back to the Declaration of
independence, and in that find the
war cry that is to lead them on to
victory. The government derives
its just power from the consent of
the governed. They tell us that
we are expressing the people of
the Philippine islands, that we
have gone there with power and
force to destroy free institutions, to
deny to the people of these islands
the rights of free men, to place up
on them taxation without repre-
sentatlon, and that the object Of
the United States in acquiring
sovereignty over the island is
manifestly to exploit them and to
plumber and to lutte the people and
to destroy their liberties. This all
sounds we'll, it is very good indeed,
but the miserable reprobates, what
do we read in the daily papers?
What are the democrats doing?
Democrats mind you, here it is:
1.-The "red shirt" embodiment was
finally organized in North Caro-
lima" Today we read where the
democratic governor Chas. Aycock
aroused the 5000 people present
to high state of excitement de-
claring that this is white mans
state, and that the negro shall be
dis-enfranchised. The meeting
was one of the most significant
ever held in the Carolinas. Men,
women and children came miles to
hear the speakers, and the colors
were red and white. One indi-
eating that white supremacy shall
reign in North Carolina, and the
other, that the black man may ex-
pect to fight and to die. and that
his blood shall flow if he is going
to have any hand in the affairs of
the state. The rapid fire gun used
in the Wilmington riot was pressed
into service and the day was made
to resemble the 18th of July. MIR.
Aycock said that if the republicans
should take legal measures to Sc
cure a legal election Of all the Cit
liens of North Carolina, he per-
sonally, would see to it that the
offenders were protected. This is
Democracy. This is the construc-
ton of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence for which you, as democrats,
are working hand in hand with
Mr.. Aycock. This is the liberty,
this is the high principle, this the
Legitimate outcome of a party
which substitutes people for prin-
ciple, promises for performances
and which prostitutes everything
that is good in government to the
greed for spoils.
We would like to see the demo-
Gratis of this county take the stump
and read to their listeners this tele-
gram of the democrats of North
Carolina as preface to their
speech for the liberty of Aguinaldo,
the brigand. We dare any demo-
crat in Crawford county to read
that dispatch and explain it and
then proceed with his bunco talk
on liberty and the consent of the
governed. The negro of North
Carolina is one hundred per cent.
more educated, more American
lied, more civilized and enlighten-
ed than the tribe of the Philippines
which is following Aguinaldo.
There is one-hundred times more
reason why the negroes OF North
Carolina, brought to this country
against their will, having Ameri-
can civilization and customs and
ways drilled into them for more
than a century, there is one-hun-