The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-17
WARMLY |ND(|RSE lind
HUBBARD COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION PASSES STRONG
RESOLUTION
SINS OF THE REPUBLICANS
Imperialism Condemned and the
Policy Which Has FOstered
Corporate Greed Is
Denounced.

PARK RAPIDS. Mimi. June 16.-At the
Hubbard county convention the follow
ing resolutions were adopted:
We, the representatives of the Demc-
cracy of Hubbard county, in convention
assembled, do hereby declare our al
legiance to the fundamental principles
contained in the Declaration of lndepenG-
ence and most toyally pledge our fidelity
to the republic as the fathers made it.
We view with alarm the corrupt on IN
high places and the criminal record made
during the past four years by the en-
land.
Sin is among the diseases that are
catching. America has caught from Eng
land the disease of land grabbing, the
thirst Tor subjUgating inferior races, b tn
tributary to empire buildiug-the crow ng
sin of dead nations and the peril of strug-
Cling nations that yet exist.
AS criminals pass on to prison they pass
through three stages. First the crime,
then falsehood as means Of cOncea m nt
and at last upon discovery they resort to
pretexts in which to find and furnish eX-
cuses for what they have done.
Today the head Of this mighty people
stands before the world unable to tru h.
fully deny the charges made and unab
to defend what has been done upon the
ground Of right and justice.
His friends and defendents plead that
we are now a world power and urge the
country to sanction his policy, to author
ize It's continuance, its enlargement with
out inquiry or judgment as to the VS.
dom, justice or criminality incident to his
policy, to accept in silence what has been
done
In the history of dispotism there is not
a record of a more degrading subservi-
eence than is found today in the Repub-
lican party, and which the people of
America are asked to accept.
Thus is brought home to every Ameri-
can the infamy of the doctrine that a
people may be governed without their
consent.
We hold that of all modern history. the
most disgraceful chapter is that which
the American nation is now writing At
the end of this century. carrying on a
war for the establishment of a system of
slavery in Asia.
The nature and extent of our business
can be appreciated only by comparing
Lmcoln's proclamation of Jan l, 1868,
y%gith1o 1oo5 5McKiiTnley' ltiT proclamation of Dec.
r. 1913. My terms said he, "are first
submission and vassalage. 1 will then con-
slider further as to your fortunes"
1t is the reproach of the age and an
omen of evil to America that one citizen
can be found to approve Of this out
rageOus doctrine.
We hold that the Fundamental rights
or mankind-life, liberty and pursuit of
happness-are the supreme law. in the
face of trucking treaties, secret compacts
and bargains, which hired bayonets, and
not the opinions of freemen uphold.
COmmerc.alism is distinctly secondary
ana inferior to such rights. History plain
Iy SHOWS that trade and commerce fail
when the rights of men decline for q
God of love and justice lives.
mat government is not valid without
the consent of the governed. That gov
ernments derive Their just powers from
the nG consent of the governed.
against the esta blishment of colonies I'M
der the American flag, regardless of the
constitution of the United States.
with Washington We hold that no ma
tioh mas right to meddle in the internal
concerns of another; that every one has
the right TO form and adopt whatever
government they like best to live under
themselves.
Aligned with Jefferson we want
neither king or ruler who cannot be dis
men.
Aligned with the great emancipator
IaSt OF the prophets, we believe that he
VINO would be no slave. must consent fO
nave no slave; that those who Geny
freedom to others, desere it not for them,
selves, and under a just God cannot long
retain it. -0-7
Aligned with the second emincip ltor we
SnlpId tI5 llcally declare for freedom and the
republic, and We extend our heartfelt
sympathy TO all peOp.e desfrOus of self
government and declare that the living
sPIIit OF Independence Of free men is ar
tterldI enmlty with the spirit Of the
mlniOnS of the crown ~
Aligned with Man-Afraid- o H s-Shadow
we we are unalterably approved to The sin
gle gold standard and in favor oe tLa f+na
coinage Of gold and silver. We HI eve
that the Tag must not stand FIR one thing
IN one place and another thing in another
put mat 1t must bring libef ty and eouai
pie folds ~ 10 dii1-
tlon is criminal aggression
Ana we know that it Is our plain dutv
TO give free trade to Pr o Ricans.
w neither this great chief shall become
Biag 6biii- or Porto Rico or. emperor of the
PhllIpplnes remains to be seen: but If is
history that, having declared hfmEe-f on
aH tnree great questions reaching to the
FOUNDATIONS of this republic, so soon IS
the ge,9 ,9o%ers that be turned upon him their
arms " O4iO lS4'ii5
In comparison with all this vacilat,o-
tSurpation and eXp'ana'i~n, how aniy
STANDS forth the splendid adrfnfstration
o. GOV: Lind. Subjected to the search
Iight Of a partisan press more than Sa-
lShted to find a flaw. employing eve
means to annoy and obstruct Worl.
tempted and to BETTE that accom- nl;sbei
II stands forth as the administrafion for
the good Of The people. A man Of nrol
eminent ability and more Of unimn9a h
ape integrity representing the he nf
American citizenship. VI