Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-08
The Remaining Places on the Ticket We're Filled and
the Body Adjourned.
HE DELEGATES REFUSED TO TAKE A RECE
And Remained in Session From the Morning Until Late
i'm the Afternoon,


cratic hosts. The admirable address
was, in substance, as follows:
ut is with much feeling that stand
here to thank this convention for the
compliment it has paid me- l would
shrink from the ordeal that confronts
us were it not for the hope that.
may be able to contribute in small
way to help to avert the disaster that
threatens the country through the new
doctrine of Imperialism. The Repub-
lican party, through its present admin
istration, has turned its back upon the
traditions OF this republic and en-
parked upon a shoreless and sunless
sea of Caesarism. Even now there are
those among US who believe that the
disintegration of this government has
begun, and predict that if a whole.
some check be not shortly put upon it's
would-be destroyers the civil and po-
litical liberties of its citizenship Will
soon be doomed.
The last few months has presented
the spectacle of President of the
United States placing himself above
the constitution, and boldly asserting
that he, in his capacity of command
er in chief of our army and navy may
annex territory and rule over it at his
own sweet will, without constitutional
check or limitation, and free from the
inconvenient hindrances of any and
all fundamental law. In other words,
William Mckinley, who moves and has
his political being only by virtue Of
the constitution of this country, has
become greater than the law of his be-
ing. The creature has become greater
than the creator, and the results of all
the labor and the wisdom and the blood
of the fathers of this republic must
yield to the Republican eXigencies CT
the case. Thus has Porto Rico been
brought into the ante-chamber of this
nation, there to be imprisoned, robbed
and plundered and denied the protect
ing shield of the constitution.
1.-THE same period has witnessed the
waging of a foreign war of agrees
sion against alien races in the most
distant islands of the sea, wasting the
best blood of this nation without prov
ocation and without cause, and squan-
dering millions of it's treasures without
hope of profit or reward. And | now
say to you that the moving spring to
this war in the Philippines can and
must be for one of four things. Either
a mistaken notion of advancing civil
iZation and trade, the hope of political
preferment, avarice, or vanity. If the
first, then, indeed, are we marching
with fire and sword under the crescent
and not the cross. If the second, woe
unto him that seeks power over the
dead bodies of his fellow citizens. If
for avarice, then I say unto you that
we begun by the purchase of spuri-
Gus title at the price Of twenty mil
lions to a territory less in extent than
that of New Mexico, the securing of
which has visited upon US an endless
chain of war, and the Ignite of this
teri. DRY would be thrown out from
among the product of our West Vir-
ginia coal mines as understandable,
while the ore from It's richest gold
mines would fall in an assay below the
tailings OF an abandoned shaft In Col
orado. If vanity be the moving spring,
and the floating of the stars and
stripes and the sound OF cannon in
distant seas be the moving cause, say
unto this people that he who wages
war and murders for vanity's sake is
not fit TO preside over the destinies of
this nation. And the unborn children,
and their childrens children, of the
men who support such a policy will
continue to receive wounds and meet
death in distant lands, while the
trembling fingers of toll at home will
be taxeu to support the military arma-
ment abroad. And finally this great
Republic, which has been the asylum
of the oppressed foreigner, like Brit
ain, will wage continual wars upon the
Beers and their brothers in every dis
tant spot where the torch of liberty