Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
POINTS FROM SENATOR H0AR'S
GREAT SPEECH.

Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, deliver.
ed great speech in Worcester, last Mon
day evening, of which the following are
extracts:-
We are getting ready to choose Presl-
dent of the United States. You will con-
fer upon him power greater than that of
any king on earth, and an honor greater
than that Of all the kings on earth put to-
gether The change from one govern
ment to another could not happen any
where else without bloodshed and war 1t
is natural it should be accompanied here
with signs of deep popular feeling, with
shouting and stamping of feet and clap
ping of hands. And yet that man little
understands the temper of the American
people who does not know that behind the
signs of deep emotion, behind the shout
ing and the stamping Of feet and the clap
ping of hands there is a sober, quiet, pa
triotic people, loving justice, loving liberty
and understanding the great interests
which concern the states.
Mr.. Mckinley is for the gold standard,
and Mr.. Bryan wants to pay every debt
and all wages with silver dollars worth to-
day about thirty-seven cents. Now, We
have had a sample of Democratic perform
ances and Democratic prophecies, and
l think the people of Massachusetts are
thoroughly tired of BOTH President Nc.
Kinley got through bill when he was in
Congress, under which the American PEG.
pie reached the high-water mark of pros
perity so far on this planet, and then Pres
dent Cleveland repealed it, and we went
down to the lowwater mark of adversely.
Mr.. Mckinley came into power, and the
Dingley bill passed, and again the tide of
prosperity rose, higher yet. The balance
of trade was in our favor, equaling in three
years the aggregate of all such balances in
the history of the country. Our foreign
exports rose to seventeen hundred and |
twenty millions, and our treasury got SO
full that England and Germany came over
here to borrow money to carry on their
governments.
think the Philippine Islands belong to
the Philippine people, and not to us, and
that they have the right to establish for
themselves such government as they think
good for themselves, and that we have no
right to undertake to establish for them
such government as we think good for
them But l can find no difference, either
as to the past or future, between Mr..
Bryan and President Mckinley, except
that the conduct of Mr.. Bryan in the past
and what he proposed to do in the future
seems to be much worse The whole mis-
chief, if there have been mischief, was Gre
ated by the Spanish treaty. Now have no
doubt, have never doubted, that McKin-
ley and the Republican majority were
in this matter. They did
what they thought right. But Mr.. Bryan
says that it was wrong. What did he do2
That treaty became by the Constitution
the law Of the land. Whether it were
or not has been debated.
But Mr.. Bryan and President Mckinley
both thought it was constitutional. Mr..
Bryan urged its passage, and Mr.. McKin
ley negotiated it. So it became the con-
sIitutional duty of the President, accord
ing alike to Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. McKin-
ley, under the decisions of the Supreme
Court, to reduce that people to subsection
and keep order there until Congress should
make different disposition.
The Senate was the citadel, the fortress,
he West Point of the opposition to the {
,panish treaty. 1t required a two.thirds !
5ote, and as l have already said else
where, it was as if some great general and
political leader in the Revolutionary War
lad surrendered West Point to the enemy c
md had got through Congress a law de-
.laring that King George was our rightful
overeign, and the British Parliament had
he right to make laws for us, and said he l
wanted peace and he hoped be should get q
resolution somewhere establishing our I
by and by. Our anti.impe- Il
ialistic friends have devoted good deal r
f criticism to me, imputing to me base
ersonal motives in this matter. / take
he liberty of saying to them that, having
AIKEN the grave responsibility of differing
18th the President, whom l love and ri
onor, and the party with whom l have s.
cted for more than thirty years, do not es
ropose if can help it, that the gentle il
len who came to Washington and stabbed b,
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