The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-03
HoAR IS FOR MCKINLEY.
NewYork Sun.

Senator George F. Hoar has been in
terviewed in regard to the coming cam
paign. He declares his allegiance to
the republican party and its candidates
and says he is willing to trust the cause
of liberty in the PHILIPPINE islands, the
only point on which he disagrees with
the administration. to President Nc
Kinley and the republican party rather
than to Mr. Bryan, Tammany and the
south. Mr.. Hoar said: "Presiaent
Mckinley and Governor Roosevelt will
have no more earnest supporter in the
country than shall be. whether we
consider the character of the candidat-
es, the character of the counsellors
they will bring with them into power.
the effect on the prosperity and nappi-
ness OF the american people, or the
ultimate triumph of liberty and justice
in the distant islands which have been
brought under control. The alterna-
tive of Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. David b.
Hill or any other associate the demo-
crat party might give him, is not to be
thought of for moment
MIR organs election will overthrow
the protective system now happily es-
tablished and the wonderful prosperity
it has brought to all classes of the
people and will mean disturbed and
Huctuating currency. great diminution
OF value of all debts and savings. the
overthrow OF the authority of the SUI
preme court, a dangerous attack on
property. socialism and the complete
success of the attempt now going on to
disfranchisel0, 900. 600 American people
at home and will render null and void
the great constitutional amendments
Il was and am still opposed to the
policy that brought on the Philippine
war like the policy which has been
and is to be pursued in Cuba. | am
willing now to test the two methods by
their results. But / have never quest
the honesty of purpose of President Nc
kinley and the republican leaders who
agreed with him. The past cannot be
undone. | think the future of the
Philippines safer in the hands of Pres
ident Mckinley than of MIR. Bryan. in
the hands of the republican party than
of Iammany and the solid south In
saying this am but repeating what |
said in the senate and what | said last
year in Massachusetts,. Mr.. Bryan
earnestly advocated the treaty that
bought the PHILIPPINES and secured for
it the vote of seventeen of his support
ers. For this action of his no motive
can reasoably be assigned but the desire
to keep the question for an issue in the
campaign.
The republican party in its platform
has refused to commit itself to keeping
the PHILIPPINE people in subsection IA
gainst their will and cites the example
OF Cuba, to which it renews its pledge
!; OF Independence. The Massachusetts
republican platform OF 1899 promises
them after hostilities are over a Cow
ernmen. as free. as liberal and as pro-
gresslve as our own. l believe these
pledges will. be kept Whatever mis-
takes may have been made in the past,
prefer to trust the future of liberty
to the party that forsffty years has new
er made mistake but once. rather
than TO the party that for sixty years
has never been right once.
Does any one believe that the Amer
lean people have changed: that the
great north has changed: that the re-
publican party has changed in a minute
in day, in the twinkling of an eye.
Liberty is not dead. Justice is not
dead. The great Declaration is not
dead. Men will differ Good men will
differ. Good men will err. Parties
are not infailible. But am confident
that the great free north, which achiev-
ed and established liberty at home.
will surely and very soon establish it
abroad.