The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-21
Also a Clear Statement by the Nevada
Senator on the Position of
Anti-lmperialists.
INVOLVED THE NATION IN WAR
AND NOW ABUSING THE ADMINIsTRA-
TION FOR CONDUCTING 1T.
Resistance of Filipinos Due to En-
courngement Received from Cow
ardIy Traitors mt Home.

NEW 1ORh, aug. ZU-Seldtor Whiiaii
NJ. Stewart, of Nevada. called at Repub-
lican headquarters to-day and said he had
decided to vote for Mckinley. He made
a statement in part as follows:
''The United States went to war with
Spain urged on by the Democratic party.
The popularity of the war was such that
Mr.. Bryan joined the army.
''The war was successful, a treaty of
peace was entered into whereby the United
States agreed to pay s2o.oOO,OOo and accept
the sovereignty and public property of
Spain in the Philippine archipelago. There
was opposition to the ratification of the
treaty. Mr.. Bryan came to Washington
and persuaded his Democratic friends to
vote for the treaty, and it was through his
influence that the treaty was finally rati-
fled. 1t then became the duty Of the
United States to maintain law and order
and protect the lives and property of all
residents in the islands, whether native
or foreign born. The United States at the
time of the ratification of the treaty held
military possession of Manila, and imme-
diately after such ratification assumed the
sovereignty of the islands. The people of
the United States and particularly of the
Pacific coast, became entitled to the vast
commerce of the Pacific ocean, of which
the Philippines furnish the key.
''One Aguinaldo had raised a rebellion in
Luzon against Spain before tho comm lence-
ment OF Inc Spanish war with the United
States. This adventurer had sold out or
settled his rebellion with Spain for $780,
600 before Dewey set sail for Manila, and
as a part of the bargain with Spain Aguin-
aldo agreed to leave the islands and never
return.
Dewey took the willy agitator back to
the islands, supposing as a matter of
course, that Aguinaldo would naturally be
an enemy of Spain and a friend of the
United States. In this Dewey was mis-
taken. Aguinaldo, as soon as he landed on
his native soil, organized rebellion
against the United States. which would
have been of little consequence if he had
not been able to obtain comfort and aid
in this country. An organization was
formed i'm the United States, called the
Anti-imperialistic League, which has for
the last two years co-operated with Aguin-
aldo's Tagal junta, with headquarters at
Hong-Kong, to supply literature and ma
terials of war for Aguinaldo. President
Mckinley had no authority to buy out
Aguinaldos rebellion against the United
States but was bound by the treaty (Which
was the supreme law of the land) to main-
tain law and order and protect life and
property in the islands.
'It required large army and the ex-
penditure of hundreds of millions of dol
lars TO put down Aguinaldo's rebellion
The assistance and the encouragement he
received from the Anti-imperialist League
and the enemies of the United States, both
at home and abroad. made his barbarous
and irregular war bloody and expensive.
Congress, however. made all necessary ap-
preparation. providing the executive with
men and money to maintain the authority
OF the United States in the Philippines.
1.-THE so-called Anti-imperialists declared
that the policy pursued by the government
TO put down the rebellion and maintain the
law and order in all territories of the
United States, without regard to the time
when such territories were acquired, was
imperialism and that any use Of the army
to maintain law and order. however neces-
sary, was imperialism, and that giving
aid and comfort 10 tie rebels in arms
against the United States was maintaining
the principles of the Declaration of Inde-
rendence
MIR. Bryan's unparalleled campaign for
the principles of the Chicago platform and
his insistence upon the adoption of that
platform at Kansas City, induced the peo-
pie to suppose the campaign of 1900 would
be conducted on the issues of 1896. In this
it seems they were mistaken"
Senator Stewart then quotes Mr.. Bryan's
declaration of his intention, If elected, 10
call extraordinary session of Congress
TO give the Filipinos freedom on the same
terms as Cuba. He also denounces the re-
cent convention of Anti-imperialists at In
dianapolis. He also denounces Mr. Bryan
for promising 10 attempt to extend the
Monroe doctrine TO the Orient"