Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-09-14

1 did all could TO get the Bacon
resolution passed. aud what Repub-
lican will say that could have got
the treaty amended when / could
not get the resolution passed that
promised independence to the Fill
pinoss lGreat applause.] There
fore we were compelled to accept
either the treaty or Reject it.
what did the rejection of the
treaty mean? 1t meant one or two
things: either the President would
have to call the new Senate toghther
which was overwhelmingly Republic
can and the secure a ratification
from the new Senate, or else he
would have to appoint new com
mission to make a new treaty If 1t
had been rejected. If the President
had called the new Senate together
on the fourth day of March and had
the treaty ratified by the new Sen
ate, then the delay would have done
no good. But suppose be appointed
new commission TO make new
treaty who could tell what compIi-
cation might arise while the new
treaty was being madel Ii those
who oppose Imperialism would have
rejected the treaty they would have
become responsible for all that might
have happened before the new treaty
could have been ratified.
REPUBLICAN PLEA IN 1898.
I'VE had seen the Republican par
W win the campaign 10 1898 by hold
log out TO the people that the nation
might be discredited while it dealt
with foreign nation, and if new
commission had been sent abroad
it would have prolonged the contes:
and 1t mi :, bit have carried it into a
presidential campaign; then there
would have beer no question Before
the people upon which their judge
menC could have been taken.
when you accepted the treaty
you ended the war. and / believed
then aud still believe that this ma
ton, acting alone, could do by itself
everything that it could have forced
with Spain. / favored the ratfica-
sion of the treaty, not because it was
good, but because it was easier to
corr ect it's mistakes by Legislation
than by diplomacy Lincoln, in APP
pealing to the psople of the South,
eau aliens make treaties easier than
friends can make laws?' Was it easier
to make the frosty with Spain gi. c
independence to the Filipinos than
1t was TO give them independence by
al act of our own people? L perfer-
ed to let the American people give
independence to the Filipinos rather
than ask sn unfriendIy people TO do
SO.
Whenever you hear Republican
say that am responsible for the rat
ification OF the treaty, l want you to
listen and see if he adds that i also
favored resolution promising indie
pendence to the Filipinos, and you
will listen in vain. The Republicans
who charge me with helping to rat
ify the treaty are not honest enoue h
to ell you at the same time that
favored a resolution that would have
prevented bloodshed in the Philip
pines Islands and make them our
friends instead Of our enemies.
81 resigned my commission in the
army on the 10th day of December
the day the treaty was signed. 1t
was accepted on the 18th of Decem-
Der On the 18th gave out an in
terview. 1t was published on the
morning of the 14th, SO that the in
terview appeared two days after my
resignation was accepted, and in that
interview pointed out that it was
better to ratify the treaty and dt-
clare this nations purpose by reso-
luton which would promise indepen
dence to the Filipinos and end the
war, than to reject the treaty What
Republican is honest enough 10
meet that last proposition and then
say that | was wrong in the light of
the Bacon resolution If the Bacon
resolution had passed we would not