The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-21
Nevada Silver Senator Will Vote
For Mckinley.
With the Administration ON EX-
pansiOn Question.
ATTACKS AGUINALDO.
Says He Sold Out to Spain For
100000.
Encouragement From Anti-Im-
perialists Aids Him,

New York, Aug. Ex-senator William
NJ Stewart, of Nevada, called at Re
publican headquarters yesterday and
said he had decided to vote for Presi-
dent Mckinley. He made a statement
in part as follows:
THE United States went to war with
Spain urged on by the Democratic par
ty. 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 $40, 600 and ac-
cept the sovereignty and public proper
ty of Spain in the Philippine archipe-
lago- There was opposition to the rati-
fcation of the treaty. Mr.. Bryan came
to Washington and persuaded his Dem
ocratic friends to vote for the treaty,
and it was through his influence that
the treaty was finally ratified. 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 for
eign born. The United States at the
time of the ratification of the treaty
held military possession of Manila and
Immediately after such ratification as
sumed the sovereignty of the islands.
The people of the United States, and
particularly Of the Pacific coast, be-
came entitled to the vast comme cree of
the Pacific ocean of which the Philip
pines furnish the key.
.'One Aguinaldo had raised a rebellion
in Luzon against Spain before the COM
mencement of the Spanish war with
the United States. This adVenturer had
sold out or settled his rebellion with
Spain for $780, 900 before Dewey set sail
for Manila, and a part of the bar
gain with Spain, Aguinaldo agreed to
leave the islands and never return.
Dewey took the willy agitator back
to the islands. suppoSing as matter of
course, that Aguinaldo would naturally
ha of IN md ~
The United States. In this Admiral
Dewey was mistaken. Aguinaldo,
soon as he landed on his native soil.
organized a 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 in the Uni
ted States, called the anti-imperialaiSt
league, which has for the last two
years co-operated with Aguinaldo's Ia
gal junta, with headquarters at Hong
Kong, to supply literature and materi-
ais of war for Aguinaldo. President
Mckinley had no authority to buy out
Aguinaldo's rebellion against the Uni
ted States, but was bound by the
treaty (Which was the supreme law of
the land) to maintain law and order
and protect life and property in the
islands
TT required a large army and the ex-
penditure of hundreds of millions of
dollars to put down Aguinaldo's rebel
lion. The assistance and the encour-
agement he received from the anti-im-
perialist league and the enemies of the
United States, both at home and
abroad, hade his barbarous and ir-
regular war bloody and expensive. Con-
gress, however, made all necessary APP
propriations providing the executive
men and money to maintain the au-
thority of the United States in the
Philippines. The So-called anti-imper-
ialsts declared that the policy pursued
by the government to put down the re-
bellion and maintain law and order in
all territories of the United States,
without regard to the time when such
territories were acquired, was imperial
ism. and that any use of the army to
maintain law and order-however ne
cessary-was 'militarisn' and that Civ
ing aid and comfort to rebels in arms
against the United States was main
tanning the principles of the Declare
ton of independence
Mr.. RryanS unparalleled campaign
for the principles of the Chicago plat
form, and his insstance upon the adop-
ton of that platform at Kansas City,
induced the people to suppose that the
campaign of 1900 would be conducted
on the issues of 1896. In this it seems
they were mistaken
Senator Stewart then quotes Mr.
Brvan's declaration of his intention. if
elected, to call an extra ordinary session
of congress to give the Philippines free
dom upon the same terms as Cuba He
also denounces the recent convention of
anti-inperialists at Indianapolis He
also denounces Mr. Bryan for pronis-
ing to attempt to extend the Monroe
doctrine to the Orient