Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-16

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Demagogy.
LIGHT ON HIS PAST RECORD
Trimmer. Tax Dodgcr and Tinplate
Soldier. Scathins ExcoriatiOn
Of NlcKinley's Rum
ming Mate.
Ex-Governor .Altgeld, of Illinois, has
replied to Teddy" Kooscvelt's recent
vulgar and vcnomous TRADES against
democrats in u manner that is calcu-
lated to make that blatant political
harlequin be more careful of his ut
teranccs In future. Governor Altgeld
spoke at the convention of Ohio demo-
cratic clubs, in Toledo, and an inn
mense audience cheered him to the
| echo.
The following are some of cN-Goycr
nor Altgeld's more pointed remarks;
Every few weeks we are told that
the Philippine islands are pacificd;
that American sovereignty has finally
been established at the point of the
bayonct, and yet we have on army of
10000 men there, nnd lately when tho
commanding general waa usked TO
Bend some of his men To China he re-.
piled thut one regiment was all that
he could spare.
There IL today no question OF cx-
pnnsion before the Amoricun people.
and nll the tulk about cxpunaon il
simply an effort to conceal tho fueta
md TO mislcnd the public. Tho solo
question rs whether we shall go into
the colonial business with England
und the dcspotlc nutiona OF Europe.
Bear In mind that every trust In
Amcrica is fighting the democratic
platform. Even the alleged demo-
4 cratic stockholders In the republican
Ice trust of New York, controlled by
Tom Platt's son, ure fighting our plut-
form.
We have seen the spectacle of ma
jor general in the United States army,
who was sworn to defend the consti-
tuition and was paid q salary by the
government for that purpose, stand
up in his gorgeous uniform and tell
an assembly of wine-drinking trust
magnates that the constitution was
no longer binding.
Recently gentlcmna in New York
who had become famous for having
been along in Cuba-a gentleman who
has adopted MS his life motto or coat
OF arms two Fps" and double 49,"
which four letters signify ''pompons
posing and strenuous strutting'-
left the capital of New York and went
to st. Paul and delivered a speech to
an association of Republican clubs.
The speech has not, from beginning
to end, single argument OF a single
accurate historical references; d
speech that is made up of invective,
misrepresentation and vituperation.
Ordinarily the speech would not be
noticed even in country newspaper,
but inasmuch as it was made by a
man whom Tom Platt has permitted
to be governor of New York, as it was
made by man whom the trusts of
America have selected to preside over
the senate of the United States in or
der that their interests may be Sc
cured inasmucl as it was made by
man who is candidate for the suf-
flage of the American people, mas
much as it was made BY man who
is relied on to secure the perpetuation
Of the regime of hypocrisy and revolu-
ton in the white house, who is relied
on to help make the grasp and con-
| troll of British influence over our peo-
pie still more complete, l will notice
this speech to see the kind of misrep-
Presentations that the republican party
feels compelled to resort to.
who, then, is this mar what is
his history? Personaliti otTcns-
i've, and ! will not indulge in them.
But. surely: when we are thus brutal
| ~ assaulted we may ask what it is
that is berating us.
II will notice only few of the in
cidents of his public career, which
| throw light on the question of his
sincerity and discretion. 1 find 1t
recorded that years ago he was
member of the New York legislature,
and on one occasion he reused the
hopes OF his country by making
speech against class which he called
the criminal rich. But he ut once
dashed these hopes by turning around
and voting with and for these very
criminal rich whom he had Denounced.
I'm the years 1s9T-9s he held fed
eral office in Washington, and in or.
WI w SsSdPS paying his lIScS III New
York he signed an affidavit and swore
before the everything God that he was
not citizen of New York If this was
true, then, under the constitution of
New York, he would not have been
eligible for the governorship Of that
state. BY subsequently accepting Il
nomination and election to that Office
he showed that he did not believe his
own affidavit. This being so, may it
not be that he does not believe the
charge that he has made against us?
( ut is next recorded that he entered
the Spanish war in Cuba, and. al
though his regiment was commanded
by another man, he succeeded by
means of that modern weapon of war
fare known as newspaper bureau in
winning more renown in week than
General Grant did in four years of
hard fighting, and he seems to be the
only man OH this continent who
boasts of having with his own hand
shot down and killed a Spaniard thut
was fleeing from the battlefield. In
his book he says: CAS- they turned
to run | closed in and fired twice.
missing the first and killing the sec
ond.' He then boasts that he Ind
considered this feat unique, and so it
was. He is the first brave man to
shoot an enemy in the back.
History records the fact that the
governor has never lost an opportun-
lty when standing in the temple or
market place to make loul ,,ro+o.+,