The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-07-28
VOL. XXXV.--NO. 40.

breach of our organic and statute law, but
it has put premium upon ''those twin
relics of barbarism by paying him a
yearly stipend for continuing to be law
breaker, And by way of sarcasm on your
campaign cry of 1896, it pays him the
bounty in those siuful and utterly eds
honest Mexican dollars! 1t is little
curious to see how a government can make
a treaty with one of its own subjects for
you will perceive that our country, under
the benevolent extra constitutional doc
trine, has progressed far enough to have
subjects as well as citizens
The convention of 900 will be expected
to, and SO will, loudly indorse the foreign
policy of the Administration, which has
been 50 far recreant to all our traditions of
national independence of action and Amer
lean manhood as to negotiate and ask the
Senate to ratity a treaty whereby, at a
time when Congress has made provision
for waterway designed also to bring us
nearer to our Pacific possessions, over ter
ritory conceded to US by an Independent
power, and hence rs much ouIs as If 1t
were passing over one of our own water
sheds, we obligate ourselves to Great
Britain never to fortify the canal thus to
be built with our own means on territory
not at all under her jurisdiction, thus sur
rendering to her navy in advance in time
of war potential title to our own property
And the same Administration has re
fused 10 allow the bill for the construction
of the canal To come to vote in the Sen
ats, in order that time may be gained and
the requisite pressure brought to bear upon
Legislators to conSummate this abject funk
eyism which has become characteristic of
our State Department rs now occupied and
administered. To a Republican of 1886
this fawning sycophancy TO the most selfish
of nations Is nauseating.
The Republican party Of that early day,
aud long afterwards, was upon every con
sideration the friend Of and the sympa-
thizer with the oppressed and downtrodden
everywhere And it SO went on record
time and again ln the convention of this
year there will be no word of rebuke
heard for the course Of an Administration
which has stood calmly but coldly by in
sight of the death struggles Of two repub-
lies in another hemisphere, crushed beneath
the blows Of armaments too overwhelming
for hope Of resistance, we all the while ut
tering no word Of cheer and rendering in
the meantime no good offices looking 20 an
honorable peace, which, by the express
terms of The Hague convention, we would
have been warranted in doing without
giving any just cause of oifensc to either
belllgerent On the contrary, i; Is too
notorious for controversy that our Govern
ment not only had no good offices to tender,
being itself engaged in a like enterprise
elsewhere, but it resolutely suppressed to
the measure Of its ability all public expires
sion of sympathy with the South African
Republics in their mortal agonies.
The newspaper oracles of the Admins
tration were As dumb as oysters, in strange
contrast to their effusiveneSs when reach
ing cut for the Irish vote and when the
accredited representatives of the Transvaal
Government reached the shores of 4 land.
rs they supposed, of liberty, they were at
the State Department treated rs outlaws,
being refused other than an un official re-
ception. although the refuser then had his
own son at their capital, receiving official
recognition for the benefit Of our citizens,
sojourners there and the Secretary of
State hastened to advertise the cold shoul-
der he bad given the ENJOYS, in order that
bis London friends might seasonably know
of his good services, and the President
eonsaled the reception supplieants for their
chilly by showing them the fine view from
the portico Of the White House No effort
was spared to keep the sympathetic heart
beat of the American people FROM their ear,
This Is not the Repubicanism Of the
heroic age Of the party.
The Republican party Of 1856 addressed
It's appeal to the conscience, to the reason,
To the judgment of the people The Re
publican party of today Is wholly intolerant
Of criticism or discussion Of partisan mea-
sures within its own ranks, and any dis
sent from them is promptly stigmatiEed as
treason, not indeed to the nation or even
to the party, but the men who CONTROL it;
80 that all Independence Of thought Is stifed
and all manly expression of opinion Is
draguoned into oowed aud discreet silence.