The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-06-20


The Party of Today.
80 much for the past. We are proud OF
it. but we do not expect to live upon it,
for the Republican party is pre-eminently
the party of action, and its march is ever
| forward. We are not so made that we can
be content to retreat or to mark time.
The traditions of the early days OF our
party are sacred to us, and are hostages
given to the American people that we VII
not be unworthy of the great leaders who
have gone. The deeds of yesterday are in
their turn pledge and a proof that what
we promise We perform, and that the peO-
pie who put faith in our declarations in
| 1886 were not deceived, and may place the
| same trust in US in 1900. But our pathway
has never lain among dead issues, nor
have We won our victories and made his
tory by delving in political graveyards
We are the party Of today, with cheerful
yesterdays and confident tomorrows The
living present is ours the present OF pros
perity and activity in business. Of good
wages and quick payments. OF labor en-
ployed and capital invested. OF sunshine
in the market place and the stir Of
Astounding life in the workshop and on the
farm. II is with this that we have re-
placed the depression. the doubts the dull
business, the low wages. the idle labor.
clouds
which overhung industry and agriculture
IN 1896. This is what We would preserve
so far as sound government and wise leg
islatioD can do H. This is what We brought
10 the country four years ago This is
what We offer now. Again we promise
that the protective system shall be main
tanned. and that our great Industrial in
terests shall 90 on their way uushaken by
the dire fear of tariff agitation and Of
I oh DnHagr a.
we will guard the national credit, uphold
sound currency based on sold. and keep
the wages Of the wOrkingman and the en-
teTprise OF the man OF business free from
that most deadly Of all evils. a nuctuating
standard Of value. The deficit which made
this great country in a time OF profound
peace borrower Of money 10 meet the
current expenditures has been replaced by
abundant revenue. bringing a surplus. due
alike TO prosperity and to wise legislation.
so ample that We can now safely promise
a large reduction Of taxation without i'm
periling our credit or risking a resor; TO
loans.
We are prepared TO take steps 10 revive
and build up our merchant marine AMI
thus put into American pockets the money
palG for carrying American freights. Ont
OF the abundant res )urces which our finan-
cial legislation has brought US We will
build the Isthmian Canal aid lay the ca
bles which will help 10 turn the current
or Eastern trade 10 the Golden Gate We
are on good terms with all nations. and
mean to remain So while we promise -
insure our peace and safely by maintain
ing the Monroe Doctrine by ample coast
defehees, and by building up a Navy which
no one can challenge with impunity
The 'ImperiaIISm~ Cry.
The new problems brought by the war
We face with confidence in ourselves and
still deeper confidence in the American
people, who will deal justly and rightly
with the islands which have come into
their charge. The outcry against our new
possessions is as empty as the cant about
'militarism and imperialism is devoid OF
sense and meaning. Regard for moment
those who are lOudest in shrieking that the
American people are about to enter upon
a career of oppression and that the Repun-
lie is in danger. Have they been in the
past the guardians OF freedom? Is safety
for liberty now to be found most surely in |
the party which was the defender Of do
nestle slavery? Is true freedom to be Sc |
cured by the ascendancy Of the party
which beneath our very eyes seeks to es- |
tablish through infamous laws the de,
potic rule OF small and INSCRIPTIONS 1
band Of usurpers in Kentucky who trample |
there not upon the rights Of the black men /
only but Of the whites and which seeks to !
extend the same system to North Carolina /
and Missouri
Has it suddenly come to pass that the |
Democratic party which today aims when
ever IL acquires power TO continue in Office |
by crushing out honest elections and popu-
lar, rule; has it,indeed. come to pass. l saw |
that that party is the chosen protector OF !
liberty II il were so the outlook would be |
black. indeed Mo- The party of Lincoln |
may best be trusted now, as in the mast |
to be true. even as he was true to the
rights Of man and TO human freedom
whether within the borders OF the United |
States or in the islands which have come
beneath our flag The liberators NAV be |
trusted TO watch over the liberated. We
who freed Cuba will keep the pledge we
made to her and will guide her along the |
road to independence and stable govern |
ment until she is ready to settle her own
future by the free expression of her neo-
pies will. We will be faithful to the !
trust imposed upon US, and il among those to |
whom this great work is conided in Cuba |
or elsewhere. wrongdoeFs shall be found |
men. not only bad in morals but dead to |
their duty as Americans and false to the |
honor of our name. We will punish these |
basest of criminals to the extent of the /
law.
For the Islands OF Hawaii and Porto |
Rico the political problem has been solved /
and by Republican legislation they have .
been given self-gOvernment and are peace
full and prosperous under the rule of the |
United States.
The Philippines.
In the Philippines we were met bv re-
bellion, fomented by a self-seek.ng ad-
venturer and usurper The duty of the
President was to repress that rebellion To
see to it that the authority of the United /
States, as rightful and as righteous in
Manila as in Philadelphia. was aoknowl- i
edge and obeyed. That harsh and painful /
duty President Mckinley has performed |
firmly and justly. eager to resort to gen
tie measures whereVe- possible. unyiei9-
ing when treaehery and violence made
force necessary Unlike the opponents Of |
expansion We do not regard the soldiers
OF Otis and Lawton and Macarthur as AN
enemy's camp. -al
In our eyes they are the soldiers of the
united States, they are our Army. and we /
believe in them and viii sustain them
Even now the 1 emocrats are planning. il |
they get control Of the House. 10 cut on
appropriations for the Army and thus com
pei the withdrawal of our troops from The
Philippines. The result would be To- force
the retirement of such soldiers as would |
remain to Manila, and their retreat void