The Princeton union., 1900-07-26


Auditorium, ST. Paul. said:
Men and women of Minnesota, of the
Northwest, of the United States, ] thank
you for this greeting Let mo thank you,
not for myself but for the party and the
country, because 1t augurs we'll to have
such bodies as this. such men and women
As are here tonight. assemble to take
thought of the policies that are to con-
troll our country.
II do not address you as Republican
addressing Republicans, but as an Amer
lean addressing his fellow Americans,
urging them to stand for honesty
and the honor of the flag. We have
come here to begin the work Of CAM
paign more vital to American interests
than any that has taken place since the
close of the Civil war. We appeal not
only to Republicans but to all good citt-
zens that are Americans in fact as well
as in name, to help us in re-electing Pres
ident Mckinley. 1t was indeed of in-S
finite Importance to elect him four years
ago. Yet the need is even greater now.
Every reason which then obtained In his
favor obtains now, and many more have
been added. -Four years ago the success
of the Populistic-Democracy would have
meant fearful misery, fearful disaster at
home; it would have meant the shame
that is worse even than misery and dis
aster. To-day it would mean all this,
and in addition the unmeasurabIe dis
grace Of abandoning the proud position
we have taken, of flinching from the great
work we have begun. s88
president Mckinley has more [; than
made good all that he promised, or that
was promised on his behalf, and as the
smoke clears away we see how utterly
trivial are the matters because of which
his administration has been criticised,
when compared with the immense, SUBJ
stantial gains for American honor and in,
terest which under that administration
have been brought about. We appealed
for President Mckinley before, asserting
what he would do if president from our,
knowledge of what he had done in lesser
positions. Now we appeal for him, ask
ing that the promise of second term
be judged by the peri ormance Of his first,
and pledging that the wonderful work so
triumphantly begun in his first term shall
in his second be carried to an even more
triumphant conclusion.
'We ask support for President McKin-
ley because of what he has Actually DONE
of what he now stands for and typifes
and because of the marvellous work that
has been accomplished under his admins
tration. We ask the support of all up-
right citizens because against him are
arrayed al
The Forces of Chaotic Evil,
because Of the brooding menace to our
moral and Industrial welfare which -
implied in the present attitude and pur-
pose of the Populistic-Democracy. 54
"We know definitely what We be-
1ieve and we say it outright.
"Our opponents who represent all
the forces of discOntent, malice ana
and concrete, can hardly be said to
know what they really do believe,
because the principles they profess.
If put forth nakedly, are so revolt
ing, even to their own followers,
that they like at least to try to
? wrap the mantle of hypocracy
around them. They rant about
trusts, but they have nothing prac-
ticnble to advance In the way OF
remedy. sI
Nor Is this to be wondered at, when
one Of the makers Of their platform, the
representative from New York. and the
leader of that organization In New. Y ork.
are both themselves among the most
prominent stockholders In the worst trust
to be found to-day in the United States
the Ice trust, which has Justly exposed
itself to the cNticism which our oppo-
nents often unjustly apply to every form
OF industrial effort. They have invented
the imaginary danger Of Imperialism, and
about that they also rave Yet SO con-
scious are they Of the lollowness OF their
attack, SO well aware that to follow
out their professions would mean to trai]
the American flag in the dust, that they
are obliged to pretend. that really after
all they are for expansion. After In
finite labor they finally did decide tina,
they still believed In free silver. This de-
ciston was reached In their committee by
9 vote OF Is to "a, SO thatit appears they
only have 81 per cent Of faith In their 4S.
cent dollar after all. Even this amount
OF faith they were able to reach purely
by the aid Of Hawaii and vet four years
ago they objected as much to- our ex.
pansion over Hawaii as they now object
TO our expansion over the Philippines
There is an g9 sS
Element of Grim Com elIy l
IN these builders having now perforce te
take the one rejected stone to make out
OF It the foundation Of their new plat
form. HI * @
81 Their only unequivocal position 10 that
IN favor OF free silver at a ratio OF 1f
to !, for they have sought at least I;
make the pretense Of qualifying. or q,
least Of clouding what they mean wher
they ask for the relaxation oS .he bonds
OF justice and order and the abandonment