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SINS OF REPUBLICANS
Strong Arrangement of the Admin
isuation by Ohio Democrat.
Temporary Chairman Webster p
Huntington Mt Columbus Con-
vention Talks on I'm perinlism,
MiIitarism and Trusts.

M1l1turlSm anu
At the preliminary deliberations of
the Ohio democratic convention at Co
lumbus, June 12 Temporary and Per-
manent Chairman Webster p. Hunting
ton spoke at some length upon the sins
of the republican administration, say
ing:
You are assembled in state conven-
ton for the fourth time since the memor-
able campaign of 1896. Since that time
democratic thought in Ohio has been
slowly but surely concentrating along
certain lines of reform and manifesting
every year the renewed devotion of Buck
eye democrats to the fundamental prin
ciples; until to-day, more than ever be-
fore in Its history, our party is distinc-
lively and peculiarly the party of the
people, Your last convention at Zanes-
Vile merely emphasized the conclusions
which the party had solemnly reached
at Columbus and Dayton in 1897 and 1898.
The GAINESVILLE convention, and subse-
quently its candidates. reaffrmed Aac Chi
cago platform and Endorsed for president
in 1900 the greatest popular leader of
modern times; the eloquent orator in
whose tongue is the law of kindness
the honest citizen in whose heart is the
love of justice: the unselsh statesman
in whose mind is the welfare of man
kind-the friend of the people and the
dreaded foe of their enemies-William j.
Bryan. That 'reaffrmation and that in
dorsement represented the earnest con-
victions of the democracy of Ohio then;
and there Is no reason to believe that
those convictions are changed now
Scralo paiey:---rre- s...a,t-- .-..dms most
backward. but we shall take ro,r.- ITO
forward. The time has come when every
American citizen must determine for him
self whether this nation shall continue
to be in fact as well as in name a re-
public, or shall pattern after Great Brit
ain and become a colonial empire We
believe that II we are to have a democ-
racy, 1t cannot be too democrat tic: If we
are to have republic 1t cannot be too
republican, To remain a democracy
- to remain republics TO preserve the
union: while to become u colonial en-
pire is to destroy the union. 1t was true
in 1850 that this nation could not long
endure, half slave and half free and
1t is true now that it cannot long endure
half republic and half empire. There
fore the paramount question which mus,
be answered by the American people be
fore the ides of. November Isl Shall the
union be preserved?
I'VE invite an adjustment of differences
or at least of cessation of factiona
strife-between those who are not agreed
as to certain policies of government but
who are agreed that the union must be
preserved. There are those who would
preserve the union and at the same time
maintain inc SOIu STANDARD, ana there are
those who would preserve the union and
at the same time restore the bmetallic
currency that has always been and al
ways will be the only basis of perma-
nent prosperity in this country. But what
good will either of these accomplish ever
from his own point of view, If we hav.
bimetallsm or the single gold standard
and the union is destroyed? What shall
1t profit a man, If he gain the whole worl,
and lose his own soul?' What shall
n Joati 10 a. -,
whole world and lose its own character
Whatever mans convictions on tn
question, If he believes that the republic
must remain, he is a fool If he trade thu
greater principle for the lesser; he il
blind II he do not unite with others t.
achieve the. main object, no matter how
he may disagree with them in respect t.
lesser objects Democrats get togeth
er; and, npt democrats only. but all 70,
of every political faith who would frs
save the union from. the threat of i'm
perialism, from the, course of militarisr
and from the blight of monopoly. an
after that is done would agree to disagree
while deterninin g.:othSr questions Gu
appeal is not the appeal of the democrat
party as a, political organization 1t /
an appeal to the honor and the interes
OF our land. from all those who believ
that George Washington was right an
George III. was wrong. 81
We must have long pull, stron
pull. and a pull all together. And tina
will be the end of Mark Hanna's pull
with this government.
When We. point to signs of empir
and their dangers, which have appeare,
on every hand, multiplying every da,
since the hour when William McIlinle
took oath before God and his country
men that he would support the constitu
ton of the United States. we are toll
that there is no imperialism. But the
who say there Is no imperialism are til
very ones ginning TO destroy the republi
and create, the empire. Their own teach
ings. their own conduct. their own pun
poses are startling evidences that the
lie ignorantly or viciously when the
say there Is no Imperialism A
matter of fact. the empire Is 6
hand to-day both in our dealings wit
our own people and our policy towar
other peoples. The present administra
ton has established and fostered an II
dustrial Imperialism at home and u mi
itary imperialism abroad. An army
soldiers Is more imperiaistic than a
army of trusts.
THE waters of Asiatic seas are nc
more trcacherous TO our welfare tina
the water in millions of watered stool
A military and an industrial dlcta torshi
go hand in hand. The man who woul
rule others against their will by the bay
onet, and the man who would rule other
against their will by the power of me
nopoly deserve but one name-the nam
of tyrant; and tyranny viii not be er
dured by the American people. Suppos
the czar of Russia, by royal edict. WEI
to arbitrarily raise the price of brea
throughout his domnions To all his sui
jects: would not that be called wanto
act of imperialism? But how would
differ from the cdict of trust In til
United States, arbitrarily raising the prio
of any particular necessity of life whic
it might have The power 10 control?
king anywhere on earth were TO la
hands upon the sources of productio
an,ous his peopie. and thereinnn were I