Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-08-09
BRYANISM CONSIDERED
In DIFFERENT PHASES
SENATOR HOAR's ATTITIrnr

Il OIJE.
IN a recent interview Senator Hoar
aeciared President Mckinley and
Governor Roosevelt will have no more
arnes supporters in this country than
L shall be-" A few DAYS ago ar the
summer outing of the Mas
club at Marshfield he ex-
pialned In detail why he should sun
port and vote for the Republican tick
Ell land gave the reasons why those
who think as he does on the question
OF the Philippines should not vote for
Bryan and Stevenson. AS to the gen
eral grounds for his position Mr.. Hoar
SAID: L propose to support the Re-
publican party this year because
think the welfare Of the commonwealth
n the country and the future of JUS
tlce n freedom and righteousness lie
that way; and If l know myself. for
no other reason whatever, | propose
to support the Republican candidates
because | know the men, and in my
Judgment they are the best candidates;
ADD for no other reason whatsoever"
senator Hoar was equally explicit
In stating why he could not support
the Democratic ticket. His indictment
or Bryan and his advisers was a Sc
we're one. He condemned their free
silver madness, which would destroy
the country's prosperity; their free
trade folly which could only precip,tate
business disaster; their determination
to repeal the war amendments and to
disfranchise ten millions of American
citizens; their attack upon the supreme
court of the United States, and their
dastardly effort to win over American
farmers to the pestilent doctrines of
socialism, and induce them to favor "a
division of property between the men
who earned IL and the men who simply
coyet it without earning It,"
The utmost interest attaches to Mr..
Hoar's reference to imperialism" His
strong speech in the senate had led the
'anti-imperialists" to believe he would
be their leader in organizing an indie
pendent party, and had convinced the
Democrats he would be found In active
opposition to the election Of the Re-
publican candidates. Both, however,
have counted without their host. Mr..
Hoar does not now favor the Philip
pine part Of the treaty Of Paris. He
does not now believe in the establish
ment of American sovereignty over
those islands. He is as earnest now as
he ever was in the belief that the
Philippines should be treated as Cuba
is to be treated. But, even thinking
and believing thus, he does not see
any reason why he should support the
Democratic candidates. He brings the
charge home to Mr.. Bryan that "he
took that course which brought upon
us the var in the Philippine islands,
the destruction of the life and health
of four or five thousand American SOL
diers and of probably ten times that
number of the people Of these islands,
simply to keep the question for an is
sue in the coming campaign" From
this point of view he would rather
trust the future of liberty in the
Philippine Islands, If that were the
only issue before the country, to Judge
Taft than to any agency that Mr.. Bry-
an is likely to command" Hence his
choice must be taken between the
man who was responsible for that
treaty, believing it was right, and the
man who was responsible for that
treaty, knowing that it was wrong"