New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-28
STEVENSON AND POPULISTS.
he ACCEPTS NOMINATION TO FILL VA
CANCY CAUSED BY TONNES
DECLINATlON

Lincoln. T.
et the Popullst party National headquarters. Adla
+. Stevenson accepts the nomination for Vice
President rendered to him by that party early this
month.
The action Of the feople parry in selecting can
didaes outside OF its own organization Is almost
PIan nai is found IN your own candid decara
zion The m 45eT 91 aS y Ff9P PaF os IN
which the very life Of free institutions il in
are, Of SECONDARY Importance and should be laid
aside until Fhe peril is averted' 49,. -. -
Upon the important questions Of hnance. OF 90
mestic adn1inisration and OF reform IN our nern
gives no uncertain sound i is no less emphatis
IN It's demand for return 70 The polcy, of honsS
The further demand for wise and efficient logisa-
fail to challenge the attention of all thoughtful
In common however with the Silver Republicans
and the Democratic parties you recognize the I'M
hour In the presence OF the overshadowing issue
of imperialism others are but as the dust IN the
oereIv believe that a crisis has been reached in
which mere party considerations of secondary
Importance
Involved in the settlement Of this great question
are consequences of deep import to tho American
people The supreme gravity of the issue cannot be
II is Wen even now to recall some Of the recent
of the world Congress, referring to Cuba supple
ente1 [s % Dte 9i 5ereby discIams
any disposition TO exercise sovereignty. jurisdic-
pacifcation thereof. and asserts its determination
when that IS accomplished to leave the government
and control of the island to its people"
1t this solemn declaration by the American
own conscience and Of that of the world The
pretence now that this disclaimer upon our part
applied only to Cuba and not to other Spanish
dependencies is Ito palter with words in double
sense.
Existing conditions abroad now challenge our
serious thought. whether we Will or no.. Spain
has been conquered. and the Specification of Cuba"
the declared purpose Of the war-secured. And
too. against our former allies in our conflict with
Spain. II is war against people eight thousand
u irooGS ost - + In bp6 %nf, nay
ing Giready cos i ITU I bnh1 i H r IN
ton TO be answered by each American voter now
be our justiGcation at the bar Of history?
sixty thousand soldiers are nov in the Philip
pine Islands; how Inuch more viii be the sacrifice
Of treasure and life before the conquest is com
what next? How are these islands to be held and
governed? Does any sane man doubt that it can
Of The Navy? And this not for day or for
year. but for all time All this implies the exer-
in very truth government outside of the Constitu-
people of the Colonial methods of European mon
aTHrists It means the right to hold alien PEG
trolling agency in government In word, 1t fore
More than this following close In the wake OF
Imperialism. as the night the day. comes the i'm
tarism is to he made bare in the New World as it
is in the Old. The strong arm of power is to he
more than a century nave brought contentment
and happiness to all our people. Existing condl-
misery to the verge of human endurance-iIlus-
trate by sad object lesson the inevitable result
OF large standing armies in time OF peace.
Conditions now existing in the Philippine Islands
for which we are in a measure responsible, impose
new duties upon us These people are entitled to
our protection against the cupdlty and aggressive
Of subiugation upon part. but that Of the
fun enjoyment by them of liberty and the ultimate
establishment Of stable government fashioned by
their hands.
Imperialism-"the republic or the empire"-s. in
deed. the oVershadOwing issue with which are
confronted in the pending struggle for political
premaCy.