, 1900-07-12
THE SAM OLD PARTY.

Mr.. Hanna, president of the republi-
can national committee, haT the hap
ply faculty of doing the right thing at
the right time to make the democratic
newspapers of the country howl with
indignation. Previous to the late con
vention in Philadelphia Mr.. Hanna had
the forethought which always adds lus-
ter to his political movements to send
special invitations to the surviving
delegates of the first republican ma
tional convention, which met in Phila-
delphia forty-four years ago and mont
This was a sore blow to the envious
democratic editors who have been
claiming that the party which nomi-
mated Fremont, Lincoln and Grant is
not the republican party of today, not
withstanding the fact that hundreds of
thousands of old soldiers who fought
through the civil war and millions of
citizens who have always been promi-
nent in the republican party are still
voting and working with that grand
organization which made the states all
free. and by the valor of their achieve
ments made this n powerful and unit
ed nation. The Laramie Boomerang.
on last Saturday, republished an edi-
torial from the Baltimore Sun in which
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republican convention and the last one,
We select the following extracts from
that editorial:
The republican platform adopted in
1856 was short and extremely agrees
sive. 1t was the platform of a new
party, and began with the declaration,
This convention of delegates, assem-
bled in pursuance of a call addressed
to the people Of the United States. with
out regard to past political differences
or divisions. who are opposed to the
repeal of the Missouri compromise, to
the policy of the present administra-
ton, to the extension Of slavery into
free territory, in favor of admitting
Kansas as a free state, of restoring the
action of the federal government to the
principles of Washington and Jeffer-
son, and who propose to unite in pre-
senting candidates for the office OF pres
ident and vice president do resolve as
follows
This preamble is followed by a SER
les of resolutions of which the first
read:
l Resolved, That the maintenance
J of the principles promulgated in the
declaration of independence and en-
! bodied in the federal constitution is
| essential to the preservation of our re-
publican institutions, and that the fed
q eral constitution, the rights Of the
I states and the union of the states shall
q be preserved
How will the present platform max,
ers Of the republican party attempt to
q reconcile with this declaration of prin-
ciples with the policy and the prac-
t tices of the party today? How attempt
to secure with the declaration of indie
p%endenCe their treatment of the inhabi-
g tants of Porto Rico and the Philip
tossed devotion to the constitution of
n the United States the brazen PROPOSE,
t ton that the constitution and its guar
e antee have no application to hundreds
e of thousands of square miles and mil
$ lions of human beings of European, as
= well as Asiatic descent, over whom the
= flag of the United States floats as over
: subject territories and peoples"
The democratic editor of the Balti,
= more Sun should be informed that this
is not the first territory acquired by
e the United States through conquest OF
S purchase. A democratic president once
e purchased a considerable territory for
i which congress paid Sic, 900 900. Tit
t country acquired was inhabited by sew.
? eral hundred thousand people who were
e not consulted regarding the sale of the
territory they occupied, nor were they
e recognized afterwards as citizens Of
t the United States. though thousands
of them were %peaceable and law abid'
: ing. The democratic party has beer
in control of both branches of the ma.
tional legislature many times sinol
these territories were formed, and yet
they have never seen fit to make them
states.
Porto Rico is being carefully and in,
:, diligently prepared for a government