The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-08-23
IMPERIALISM CONDEMNED.
Ex-Goy. Boutwell,, Secretary OF
the Treasury in Grants Cab
met, Declares He has repu-
dated the Republican Party
and Will Vote For and Sup
port BRYAN.

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 11.-Th'
first days session OF the Liberty
Congress of the National Anti-Impe
realistic League was held to-day
About 300 accredited delegates Were
present, and more are promised foI
tomorrow. The speeches OF Edwin
Burrett Smith, the temporary chair
man, and George ;. Boutwell,, the
permanent president, brought forth
much enthusiasm. The public
meeting in the evening was largely
attended and the reading OF Bourke
Cockran's letter was the signal for
tremendous applause.
But the greatest demonstration OF
the convention so far came in the
afternoon, when the venerable Geo.
5. Boutwell,, ex-governor of Massa-
chusetts and secretary OF the treasury
in the cabinet of President Grant,
concluded his address as permanent
chairman, with the declaration that
he had turned his back on the repub-
lican party and would support Bryan
for president The delegates rose in
their seats and rendered to the ex-
governor an ovation that lasted
several minutes
Governor Boutwell, was accorded a
great demonstration when he took |
the gavel. He said:
Having in mind many OF the |
honors that | have received from my |
countrymen in times past, | shall, |
when this day is gone, have no more |
favorable recollection OF any one of |
them than shall OF this. This is an
historic occasion. II the peril of this
country is what we think it is; if the
question before you and before your
countrymen is the question of the
continuance of the republic, then no
graver question has ever been com
mitted to any assembly OF men or to
any country. We are opposed to
Imperialism. We are in favor of a
republican form of government. We
respect the teachings of our ancestry.
the history they have left us; and
standing between the past and the
future, it is our duty to transmit to
posterity the principles of the fathers
an / the institution that they found
ed.
That is your mission to-day as the
representatives of forty-five states :
of this union. 1t may be a repre-
sentatlon without an organized con- {
stituency, but it is a representation t
that speaks for itself and for the peo-
pie of the country, and for the gener- :
atoms that are advancing to take :
our places; and it is a representation :
that has right to speak; a repre- (
sentation that will be heard at Wash :
ngton to-day, heard over the world; !
speaking as we do for the preserya- 7
ion of republican institutions; rep l
'esenting the American republic, the
light of which, ii it shall go out, will :,
lever be rekindled on the surface of :
he earth.
kINLEY WORDS AND HIS WORKS. Il
We are told there is peace in the in
'hlllpplnes and that our 10000 sol re-
hers there are merely performing r. -
'olice duty. The president has said
he Philippines are ours and that it.
here will be no abatement of our 81
lights and no scuttle policy. This
GEMS to indicate that we have enter
d upon a colonial policy. | always a,
blow the president by his doings, W
OF by his speeches. When the I'll
)eeches of men and the actions of
len appear not to harmonic, / look gt
, their actions for the truth. There ks
re | have never looked to the words Ell
President Mckinley as presenting OF
lbstantial evidence of what he would I've
| am not able to explain the mo- =;
We OF Mr.. Mckinley in taking this -
olicy. | believe he is the master A
ind In his cabinet and that nothing r.
Is transpired except that which he
mseh has originated. And he has o.
FRIED it through thus far without In
terruption. He interpreted the ~
'otocol with Spain contrary to its
and framed the treaty of u
aris according to his own ideas; ne
i'd he has since interpreted his /"
'wers upon his own theory as TO n
lat he was authorized to do. He
the one person responsible for III