The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-10-26

Amid many plumbers the Demi Populist
Convention built cunningly when it pro-
claimed imperialism a paramount issue.
If it had claimed to have differed With
the Republicans as to the declaration OF
the Spanish War, attention might have
| been called to the fact that the war reso.
| lutions were adopted in the House by
| vote of 81 to 6. If it had claimed TO have
! opposed the Spanish treaty, it would have
| had to explain away the vote OF 10 Demo
cratic, 8 Populist, 3 silver and indie
| pendent Senator, who. under the direct
| appeal of Mr.. Bryan, voted for the treaty
If it had posed as having resisted the ac-
QUESTION of the Philippine Islands, it
would have had trouble with the AZ Demo
| Gratis, Populists and 8 fusonists who, on
February 90, 1899, voted to pay for them.
| If it had pretended to have resisted the
increase of the army, as an instrument OF
| imperialism or an illustration OF mllltallsm
which every freeman should detest, 1t
would have been answered by the tact
that the Military Committee OF the Senate
on February "a, 1899, provided for the
present establishment by a report which
was Unanimously Concurred In BY Demo-
Gratis, Republicans And PopuliSts. and
| was adopted in the Senate by vote or %
to 10, passing the House by "a vote of 203
to 80. Instead of reciting their OPPOSE
ton to these ACTS of Imperialism they
have their own party representatives, ia
miliar with and sworn to uphold the Con
stitution, first concur in each and every
one of them as good and lawful legisla-
ton, and then under the stress of political
eXigency in the effort to mask, while re-
affirming, the rejected platform of 1876.
arise and proclaim that the sum total OF
the several good and lawful acts in which
they had participated constitutes crime
against the Constitution and an assault
upon liberty, and actually set up the fact
that Republicans also participated in them,
as an issue upon which a jury of Amerl-
can voters should condemn the Republl
cans and reward the Demi Populists, re
warding the latter, not upon any recoro
of having resisted the crime, but upon the
high and moral ground of having turned
States evidence.
FALSITY OF PRETENCE OF ISSUE
OF IMPERIALISM.
They demand the punishment of Mckin
lev upon the testimony of Bryan, his ac
complete, and insist that for his lntormer ,
fee, the latter should have the spolls q!
office. Out of McKinley's action anC
Bryan's concurrence, they seek to raise al
issue between them. The mere statemen
shows There Never Was A Party Issue
Really Raised Upon Any Of These, and i
tie Kansas City Convention had had thu
audacity to say so, the falsity of the pre-
tence would have been Immediately eX
posed. In the place of defining the fact
upon which they rely they make this gen
eral and vague declaration-"The burn
Z ing issue of Imperialism growing out o
the Spanish War involves the very exist
! ence of the Republic and the destructo,
] of our free institutions We regard it a
4 the paramount issue of the campaign
! Having so delivered themselves, wlthou
specifying in what particular spot Tn
! issue was or is burning, or how or wher
it involves the existence OF the Republic
!. or what act growing out of the SPANS
! War has destroyed any free institution o
! America their orators dwell upon tn
"paramountcv," of an issue OF this KIND
4 and very naturally make a good argu
Z ment. We all agreed upon that with a
\ agreement which surpasses the unanlmit
= of the parties when they voted for tn
2 Spanish War, the Spanish Treaty and tn
= increase of the army at the end of tn
n Spanish War Every Sane Man In Tn
= United States, Republican or Democrat
Looks Upon The Continuance OF ThI
3 Republic And The Preservation OF 1t
2 Free Institutions AS Paramount To A
= Questions Of Which The Platforms q
= Any Political Party Treats, and if an
Y question as to their continuance shout
y really arise they would unite and vot
AS One Man For Their Preservation. |
that uprising, however, Democrats wout
turn for protection and leadership to som
one of approved craftsmanship and coul
age such as Grover Cleveland, and not
self-adyertised trimmers like Mr.. Bryan
who helped to bring the trouble upon u
! Trying to get in the swim, he helped IN
perialsm' along, and now trying to 60
& into office, the swim being over, he woul
pose as his country's liberator from h
own legislation.
]. As the Kansas City Convention ha'
therefore, no real Spanish War Issue upo
which to construct a controversy betwee
their acts and the acts of the Adminlstr
NJ ton, it manufactured dummy in vel
~ general words, and for fear the eXistent
~ of the dummy would be promptly dl
- proven, if left to itself, stamped it Par
NJ mount" and proceeded to argue wit
No great force and eloquence and consuil
mate gravity to the American people TIL
liberty is really preferable to slavery an
10 than any old Empire that could be CO
structed.
10 Taking text upon which men hay
10 thought, written and spoken for ce
turtles, and with the talent for giving e
M preston to the thoughts of others whit
N marks him, Mr.. Bryan made the one goo
" speech of his campaign. He should ha'
stopped right there, when all agreed WI
M the general principles enunciated by hi
No and while comparatively few of his ON
party saw their want of application
the actual situation. AS time has gone {
and his speeches have flooded the cou
try, people have begun to think, and Il
more they think about it the less they $
in this pretended issue.
ISSUES ARE BORN, NOT MADE.
To many indeed it appears evident tn
the agitators who sought to make lawf
C. money out of paper, and who still see
to force upon US fifty cents worth of 5
yer as dollar, have not hesitated To {;
TEMPT the free and unlimited coinage
issues" out of nothing; to stamp the
nc ..Paramount,' and to pass the upon
as unsuspecting people I'm the name OF Il
erity.' Like poets, issues are born, II
made, and secure attention by their me
&. its, not by their title pages. Advertiser
NAV help but cannot create them, al
a =, when the puff becomes too lurid it su
gests doubt to the reader. An issue c;
NJ only arise fran some conflict of fact
q circumstance, and when political, to
real must involve some course of actl'
g of legislation defined and advocate
the one side and resisted on the oth'
Il. The War of the Revolution arose for
specific acts of oppression, and upon t
rt issues of resistance of submission t
Wings and Tories of that day divide
The extension of slavery into the Ter
tories produced the controversy Of Isl
rs and upon the issue so raised the Dem
Gratis and Republicans first contende
r. The efforts to foist silver upon the cou
try at double its real value gave origin