The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-10-31
SENATOR FRYE TO BRYAN.
Open Letter Charging Him with
Misleading Statements.
Allegation that He Is Not Dealing
Frankly with the People.

addressed an OPEN letter to Candidate
Bryan IN which he says:
1.-THE people Of the United States have
the right to expect a presidential oandi-
date to meet the issues Of the day with
frankness and candor. Above all they
desire that he shall not attempt to deceive
them with false statements or with assar-
lions which 10y stating half the facts and
cOneeaIing the others give them a false
impression. Many Of them have not the
time OF the opportunity to learn from
the public records the details OF the ques-
lions under discussion, and it Is only Just
to them that those who appeal for their
Support should tell them the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth.
81 have followed with great care the
published accounts Of your addresses since
the campaign began, and, assuming that
you are quoted with reasonable accuracy,
am forced to the belief that you are doing
yourself a great Injustice and creating
the conviction that you are not dealing
as frankly with the people as you have
been accustomed to do in the past
81 assume, Of course, that you yourself
know the facts and all the facts relating
to the subjects which you attempt to dis
ouss. They are entirely accessible, and
as you have devoted your entire time to
matters OF this character since your en-
trance upon public life ten years ago, it
is reasonable to assume that you are
familiar with the subjects which you
discuss.
You have constantly criticised the
course Of the President in suppressing ths
insurrection IN the Philippines; yet you
know that the insurreetion had been &C
tual ly begun when the treaty with Spain
was ratified by Democratic votes which
were cast for it by your advice, and that
by that very act you aided in placing
this responsibility upon his shoulders.
ARMY INCREASE TEMPORARY.
''You criticise the size OF the army.
Yet you know that conditions in the
Philippines were critical. and the lives OF
our troops there IN great danger when the
temporary increase was asked by the
President; and you also know that the
act, which was supported by Democrats
and Republicans alike, is but a temporary
one, and itself provides that the addi-
tiOns to the force shall terminate on July
I OF next year.
You talk OF buying the Filipinos and
or extending government over new terri
tory without the consent of the governed
when You know that every foot OF terri
tory west Of the Mississippi was acquired
By your own party in precisely the same
way, and the people temporarily gov
erned by precisely the same methods, and
that the opportunities for local seIf-gOv-
eminent which have been offered the
Porto Ricans are vastly better than were
given the Inhabitants of the Louisiana
Territory, Florida. and the territory OBJ
tanned from Mexico.
60 You talk about governing people with
out thsir CONSENT yet you know that
your own party is governing millions OF
people in the Southern States without
permitting them the voice in their local
or national government which the con-
stitutiOn and laws guarantee them; and
when the matter is brought to your at
tention you have not one word of con-
dempatiOn for it, but meet the issue with
evasion worthy only OF the meres5 petit
''You talk OF trusts and charge the
Republican party with responsibility for
them; yet you know that during your
own term in Congress you did nothing
except introduce two bills which you
permitted to die in the pigeon holes Of
your own Ways and Means Committee.
You also know that the Republican party
enacted the only antitrust law ever
passed By Congress, and that your own
party in the last session of Congress de-
faated the only remaining remedy, a con-
stitutlOnal amendment which was pro-
posed and urged By she Republicans and
which required for its adoption a two
thirds vOIe
*'You complain of ths existence. of a
S.Ety on articles passing between Porto
f2BcO and the United States, amounting
to 10 pes cent of the Dlngley law rates
Nhen you know that the real purpose
"a that was to declare the right to regu
late matters of this character in regard
to the Philippines and so protect our
WOrk1ngmen OF the United States from
the cheap labor Of the Orient, and that
every cent Of the duty thus collected in
this country, as well as in Porto Rico,
goes to the benefit Of the suffering Porto
Ricans for whom you profess so much
sympathy. You know also that this duty
is but temporary, and that the present
law requires absolute free trade with the
island IN less than seventeen months from
this time.
DEMO CRATIC LEADERS DID IT.
You said at Milwaukee: Who says
1hat we can buy sovereignty over human
Ssings?' Yet you know that this is just
ysnat the greatest leaders Of your party
ala In the case Of Louisiana Territory,
Florida. and the enormous territory OBJ
Sained from Mexico, and what it tried to
do in Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands;
and you know when you recommended
the ratification of the treaty with Spain
that you were recommending this very
action.
At indianapolis you complained that
a Republican President could send a
telegram Of condolences when a King dies.
but when two republic expire no Repub-
1can sheds tear referring. of course,
to the South African republics; yet you
know that the United States government
did more than any other nation on earth
to bring about a cessation of hostiIities
in South Africa, that was the only gov
eminent to tender its good offices as
mediator and that 1t was impossible to,
under the articles Of the Hague Peace
Convention, for it to do more. The tele
gram OF cO1dOlenCe uDOn tha death Of the