Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-08-04
BRYAN CONFIDENT.
WON'T coNcEDE A STATE TO THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.

poneuts of Human Rights.
When the Montana state delegation.
which was the first to greet Mr.. Bryan,
routed him out at 80 a. m, he made
his first speech He said: Il shall
not concedc them n state this year,
not even Vermont. 1t is only a ques-
ton which state IN the Union will give
the largest Democratic majority" He
certainly has supreme confidence in
himself. but ! wonder If he reads the
Democratic papers of the east The
New York Times repudiates him en-
tirely. The Brooklyn Eagle does the
same and calls him "A Thespian
dreamer, who is alsoa fanatical egotist.'
The Hartford Times. the leading Dem
ocratic paper in Connecticut, says:
bryan is not n Democrat. never was
a Democrat and apparently intends
never to he one. He is n POpulist and
a Socialist. and has the enthusiastic
support Of Populsts who are not
in the pay of Republican bosses
The New Haven Register agrees with
1t. and says there is the same kind Of
harmony that existed between the lady
and the tiger when they returned from
their ride. but didn't say which of the
two Is in the lead. And there are
others So it seems that, as In the last
campaign, there Is still the enemy's
country" 1t is curious situation.
Bryan insisting on 1G to l and all the
states of most Importance against it.
The Hon George Fred Williams, in
his speech at Kansas City, said, Gods
benedicton was almost heard spoken
aloud in our deliberation yesterday
Yes. almost, That was when 1t seem
ed as though rs to ] would be defeat
ed. Henry Ward Beecher once said.
There are some ministers who can
give the exact latitude and longitude
of God" Perhaps the presence of Till
man. Altgeld and Dick Croker was the
cause of its being only almost. What
n subject for a cartoon! Tillman, that
barbarian from South Carolina. read
ing the platform demanding Filipino
independence. His kind of independ-
ence for the Filipnos would be just
like his for the negro.
The last Democratic platform insist
ed on the free coinage of silver at the
ratio Of IS to | because the money
question is paramount to all others
The platform also claimed that THE
decentralization Of silver in 1873 has
resulted in the fall of the prices of com
modities. has led to the prostration of
industries and the impoverishment of
the people" Who thinks so now
Also that federal judges have been
guilty of a new and highly dangerous
form Of oppression" because they en-
joined persons from obstructing the
movement of cars carrying the mails
of the United States during the Debs
Chicago riots.
The late riots in st. Louis aud the
lawleSs acts committed there, the strip
ping of the clothes from women who
rode in boycotted cars, would seem to
any law abiding citizen to call for
some power to stop such outrages. No
decent workman thinks anything else.
Sober minded citizens are in favor of
law and order, and the people who
join in riots are far from being flt citi-
zens Of a republic. The political party
that offers n plank which encourages
riot doesn't represent the best thought
of the people.
The new platform is, rs usual, en-
tirely one of opposition to every Re
publican policy. The questions that
have come to the front since the last
campaign are seeking solution and will
need the best effort of the highest
minded and most level headed men in
the nation. They are new questions
and cannot be solved otfhand by some
political stump speaker. What lot is
heard about the rights Of man from
people who confound rights with Ii
cense! What regard for the rights of
man have Croker and Tillmanf Their
kind of right is all wrong. The foreign
policy of this government is in the
hands of those who have always been
on the side of liberty and justice. The
400 schoolteachers from Cuba now
at Harvard college have no fear Of any
fell designs on their island by this
country, and when the Filipino under
stands rightly our intentions he will
also lose his fear. Perhaps those peo-
pie who have so much sympathy with
the Filipinos don't know that we could
not possibly escape a fight with them.
The Filipino junta at Hongkong or
dered Aguinaldo TO help the Americans
drive out the Spanish and then to drive
the Americans out. The juuta prepar
ed instructions and in the middle of
January, 1899, warned their friends in
Manila to leave. saying the time was
near at hand. The United States gov
eminent has documents in Aguinaldo's
handwriting, including his plans for q
rising in Manila last October, when he
detailed the methods to be employed
in aSsassinating the Americans. And
this is the man who has been compared
10 George Washington. The party that
freed the negro can be better trusted
TO deal fairly with the Filipino than
the party that fourishes the Declara-