Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-06-25

arms and new glory to our flag. but
an application of Democratic policies
would tarnish the one and dim the
other.
We have expanded our limits, at
vanced our jurisdiction and assumes
new responsibilities, but Democrat!
ascendancy at this time would mea
abandonment, retreat and nation6N
humiliation.
This is not imagination but serious
fact. The record shows it.
After reviewing the campaign OF
1900 the Supreme court decision in
the insular cases. the present status
of Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philip
pines, he concluded as follows:
When men talk about overthrow-
ing the Supreme Court decisions id
| the Porto Rican cases, they are strikI
ing also at the Philippines, and ard
| raising issues that not only affect thE
vital character Of our governmental
but also affect the wages of every
man in the United States who eats his
bread in the sweat of his face. n
1T seems surprising that any party
could take such position, and yet
| it is just like the Democratic party
| to do so, for, during the last fiftyf
| years, ii has never conceded to the|
| general government any disputed
power, nor struck one lick for labor.
1t denied the power to preserve the
union; 1t denied the power to abolish
slavery; it denied the power Of re-
construction; it denied the power to
protect our industries; it denied the
power to establish the gold standard
and now it denies the power to hold
possessions, and govern them accord
ing to COMMON sense, although the
Constitution itself expressly so pro-
vides.
| And as to labor, although constant.
ly posing as its friend and champion,
it has been at all times its inveterate
enemy. 1t was the enemy of labor
when it upheld slavery, by which all
labor was disgraced and degraded. It
was the enemy of labor through all
the years of its opposition to a protec-
tive tariff by which we saved the labor
OF this country from competition with
the underpaid labor of Europe.
1T is the enemy of labor now in it's
contention that we have no power to
protect the wage-workers of America
from cheap labor of our possessions in
the tropics and the orient; and vet,
we hear, year after year, Democratic
appeals for the electoral support of
the wage workers of our State and
country based on the assumption that
the Democratic party is the special
friend and guardian of all who foil.
The labor ng men of this country
are men OF brains. Of intelligence, Of
Judgement, of keen memory and Of
good associations, and, therefore. they
have denied these appeals; they will
deny them again, for they know that
if Democratic ideas prevail prosperity
will vanish and the pride and glory
of the hour will turn to shame and
humiliation.
Whatever else we may be let us
, be Americans, and be worthy of the
events with which we are associated,
This Is a great history ymaking epoch.
. Except only Washingtonand Lincoln,
no President has had such oppor-
, tunities as have fallen to Mckinley.
Not one has escaped him. All have
been improved to the honor and glory
of the republic. No emergency has
arisen that he has not triumphantly
met, and no duty of war, peace or
diplomacy has been so delicate OF SO
difficult that he has not performed
it grandly and successfully.
"All his achievements are the ma
tions. His fame is ours. 1t fills the
earth. All races honor and applaud
him. The single note of discord is
here at home among ourselves under
our own flag 1t misrepresents the
American people. 1t misrepresents the
people of Ohio. Their verdict in No
vember so declare"