The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-01

crat should give his approval to the colonial system of Europe.
 '.what about the silver question: was asked.
 Not Enough Gold and Silver.
 "As to the free coinage of silver l have always beea an earnest nimetai- list and nave not changed ny opinion f in the slightest. do not peiieVe tna. there Is enough gold anc silver m .ne world for the just and fair transaction of business. and I look upon the single standard of either gold or silver as dln . bling the power of oppression oy the rich at the expense of the middle ana poorer classes.
 q do not think the question of the | free coinage of silver is dead. but the abnormal and unexpected proouclh'h 1 of gold. and especially improvements | in the proces of extracting gold from | the earth. have given IS more money | in this country than any one could have antIcipated. We have a large per | capita of circulation than--any other | country in the world, except France. | and there is no immediate prospect oi any decrease. ,, | DO you think that bimetallism VIII l ever be the paramount issue again l the Senator was asked.
 l ..I believe that the time will again come when bimetallism will become the | paramount isue, but it is not now | question u2,li which the Dernocratic ! party can go into the contest in lso4. | was the reply.
 .There are thousands of good Dem | ocrhts who refused to eupport MT. | Bryan in 1886 and in 1900 because they | did nos bsi-ve this county could main l tain free coinage of silver at the ratio l of Is to 1 against the opposition Of the | great nations of the werld. It seems | to me suicidal for us to thrust this is- l sue again upon them. when they are anxious to come back to the party on all the other questions. 1 have no fear | that the gold advocates win take pos- session of the Democratic party. but l | do fear that if we continue to quarrel | over silver when there is no necessity for 1t we will again go through a slaughter house into an open grave. What Must be Done.
 'The Demcc atic rarty must come io- gether on some honorable adjustment of the money question, for 1t will re- qufre the vote of every man who has | WET UCCu u 1JclOGIht tO uCiC0t tAC ktC- publicans in the next contest. We must stop hunting around in corners and up canyons for Populist, Socialist and Single Tax votes and go back to the doctrine of MT. Jefferson, upon which alone we can achieve victory If those people who denounce the Dem ocratic party and only vote to support the minority as against Republican: l want to vote with us we shall be glad to have them. But they must come oi their own accord, and their support must not be purchased by surrender of the Fundamental principles on which our party is founded"
 When asked his opinion concerning
 the presidential possibilities now il
 the Democratic party who have beer mentioned up to the present time. Sen atot Vest replied:
 'Any discussion now as to who vii be the Democratic candidate for Pres. ] ldent in 1904 is premature and car amount only to conjecture. The issues which will then come before the coun try may be entirely different iron those we anticipate. and the candidat of the party will. of course, be selected
 with some regard to the issues whicl l. confront us hereafter.
 'I see 1t reported in the papers tha
 Senator Jones. of Arkansas. Chalrma'
 of the Democratic National Committed
 has recently said in a public speec
 that he personally favors David |
 Hill. of New York. but that Is woul | probably be best for the Democrats |
 1904 to nominate some diacreet jurist 0 II obscure bushes man. I do not believ
 that Senator Jones 'said any sue
 thing, and would regret it very muc
 if he had done so. Such a statemen
 from the Chairman of our Nations Committee seems to imply that W Il should abandon the idea of naming II prominent Demochat by nominatin Il a man ahout whom very little Is knowi
 Ii seems to me that this course woul
 indicate weakness and would deceiv
 nobody.
 Little Change.
 Eto say anything about the issues ( Icandldates of 1904. but if conditions re
 main as they are to-day the Republ
 cans will elect anybody they cnoos
 If their foreign policy does what the
 claim 1t will do and gives us the enorn
 ous balance of trade which we had la'
 year, and opens a market for agricu tural and manufactured products
 China and Japan. there will be lit chance to chnnge the admlnistratio Il President Mckinley, in his spec , made at Charlottesville. Va, while w his recent tour. declares that 1t WI necessary to take the Philippines order to extend our foreign market and he ignored entirely in his spec \ | any other consideration except that I commercial expansion. This is the o I doctrine of manifest destiny as 1t W T called in Missouri. which meant tn
 the Indian and Latin races had nothi
 the white man could not appropria if he saw possible.
 &I 'T must confess that recent even
 especially the Supreme Court decisi in the Porto Rican case. seem to i
 dicate that the colonial policy will that of the United States for t III future. The Northern people, who tender consciences were lacerated a III torn by the evils of African shaver H do not seem to care much for hum
 rights in the Philippine archipelat
 and Senator Hoat's eloquent prott N against the commercial greed of Ell constituents. A great many Dem II crats in the South seem willing enou | to forget the Declaration or lndepe dence and the Supreme Court declsIo
 by Marshall and Fancy if they can s
 their cotton at an increased price
 Orient.
 What it Means.
 CT have myself opposed with all T
 strength the colonial policy as esta
 lished by the Paris treaty, and l
 gard the ratification of the treaty HIS aLauca gn not only the nOiicy, but