The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-05
CUBA AND THE DEMOCRATS.
At Present the How of .In,perialism"
in That Quarter Is
Quoted.

There is nothing in the Cuban is
sue which can aid the democrats.
There is no chance, in the first place,
that they can get themselves into
any sort of harmony or the Cuban
or any other question. The asser-
ton of som of their representatives
in congress that they are going to
ask for Cuban annexation Immediate
ly. and to make an issue on that
point, is not calculated to brighten
the republicans. Only a small part
alton. Bryan all along has been
against everything which had any
tendency toward the establishment
of closer political relations between
the United States and Cuba. A pow
erful faction of his party stands with
him on this question. The howl Of
the democracy against what it called
imperialism was largely melted by
the pretense that the republicans in
tended to annex Cuba. Another howl
would be started by the democratic
press if the republicans should init
mate that they would neglect the
pledge to give Cuba a chance to set
up in government for itself if it's
people desired to do so.
Cuban annexation in the near fu-
ture is as certain as any coming po-
litical event can be. When the time
is ripe for annexation the republican
party is the party which will bring
it. The republican administration is
pledged to the congressional declara-
tion of 1898 to allow the Cubans to
set up a government of their it
they wish to. This promise has been
religiously kept. Some of the pre-
liminaries in the way of the organ
iZation of that government have al
ready been attended to. A constitu-
ton has beer framed by the repre-
sentatives of the Cuban people. Elec-
tions under that charter arc soon to
be held. Every assistance which can
be rendered to the Cubans in getting
their government under way, provid-
ing they want to put a government
in operation, will be accorded to
them by President Roosevelt. The
Cubans are we'll aware of this. None
of the inhabitants of the island are.
finding any fault with the course of
the president or of any of his agents
in Cuba. All the aid which the is
landers want toward getting them
selves set up in business as an indie
pendent nation is being promptly and
intelligently furnished.
Annexation is an eventuality of the
next few years, and the republican
party, when the Cubans themselves
! give the word, will accomplish it.
The republicans outnumber the dem
ocrats of the United States by many
hundreds of thousands of voters. The
proportion of Cuban anneNationists
among the republicans is far greater
than it is among the democrats.
Every intelligent person in the Unit
ed States knows this. The democrats
cannot muster any considerable NUM-
Der of their members on the annex
a%tionist side. An overwhelming ma
iority of the republican party will
swing in in favor of annexation just
as soon as they can do this honestly
that is, Just as soon as the Cuban
people say they want annexation. A
large element of the Cubans is work
ing for annexation now and this ele-
ment is bound to increase rapidly.
When anything like a majority of the
islanders give any intimation that
they want political union with the
United States the republican party
will give it to them. Cuban anneXa--
tion when annexation becomes a
practical question, is an issue on,
which the republican party will be.
united and on which the democratic
party will be divided, as that organ
ization is on every other great cues
tion.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.>