The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-07-11
Senator Zones Talks.

National Committee said:
I'm my Judgment the next session @
Congress will devote very large pol
tion Of Its time to the question upo
which the next campaign Will b
fought. This will be the Philippin
question"
Did not the Supreme Court settl
that question:
Not by any manner Of means. Th
Supreme Court. II have read the dc
cision rightly, simply said that Con
gress would have to deal with the Phil
ippines. As soon as Congress meets
must take up the whole problem an,
therein will be the opening skirmish o
the campaign"
Until the Supreme Court acted tn
question was. Does the constitution
follow the flagT The question now is
Ought the constitution to follow tn
nagr
III the Republican majority in Con
gress, which will be responsible for al
that is done. by Its action shall declare
that the constitution ought not to fol
low the nag. I think there will be 9
day OF reckoning at the polls which
will surprise the Republican leaders
Asked what would be the Demo
cratic position ON the future Of the
Philippines. the Senator said:
Il cannot assume to speak for the
party. but l have a very clear idea as
to where stand. do not believe that
we have the right to hold any people
rs vassals and subjects believe that
ally people coming under the control Of
the nag have the protection Of the con-
stltution and can enjoy all the rights
and privileges which that document af-
fords. Unless they have these rights
and privileges, we have no right to
bring them under our subsection"
you would allow them to exercice
an independent government"
Certainly. think we ought to give
the Filipinos our earnest. sympathetic
and material support IN their effort to
establish q government Of their own,
and after they had become independ-
ent I think the United States ought
to stand up for them against the whole
world. We ought to glory in the estaD-
lishment Of an Independent govern
ment and let all the powers know
that we propose to see the experiment
ncde success.
And" continued the Senator, Il
want to see the Filipinos given their
Independence quickly. We lived for
some years In the South under a car
pet-bag government and I do not want
another people to suffer as we did.
'T don't believe. though. that the Re
publicans ever propose to let the Fill
ipinos enjoy the possession of the is
lands. but will arrange to hold the
country for the money that can be made
out Of 1t.
Against that program shall enter
my protest. And believe that many
men will vote their honest convictions
in the next campaign who did not do
% last year. because then they regard
ed the question Of dollars and cents
as urpermost. Next year. not having
to consider whether upon their vote
hinges the continuance of good times,
they will speak their honest sentiments
upon the Philippine question"
Discussing other matters to come b.
fore Congress, Senator Jones SAID tllat
he supposed certain Republican lead
ers. Indifferent to everything except
their own selfish ends. would insist
upon trying to resurrect the ship snls
sidy bill
They will be met, however," said
the Senator. "by a strong. conserva-
tive portion Of their party. who will
say that the subsidy bill has had its
day Of hearing and that It will be un-
wise to force It upon Congress and the
country on the eve of a campaign.
Whatever Is done. the position Of the
Democrats will not be changed. We
will fight 1t just as determinedly and
heartily as we did in the last ses-
sion"
Senator Jones predicts that the Ba5-
cock bill striking at trusts will never
be reported from the Ways and Means
Committee. and is also very dubious
rs to the passage Of the Nicaragua
canal bill. asserting that the transcon-
railroads will issue their Or
ders to the Republican leaders to
smother the bill and these orders will
be obeyed.
Asked II he thought the Republicans
would persist in their effort. begun in
the extra session Of the Senate, to pass
4 cloture rule. Senator Jones simply
laughed. THAT performance" he
usid, was simply an exhibition of Sem
ator Platt's humor. We will never hear
Of 1t again."
On to Victory.
There is tide in the affairs of men.
( taken at its flood, leads on to for
.une." With equal truth, Shakespeare
might have said the same thing of pO-
itical parties. For the Republican par
y that tide set In when Grover Cleve-
and was elected President the second
line. H was taAcu at AS uOou, duu
he balance Is history.
The people are beginning to tire of
and this tired feeling will
to augment, as his subsidy
steals and imperial plots are gradually
At last, they see in Hanna
sm impending ruin for the common
,eOple, the enforcement Of trusts, re-
,udiation Of the cardinal principles up
n which this republic was founded
ind the adoption Of the policies Of mon
Irchies and empires. The disastrous |
that must inevitably fol-
ow this radical and revolutionary de-
arturo from right principles" as Gen
raj Harrison called 1t, can only be
IvOided by the early triumph of true