Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-10

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@@ all the time had already been
allotted to others, dragged my
name in and asserted falsely that the
Democrats, after getting up ''the Span
ish war, turned their backs and ran
away" When / wanted to interrupt
him, he refused to YIELD consequently
all l could say then was to assert that
what he said was untrue and could say
even that only while the chairman was
trying to help Lands out by making as
much noise as possible by pounding
his desk with the gavel with all his
might. Therefore / had to bide my
time. Mr.. Landis made himself very
scarce for couple of days, but all
things come to him who waits. On the
26th he was in the house. / got fifteen
minutes by unanimous consent and
spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, I had no idea of project
ing myself into this Philippine debate at
all until the very remarkable performance
of the gentleman from Indiana mfr. Lam
diSl the other day. 1 was entirely con-
tent to leave this question in the hands of
the very able Democratic minority of the
committee. Barring his exordium about
a young soldier who died in his town and
his eulogy on General Funston, had
heard most of the gentleman's speech
twenty odd times before. 1t was an old
acquaintance, familiar creature, and
expect to hear it several times more this
summer. The rest of you can enjoy that
great luxury by paying the price of adj
mittance, for whatever the gentleman
from Indiana thinks about the blessings
of tariff for revenue only he has no sort
of doubt about the personal benefits of
lecturing for revenue only, and it is due
to the truth of history to say that the ap-
plause he receives from miscellaneous au-
diences over the country is not half as
tumultuous or unanimous as the applause
he received from the Republican mem
bers of this house.
Upon his eulogy on General Funston I
desire to make two comments: First, if
General Funston is as great hero as he
made him out-and l am not denying it;
do not profess to be a judge of heroes
then the next Republican presidential
ticket ought to be Freddy and Teddy"
instead of Teddy and Freddy
The second suggestion is that a great
many people have been deviling their
heads to know why the president of the
United States SO unceremoniously and
emphatically squelched General Funston
not long ago. l take it, after listening to
the eulogy of the gentleman from Indi-
ana, that the reason is that the presi-
dent of the United States is suffering
from the green eyed monster of jealousy
preying upon his 'innards,'' for accord
ing to the gentleman from Indiana, Hero
Funston stands brandishing the north
pole in one hand and the equator in the
other, while the president, as everybody
knows, has never invaded the arctic re-
gions, at least in military capacity.
L hope l may make another suggestion
without giving offense to anybody, and
that is that while the gentleman from
Indiana is erecting monuments to Repub-
lican heroes in the city of Havana he
will not forget to build one to that emf
nent Republican financier, Mr.. Neely, late
of Indiana. Nor ought he to neglect to
raise monument to Major Rathbone, the
eminent financier and protege of Marcus
A. Hanna.
The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Lam
dis] said that when the war came, with
its responsibilities and problems and con-
sequences, we turned our backs and ran
away" and every Republican member
applauded that statement, and you would
have applauded if he had declared that
every man in the United States who is
not a Republican ought to be drawn and
quartered. With the gentleman shouting
that he would not YIELD with the Repub-
licans applauding to drown me out, with
the chairman of the committee hammer
ing his desk TO the same end, answered
then that there was not a syllable of
truth in that statement, and l repeat it
now and / answered it then, although
the chairman said / was out of order, be-
cause
I'D right the wrong where it is given
Though 'twere in the very court of heav-
en-
The statement that the Democrats turn
ed their backs and ran away is a foul
and malicious SANDER, l do not care who
utters it. There were as many Democrats
fought in the Spanish war as there were
Republicans; more, too, and they fought
as bravely and as we'll Admiral Dewey,
Winfield Scott Schley, "OId Joe. Wheeler,
Richmond Pearson Hobson, all wrote
their names high on the scroll of fame, to
say nothing of the obScurer Democratic
heroes in the ranks by land and sea.
Bagley was the first to die in battle,
and he was a North Carolina Democrat.
General Fitz-Hugh Lee rendered invalu-
able services to the country, and he is
Virginia Democrat, worthy of the love,
admiration and gratitude of the whole
American people.
The Spanish war was an American war.
1t was not a Democratic or Republican
war either. There was no politics in its
inception. There was no politics during
it's progress. 1t was only at the close of
the war when Republicans entered upon
an ignoble, unjust and unpatriotic at
tempt to try to make politics out of it,
and, though Schley distinguished himself
in battle and won famous victory, the
Republicans have tried to rob him of his
glory by the meanest conspiracy in all the
hoary registers of time. But the Ameri-
can people are just, and they have writ
ten Schley's name along with those of
Tnhr Do ora NaIc
Farragut, Admiral Perry, Admiral Dew
ey and the other great sea kings. The
Democrats turned their backs and ran
away! The gentleman from Indiana does
not deserve the poor credit of the pater-
nifty of that infamous statement. He stole
it bodily from the gentleman from Ohio
General Grosvenor], who is the father of
all political fables. 1t was not true when
the gentleman from Ohio said it, 1t is
not true when tie gentleman from Indi-
ana reiterateS ii.
My Judgment is and always has been
that had either Mr. Cleveland or Mr.. Nc
Kinley granted belligerent rights to the
Cubans at any time prior to 1898 the Gu
bans, assisted by Americans fighting on
their own hook, would have achieved their
own independence, and we would never
have had any war with Spain and would
hever have had this portentous Philip
pine problem on our hands, But they did
not do it, I am not criticising them for
1t. 1t is only just to suppose that they
acted honestly according to their lights.
1t is no discredit to them to say that,
like other folks. their hindsight was bet
ter than their foresight" When, how
ever. De Lone wrote his idiotic and ma
licious letter about President Mckinley,
and when the Maine was blown up, kill
Ing six hundred and odd of our sailors,
Democrats and all other patriotic Ameri-
cans demanded war. The war came and
was fought to successful conclusion,
Democrats and Republicans alike bearing
themselves as heroes, whether as soldiers
or as sailors Since it closed the Repub-
licans, with gall that is astounding, have
tried to hog all the honor and to turn the
achievement of American va1or to par
tisan advantage.
The gentleman from Indiana endeavored
to make it appear that the Philippine and
Cuban wars are the same. They had no
CONNECTION with each other, except one
came after the other. The Cuban war
was an American war to make Cuba free,
to give liberty to a downtrodden people.
to extend the area of republican institu-
tions on the face of the earth. The Phil
ippine war is Republican war to be
nevolently assimilate' a people 1000 miles
away.
The gentleman from Indiana undertakes
to shove this whole Philippine business
off on destiny. That has been the plea of
every robber and freebooter since the
world began. He says, with a great deal
of JUNCTION, that he believes in God. 1t
would be very interesting to know wheth-
er God believes in him. He says ne be-
lieves IN God. am glad to hear it. be-
cause nobody would have thought that