The Brandon news., 1902-06-05
and OH the field of battle with all {
ready beaten enemy.

and OH the field of battle with all al
ready beaten enemy.
At this rate we shall never win
another national battle, but we refuse
to believe that the party at large is no
better led and advised than it is in the
senate.
The issue between the two parties
is explicit and clear. The democratic
party flies at his masthead the flag of
the Union, the constitution and the
law. The republican party flies the
flag of the Man on Horseback, riding
down all truth and all law. The dc
mocratic party stands for expansion
upon the lines which jefferson laid
down with respect to the territory
bought of France, which Monroe fol-
lowed with respect to the territory
acquired fro1n Spain, which Polk fol-
lowed with respect to the territory ac-
quired from Mexico The republican
party is the party of imperialism ac-
cording to the model set up by Eng
land in India and Ireland and the
Transvaal, reeking with the desolation
and pillage of helpless human beings.
The democratic party is the friend of
the American soldier, seeking to have
and to keep him free, pure, patriotic
mana soldier, not less of the Con-
stitution than of the :Cross-the pio-
neer, wherever he goes, of liberty and
law, the symbol, wherever he appears,
of civilization, light and life. The
republican party is the enemy of the
American soldier, seeking to debauch
and brutalize hlm, to convert him in
to the merest machine of despotism,
and having thus debased him, to con-
vert him into an advance guard and
then into willing escort for the army
of carpetbaggers and scalawags organ
izing their predatory raids upon these
outlying regions, precisely as they did
in the case of the stricken states Of the
south thirty seven years ago. The de-
mocratic party proposes to attempt by
lawful and peaceful agencies what the
republicans are pretending to do by
fire and sword The democratic party
would close the mailed hand of war
and extend the open hand of fraternity
in the Philippines precisely as we
have done in Cuba and, as Mr.. Nc
Kinley proclaimed in his promise of
benevolent assimilation hoping to
effect, by methods consonant with our
national character and our illustrious
traditions, an ultimate adjustment an
swering all the better and nobler ends
of the advancing greatness and glory
of the country. The republican party
embarks upon century Of blood and
terror, of contest and freebooting, Of
oppression and piracy, riding down all
law, reversing all the rules of civ
ilized warfare and raising up stand
ards of savagery before which the
very Moslem stands aghast whilst the
eye of the christian world looks on
with amazement and horror. In a
word, the democratic party, contend
ing that these things, if tolerated
abroad, will be but the precursor Of
the same things at home, offers the
alternative of safer and surer methods
the constitution to go along with the
flag the precedents of the law and
the teachings of the fathers to prevail
and to be observed everywhere
christianity and i'll hand with repub-
licanism, not the torch and the sword,
to mark our coming into these distant
lands
God of the universe! What has
''the nigger in the south to do with
all this, and why should democrats
permit malignants like Lodge, and de.
magogues like Foraker to divert them
from the greatest issue which has
uawned upon mankind since the
| American revolution, shielding them
selves and the republican party the
while from its just accountability fol
acts which the administration has al
ready approved and condoned by its
policy of evasion, suppression and
silence 2? Henri Watterson, in Louis
vile Courier Journal.
THE FOURTH OF JULY.
Mr.. Editor: I suggest that we have
| a big barbecue here on the 4th OF
July, and invite all the candidates
for congress in this district to attend
and address the people on the issues OF
| the day. OLD CITIZEN
The News thinks the suggestion OF
old Citizen is q good one, and
steps ought to be taken Immediately
| to that end. Why not call meeting
lof the citizens and perfect plans for
the barbecue? The county oratorical