Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-15
TALKS OF EXPANSION
Mr.. Gibson, a Republican
From Tennessee.
FIGHT IN THAT STATE
TWO DISTRICTS ARE SURELY RE-
LIABLY REPUBLICAN.
Will Go Back to His District About
August and Wage Hot
Campaign.
FIGHT IN THAT STATE

Representative Henry r. Gibson of Ten
nessee has remained here since Congress
adjourned and will not return until about
August 1. He will begin active work in the
coming campaign about September 10, going
over his entire district. Mr.. Gibson has one
of the two republican districts in Tennes-
see and his denomination last March in
sures his election. He then carried his dis
trct by a majority of 10000. When Presi-
dent Mckinley was first elected this dis
trict gave Mr.. Gibson majority Of 1864
THAT will be the majority next fall, If
We have an honest election MIR. Gibson
said to a Star reporter today. THE same
men are there now, and there is no reason
why they should act differently than they
then did. In fact, the change is the other
way and in our favor
Us there any important local issue that
is likely to affect the election in your dis
trfct?" Mr. Gibson was asked.
What May Affect Election.
There will be so far as state matters are
concerned. The democrats are now In ID
solute control of the state machinery, ana
in wilful and deliberate violation of the
state constitution they have put the elsc-
tive machinery in the hands of the gov
ernor so that the latter can appoint cleo
ton commissioners for the several couH-
ties The election commissioners name tins
Judges and the clerks of the election 1hey
designate the so-called republican members
without consulting the republicans as 10
who their representatives shall pc. II tncy
select men who are republicans often they
are either ignorant too corrupt to De OF
anv benefit to US in seeing that the election
is fairly held and that the ballots are
counted as they are voted the plea 1ot
this oppressive action on their part Is that
it is necessary to secure the ascendency OF
the white element of the state but in east
Tennessee four of every hve voters are
white. and yet they apply the same RUE OF
oppression In white sections Of the state
that are applied in the black sections. Inc
result is an intense feeling of antagonist
that has bordered upon revolution, thu
there is danger in eastern Tennessee or the
people in their rage at being denied JUS
tice at the ballot box venting their wT2tE
upon those officers who may be guilty OF
corrupt election practices.
What will be the main line Of your
argument during the campaign next fall.
Comparisons Of Interest.
81 propose to compare what the repuba-
can party has done during the six years
it has been in power with what the demo-
Gratis did during the preceding four years
when they held the reins of government.
First. take the financial question and see
how the nation has prospered in six years;
how it has extended its lines OF trade all
over the world, pushing its competitors 10
the wall on every continent. Our flag has
been supreme wherever 1t has hoWn. lake
the question of expansion and, LOOKING
back, we find that we belong to a race OF
expansionists coming from the Narangians.
who started out on the Baltic sea 2.ooO
years ago and have been moving east ana
west ever since, until the western oTanch
and the eastern branch met on the shores
~ Do So tvyn
in an effort to relieve our ministers at
Pekin
1.-The race has encircled the earth. We
cannot repress this spirit of expansion any
more than we can prevent a boy from
growing and moving about. The only way
to repress the growth and activity or the
boy is to Kill him. without retardtng the
health and development of the nation we
cannot repress it's tendency to expand. We
will make the Pacific ocean an American
sea. Glory is now in possession OF our
country and greater glory awaits 1t. inc
republican policies are IN line with the
progress Of our race since it's birth 1000
years ago, and any party that stands IN its
way will be run over.
When l first considered this question or
expansion my mind went back over the
footprints of the race 1000 years until
located them on the shores of the Baltic
sea- denominated Nikings-Sea kings-ccn-
sidered by all other nations to be pirates.
Then the question as to what other pro-
gressive race there was occurred to me;
what other race was there that seemed 20
spread out and dominate the world. There
was but one answer-and that was the
Russian race, and that race, TOO, started
from the Baltic sea.
All From the Same Race.
The Russians, too. are from the Varan-
CLANS Their warship now building at the
Cramps shipyards is called the 'Variag,'
which Is the Russian for Varangian. I
leraned that the Russians. the English
speaking races and the Germans are from
the same race. and they are the same peo-
pie. They We're all Matched out on the
shores of the Baltic sea. They first took
possession of the shores Of Norway and
Sweden, then moved to Denmark. They
moved on and captured the northern part
of France, under the name of the North
men. and there we find the Normans
The Danes and Normans took possess
sion of England and then jumped across
the Atlantic and possessed themselves Of
North America, some of the great islands
and South Africa. We now become the
dominant element in the race. The Varan-
gian blood Is the controlling factor in the
English speaking and German races as it
is the controlling factor in the Russian
race. They are all people who love the
sea. You cannot keep them from the
ocean. The tendency of our race is the
same that animated Peter the Great, when
he went to England to learn ship building
and that caused him to set his eyes upon
the Black Sea and to finally plant the Rus
sian flag upon its shores.
TT is the same spirit that caused his
successors to turn their eyes upon the Pa
cifc ocean. l gegard the march made by
the Russian branch of the Varapgian race
of 1000 miles across the continent Of Asia
as the most sublime spectacle in all the
history of the world"