The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-06-13
UPHOLD THE REPUBLICANS.
Progressive Democrats Are in Har-
mony with the Administrations
Philippine Policy.

The eloquent championship by Sen
ator Morgan, the ablest and most in
fuential democrat in congress-, of the
republican policy in the Philippines is
a fact of vast significance to the coun-
try. 1t means that the progressive
democrats as we'll as the republicans
are in harmony on this vital measure
of national procedure. He pointed out
that he was obliged to part company
with many of his party in congress
and in the country at large on this
great issue, but he enunciated his ideas
with great courage and effectiveness.
On this question, which is the largest
which is before the country at the
present moment, the Alabama sena-
tor holds orthodox republican ground.
Some of his democratic colleagues
assailed his position, and others of
them will do this in the days which in
tervene before the enactment of the
Philippine bill. He is on the strong
side, however, and can afford to incur
whatever hostility his course will pro-
woke among his democratic colleagues,
says the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Morgan's position is significant be-
cause it is the position which is taken
by many of the most intelligent and
progressive of the members of the dem
ocratic party throughout the country.
A majority of the southern newspa-
pers of ability and influence are on the
republican side on the Philippine is
sue. Among them are the Nashville
American, the Florida Times-Union,
the Mobile Register, the Memphis
Commercial-Appeal, the Atlanta Con-
stitution and the Louisville Courier
Journal. These newspapers must rep
resent a large element of voters of
their communities. They are being
reinforced constantly by newspapers
of ability and position in their section.
In the old days, the south was
a section in which the expansion
sentiment was especially strong. 1t
was the south which took the lead in
the movement which led to the accept
ance of Texas offer of annexation.
The south furnished most of the vol
unteers and the money for the filibus-
tering expeditions organized against
the Spaniards in Cuba, and which aimed
to capture other parts of the territory
of the Latin-American region. Slavery
had a little to do with this expansion
LIST feeling. of course, but the expan-
sionist sentiment was strong in that
section from the days of Boone, Rob-
e%rtson, Sewer and their colleagues,
long before the slavery issue began to
have any influence in favor of terri
torial enlargement in the tropical re-
gions.
On the most important issue of the
day, the retention of the Philippines,
the republican party is %invincible. The
policy of keeping the flag up in the
islands will receive the support of nine
tenths of the republican masses and
of three or four-tenths of the demo-
Gratis. The democratic condemnation
encountered by President Cleveland
when he pulled down the flag in Ha-
wall in 1898 would be faint compared
with that which would be aroused
from the same party by any American
official, democrat OF republican, who
would propose 0 take the flag down
in the Philippines. This is an issue
which the republican party will keep
at the front. In the congressional
campaign of 1902 the republican
stump orators and newspapers will
show that democratic success would
mean the abandonment of the archi-
pelago to anarchy and spoliation from
some European power or powers. The
same issue will be uppermost in the
presidential canvass of 1904. for sue
cess by the democrats in that year
would mean the renewal of the Fill.
pino revolt. the withdrawal of the
American forces from the islands, and
the abandonment of the position of
power and influence in Asia and in the
politics of the world, which was gained
in 1898. Morgan's support of the re-
publican policy on the most vital issue
of the day is important, as showing
that a strong ingredient of the demo-
cratic party will be on the republican
side in the campaigns of 1902 and 1904.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.