The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-16

me g,sS OF tne speeches a. monJ was .
sei.;ena SnsIes , he RsnubIicau
rnsa VI ~ Po"eies tar tarie reform
sInfh ahu a Piea nuNinnerialisti
anu ~ mi'a' 'hey 'ernneu
p'IuIo.PioS thar ,h;ngs.
owns N'Noh N'u aiio"s -,
Grievances and differences OF opuniVhh
IN our Party nave NIo9snt SAC u marty 1.
ccan,hIo ~ u az ~ noiicies suitable TO to-
daV W believc in he Democratic dogmas
Of the past. hut the country l. growing and
unless we adjust Ourselves 70 ina, gtoMt1
we must fall behind, ! know how we regau9,
: hegative man ana a nesataNe lhat' M he
Og rosJ,ucu hahlvu ~ mnhoi2 our country,
lei ms gel together and rally round a tangible
and forcibie policy
With regard to our local politics We are
started on the road to unison and we Wish
70 SHOW ihe Democracy oi the ha,tu, INA INA
Nrm doIh lehnoVuats ,o aa,ht, The Cannon
enemy We saw 10 Won Democrats of Brook
Ign that we are ready 20 reach out the hand
Of fellowship to, you and to join Win you III
forming a triple alliance that VIII oe IN
'uhcioie' ,
W. Bourke Cochran who made the principal
speech Of the evening went INTO the history
of tho lilden campaign and said that II
the Democracy were to win IN 1902 It must
accept the lesson taught by Tilden's leader
ship in 1874. Regarding former differences
OF opinion among Democrats he said: -.
the men who voted for Bryan and
Buckner n for Mckinley must set their
backs or the questions now past and settled
concerning which the party was recently
divided, and set their faces resolutely to
the great questions which confront them,
and on which they are practically a
nous. IL would be worse than idle now
to demand a recantstion OF any man's
views on questions which are no longer
in issue
Mr.. Cochran went on TO say that the
N .I,l.. ~
vided than the Democrats and launched into
q general attack on that party. imperialism
was a policy Of plumber, he said, and a
protective tariff was The use of the taNing
power to rob many men OF the property
created by their sweat and that for tho
benefit Of a few.
The grant of a ship subsidy, Mr.. Cochran
said, was "a contribution from the Treas
ury to the expenses of those who need
transportation facilities across the sea.
Democrats have no objection to travel,
but they insist that each traveller pay his
own expenses. Proceeding, Mr.. Cochran
said:
I'm dealing with foreign and domestic
questions the Democratic party a have
but one policy and hat Is tho policy of
justice. They can follow but one party,
and that Is the party of honor. Demo-
according TO latitude or longitude they
holdit the same in this applicationto Princes
as TO subjects, to States as TO individuals,
to foreigners as oour own cit liens. While
they deplore as a violation of honor n
justice the destruction Of the government
by the Philippines, they do not
refuse to recognize inexorable conditions
in order to deal with them
That unfortunate and betrayed public
no longer exists that its President is a
prisoner. its Congress dispersed, its author
Ity overthrown. Turning their backs on
The ~irrevocable past and dealing solely
Will the future in the light of justice Demo-
rats would make the restoration OF order
n the philippines the nrst cbJect OF his
government, ana as an essential step IN
nat direction II would estaDIlsn American
authority over all the ISLANDS since that is
lhe onIy means "it ny WHICH oruef
IAN be enforced
1t has been SAID mat the policy OF scuttle
= unpopular. III that statement were
rue, nevertheless, we must support 1t.
mere IL one thlhg more essential 10 the
democratic party ,than TO be successful
n a campalgn' ana mat II 10 DT just, LOT
I the party ceases to he just Il ceases TO he
Democratlc. But Is the policy OF scuttle
Unpopular My friends, you must re-
the profound effect produced on
he country by Mr.. bryan's speech at
Indianapolis, devoted exclusively TO de-
lunciation OF Imperialism Do you not
remember that after its delivery, betting
to /, and | believe the betting would have
even II he had confined himself
the discussion OF that single issue
Edward NJ. Shepard spoke in part as fol-
with all the deep differences and high
o before the American people,
Il it not clear that any citizen who is in
sympathy with the present purposes
administration Of President Roosevelt,
his party? ought openly TO adhere
o that party. That citizen has no place
within the Democratic party unless TO keep
i in futile d~isintegration. And, on the
other hand, every citizen who is in oppo-
TO the dominant influences Of The
Republican party and to it's dangerous
and far reaching policies, ought 10 be i'm
he Democratic marty.
-Anti-Imperialists. for instance. ought
no Longer 90 call themselves by the Rep1b-
name or 10 bet raw their cause by
,ctine with the Republican party. III
hey be sincere and practical. they should
act with the Democratic party. If tbey
sac abuses or wrongs or cowardice or
n her fault in the marty. they should do
heir best not to perpetiiate, but to amend
he fault : and 10 make of IL the high-minded.
conservative, honorable, effective opposi-
ion which is so necessary 10 the welfare