Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-23
Success in wheeler's Key Note.

flunkie and the imperialistic members OF
the House from Grosvenor, of Ohio, to
Gillett, of Massachusetts, to stem the tide
of commentators flowing in on the gallant
Kentuckian is as futile as is the threat
made by the majority disgraeeful, to use the
speech as a campaign document in Con-
gressional districts where the German
American vote is a factor We could have
wished that Mr.. Wheeler had left Prince
Henry and the German people out of his
magnificent and electrifying remarks, but
being in we accept and stand by them as a
Democratic newspaper. The German peo-
pie IN the fatherland will not be offended,
and no German-American Democrat will be
Influenced by the Wheeler reference to
change his party afiliatiOn. If there are
any such German American Democrats the
sooner the Democratic party is rid Of them
the better But we know the German
Democrat to better purpose than the low
estimate set upon his intelligence and pa
triotism by Grosvenor et al
But what spectacle the Republican party
presents to the country in this connecticut
To what base and infamous purposes have
Grosvenor and others reduced this once
great AMERICAN political organization
The party which essentially represented
ANIERIcANIsM, and which stood for every
thing Plebeian and radical in Democracy,
now ready to twist and distort the slightest
declaration of Americanism into an insult
against the naturslized vote of German,
Italian, Pole and Irishman
This bid of the majority party for the
German.American vote shows how hard
pressed it is to show cause at the November
elections for its retention of power in Con-
gress. Il has been its policy since becom-
ing the obedient tool of the trusts to utilize
everything for the Advancement of its real
propaganda--the Imperial Republic as con-
tradistinguished FROM the Democratic Re
public Of the fathers.
This is the party which was wont TO re-
proach its Democratic rival for catering to
the Irish and naturalized votel
It is now the camp Of every prejudice,
race, creed color and nationality. The
negro was organized into a powerful auxil-
iary by its managers; next the veterans Of
the Civil War through organizations of
Grand Army, Veterans Union, Loyal
Legion, etc. It then reached out for the
Irish lin the Blaine campaign). II next
played for the German, the Italian and the
Pole. And all for the same purpose-to
retain power until the trust imperialistic
program was completed and the Republic
Of the fathers was consigned to the junk
shop.
Wheeler's speech in Congress will mark
the turning of me tide if the Republic is
eventually saved from the spectators and
military satraps now in the saddle. Not
since the days Of Clay and Webster has
such ringing American utterance eiectr-
fed the genuine American heart. The base,
corrupt and belly-crawling Aunkies, who
had the evidence presented to them of Eng
lands treachery in the action of Lord
Pauncefote, may seek to hedge that issue
by injecting the reference to Prince Henry
and distorting and magnifyiug the same,
but the Democratic heart and intelligence
of the American people will note and dis
dnguish the real issue and will indorse
the clarion utterance of the Kentuckian-
from one end Of the Republic to the other.
The duplicity of England in the Spanish
American War has been laid bare to the
world and in a short while not even the
American hunkie will dare open his mouth
either in defense OF explanation of the un-
paralleled treachery of our ancient enemy.
The masses of the American people now
know and realize the stupendous impudence
and infamous insult to their intelligence in
the declaration Of this power that il pre-
vented an armed coalition against US and
was our only friend in the family Of nationsl
The reaction will be felt in every Con-
gressional district, in every school district
and in every voting precinct in the United
States and no Republican stump hunkie
will dare open his mouth against Wheeler
of Kentucky
The American people are mad at the de-
ception practiced on them and the Republi-
can Administration which fathered aud
foslered this deception will be punished by
the American voter at the polls, even
though every naturalized German, Irish
man Italian and Pole rallied TO the support
of Crosvenor and his coterie Of Anglophobia
aunkies. But the naturalized voter will be
! the earliest at the polls in November next
and will stay there until the sun goes down
/ to punish the degenerate American political
| party which has sought to establish, on this
/ Continent the political condition Of affairs
which caused the liberty loving emigrants to
leave their native shores and make their
homes in this Republic.
The Republican party will be beaten 10 its
knees ON this English treachery which it has
| sponsored from the very beginning, and
which the regular and frequent visits Of its
leaders to England Depew, Grosvenor, ct
az. had perfected until even the best Of
Americans we're deceived, provided the De-