The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-03-28

Because he Teprimanded Lieut.
Gen. Miles, and because when he,
answering the summons of COM
mittee of Congress-as was his duty
expresses an opinion adverse to
this bill, it is proposed to retire
him from the service. Taken in
connection with some other matters
of more or less sinister suggestion,
these are menaces of most ominous
import.
"But turn from the White House
TO the Capitol and look at the re-
publicans in Congress. The trail
of the trademark is over them all.
Old High Tariff dances the cancau
in the House, while Old Ship Sub
sidy does the regular cake-walk in
the Senate. Everything for the
syndicates. Nothing for the people.
And, not content with their arbi-
trary power in the White House
and their mercenary power in Con-
gress, the leaders of this party of
Federalism and false pretension
would rip open Pandora's box to
fitch thence the black, piratical flag
of negro domination-the equally
disreputable and bloody shirt of Sec
tional agitation-and in order to
make sure of the next House, they
are proposing TO bring forward an
other force bill to smite the South,
to blight the North and to convert
a land teeming with love and peace
into a land reeking with hate and
strife. Such is the banquet to which
the exit of Mckinley, the statesman,
and the advent of Roosevelt, the
Rough Rider, has invited us.
81 am something af a lingo my
self. believe in the expanding
greatness and glory of our country.
l never see the flag floating above
the dome on yonder Capitol that my
heart does not thIob with the proud
glad thought-that my eyes do not
fill with happy exultant tears-that
|, too, am an American citizen.
God bless the flag and God bless the
boys that fight beneath it. l would
carry it inviolate. l would keep it
spotless. And, with this in view, 1
want to know what Is going on away
out yOnder across the multitudinous
the mysterious waves of the Pacific
Sea. | want other witnesses than
self-seeking politicians and self-ex-
plotting soldiers to come here and
tell me. l refuse to hold my ton
que. Irefuse to rest content. And,
if l am told by whipper snapper
in shouIderstraps that unless do l
am traitor to my country, my re-
ply to him shall be a slap in the
face.
"Friends, brothers, democrats,
let US have done with dissension.
Let us turn our backs on the past,
orr eyes to the future, calling the
old fights off and the old scores
square. He who stands with me
against these things is my comrade,
no matter what he thinks or ever
thought about silver or gold. He
who would deny me place by his
side to fight them must either be
very perverse or very blind. Let
us cross no bridges till we come to
them. But already we can see far
enough ahead to take our reckoning.
There will be but one test of a dem
OcTat IN l904-tOe the line, toe the
line, saying to arbitrary power and
absoluteism: Thou shalt 90 no
further; we, too, are in the expan-
sion business; but our expansion is
for the religion Of the Constitution
no less than for the religion of
Christ and him crucifed; our ex-
pansion means peace, not war; the
honor, not the degradation of the
flag; and just as surely as Jefferson
wrote the Declaration of Independ-
ence and Jackson fought the battle
of New Orleans--to resist despotism
shall we make a new Fourth of
July and celebrate another Eighth
of January, in resisting this unrigh
teous scheme to abolish the Consti-
tuition and Mexicanize the Govern
ment."