The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-25

ing a summon of COngEeSS-aS was ms
d,lty-expresSeS an opinion ADVERSE TO
this bill, it is proposed to retire him
from the service. Taken in connection
with some other matters more or less
sinister, these are menaces of most om-
nous import
TRAIL OF THE TRADEMARK.
But turn from the White House and;
turn 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 can-can in the House,
while old ship subsidy does the cake
walk in the Senate. Everything for the
syndicates, nothing for the people. and
not content with their arbitrary power in
the White House and their mercenary
power in Congress, the leaders of this
party of FEDERALISM and false pretension
would rip open Pandora's box to hlch
thence the black, piratical flag of negro
domination: the equally disreputable and
bloody shirt of sectional agitation: and,
in order to make sure of the next House.
they are proposing to bring forward
another force bill to smite the South, to
blight the North, and to convert Il land
teening with love and peace into a land
rocking with hate and strife Such is the
banquet to which the exit of Mckinley,
the statesman and the advent of Roose-
welt, the Rough Rider. has invited us.
LOVES THE FLAG.
ST am something Of a lingo myself. I
believe in the expanding greatness and
glory Of my country; never see the flag
floating above the dome on yonder Can
itol that my heart does not throb with
proud gladness; that my eyes do not I'll
with happy. exultant tears; that | am.
too. an American citizen. I love the flag
and God bless the boys that fight beneath
it. would carry it inviolate. / would
keep them spotless. And, with this
in view, want to know what is going.
on away out yonder across the multitudin-
Gus, the mysterious waves of the Pacific
Ocean I want other witness than self
seeking politicians and self-exploitinG
soldiers to come here and tell me. I re-
fuse to hold my tongue. I refuse to rest
content. And, if I am told by a whipper-
snapper in shoulder straps, that, unless
I do, am a traitor to my county, my re-
ply to him shall be slapp in the face
BURY OLD SCORES.
Friends, brothers, Democrats, let us
have done with dssention. let us turn
our backs on the past. our eyes TO the
future, calling the old fight off and the
old scores square. He who stands with
nc against these things is my comrade,
wen above silver or gold. Let us cross
no bridges till we come to them, but
already we can see far enough ahead
but one test of Democrat in 1904, to
toe the line, saying, to arbitrary power
and absolutism. thou shalt go no further:
We, too, are in the expansion business;
but our expansion is for the religion of
tile Constitution no less than for the re-
lIe;on of Christ and Him crncified; our
expansion means peace, not war; the
lr.nor. not the degradation of the flag;
and just as surely as Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of independence, and Jack
son fought the battle of New Orleans
t., resist despotism-shall we make new
Fourth Of July and celebrate another
eighth of January in resisting this un-.
righteous scheme to abolish the Constl-4
tuition and MexicaniZe the Government.
LEADER OF TANLNIANY-
Lewis Nixon was next introduced: After
"a few felicitious remarks regarding Viz
Eginia,s his native State. he. drifted for a
moment into National politics. He de-
clared that the Democrats of New York
had made up their minds to stop fight