The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-01-06

The action OF the United States gov
eminent was not unprecedented. "On
the contrary, our history contains sew
eral precedents for Just such a course
as our government followed. In 1855 the
United States overthrow the administra.
ton of General Walker, then president
OF Nicaragua, In 1891 our navy inter,
fered in the revolution in Chill against
Balmaceda, and brought our sailors into
such disfayor that CHILEAN mob killed
two of them and seriously wounded
eighteen Others. In 1893 the naval forces
of the United States overthrow the gov
ernment of Queen Liliuokalani in Homo
lulu. In January, 1901, our government,
at the request of the asphalt trust, in
terfered in the 'dispEte between Castro
and the rival asphalt companies"
The Democrats say that public septi-
ment was against the diplomatic move
ments. Not from the overwhelming ma.
jorityi Not from the majority of the
Democratic party itself! Prominent and
influential Democratic newspapers, such
rs the Brooklyn Eagle, the Hartford
Times, the Detroit Free Press, the AT.
lanta Constitution and the New Orleans
Times Democrat favor the ratification OF
the treaty, and the New York American
the New York World and the Louisville
Courier.Journal do not oppose it. The
Louisiana legislature, which is solidll
Democratic, instructed its United State
senators to vote in favor OF the treaty
The governor of Georgia, in public
speech, urged all southern senators to act
similarly. The presidents of the board,
of trades OF dozen southern cities re
port the sentiment in favor of the treaty
''The defeat of the treaty by Democrats,
vote is scarcely probable" says th'
Cleveland Plain Dealer dnd., Denr.). 81
Gorman's plans to kill the treaty sue
ceed," says the Charlotte Chronicl
tDem.), 'ihe could deal the Democrats
party no more fatal blow"
The nations honesty or its reputation
for fair dealing has not been affected
In all of the transactions with the Co
lombian and Panamian governments th
national honor has been kept unblem
ished. That we do not want to obtai
the canal wrongly or dishonoraby we d
not deny; but there is absolutely II
foundation for the unpatriotic insinua
lion that there has been anything wron
or dishonorable. The United States GOV
srnment was presented with an opportu
nifty which the trend of affairs madi
The government did not take an unfai
advantage of the situation, but, to tn
contrary, agreed to give value receive
for everything it expects to get. Grea
Britain, France and all of the powers q
Europe, recognized the de facto govern
nent in the lsthmus in nearly as shor
a time as the United States did.
There is no part of the world wher
there is a person with goods to sell 0
where money is exchanged and circulate
That will not feel the benefit OF the az
lion of the United States in the Panam
canal matter.
The arguments, which Dcmocrac
vainly and feebly tries to make cam
,aign issue against the Republican party
md which are wholly in oontravention .
Ihe facts as herein stated, are absur
lud ridiculous in the extreme, The
evidently emanated from the addle brain
ed, rankly prejudiced men of the part!
who look at every national move mad
" a Republican PRESIDENT through smok
d glasses. and The moves Of a Demo
ratio administration through rose.col
,red ones.