The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-21
For County Surveyor
CHARLES C. FITTRo
DBMocRAcrs HYpocR1r1cA1 CRY

The cry of imperialism went up from
the Democratic camp few years asc
against William Mckinley and taero
was pictured frightful step. which. i
was asserted by that party. the nation
was about to take, Many credulous PEG.
pie We're scared to death. They quaked
over the future of the country, as they
were assured in alluring terms and lou,.
and sonorous walls that the country va.
to 80 to the bad. We were on the verge
OF serfdom, according to these Demo.
cratic campaign spoilers and windaiam,
mers. The future was. indeed, fearfn.
to contemplate, and there were actually
Democrats who thought seriously Of sui.
eide
The same old cry of desertion of II
principles of the forefathers prevailed.
There was the same old wall against
plutocraey, the same assertion that so
were slaves and not free.born American
citizens. And as climax to it all w
were about to come to the most terri.
Bile dcspotism ever known, the horrors Of
which made men shudder. II was, in.
deed. word painting startling in tE
extreme, but events revealed il in all it
ghastly ugliness and deyilish fulsity
American blood under the illustriou.
Mckinley was shed, but not to ens.Iyr
a people Men went TO war. but not :,
uphold the barbarism Of slavery. Ner
won glorious battles, which resulted ii
the freedom of neighboring people and
the good arising did not confinc itself
to that country alone. but it went across
the mighty waters and today has sue.
ceeded in opening the way for the civil
cation of another nation, and, thanks Il
the American people and especially tho
Republican party, that nation is wen on
that way. Barbarism and Spanish op.
preston promise soon both to be out Of
that land. 1t is true our ancestors gave
free and Independent government, and
we in turn have given two peoples the
same thing, following nobly in the foot.
steps or our toreTathcrs. 70 Us was
dedicated free government that vi
have cherished, and whe# the time cane
for us to show to the world that the
same liberty loving flame burns warn
lin our breasts, We as a nation did no;
shirk, but stood true to the principles
OF the fathers and liberated not only
thousands of people but millions ana
caused an advance in n.sde-n civilization
lever before inscribed on the pages Of
history. That liberty-loving spirit.
handed down from the fathers. showed
itself shortly after the birtn Of The
Republican party and no sooner had that
part gotten into power than it was
aname with that spirit. Millions Of peo-
pie were made equal as the result.
The Democratic party, on the other
hand, has not given ITSELF to taat liberty.
loving spirit, and not within the past
several decades has it given evidence Of
that spirit But there was memorable
period in our history when it was The
enemy Of that spirit
The same party undertakes to cry ont
now against combined capital and decries
it as an oppressor. Yet it is true that
there were laws on the statute books
against Illegal combinations, but tho
only president that party has had since
the civil war declared that these com
binations could not be reached with the
laws. He asserted openly and above
board that the government was power
less, and made no attempt to prosecute
or curb them. No sooner mad the pres
ent Republican president gone into Of
flee and familiarized himself with his
duties and the laws than he inaugurated
prosecutions against these combinations
and showed 10 the world that Grover
Cleveland was mistaken when he said