The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-02
DEMOCRATIC PROTEST .
PRONUNCIATION OF
Ex-SECRETARY OLNey. I
His Attem pt to BelittIe the War with
Spain Resented and HE Immediate
Withdrawal from the Speak ing Cam.
paiHn DE m auded.

The New York American. one Of Will
liam X. Hearst's newspapers in its is
sue OF Oct. 18th. thus criticised a speech
delivered by ex-Secretsry Oluey:
Take Olney off the stump. Demo
Gratis Of his type make no votes for the
party. Last night. in his speech at
Cooper Union. the former Attorney-Gen-
eral and later Secretary OF State under
President Cleveland offered n character
istic keynote.
In his argument against imperialism
he spoke OF our needless scri:nmage with
Spain over Cuba and subsequently re-
ferred to that development OF jingoiSm
and mihtarism which brought on the
scrap with Spain
That is Il keynote to which The coun-
try will not respond in the way expected
by Mr.. Oney. 1t is not American.S.n
and certainly it is not democracy.
The war for the liberation Of Cuba
mad the heart OF the people behind Il.
1t was chivalric. uaSeliSl and gloriodS
Limited aud careful gentlemen Of the
Olney type found themselves incapable
o. rising to the height OF the popular
enthusiasm, but. whether in or out of
once, they We're swept along with the
tide of noble sympathy for an oppressed
people. History will record that the
United States in expelling Spain from
the New World reached moral emf
hence quite unparalleled in the action
of nations.
I'VE owed nothing to Spain; her occu-
pancy of Cuba had been continuous
crime, was her whole career in this
hemisphere. We had been patient too
long. The Nirginius infamy should have
been the signal for her eviction from
this side of the globe. The elimination
OF her atrocities was the blowing up
OF the Maine. riding at anchor in what
was supposed to be friendly port
And after that unexampled outrage
Olney speaks OF our needless war with
Spain.
NO American who is rs broad as his
| country can look back upon the Spanish
war without thrill of pride.
Mr.. Olney speaks for kind OF Demo
Gratis who are infinitely hurtful to the
Democratic party. They seem to be
without capacity of entering into the feel
ings of the people, sharing their patriotic
| ardors, or sympathizing with their ma
tional aspirations. He is an able man,
no doubt; an excellent lawyer and means
we'll, but he damages Democracy and the
candidacy of Judge Parker when he
puts himself forward as spokesman
at once of Little Americanism and the
party which is historically that of ex-
pansion.
"A great people are not to be cribbed,
cabined and confined within the cold
blooded and petty limitations of the Oh
ney conception of national duty and des-
tiny. The votes of young men-of men
of spirit-cannot be won by sneers at
one of the loftiest deeds in the nations
life.
Democrats. real Democrats. are not
to be deprived of their share i'm the
glory of freeing Cuba. 1t is to be tie
everlasting honor of the party that
| through its representatives in Congress
| and in the press-the American fore
| most in the fight-it forced reluctant
| administration to declare the war. Had
! Cleveland been in the White House and
Olney in the Cabinet. we may be quite
sure that the heroes of the Maine would
have persisted in vain and Cuba con-
tinued to be a Spanish SHAMELESS at our
door.
The Democracy has no quarrel with
any man who took part as soldier or
civilian in rescuing Cuba. and it is not
to be tolerated that the party should be
placed in such position. Theodore
Roosevelt. as one who took part in that
| brief conflict, has reason as q candidate
| to congratulate himself upon Mr.. o.
ney's presence on the stump Judge
Parker and his managers ought to lose no
! time i'll revising the list OF campaign
| speakers and elmina ting from it the o.
| neys. the Clevelands and all other dis
credited. putocratic, narrow minded and
hard -hearted Democrats. so called. who
| are responsible for the apathy among
the people of which complaint is made
az Democratic headquarters.
How can the workingmen for exam
| pie, be expected to grow enthusia site in
a canvass which numbers among its
conspicuous orators the Attorney General
| who discovered the sacredness Of a Pull
| man car and President who ordered
| troops into Illinois against the protest
| of her governor for the purpose Of crush
| ing a strike?
"Olney has spoken for Parker. and il
| is announced that Cleveland is also to
| mount the platform. If Judge Parker
| understands the American public as well
| as We think he does, he will put his foot
down and avert that crowniug calamity.
| Let real Democrats do the talking from