Smyrna times., 1904-10-26
MAKE Mr.. OLNEY STOP
Iet Real Democrats Do the Talk
ing"-"PIutOCratiC Has Beens
Make Republican Votes"
A New York Democratic Newspaper
Prints a CauStiC Editorial.
Quickly Stiiled.

democrats OI his type uldhc LO NOIcS
for the party. Last night in his
speech at Cooper Union the former
attorney general and later secretary
of state under President Cleveland Of
fered a characteristic keynote.
In his argument against imperialism
he spoke of 'Our needless scrimmage
with Spain over Cuba" and subse-
quently referred to that development
of jingoism and militarism which
brought on the scrap with Spain"
That is a keynote to which the eoun-
try will not respond in the way ex-
pected by Mr.. Olney. 1t is not Ameri-
canism, and certainly it is not DemOc-
racy.
The war for the liberation Of Cuba
had the heart of the people behind it.
1t was chivalric, unself1sh and glorious.
Limited and careful gentlemen Of the
Olney type found themselves incapable
of rising to the height of the popular
enthusiasm, but whether in or out Of
office they were swept along with the
tide Of noble sympathy for an oppress-
ed people, History will record that
the United States in expeling Spain
from the new world reached a moral
eminence quite unparalleled in the ac-
ton Of nations.
We owed nothing to Spain. Her Occu-
patton of Cuba had been a continuous
crime. as was her whole career in this
hemisphere. We had been patient too
long. The Virginius infamy should
have been the signal for her eviction
from this side of the globe. The cul-
mination of her atrocities was the
blowing up of the Maine riding at an
chOr at what was supposed to be
friendly port.
And after that unexampled outrage
Olney speaks of our needless war
with Spain!
No American who is as broad as his
country can look back upon the Span
tsh war without a thrill of pride.
Mr.. Olney speaks for kind Of Dem
ocrats who are infinitely hurtful to the
Democratic party. They seem to be
without capacity for entering into the
feelings of the people, sharing their
patriotic ardors or sympathizing with
their national aspirations. He Is an
able man, no doubt, an excellent law
yer and means WELL but he damages
Democracy and the candidacy Of
Judge Parker when he puts himself
forward as u spokesman at once Of
"little Americanism" and the party
which is historically that of eXpan-
sion.
A great people are not to be cribbed,
cabined and confined within the cold
blooded and petty limitations Of the
Olney conception Of national duty and
destiny. The votes of young men, of
men Of spirit, cannot be won by sneers
at one of the lOftiest deeds in the ma
TONS life.
Democrats. real Democrats, are not
to be deprived of their share in the
glory of freeing Cuba. 1t is to the
everlasting honor of the party that
through its representatives in congress
and in the press-the Evening journal
foremost in the fight-it forced a reluc
tant 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 oi
the Maine would have perished in vair
and Cuba continued to be a Spanisl
shambles at our door.
The Democracy has no quarrel will
any man who took part as a soldier o
civilian in rescuing Cuba, and it is no
b. &oIo oh
be placed in such position. TheC
dore Roosevelt, as one who took par
in that brief conflict, has reason as
candidate to congratulate himself uI
on Mr.. Olney's presence on the stumI
Judge Parker and his managers Ough
to lose no time in revising the list O
campaign speakers and eliminatin
from it the Olneys, the Clevelands an
all other discredited plutocratic, nal
row minded and hard hearted Demo
Gratis, so called, who are responsible
for the apathy among the people {
which complaint is made at Dem'
cratic headquarters.
How can the wOrkingmen, for e.
ample, be expected to grow enthusia
tic In a canvass which numbers anon
its conspicuous orators the attornt
general who discovered the sacredne
of Pullman car and a president wi
ordered troops into Illinois against Il
protest Of her governor for the pu
pose Of crushing strike?
Olney has spoken for Parker, and
is announced that Cleveland is also
mount the platform. If Judge Park
understands the American public
well as we think he does he will p
his foot down and avert that crownil
calamity.
Let real Democrats do the talki
from now on.