The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-10-26
MIKE Mr.. QEEY STOP
81 eft Real Democrats Do the Talk.
ing 'PIutocratic Has Beens
Make Republican Votes.
A New York Democratic Newspaper
Prints a Caustic Editorial.
Quickly Stifled.
IFrom the New Yorl, Journal. Dem.l

Take Olney off the stump.
Democrats of his type make no votes
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 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 jlngoism and militarism which
brought on the scrap with Spain"
That is a keynote to which the coun-
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 1t.
1t was chivalric, unselfish and glorious.
Limited and careful gentlemen of the
Olney type found themselves incapable
of rising to the Leight of the popular
enthusiasm, but whether in or out of
office they were swept along with the
tide of noble sympathy for an Cypress
ed people. History will record that
the United States i'll eXpelling Spain
from the new world reached moral
eminence quite unparalleled in the at
ton of nations.
VI Il In,
patton of Cuba had been 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 eul=
mlnation of her atrocities was the
blowing UP OF the Maine riding at an
Choir at what WAS supposed To be Il
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
ish war without II thrill of pride.
AIr. Olney speaks for Il 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 a spokesman at once of
little Americanism" and the party
| which is historically that of eXpan-
sion.
A great people are not to be cribbed,
eabined 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 luftieSt deeds in the ma
tion's 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 md Olncy In the cabinet we
may be quite sure that the heroes OF
the Maine would have persisted in vain
and Cuba continued to be a Spanish
shambles at our door.
The Democracy has no quarrel with
any man who took part as soldier OF
civilian in reseuing Cuba, and it is not
to be tolerated that the party should
be placed in such a position. Theo
dore Roosevelt, as one who took part
In that brief conflict. has reason as 4
candidate to congratulate himself up
on Mr.. Olney's presence on the stump
Judge Parker and his managers ought
to lose no time in revising the list OF
campaign speakers and eliminating
from it the Olncys, the Clevelands and
all other discredited plutocratic, mar
row minded and hard hearted Demo
Gratis SO called, who are responsible
for the apathy among the people OF
which complaint Is made III Demo
cratic headquarters.
How can the workingmen for ex
ample, be expected to grow cnthusias
tic In canvass which numbers among
its conspicuous orators the attorney
general who discovered the sacrednes:
of Pullman car and president WHIT
ordered troops into Illinois against the
protest of her governor for the pur
pose of crushing a strike?
Olncy has spoken for Parker, and l
is announced that Cleveland is also t.
mount the platform. If Judge Parke
understands the American public N
we'll as we think he does he will pu
his foot down and avert that browning
calamity.
Let real Democrats do the talkin,
from now on.
EIacafou Duy Coming.