The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-26

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were in the midst Of war for the sup
: preston of an instruction against
, our authority and for the mainte-
, nance Of our sovereignty over the
Philippines. Then we had $4,000 sol
diers in those islands, and they car
ried the flag to victory, as our sol
diers have ever done. That conflict is
over; peace reigns, and today we have
$4,000 soldiers in the Philippines.
|. Any militarism in that? Then we
had total Of 10000 Of our boys in
the army, now the number does not
exceed $4,000, scattered throughout
all the states and territories, in
Guam, Porto Rico, in Alaska, in the
} Sandwich islands and in the Philip
pines. A reassertion' Of that idiocy
would deservedly call down upon
them the kissing and scorn of the
world.
And imperialism, the paramount
issue but four short years ago, will
they dare to reaffirm that plank in
their platformY Was there any earth
ly excuse for it's insertion then? It
simply illustrates the fact, if after
all these years it needs additional IL
Illustration, that the Democratic party
will resort to any subterfuge in Or
der to win. In 1900 they were seek
ing to escape from their platform of
1896. But they could not wrest them
selves from the clutches Of the "peer-
less LEADER They knew, even then,
that free silver was as dead as the
bones Of Job, but they were compell-
ed to demand it because they were
compelled to nominate Bryan again,
and Bryan could not be divorced
from 16 to 1. But they sought to
palliate, to modify the dose as much
as possible, and so they concluded to
try to hide it away in the rubbish of
their platform and make some other
issue the chief question of the cam
paign They went down on a search
through the old curiosity shop Of the
Democratic party hunting for bo
gey, and they found there the skele
ton of imperialism covered with the
dust and cobwebs Of thirty years,
and they brought it forth to terrify,
if possible, the American people. That
same issue had done duty for them
before. They had charged imperial
ism upon Abrahm Lincoln, the kind
Hest memory Of our race. They had
charged imperialism upon Ulysses
S. Grant, whose gentle renown filled
all the land, and whose soul went up
to heaven from the heights of Mt.
McGregor breathing forth that sub
: lime benediction to the American
people, "Let us have peace.' They
charged it upon William Mckinley;
they said that he was blood-thirsty
monster; that he longed for personal
power; that he had dyed his hands red
in the fresh gore of his fellow men ;tha
, he sought to overthrow the Republic
and erect upon its ruins an empire of
, which he should be the crowned and
the noblest, the gentlest, the most
| charitable character of our day,
"whose kindly life spans and arches
all the clouds of war; And when the
black angel, masked and voiceless, en-
tered his chamber to summon him
fro mthe scence Of his labors she
found him fully prepared and not at
raid to 60 She touched with her great
cold fingers his pulsing heart and it
stood still, and when he was cold in
, death, a Nation laid its richest tro-
phies at his bier and his winding
shroud was the pure, white love of all
the world. And yet they said he was
malignant monster Of guilt.
The Philippines
J., Will the battle this year be con-
Y tested upon the issue of expansion?
: If so, we shall be glad to meet our
:. foes more than half way. Never was
: exalted purpose more>faithfully exc
S cuted, never was every hope of the
e friends of liberty more fully met, than
s in the lofty conduct Of our complex
s affairs in The Philippines.
e Our achievements in that archipela-
d go may be classed under three heads
+ First, the pacifcation Of the islands
n Instruction had to be suppressed be-
e fore anything else could be done.
f When armies were warning against
l. our sovereignty and firing upon our
l. flag, all else had tobe abandoned until
IS they were subdued. The soldier had to