The Springfield herald., 1904-11-04
DEMOCRATIC Po0TEsT
VIGOROUS DsNUNCiAiioN OF
Ex-SECRETARY OLNEY.
HE Attempt to BeIittie tho War with
spain Resented and His Inn m ediats
Withdrawal from the Speaking Cam.
paixn De anded.

The New York American. one of Will
liam II. Hearst's newspapers, in its is
sue Of Oct. 10Th, thus criticised speech
delivered by ex-Secretary Olney:
'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 a character
istic keynote.
"In his argument against imperialism
he spoke of our needless scrimmage with
Spain over Cuba and subsequently re-
ferred to that development of jingoism
and militarism which brought on the
| scrap with Spain
THAT is keynote to which the coun-
try will not respond in the way expected
by Mr.. Olney. 1t is not Americanism
and certainly it is not democracy.
1.-The war for the liberation of Cuba
had the heart of the people behind it.
1t was chivalric. unselfish and glorious.
Limited and careful gentlemen of the
Olney type found themselves incapable
o. 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 oppressed
people. History will record that tho
United States in expelling Spain from
the New World reached moral emf
nence quite unparalleled in the action
of nations.
1--WE owed nothing to Spain; her occu-
pancy 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 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 uneNampled outrage
Olney speaks of our needless war with
Spain.
NO American who is as broad as his
country can look back upon the Spanish
war without a thrill of pride.
"Mr. Olney speaks for kind of Demo-
Gratis who are infinitely hurtful to tho
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 na-
tional aspirations. He is an able man,
no doubt; an excellent lawyer and means
well, 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 in tile
glory of freeing Cuba. 1t is to be the
everlasting honor of the party that
through its representatives in Congress
and in the press-the American fore
most in the fght-it forced a 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 perished in vain and Cuba con-
tinued to be Spanish shambles 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 he
placed in such position. Theodore
Roosevelt. as one who took part in that
brief conflict. has reason as "a candidate
to congratulate himself upon Mr.. o.
ney'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 Oh
neys. the Clevelands and all other dis
credited. plutocratic. narrow minded and
hard-hearted Democrats. so called. who
are responsible for the apathy among
the people of which complaint is made
at Democratic headquarters.
How can the workingmen. for exam
pie, be expected to grow enthusiastic in
canvass which numbers among its
conspicuous orators the Attorney General
who discovered the sncredness of Pull
man car and a President who ordered
troops into Illinois against the protest
| of her governor for the purpose of crush
ing n strike?
"Olney has spoken for Parker, and it
is announced that Cleveland is also to
mount the platform. IL Judge Parker
| understands the American public as we'll
as we think he does, he will put his foot
down and avert that crownug calamity,
Let real Democrats do the talking from
now on