Milford chronicle., 1904-11-04
MAKE MR.. QNEY STOP
"Let Real Democrats Do the Talk
ing"-"PlutOcratic Has Beens
Make Republican Votes"
A New York Democratic Newspaper
Prints a Caustic Editorial.
Quickly Stifled.
IFrom the New York Journal, Dem.l

IFrom the New York Journal. Dem.1
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. ana certainly it is not Democ-
racy.
The war for the liberation of Cuba
had the heart of the people behind it.
It was cAiyalric, unselfsh 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 expelling Spain
from the new world reached a moral
eminence quite unparalleled in the ac-
tion Of nations.
We owed nothing to Spain. Her occu-
patton Of Cuba had been continuous
crime as was her whole career in this
hemisphere We had been patient too
long. The Vrginius infamy should
have been the signal for her eviction
from this side of the globe. The cul-
miuatiOn 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
ish war without a thrill Of pride.
Mr.. Olney speaks for a 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,
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
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 and Olney 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 a soldier or
civilian in rescuing 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 a
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 Olneys, 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 J
which complaint is made at Demo
cratic headquarters.
How can the workingmen, for ex- !
ample be expected to grow enthusias-
tic in a canvass which numbers among
It's conspicuous orators the attorney
general who discovered the sacredness
of a Pullman car and a president who /
ordered troops into Illinois against the
protest Of her governor for the pur-
pose Of crushing a strike?
Olney has spoken for Parker, and it
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
bis foot down and avert that crOwning
calamity.
Let real Democrats do the talking
from now on.
Election Day Is Coming.