Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-08

pe-ialists confound in their daily speeches and writings two absolutely unrelated idess-the liberty. the civil rights, the lf-government which We have given the Filipinos, and the in dependence which the best of them do not want and know they are unable to maintain. To abandon them now, to cast them adrift at the mercy of ac- cident, would be an act of cowardice and treachery which would gain as the scorn and reproach of civilization.
 Our opponents sometimes say we have no right to claim the credit of the great beeds of the last half cen tury-that We could not have accom-
 plished them without the aid of Demo
 crats. Nothing truer was ever said and it is one of the chief glories of our annals, and it forms the surest foundation of our hopes for the future. The principles upon which our party IS built are so sound, they have so ir- resistible ar attraction to patriotic and fair-minded men that whenever a time ot crisis comes. when the national wei fare is clearly at stake, when voters must decide whether they shall fol low their prejudices of their conscien- ces. We draw from other parties their best men by thousands Bright among the brightest of those who founded our party shine the names of Demo crats; and when the war came on, the picked men of that party rallied to the colors. Douglas, shortly be fore he died, declared his unfaltering support of Lincoln. The sun would go down before I could name the Dem. ocrats who fought like Heroes for the country. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Dix, Sickles, LOgan-in shcrt an in numerable host, rushed into the field and thereafter fought and worked with the Republicans while life lasted. And that vast majority of Lincoln's in 1864 would have been impossible had not myraids of Democrats. casting their lifelong associations to the winds listened to the inward monitor which said, Choose you this day whom ye will serve" As it was then, so it has been in after years. When the at tempt was made to repudiate, in whole or in part, the national debt; or tc abolish the system of protection tc American industries, founded by Washington and Hamilton, and ap proved by the experience of hundred years; or to degrade our currency at the demand of mere ignorance ana greed-in all these cases we saw the proof of the homely adage that yol may lead a horse to the water bu; may not make him drink In spite of organizations and platforms. in spite of the frantic adjurations o gifted orators, hosts of patriotic Dem ocrats walked quietly to the poll and voted as their conscience dictated in the interests of pubic welfare rathel than of a party. Even in so lofty and restricted an arena as our Sen ate, We have seen the ablest and mos adroit organizer of his party fail il the most energetic effort of his Tiff, to induce his party to reject a grea national benefit because it was of fered by Republican hands. Half thu Democratic Senators said this was no question for pettifogging poitici and voted for an American cana across the Istbmus-
 We are not claiming that we mo nopolize the virtue or the patriotism of the country. There are good mel in all parties. know far better mel than I am who are Democrats. Bu We are surely allowed in a love feas like this to talk of what has been don by the family and at least to brag
 little of the Democrats who have hell ed us. We get their votes for on reason only-because we started righ and in the main have kept right. w invite accessions from the ranks o our patriotic opponents. and we shal get them in the future. as we have l the past, whenever we deserve then We shall get them this year, becaus