| Show FLAYS I TEDY TEDDY Discusses the he Strenuous I I t I TAS TAKES UP IllS HIS RECORD t SHOWS INCONSISTENCY OP OF BE PUBLICAN CANDIDATE C Toledo 0 Aug principal speech of te n of the Ohio Democratic clubs was de ve d tonight at the L Lyceum by former Governor Al Alt Altgeld geld of Illinois He spoke In reply to tolie lie tle addreS address of Governor Roosevelt be before before fore the National Leage League of Republican clubs at St St Paul Speech of Altgeld Mr Altgeld compared the govern government government ment of the United States which he sid said had been founded upon the con consent sent of the go governed wih with govern governments governments ments founded upon force declaring g tat that the republIc ha has given the world I m mOre re progress in one century tan than i It achieved In the fifty or sixty centuries I of recorded time He then said the pres present nt administration proposed d to I L firs It r J P F Altgeld of Illinois abandon the principles of meat ment and descend to the I plane of brute force Said the speaker uA A year ago the newspapers and the men who spoke for the administration talked of the eary early partition of China China England has already taken a harbor Germany has taken a harbor and Russia has taken takena a harbor We were told that we must keep the the Philippines because they con constituted a nearby tree behind which we could hide until the holdup took place when we could quickly rush out and get our share of the plunder NOw that the trouble in China has unexpectedly arisen England ha has her hands ful full in Africa Africa She is not in a position to demand the lons lions share of the spoils therefore she does not want wanta a partition to take place at present and Instantly the McKinley administration issues an edict that China Ghina must not be I partitioned Whether r the edict was right or not notis notis is immaterial I It wa was issued to protect English interest interests I It is time this I toadyism end I It is time we hapan hail an American administration i at Washington Touches Up Roosevelt After speaking of the Spanish war which he said was a war of humanity but was hanged to a war of conquest conquest he said Recently a genteman gentleman York who had become famous for ha haying ing been alone in genteman gentleman who has adopted as his life moto motto or coat of arms two Ps and a double So S which four leters letters signify pompous posing posing and strenuous the capital of New York and went to St Paul and delivered a speech to the Association of Republican cubs clubs The I speech has not from beginning to end enda a single argument or a single accurate historical reference a speech tat that is made up of In misrepresent misrepresentation ton tion and vituperation Referring to the Democrats he said They stand for lawlessness and dis disorder disorder order for dishonesty and dishonor for license and disaster at home and cow shrinking from dut duty abroad This is a reflection on the intel Intelli Intelligence gence and patriotism and the honor of ever every Democrat in te the countr country I It is isa a personal insult to the of men who supported Mr Bryan in 1896 and I Ito to the of free men who are I gin going to support him in 1900 He gives no fact facts and advances no arguments In support of this charge I I It is simply an assertion He puts him himself himself self in evidence Aside from truthful truthfulness ness i it involve involves his sIncerity and din dis creton Speak Speaks One Way Vote Votes Another J Who then man and what is his history I find it recorded that year years ago he was a member of the New York legislature and on one occasion he roused the hopes of the countr country by making n a speech against a class which he caled called the criminal rich But he at once dashed these hopes by turing turning around and voting with and for these I Iver ver very criminal rich whom he had de den n flounced In the year years he held federl federal office in Washington Wahington am and in order to escape paying his ta taxes es in New York Yorke he e signed an affidavit and swore be before before fore the God tat that lie he was not a citizen of New York I If this was tre true then under the of New York he would not h have ve been eligible for the governorship of that state By subsequently accepting a and election to that office he showed that he did not beleve believe his nis own affidavit This being so may it not be that he does not beleve believe the us chare charge which he has made against I It is next recorded that he entered the Spanish war in Cuba and al although though his regiment wa was commanded by another man he succeeded by means of tat that modern weapon war warfare ar fare known as a newspaper bureau in winning winning more renown in a week than Generl General Grant did in four yer years of hard fighting and he seem seems to be the only man on this continent who boat boasts of having wit with his own hand shot down and killed a a Spaniard that wa was fleeing from the battlefield Dos Do Corruptions Bidding The records at Albany show that the governor got the legislature to pas pasa pass passa a law taxing the franchises of corpor corpora most righteous law But the tona te records also show shan that at the demands of Tom Platt Piatt and the corporations he reconvened the legislature in extra session and had I It change this law as the cor corporation orton dictated The canal fund of New York has been robbed of about Q br Re Republican publican politicians and although he talked loudly loudly of prosecution the go gov governor eror ha has not brought one of tese these f fr m mn n to justice Mr r Altgeld said tat that when the vat vast territory from which the wester western states were made wa was acquIred it came In as asan asan an Integral part of th the republic and its inhabitants were citizens of the r re republiC publiC This he said wa was expansion The attitude of the administration in acquiring the PhU Philippine pine islands and Porto RIco was for I It is not a queston question of expansion n a at ataU aU aH U It is solely ana simply a question of and militarism Te Teare They are to be subject colonIes We Ve are go ger gem Ing to gov govern r them wih with a 1 The adopted hearty heartily re reaffirm affirm the platform of prIncIples adopt adopted ed at K City ad and contain te the following Cit ns enjoying the protection and blessings of government In this 1 lie cannot reasonably object to bearing their just proportion of the burdens of s such ch government And to this end we demand te the enactment and enforce met of a properly regulated income ta tax law C I We demand an explanation from the national administration for permitting cession to Great Britain ot of about 2000 square mies miles of our national domain in Alaka Alaska ad and to disclose how much land if any ny has lately been given away anny to favored imperial scions of ry ryal roy al hat we further demand of te the gen generl erl government an explanation for the recent from Spain Sain of two mor more islands in the Sulu group after she he had parted arted wih with her equity guP to us iral In all of that territory for |
