Show WHAT PETTIGREW DID SAY Senator Makes Correction In Report of His Recent Speech I Sioux Falls S D Oct 2SSenatOr Pettigrew in an Interview regarding the report Sent lUL fL Aberdeeh regardIng 1 re-gardIng his speech at Woonsocket aid I aidWhat I said in my speech was sub stantialU as follows That President McKinley in his speeches in the west said the Philmnines had been delivered into our hands by the will of God and that God had caused our flag to be raised there In view of the fact that the secretary of state recently wrote a letter to an Ohio congressman evidently I evi-dently intended to be used to affect the election in that state in which he said I that we acquired no title to the Philippine Philip-pine islands by conquest that our claim rested solely upon the purchase of the Islands from Spain and in view of the fact that the president had instructed in-structed our commissioners at Paris to insist unon the cfon of these islands to the United StaU that if God had anything to do with the transaction he I must have come to McKinley in a vision i sion thus making the president the 1 last of the prophets and thatin this i way only could God be responsible under un-der the circumstances for our claim of toveieigntj I said that I refused to receive such messages from God transmitted through such a source and refused to recognize a God who would use such an I implement as a means of making his wibheo known to us that our flag stood foi a principle for an idea for the doctrines doc-trines of the declaration of independence independ-ence that it was emblematic of these Kind when raised in violation of the plinciples for which It stood and the principles that made it dear to us it I was no longer our flag and could only be restored to us by pulling it down and that I blushed for the shame of my countn honor and wished I could blot out the recent history we hart made I never said I disowned m > countrj in my flag OfEO |