Show SOME REPUBLICAN TRAITORS Among the Republicans who are trying try-ing to mevfentJIajina from leading the party away fromrthe path pointed out by Lincoln are some of the founders and many 6f Jhe > brainiest men of the party There ore Hoar Edmunds Hale Henderson jiabon Wellington Reed Spooner and ujoraker all Republicans of note dnd influence and allopposed to Philippine ictention Congressman Henry U Johnson one of the most brilliant orators who ever occupieQ stat in the lower house a scholar and a statesman of extraordinary extraor-dinary abilities has warned his party repeatedly of the morass into which rpeatelv o morss Into blind avarice at its head is leading it and the nation He denounced the policy pol-icy of the president in the interest of his party He wanted to do his part he aid towards preserving for the party of Lincoln the confidence the sympathy The respect of the American people but more than this he desired to see the word of the government kept and the institutions of this free republic repub-lic preserved Mr Johnson made a speech in an In j j diana town not long ago in which he I referred to his position in congress last i winter and reaffirmed i In his arraignment ar-raignment of imperialism and militarism militar-ism he said I wa ji Rpavibican Fir long before tliesdebted8ro5 J am > Republican still 1 expect to Tcroaln a Republican I though I trust I niey be pardoned for declaring that no poimpal organization deI sfrvtss support which proves recreant to the fundamental principles of liberty upon I t which i is founded and surrenders both I I i its conscience and its traditions t the deI j j i mftnd of greed and avarice Those who charge me with party disloyalty would do 1 I well with wherein wcl to specify particularity I have been guilty Instead uf confining themselves to wholesale charges and vague generalities I I I Is the president and those who are particep ctiminis to his wrong either l > y giving him their active support or by quietly submitting actvc aggressions while he Is leading the party luto pitfalls who I i are lacking in party fealty not I The time for earnest Republicans to make 1 J htr f grOth their I fight is here and now before the organization or-ganization Is Irretrievably committed to a policy which will if adhered to assuredly rd eII hS edly lead to overwhelming defeat The president seems fatally bent on giv ste1S ing the Democratic part the right side of 0 great moral issue which will take an abiding hold upon the consciences of the American people in the next campaign j cam-paign He is determined to commit it to tie championship of oppression violence and excessive taxationto appeal to a free I people for Indorsement upon an unsavory record in which BII abandonment of our most cherishe1 Traditions the enslavement enslave-ment of a alien people and the creation of a lane ami expensive standing army and navy shall be the most prominent feature To this air > a Republican I am unalterably un-alterably opposed I Those who feel that they are defend ing the country or even assisting the Republican party by approving the presidents policy of forcible annexation annexa-tion are mistaken and Mr Johnson I isnt the only member of the party with courage enough to tell them so They are pleasing Chairman Hanna and his president but it is a questionable allegiance I alle-giance they are rendering to the country coun-try or the party in so doing 1 |