| Show COIIIMENTS OF THE PRESS 0 Denver Republican That the present outcry for territorial i r expansion or Imperialism Imper-ialism threatens the clause rff bimetallism more seriously than many men who have heretofore been considered friends of free silver seem to realize no student of public pub-lic affairs can doubt Started by coidlto organ of the east for the desperate purpose pur-pose of killing bimetallism which seemed almost certain to sweep the country next fal It has been shrewdly displayed in glowing coors before ambitious but unthinking un-thinking Americans until now it has won to its support some who would naturally be expected to oppose It vigorously Kansas City Times No doubt the ma jority of the rank and file of the Republican can party will follow McKinley if tho nominating convention declares for territorial ter-ritorial expansion They aro blind riorial blnd partisans par-tisans and let their leader think for them Ho wi have a few Democrats In his fol lowing but when tho votes are counted it will bo found that not only Is Mr Mc Klnley defeated but that his party la repudiated vigorously and vehemently by I the people Nothing could he surer than I that the majority of the people would I I6ok as upon a fatal a policy blow I of to territorial the I nations acquisition institutions f I insti-tutions and that they can be relied upon to defeat all such schemes and Intrigues tfst 1IaII ge II T itn there Is not a shadow of a doubt Cleveland Plain Dealer The annexation pf Alaska It Jb true was not the annexation annex-ation of contiguous territory but Alaska Is upon the same continent as the United Stales comparatively not far separated from i and i adapted in climate and resources to Americanization The I rC5urc AmeicaIzaton annexations an-nexations now contemplated would be tho annexations of territory In no wise need ful to the development or protection of this republic I effected they would tend I I to weaken rather than to strengthen It Commercial Advertiser There will be I I no German Intervention in the Philippines The German emperor Is eccentric but no suCh fool 1 as to throw away his crown I War with tho United States would be fatal to any dynast of contlncnal Europe I I but the Russian I would send William Into exile and set up the German 1Yliam I I rco after German commerce had been svent from the seas and German trade 1 I with tho United States cut off Our strencth does not lie In fleets and armies Tho orcid riots n April wrote rcd Apri on the wall a warning Europe will not forget 1 without We shall interference be left to settle our own affairs i |
