Show I HISTORY When voters read the I plank on im pcrialiem in the platform of the Democracy De-mocracy they ought to keep in mind a few facts That without the consent of the people of Louisiana most of whom were educated white peopleMr Jefferson Jeffer-son bought thai territory Mr JeYfer Bon the founder of the Democracy Ho bought II and sent to govern It a commission com-mission which made laws and con trolled the territory without asking or obtaining the consent Pc the people for years and had they rebelled against the rule there is agalnsl nothing clearer on earth than that tho President would have called out all the military strength of the United Stales to put down that rebellion Later Mr Monroe the then Democratic President purchased Flori da Florida was under tho Immediate control of the Spanish Governor and the supervisory control of the Captain General of Cuba Gen Cuba Jacks n was sent there to take talt charge and his In I structions gave hlmtho same power jn Florida ihat were exorcised by the Governor Gov-ernor and by the CaptainGeneral Later fo quiet the title to Texas with Mexico the Mexican war was sprung sprung Mexican armies were driven oft the borders of Texas New Mexico or and California veroT taken by conquest conquest The army of Gen Scott landed at Vera Cruz took that city j and tool rho i h fought that 1 series of splendid hatteR which culminated l I culmi-nated in the capture of the capital of Mexico Then a settlement was made I by which the American army was I withdrawn and New Mexico and Call Cal fornla were ceded to the United States j I and a payment of 15006000 was made Officials were Immediately sent to take charge of California and Now Mexico the same as had been done in I Louisiana and Florida and the only difference between that transaction and I the transactionHtityufeh1 the Philippines and Port Rico became apart a-part of our territory IH I thai our army I did not likewise Invade Spain and cap 1 I turo Madrid The now governments on I tho Islands recognize to just as great an extent as possible the people and I the offices are filled to a great extent I with natives Free schools have been established in Porlo RIco and in Luzon I and other Philippine islands and the only cloud that has arisen has been an Insurrection not by an ally as the Democratic platform states but by n vagabond who had sold his own country coun-try to old Spain had agreed to ox patrIa o himself for money and who never dreamed of independence from Spain or Independence In any way until un-til he saw an opportunity to push himself him-self to the fronu Moreover he represented repre-sented but one tribe In thirty in the islands Be > kond that he was 1 scoundrel scoun-drel and wouldbemurderer for he planned the extermination of all the while people in the city of Manila Including In-cluding our little army which had gone there and broken intolerable chains which had been riveted on the necks of his people for three hundred years Ills rebellion was crushed A few vagabond vaga-bond bands of murderers arc sllll annoying an-noying our soldiers but order Is fast taking tho place of chaos The schools scl00ls I are being opened the Industries oC the Islands arc being developed and the tyranny that is Intended toward those people is that they shall be protected in life and property that so soon as possible they shall have control of their country and that every right which belongs to humanity shall be I guaranteed to them Out of all that tie ouls at Kansas city have made the foremost plank in their platform describing the present Administration as cruel and tyrannical beyond measurefor no reason on earth except that they established order whore order never existed before ex I cept In chains where they opened every opportunity of the Islands to their own pcqple where they opened for them what they never had before free schools And to frame that plank the Judgment or Admiral Dewey Gen Merrltc Gen Otis and all the military and civil officers who have had control there has had to bo put aside The plank states that the United States has made a war upon foreign allies and the truth Is they were never allies and tho war was planned by a cutthroat who made war because he was not given permission to loot a great city Those are the facts More than that the thing has been carried on by a Republican Re-publican Administration which has been trained to be exactly Just to all people and it Is being denounced by a I party that holds within Itself the elements ele-ments of nearly all the injustice in the United States I |