Show I HONOR AND MANHOOD INVOLVED I A question of manhood Is involved in the coming election In tho name of Jiunmnlty Admiral Dewey crushed with I cannon shots the fleet of Spain In Manila Ma-nila bay In the name of humanity the I i fleet of Admiral Sampson and the flyIng I fly-Ing squadron of Admiral Schlcy j crushed the Spanish fleet off the Cuban 1 coast and the army swept over the works at J51 Caney and up the blootly slope of San Juan hill Tho story of those achievements was like the shot that was heard round the world nnd In southern and western Europe and all around the coast of Asia the American Amer-ican name and Nation took on new significance sig-nificance tho flag new prestige and I splendor The war over the work ofjeorgan Izatlon and regeneration was begun Jn the West Indias The poor were fed and given employment the cities were cleaned of their immemorial filth r or der was established schools were opened and for the first time the people peo-ple there were given to see what q just Government meant In Cuba a Constitutional convention has been called for the purpose of forming a fundamental law preparatory to the r full establishment of an independent Government In the Philippines the people had suffered suf-fered fearful I exactions for centuries The taxes were terrible and they were collected With a cruelty amounting to ferocity Before the treaty of peace was signed one tribe there revelled and prepared to drive our flag from the islands This tribe was led by 1 renegade rene-gade who had just sold out his countrymen j country-men for Spanish dollars His claims I were denied by our Government his force was met by the forces of the Union his power was crushed and is represented now only by some prowlIng prowl-Ing murderers In Luzon and by a party In tho United States that to obtain power would dishonor our flag and make appeals to the cowardice of the American people I The decision of the election will be either that the manhood of the Nation is still robust that It Is still determined deter-mined to advance and perform Its duties du-ties to its own people and to the world outside or that I is willing to shirk I Us honest responsibilities to repudiate the work performed by Dewey nnd Merrltt and Otis and Lawton to trail Its flag and to advertise to the world that a national police force of one man to a thousand of our people is such a menace to our liberties that we dare not p rCorm our duties Again It Is to decide whether we want order and peace In our own country that property prop-erty may be made safe and the courts respected or whether we stand ready to extend our sympathy and encouragement encour-agement to any band of Incendiaries and murderer who may organize to turn any part of our country Into a little hell I is to determine whether the American Amer-ican people desire to turn the Government Govern-ment over to a party that with shot and knife and fraud takes the franchise fran-chise from millions of American miions born citizens but cries Its eyes out over the woes of sonic mongrel murderers beyond be-yond the sea It will decide I wI decldc whether the men ofthe United States can be caught by declarations which are a fraud from start to finish and give to n party control simply because It ap peals to mens baser passions for sup port on promises things some of which from the very nature of things could not be fulfilled and others which if fulfilled would cost the country in material losses more than would a great war The honor the manhood and the prosperity of this prosPcIly country are Involved In this campaign Can there be any doubt of the result |