| Show Speaking of the great change In the country the change that brought Nebraska Ne-braska Utah Washington Wyoming and South Dakota intothe Republican line It Is proper to saythtt the Democratic Demo-cratic party this yearbeat itself I made Its fight four years ago on the question of the remonetlzalion of silver sil-ver I urged on the Spanish war against the direct wish of the Administration Admin-istration Every Democrat In Congress voted for the 550000000 to be turned over to the President to be used as he thought best to meet the exigencies of the war which the country had declared de-clared against Spain The Democrats had the whip hand of the Republicans at that time They might have held It If I Instead of picking up the foolish cry of imperialism and militarism if instead In-stead of Inveighing against expansion that party had come to the front and declared that expansion was the rule of the Democratic party that undel Jt our country had quadrupled In aiea that tho Philippines were ours and that It was not only our right but a i duty for the Americans not only to break the chains of Spain from those people but the chains of Ignorance and superslltlon and cruelty I they had gone into the campaign with these cries on their lips and they had pointed point-ed out that the Philippines made a depot for Asia that clustered there in close distances were hal the population popula-tion of the world that they were all poor Jthat their cal transactions I could nqt be computed In gold that because of their want of money half or their energies were paralyzed that by pushing sliver Into that region the United Slates could get back the return re-turn In gold and could In a short decade build up a trade that would unable the United States to dominate the ocean commerce of the Pacific and the trcdo of the lands around the great I ocean and then had nominated a candidate can-didate who would have given expression expres-sion tp these views in a few speechcs Ie remaining all the time at his home and not making a public display of himself him-self by trying to make more speeches nn day than any other man ever had the patty would have carried the solid South with enthusiasm That enthusiasm enthu-siasm would have run ovor the line ant carried VcJ > t Virginia and Delaware Dela-ware and Maryland I would have I carried the whole Vest with the possible pos-sible exception of California and would I have mafic great Inroads In the Mississippi Mis-sissippi and Missouri valleys |
