Show Judge Reagan and exSenator Mills of leas took no part in the recent campaign because both wore in favor of expansion and opposed the Democratic Demo-cratic plank of Imperialism The election elec-tion being over Judge Reagan Jas made n public statement in which he says The party committed a blunder when It attempted to put tho American people In the attitude of sympathising with an enemy of the Republic and I thereby placing themselves in the position po-sition of abetting In a war against the United Stales The Federalists made tho same mistake that our party made this time They were opposed to the purchase of Louisiana and In that day and time the means of transportation were so crude that a trip from New York to Louisiana consumed about the same time that Is now required to go from the Unltqd States to the Philippines Philip-pines Our party Is In error and commits com-mits a grave blunder In opposing expansion ex-pansion This la the sentiment of the last survivor we believe of Jefferson DavIss Cabinet and no doubt is tho sentiment of the great mass of Southern South-ern people but they had to keep still this year The belief Is that If the Southern people could have voted on that Issue alone Mr Bryan would not have carried any more Slales South than he did North |