Show A BURLESQUE CRY I I Speaking of Imperialism and the dangers which it makes Imminent reminds re-minds us of the condition of affairs iiv Kentucky l That State has an election law which enables the party which Iras the State machinery r in Its hands to declare any one elected whom 1 t pleases to have elected regardless of the votes cast Next in case the electionjudges happen to be honest menr the statute of the State regardless of the tyranny tyran-ny of any Government not founded on the consent of tho governed give to the Legislature the power to dispose o the offices as it pleases and take from the courts the power to review the acts of the Legislature Lgislature v We have not heard hilt Mr Bryan and his friends have ever protested against that arrangement but ho and they are worried past all expression that the Government of the United States IB I asserting Itself to maintain possession of and to give order to some United States territory out in the Pacific Pa-cific against a band of cutthroats that are there murdering and robbing peaceful peace-ful Islanders and ossasslnatlng United States soldiers The purpose of the Government from the first has been to give those people I who have never had any rights as much liberty and as much protection as have the people in any Territory oi the United States protection civil religious political ommerclal every way and not one law that any man while behaving himself would feel This Mr Bryan nryan and his friends construe Into unbearable unbear-able oppression and through It they see crumbling the foundation stones of liberty In our owir country But they arc not worried In the least over the tyranny exercised against nativeborn citizens white and black in Kentucky or MlssiSBlppl or South Carolina l This I all establishes that so far as the cry I lu raised by the Democratic platform i and echoed by Democratic orators ltf Is simply a demagogue cry to bo used I In the campaign and then dropped I I is a humbug on its face and when urged by the men who claim It to be I right that one vote In Mississippi ohall count as much as thirty votes in any Northern or Western Suites and who think it right to 1 mal IW of no avail tho voles of naUvelJorn TlopuolTcans in Kcntuncky black and white It bo cornea u burlesque that ought to cause cuseI 1 It to bo laughed to scorn before election day |