Show AlTGElD BREAKS LOOSE Former Illinois Governor Raves About Roosevelt SPEAKS mDEIYJOCRATIC CLUB His Talk in Reply to tho Address of Gov Roosevelt BcforcBtho National League of Republican Clubs at St Paul Attempts to Ridicule tho Military Career oC Republican Vice I Presidential Candidate Ho Has I Something to Say About China and Colonial Policy 1 Toledo 0 Aug 1A light attendance attend-ance marked the second days session of tho convention of tho Ohio Democratic I Demo-cratic clubs The principal spooch of the meeting was delivered tonight at the Lyceum by former Gov Altgcld of Illinois lie spoke in reply to tho address ad-dress of Coy Roosevelt before the National Na-tional 1 League of Republican clubs at St Paul PaulALTGELDS ALTGELDS ADDRESS Mr Altgcld compared the Government Govern-ment of the United States which ho said had been founded upon the consent con-sent of the governed with governments founded upon force declaring that the Republic has given the world moro progress in one century than I achieved In the fifty or sixty centuries of recorded lime He then said The present Administration proposed to abandon the principles of selfgovern I meat and dcs22nd to the plane of brute i force I Said the speaker A year age the newspapers and the men that spoke for the Administration talked of the early palUtonot China England has already I al-ready taken a harbor Germany has taken a harbor and Russia has taken a harbor Wo were told that we must keep the Philippines because they constituted I con-stituted a nearby tree behind which wo could hide until the holdup took place when we could quickly rush out and get our share of the plunder Now that the trouble In China has unexpectedly arisen England has her hands full In Africa She Is not In a position to demand the lions share of the spoils therefore she does not want a partition to take place at present and instantly the McKinley Administration Issues an edict that China must not be partitioned Whether the edict was right or not Is Immaterial I was issued Is-sued to protect English Interests I is time this toadyism should end I Is time we had an American Administration Adminis-tration at Washington REPLIES TO GOV ROOSEVELT After speaking of the Spanish war which he said was begun as ni war of humanity but was changed to n war of conquest he said Recently a gentleman I gen-tleman in New York who had become famous for having been alone In Cuba a gentleman who has adopted 3 his life motto or coatofarms two Ps and a double S whIch four letters signify pompous posing and strenuous strenu-ous strutting1 left the capital of New York and went to St Paul and delivered deliv-ered n speech to the Association of Republican Re-publican Clubs The speech has not from beginning to end a single argument argu-ment or a single accurate historical reference a speech that Is made up of Invective misrepresentation and vituperation Referring to tho Democrats he said They stand for lawlessness and disorder dis-order for dishonesty and dishonor for license and disaster at home and cowardly cow-ardly shrinking from duty abroad This is a reflection on the intelligence I intelli-gence and patriotism and the honor of every Democrat In the country I Is I a personal Insult to the 6600000 men who supported Mr Bryan in 1S3C and I to the 11000000 free men who are going to support him In 1900 He gives no facts and advances no arguments In support of this charge I Is simply an assertion lie puts himself In evidence Aside from truthfulness It Involves his sincerity and discretion HIS HISTORY OF ROOSEVELT I Who then Is this man and what Is his history l I find it recorded that years ago ho was a member of the Now York Legislature and on one occasion I he roused tho hopes of the country by I making a speech against n class which he called the criminal rich But he at onco dashed these hopes by turning around and voting with and for these very criminal rich whom he had denounced de-nounced In the years 1S979S he held a Federal Fed-eral office In Washington and In order to escape paying his taxes In New Yolk he signed an affidavit and swore before the everliving God thai he was not a citizen of New York l this was true then under the Constitution of New York he would not have been eligible gible for the Governorship of that State By subsequently accepting a nomination and election to that office he showed that he did not believe his own affidavit This being so may It not bo that he does not believe the I charge which he has made against us I Is next recorded that he entered the Spanish In Cuba war and although al-though hie regiment was commanded by another man ho succeeded by means of that modern weapon of warfare war-fare known as a newspaper bureau In winning more renown In a week than Gen Grant did in four years of hard I fighting and he seems to be tho only man on this continent who boasts of having with his own hand shot down I from and killed the battlefield n Spaniard who was fleeing I The records at Albany show that the Governor got the Legislature to i pass a law taxing the franchises of corporations most righteous law But the records also show that at the demands of Tom Platt and the corporations corpor-ations he reconvened the Legislature In extra session and had It change this law as the corporation dictated Tho canal 1 fund of New York has been robbed of about SO000000 by Republican Re-publican politicians and although he talked loudly of prosecution the Governor Gov-ernor has not brought one of these men to Justice Mr Altgcld said that when the vast territory from which tho Western States were made was acquired It came In as an Integral part of the Republic Re-public and Its inhabitants were citizens of the Republic This he paid was expansion The attitude of the Administration Admin-istration In acquiring the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico was for imperialism impe-rialism It Is not a question of expansion ex-pansion at all I Is solely and simply a question of imperialism and mllltar hint They are to bo subject colonies Wo air going to govern them with carpetbaggers car-petbaggers WHAT RESOLUTIONS DECLARE The resolutions adopted heartily reaffirm affirm the platform of principles adopted adopt-ed at Kansas City and contain the following fol-lowing Citizens enjoying the protection and blessings of government In this Republic cannot reasonably object to bearing their Just proportion of the burdens of such government And to this end we demand tho enactment and enforcement of a properly regulated income tax law We demand an explanation from the national Administration for admitting cession to Great Britain of about 2000 square miles of our national domain in Alaska and to disclose how much land If any has lately been given away to favored Imperial scions of royalty L That JYO further demand oC the general Government an explanation for the recent purchase from Spain of two more slavecursed Islands In the Sulu group after she had parted with her for 520000000 equity to us in all of that territory I |