Show W 77 I 1 v 0 THE philippine ISSUE marked modification of judge parker parkers I 1 nothing in the conduct of the democratic party is i more condu conducive ciTe to the public meal eal than the eise with chich w aich it abandons untenable iss ies after pleda lah eternal fealty to them for echt deais it was ind wedded to the free at aid d in ted co con n age of s iver at an arb arary rat o only at the telegraph c behest of ts cand late to accept the gold stanlus iid as firmly and irrevocably estabi hed bed by the he re can party I 1 rom t a a e beyo id the memory of the oldest voter the den has been tul ful in nat ng against as a robbery only to have david B hill 1 n a ve the tai tat if issue into the back yarl yar I 1 and abysm of tune because it is a ques to t i on art wh h very few of us demo brats agree aoth r g could have been more beau bean ticul to see than the sham shain frenzy with wh wit ch democrats and anti imperial ats renounced the action by tl e un ted states se zed the opportune opp ty and became i 0 of the authority to cl d a and control the isten asti n an canal ex copt the av I 3 ty with wh ch eh the demo crat crate con convent venton on swallow Aed ed all its vo to c ferous scruples and resolved that when entrust ej el with power it will con the panama cinal speedily speed ly hon bon catly and econom cally no wonder the mocking echo when hen entrusted with pow power er the he and now comes alton D parker and diaks the pen of ante election ency through the ph I 1 apine plank of it s par ty we ins st reads that s billant doc doe ament that we ought to do for the fill fili p nos what we hae hane done already foi the cubans and it is our duty to make that prom se A isow OW at the first opi oi 01 tun ty judge parker was given to un burlen h s soul over the w m rong perpetrated in tut ng amen can justice I 1 berty and sec see arity tor for span ish cruelty extortion and oppression i 11 i the phil he modified the now in the above quotation with these eso ego words the accident of war brought the phil ipp ne nea into our possession and we are not at I 1 berty to d brogard the response res bil ty v m aich thus came to us but that responsibility will be best sub served by preparing aring ng the islanders as rap adly as pos s ble tor for self govern nent dent ai at d giving to them assurances that it wn w come as a soon as they are reasonably prepared font forit na inte by john gr G ml b irn 0 of B tiffalo as to whether the del ph e phrase self government in the foregoing sentence was to be con construed const ned as identical with independence pol cicil and terr he ed I 1 am it 11 hearty accord with that plank in the democrat c platform wh wit ch eh advocat 4 treating the I 1 il A p z os as precisely as we did the cubans and balso I 1 also favor making the prom se to them SOW NOW to take such action AS SOON AS IT CAN FRU PRU BE DONE aye there a the rub give the prom lie ise and a dem cratic prom se at that now and redeem it as soon as it can prudently be done was tl ere ever a more flagrant case of that j iggi ng with words that gives the word of pron ise to tl e air but puts its fulfillment brei d the pale of iving 1 ving hope why promse prom se now what whit in the expediency and wisdom of the future it may never be prudent to f dilfill fil alfill fill no 0 o wonder the demo ratio new ew aorl times scornfully declares that the only percept ble d fforence ff arence between the demo cratic po tio i and the can po poi t on is that judge parker would tell the fil pinos DO now what is in store for them and president roosevelt wo lid ild not there is noth ng e ther in his speech or in 1 I it s letter to mr Alil buin which would in any other than a heedless anti i 1 in nd lead to the conclusions that were m ere he in the die NN it te house he would pursue toward our possessions in the tar far hast hist a pol cy d from that pursued by president roosevelt the times further expresses the ion that if the amer can people were asked to vote to today day upon the question of immediately grant ng independence to the PI I 1 pp nes they v m vote the propos down ten to one perhaps tn tit enty to one certa aly by an exemplary n ajor tv they would vote it down be cause they are not insane and because they are not heart heartless ls if they were asked to vote upon the quest on w whether hether we sho ho ild make the prom se re no now w they wo a ild la i ish h in the f faces aces of those who aked them to take the tro ihle ible to express their 11 upon a mere question of elpe d ency A promise now to do something which t mav be he pr ident to do fifty or two hun bun dred years hence possibly never woul I 1 em era tu to al i st reach the u he lits of democratic folly certainly judge parker s prom se re now with its as in n as t can be done condi t on el n ates the ph I 1 apine issue from front the deno den critic category of republican transgress trans gres ons |