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Show I THEY DO NOT LIKE THEM. i In every campaign the Democracy wants to cut down army and navy expenditures They have ' wanted that ever since the war. We mean the1 big Civil war, except for six months after the Maine was blown up, when for a little' while their patriotism was enlisted. For vears after the Civil war the able Secretary of th Navy begged for appropriations to build a few modern warships. Every President pointed out the helplessness of the navy in case of trouble with any second or third rate power, but the Democrats fought the need steadily and stolidly. The most that could be done was to build the wooden Trenton and to get contracts for three little cruisers and one dis- I patch boat. f When Mr. Cleveland was elected in 1884 they k . loosened lip a little and let him begin work. H , refused to accept the Dolphin when comple 1 drove John Roach into bankruptcy and went on f himself and completed the three little cruisers. They are all valuable little ships still, and the Dolphin has been one of the most successful , crafts ever launched. When Mr. Whitney died, i the Democratic press hailed him as "The Father !of the New American Navy." He was in a measure, meas-ure, but it was because a Democratic House refused re-fused to make any appropriations for a Republican Repub-lican Secretary. But they do not like the army and navy. True, they are proud of Manila and Santiago, but they still remembor that the Kcar- sarge sank the Alabama and they are still sore. I They do not like the army because the army, like the navy, is a great, splendid machine that Is always loyal and always obeys orders. They do i not reflect upon the glory that the army has shed i upon the Republic; they forget that ib- has al- 1 ways been the reliance of the frontier, that the men who have graduated from West Point and Annapolis have made better records as .honest and capable men than any other school has turned out. They are willing that our cities shall have police forces, but they hate tfie thought of a national na-tional police. It is a fetish with them, the same as the tariff, and both, wnon analyzed, are hatreds that were planted before the Civil war and ripened rip-ened during the war. . |