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Show IMPUDENT INCONSISTENCY. Mr. Aryan's Commoner, In commending commend-ing Senator Hoar's objections to the mnnncr nf voting In the Philippines, has this tn sa) The Senator from Mnssachuswtla hit th nail nn Ihn head 'If ht value 1 are "cleellnns" when free spceih Is dtnleu the iHMinla for whose benellt It Is lire ItnilAl tnr 'iledlnnM lire held4 'an nv rnilnnul man lwiire that anv heneilt Is to be derlwil finm Ihr style nf eln . I inn? helj un.l.r this , pnllei hn the pnipla tn wh.im . hiiv 1 xtenrl.it th Is Hlleaed linnn Hi nvr n iknled the prM- loie of reaiimg in nubile the Declaration oMnrtepentbnre? The electlona ' .r I'hlllpplmw are of course dlfferep frf .n elections In general gen-eral In the U iteil Btates, but they are such a mighty advance on the sort of o emmet the people there have heretofore here-tofore bad, that the bieutlt nf liberty seems to them pure and unrestrained Hut what of elections In the South, and nf the Mitlng and reading of the Iiedaratlon of Indeiendence liv the negroes ne-groes In those mates' With what face can those who deny the right of suffrage and of participation In their local governments gov-ernments by the negroes, l such sticklers stick-lers for tho utmost Jot of freedom nnd liberty for the rillplnos, who are by no means an well fitted to use the suffrage Intelligently as the negroes nre, taking the whole Inhabitants as a mass? Does not this attitude nf the Democrats on tho suffrage question, as between the negrnes and the I'lllplnns, expose the linllnw mnrkery nf their nsmitned solicitude so-licitude for the rillplnna. In a way to deprivn their protestations of all claim to decent respeit? Humbugs and frauds they nre, all nf them, sure enough. |