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Show STEWART IS RIGHT.. HITS THE DEMOCRATS IN THE SOLAR PLEXUS. . Sxys i hat tbe "Anti-Imperialism- Flank of the Kaiissis city Platform Is the Acme of Trvuson Goad Advice to Senator William M. Stewp.rt of Nevada Ne-vada called at Republican headquarters headquar-ters at New York August 20 and said he had decided to vote for President McKinley. He made a statement in part as follows:' ' '..-' "The United States went to war wjth Spain, urged on by the Democratic party. The popularity of the war was such that Mr. Eryan Joined the army. The war wis successful, a treaty of peace was entered into whereby the United States agreed to pay $20,000,000 and accept the sovereignty and publi property of Spain in the Philippine archipelago. I'here was opposition to the ratification of the" treaty. Mr. Bryan came to Washington and persuaded per-suaded his Democratic friends to vote for the treaty. "The people of the United States, and particularly of ihe Pacific coast, became be-came entitled to the vast commerce of the Pacific ocean of which the Philippines Philip-pines furnish tire key. "One Aguinaldo had raised a rebel- Ion in Luzon against Spain before the commencement of the Spanish war with the United States. This adven- turer had sold out or settled his rebellion rebel-lion with Spain for $400,000 before Dewey set' sail 'for Manila, and as a part of the bargain with 6paln. Aguinaldo Aguin-aldo agreed to leave the island and never return. . "Dewey took' the wily agitator back to the island's, supposing, of course, that Aguinaldo would naturally be an enemy of Spain and a friend of the United States. In this Admiral Dewey was mistaken. An organization was formed in the United States called the Anti-Imperialis League, which has for the last two years co-operated with AguinaMc's Tagal Junta, with head-' head-' quarters at Hontliong. to supply liter ature .iud materials of war for Aguinaldo. "The assistance and the encouragement encourage-ment he received from" the Anti-Imperialist League and the enemies of the United States, both at home and abroad, made his barbarous and irregular irreg-ular war bloody and expensive. "Mr. Bryan's unparalleled campaign for the principles of the Chicago plat form, and his insistence upon the adoption adop-tion of that platform at Kansas City, Induced the people to suppose the cam- j paign of 1900 would be conducted on j the ipsues of 1896. In this it seems i they were mistaken." Senator Stewart then quoted Mr. ; Bryan's declaration of his intention, if j elected, to call an extraordinary ses-, ses-, sion of congress to give the Philippines freedom upon the same terms as Cuba. He also denounced the recent convention conven-tion of anti-imperialists at Indlanapo-. Indlanapo-. lis. He also denounced Mr. Bryan for . promising to attempt to "extend the Monroe doctrine to the Orient" |