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Show GEMS OF DEMOCRATIC PATRIOTISM. PATRI-OTISM. The Hon. Frank B. Burke, Democratic Democrat-ic candidate for Congress in the Indianapolis In-dianapolis district, "takes off his hat to no flag." The Hon. Edward W. Carmack, a Democratic representative in Congress from Tennessee, says that the war in the Philippines is "murder." The Hon. Richard Croker thinks "it is nothing short of murder to kill those poor devils, who think they are fighting fight-ing for their freedom." The Hon. John De Witt Warner calls the American soldiers in the Philippines "swashbuckling murderers" murder-ers" and "drunkards robbers and rav-ishers." rav-ishers." The Democratic party indulged in similar felicities of language during the-Civil the-Civil war. It has forgotten the lesson it got then. It wants another one. Let lesson so memorable that hereafter no American shall dare to malign his flag and those who carry it at the risk of their lives against the enemies of the United States. New York Sun. |
