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CHARLES A. TOWNE.
sacrificed ambition on al-
tar OF PATRIOTISM.
Might IUv« Been Named with Bryan
Had He Been a Self-Seeker—A Gold
Mur Paper’s Tribute to the Silver
t'hamplon-
It would bn difficult to discover, in
Hie array of people politically promi-
nent in America at this time, a char-
acter more worthy of respect and ad-
miration than that of the Hon. Charles
A: Towne, of Minnesota. True to nis
faith and principles, single-minded,
sincere and unselfish, he stands beroro
the people today an exemplar of sim-
ple, self-sacrificing American honesty
and patriotism.
No doubt Mr. Towne would have
liked to tie Vice President of the Unit-
ed States. If he had used his oppor-
tunities .at Kansas City as a dema-
gogue would have utilized them, he
might perhaps have forced himself
upon the ticket with Mr. Bryan,, who
wanted him as his running mate wifh
all the Intensity of his aggressive and
determined nature. But Mr. lowne
had aims and purposes higher than the
gratification of a personal ambition.
Already the Vice Presidential candi-
date of the Populists, he could have
heen named for the same office by the
Silver Republicans at their Kansas
City Convention Thus re-enforced,
his claims upon the Democratic Na-
tional Convention, considering the cir-
cumstances of the year, might have
heen dangerous to ignore. But, rath-
er than embarrass the great leader he
hopes to see in the White House next
year, or "to bring any element
of discord into the camp of the
popular army which has been mobi-
lized to fight for the people and insti-
tutions against the trust and monop-
oly forces who would subvert th?m, be
refhsed to let his name go before the
Silver Republican Convention, and has
now announced his intention to de-
cline the Populist nomination when
he shall be formally notified that it
has been given to him.
Without a shadow of regret or sore-
ness in his attitude, Mr. Towne ap-
peared as one of the distinguished le-
ceiving party which greeted his suc-
cessful competitor, the Hou. Adlai E.
Stevenson. when that gentleman
reached Lincoln on Monday, to pay his
respects to the Presidential candidate.
If he concealed a wish that he might
have been the nominee instead of the
Illinois statesman and ex-Vice Presi-
dent. it did not show in speech or
manner, and nothing of the kind could
possibly detract from the earnestness
and fixity of purpose with which he
will enter the fight for the preserva-
tion of liberty and the Constitution.
It is remarkable and a pleasant spec-
tacle! Charles A. Towne, when he
withdrew from the Republican party
in 1896, because he felt that an honest
man could no longer remain in it, no-
toriously resigned a political future as
a Republican, which his striking abil-
ity and remarkable accomplishments
as a public man and a thinker made
it certain would be distinguished in an
unusual degree. He realized the sacri-
fice, but did not hesitate to make it
cn the altar of his conscience. Dur-
ing the four years that since nave
elapsed, he has never swerved from
„ the path of duty he then marked out
for himself. He is one who, like the
chieftain he does battle under, is in-
capable of conceding the least modi-
cum of principle for the sake of exped-
iency. He is of the stuff of which
grand leaders of men are made. He
cannot be Vice President next year,
but, happily, he is young and may
come to even higher honors hereafter.
eign “entanglement" than is that Into
which President McKinley is leading
us in the East? If this step is made
both inevitable and easier by the pres-
ident’s Asiatic adventure in the Phil-
ippines, it is only further proof of the
combined folly and fatality of his war
of “criminal aggression.”
If we had followed the policy of true
Americanism in the Philippines we
should never have blundered into this
Chinese complication. True American-
ism required that we should stand
aloof from European land robberies.
Then China might have regarded the
United States as her friend and arbi-
trator. By joining our interests and
forces with the European-monarchical
military invaders we are identified in
the Chinese mind with the other “for-
eign devils.” Hence our minister—
who might have been as safe and as
helpful in Peking as Minister Wash-
burn was in Paris during the dreadful
and bloody days of the Commune—is
besieged and menaced with the rest.
This is deplorable, but the responsi-
bility runs straight back to the ques-
tion, What business have we In China?
We do not want any part of her terri-
tory, and true religion and true Amer-
icanism are agreed in forbidding either
propagandism or trade extension at
the cannon's mouth.—New York
World.
GOLD BUGS ADMISSION.
Imperialism Is Flourishing.
Little by little, and in the face ol
their deceptive platform, the Repub-
licans are placing themselves square-
ly on record as favoring .militarism
and imperialism.
Judge Day and President McKinley
talk Imperialism in Ohio. Ambassador
Choate and Chauncey M. Depew bathe
in the glamor of it in London. With
a characteristic cock-a-doodle-doo
Roosevelt flaps his imperial wings iD
nSag
Each of these typical Republicans
dwells in his own way upon the fact
that “wo now' belong to the family ol
nations.” Not peaceful nations, not
commercial nations, but nations of sol-
diers and blood and of trumpets and
turmoil.
At the Fourth of July dinner of the
American Society in London Mr. De-
pew said: “We belong to the family of
nations, and any one who does must
have the manners of those who sit at
the same table.”
By all means. Let us learn to do out
pig-sticking” properly
to support vast armies without a
groan. Might is ’ right among those
with whom we are now sitting.
Again Mr. Depew: “We are now sat
isfled to have on one side Porto Rico
ta McKinley colony) and on the other
Canada” (a Victorian colony)
This ‘will give, us superior facilities
for imitation, and if we industriously
rub garments and jostle elbows who
knows but that the gloss of empire and
the gilt of royalty may rub off.
We are not more surprised at De-
pew than at Roosevelt, who calls our
military operations in China “an ob-
ject lesson in expansion.” He says:
"Expansion simply means that peat*
must be brought about. In the world s
waste places it means that peace can
not be had until civilized nations have
expanded.”
Here is the old imperial cry of mili-
tary force. In order to expand we
must conquer other races by cannon
and bloodshed. In the dismemberment
of the Chinese quarry we shall prob-
ably grab a leg or something and hang
on with the rest. This is “expansion"
of the administration type.
It would have been a laudable thing
to have saved our legation and our
missionaries. They have heen mur-
dered and China should be held re-
peremptory
Boston Post Pay* Tribute to Character
of Democratic Leader.
Suppose Bryan were elected Presi-
dent what would happen? What sort
of a President should we have in him?
in the first place, we should have a
thoroughly honest man in the White
House. This is a fact conceded by
Mr. Bryan’s political foes as well as
by his political friends. And it is more
than the Republicans can say of every
candidate for President put up by
their party.
We should have a President of un-
questioned ability. Mr. Bryan has
shown himself a man of parts. He is
not only a brilliant orator; he has
demonstrated his possession of the
qualities of statesmanship.
We should have a President who is
personally unselfish. Mr. Bryan is de-
voted to principles rather than to the
advancement of his individual inter-
ests. He is a broad-minded man.
We should have for President a man
of tact and good humor. Mr. Bryan
would enter the White House without
enemies to punish or grudges to satis-
fy. He carries no "knife."
And touching the policies and issues
on which this election turns, we should
have a President devoted to the repub-
lican as against the imperial theory of
government; to the protection of the
interests of the great body of the peo
pie as against monopolistic cabals.
We should have a President who has
pledged himself to what we at
as a mistaken theory of
TRICKY LI HUNG CHANG.
China’s “Grand Old Man" a Fox in the
Art of Diplomacy.
“Let us use foreigners, but do not
let foreigners use us.” is an apothegm
that is popular in China. It was coined
by Li Hung Chang, the first man to
whom the powers looked to check the
uprising against foreigners.
A Farmer’s Soli.
For twenty-five years Li Hung
Chang lias heen the most conspicuous
statesman in the east. He has pitted
his diplomacy against the diplomacy
of the czars, of Bismarck, of Glad-
stone. and of Salisbury. When General
Grant made his tour of the world he
horde of foreign contractors who
would have remade the old empire in
a day, and, on the other hand, pressing
upon his compatriots the gradual use
of modern inventions. Janus-like, he
looked forward to a China civilized
and quickened, but he was also mind-
ful of the past, which had inorusted so
many prejudices upon his country. Al-
most at the risk of his life he built
railroads, established telegraph lines,
opened coal mines, founded a militaiy
and naval academy, endowed a hospit-
al, fitted up arsenals, bought modern
warships, built fortifications, and gen-
res of his marvelously shrewd mind to
the task for securing the best possible
terms for China.
For Japan the negotiations were con-
ducted by the Marquis lto, and it is
doubtful if two more clever conver-
sationalists ever were pitted against
each other in a similar contest. The,
report of the conversations and inter-
views between the two diplomats
makes very interesting reading, and
covering as it does every point in any
way relating to the question at issue.
It forms a most important handbook
for the diplomats who are concerned
with the eastern situation.
Kl«p> untln© Memory.
An elephant was being sent up from
Bombay to the Delhi Assemblage in
Jau. 1877. by the then governor. Sir
P. Wodehouse. On the way it met a
party of men, one of whom had seen
its mahout ami had ill-treated it, as
East regard
finance.
•All in all, even from the Republican
point of view, there have been many
candidates, both Republican and Dem-
ocratic, whose election to the presiden-
cy would be properly regarded with
greater apprehension than that of
William Jennings Bryan.—Boston
Post.
A VICEROY OF ALL CHINA.
The Platform I* Straight.
The New York Democratic newspa-
pers are waking up to the true mean-
ing of the Kansas City platform. Says
the World: In its presentation of Am-
erican principles and policies in op-
position to imperialism and militarism
the Democratic platform constitutes
about as powerful a campaign docu-
ment as was ever issued. It is self-
explanatory. It needs no supplement
_____ of argument. It states the simple yet
Let us learn splendid truths in a way that carries
straight to the mind and conscience o
the man whose ideals are the ti adi-
tional and time-tested ideals of #his
country.
It is this direct appeal to the Ameri-
can conscience which must yet be-
come the central thought of the cam-
paign upon which we are entering.
The safety of the American home, the
right of the citizen are much nearer
to us than can be the condition of any
foreign country or the grievances of
people at a distance. The Democratic
platform so well states the whole issue
that The World speaks truly when it
says: “It needs no supplement of
argument.”—Atlanta Constitution.
p g.—Of course it cannot be^ expect-
ed that the gold bug papers‘of the
east will indorse the financial part of
the platform. Yet there is no one part
of the platform superior in clearness,’
and wisdom than another. The finan-
cial plank is the best ever written, be-
ing a step in advance of that of 1896,
which recognized the redemption fal-
lacy. The platform of this year
throws the superstition overboard en-
tirely and recognizes that paper dol-
lars, when issued by the government
constitute lawful money of the United
States.
sponsible. But oeyond a
x , . demand for honorable redress, incliul-
He thoroughly deserves the respect of execution of the de facto rulers
friend and enemy alike. He is a Che
valier Bayard of American politics; a
type nearly extinct. He has richly
earned whatever the combined partes
of the people can give him, in recogni-
tion of his devotion and service, should
their cause be blessed with victory in
November.—Washington Times.
at Peking, we have no business there.
But from Porto Rico to Peking,along
the length of our “far-flung battle
line” it is a case of gradual good-by
to the old republic, to Lite Democr^jc
institutions of our fathers, and to -i.b-
erty, the “eternal spirit of the chain-
less mind."—New York Journal.
• Our Imperator In China,
Public attention will be riveted upon
this following part of Mr. McKinley's
letter' to his brother sovereigns
through the secretary of state, Mr.
Hay:
“The purpose of the president is
, . to act concurrently with the
other powers . . . fourthly, in aid
ing to prevent a spread of the disorder
to other provinces and a recurrence of
such disasters.
“The purpose” not of the congress
not of the people, if you please, but of
the president! "The president” and
.“the other powers!” Certainly no
fault is to be found with this docu-
ment, written by Mr. Hay and revised
by the president at Canton, O., on the
score of lack ot frankness. That great
The Republican Tarty.
The policy of the Republican party
since it passed under the control of
Hanna may be summarized as follows:
1 pay the trusts and usurers the
money advanced for the campaign
fund of 1896.
2. Retire the greenbacks.
3. Make silver token money, redeem-
able in gold.
4. Put the banks in possession of all
money-making functions.
5. Make the government issue bonds
to redeem silver and to buy gold.
6. Increase the standing army to
100,000 (at first).
7. Conduct perpetual war in our col-
onies.
8. Continue indefinitely the war and
Tlio “Mother of Trnsts."
Three times during the past months
the Sugar Trust has raised the price
of sugar. The grocery stores and poor
consumers have paid the advance
without a murmur. They have no pro-
tection and they knew it was useless
to complain.
It has been learned, however, that
at the present schedule of prices for-
eign sugars can enter this market at a
profit.
But the Sugar Trust must have pro-
tection or Republican principles will
all be violated. Foreign sugar must
not be allowed to enter our markets.
It would hurt Havemeyer.
Therefore, trot out the tariff, that
fine old mother of trusts and let her
protecting wings hover over the head
of the sugar king. If necessary let
President McKinley call a special ses-
sion of congress. Whatever happens to
the consumer the trusts must not be
neglected.—Leadville Miner.
imperial l.igh-mlshtlMss tie president | ^ g,ner.
will co-operale with "the other pow-
ers" not merely in protecting Ameri-
can life and property, not merely in
doing what the American people, hith-
erto supposed to bear the relation to
the president of sovereign to servant,
may have authorized, hut in using Am-
erican saiiors and soldiers in "aiding
to prevent a recurrence of such disas-
ters.” That is. Mr. McKinley will use
the armies and navies of the United
States a: bitrary and without author-
ity in pacifying China!
What respect can we expect to com-
mand for the Monroe dostrine of non-
interference hv European powers in
the affairs of this hemisphere if we
are to join in wars of conquest and a
“concert of action” to secure “spheres
’ of influence” in Asia? Could there be
ally.
10. Bury every year about 3,000 of
our young men in the Philippines.
11. Enlarge pension roll indefinitely.
12. Gradually and quietly transform
our Republic into an empire.
13. Keep Democratic military and
naval heroes away from home or dis-
credit their bravery.
XVtmt Imperialism Mean*.
Syracure, N. Y., Telegram: "Im-
perialism,” as defended and promoted
by the Republican candidate for presi-
dent and the party behind him means
a departure from the style of Repub-
lican government, government by the
people, established by the constitution.
It means the creating of a large and
costly standing army to maintain a
government of colonies in far distant
points of the globe, to be ruled bv
satraps who are the stipendarics of
a centralized power which enriches its
followers by the conferring upon them
of rich concessions at the expense of
an overtaxed people.
Promise* Made to B© Broken.
Omaha World-Herald: Congress de-
clared that as soon as Cuba was paci-
fied the American troops should be
withdrawn. Cuba h?s been "pacified”
almost two years. Yet five full regi-
ments and two batteries of American
soldiers remain in Cuba. A promisee
made by the Mc»Klnley administration
H more
complicated and dangerous for- < is subject to heavy discount
N< t an IroacinarT Peril.
Dubuque Herald: Imperialism is
not a myth. It is not a bugbear to
frighten people. It is an actual peril
which the nation must face cour-
ageously and fearlessly grapple with
if free institutions are to be maintain-
ed and preserved. The fight on the
Democratic side is for the people and
their republic; on the Republican side
it is for the elevation of the dollar
above character.
said that the three great men he met
on his long journey were Li Hung
Chang. Gladstone, and. Bismarck. LI
Hung Chang in his turn greatly ad-
mired Grant and has been for fifty
years a stanch champion Qf Americans
in his own country, so far as open
professions go. He showed Grant
many honors when the great American
soldier was on his journey around the
world. After he had gone LI Hung
Chang, in making some comparisons,
said: "General Grant and I have sup-
pressed the two greatest rebellions
known in history.” He referred, on
his own part, to the great lai-Ping ie-
bellion, probably the greatest uprising
of its kind known to the world.
Li Hung Chang is the son of a Chin-
ese farmer. He is 78 years old and it
was in suppressing the great rebellion
of 1850 thart he came to the front in
Chinese affairs. He had, in fact, little
to do with putting down his rebellious
countrymen. He skillfully persuaded
the American leader, Frederick E.
Ward, and the English general, Gor-
don; to direct the fighting and then ap-
propriated the credit for it, writing
long dispatches to Pekin in which he
referred grandiloquently to "my evet
victorious army." For thirteen years
the southern provinces had been in re-
volt under the leadership of Hung Tse
Chuen. Hung Tse had failed to pass
the examinations which are required
in China for the first steps In polit-
ical advancement. He fell ill and
claimed a revelation had heen made to
him that he was to become the emper-
or of China. He began to proclaim his
mission, exhorting his followers to
embrace Christianity, of which he had
obtained some vague notions. With
every year the circle of his adherents
widened, but it was not until 1850 that
the heedless Pekin government saw
and knew the danger that he threat-
ened.
Made l>y Tal-Plne Rebellion.
In the open rebellion that followed
the new leader won immense success
lor a time. With an avmy unusually
well drilled for Chinamen, Hung Tse
Chuen overran several provinces,
crossed the Yang-ts’e and in Nanking,
the old capital of the empire, was
hailed as emperor, and assumed the
style of royalty. Two columns pressed
forward toward Pekin.
At this crisis a young and distin-
guished scholar, who had passed two
examinations and was among the ex-
pectants of office, gathered together
friends and relatives in his menaced
native town, organized them into a
regiment, and fell upon the rebels’
r-iar. His victories won him a staff
position in the imperial army and
later chief command in the field. With
the aid of a foreign corps, commanded
until his death in battle by Frederick
E. Ward, an American sailor-adven-
turer, and later by Lieutenant. Colonel
Gordon, who was doomed to be the
victim of the Mahdi, the new Chinese
leader crushed the rebellion after
tremendous struggle.
During one campaign he nearly fell
a victim to the not unjustifiable wrath
of Gordon. Incensed by the execution
of Taiping chieftains to whom he had
promised immunity, the Englishman
went out to hunt Li with a revolver,
and the frightened Chinaman barely
saved his life by hiding in a friend’s
house until his subordinate’s anger
had cooled.
When the Taiping rebellion ended
in 1865 Li Hung Chang came out of it
a provincial governor. W ith the for-
eign war in which the English and
French allies. 18.000 strong, took Pe-
kin and Tien-Tsin. and exacted large
concessions from the Chinese, in 1854,
Li Hung Chang, fortunately for him-
self, had nothing to do. From the gov-
ernorship of an outlying province Li
was promoted in 1870 to be viceroy of
the province of Pechili, in which are
situated the imperial city of Pekin and
its port. Tien-Tsin. Here, for twenty-
five years, he sat at the gates of China,
bolding back from rasb Inroads tbe
orally did all he dared Ho to introduce
modern appliances into his own prov-
ince. He became the hope of all, na-
tive and foreign, who wished to see
China take her place among the great
nations of the world.
Skilled a* a Diplomatist.
And while he managed affairs of
state he attended extraordinarily well
To his private fortunes, lie did not hes-
itate to take advantage of his posi-
tion to grow rich front the pockets of
foreigners who wanted concessions.
Today it is said that LI Hung Chang
is the wealthiest man in the world. He
owns practically all the railroad and
telegraph lines in China. After the
disastrous Chinese-Japanese war Li
conducted the negotiations for the
peace treaty with Japan, it was a
thankless task, and one almost certain
to earn the ill will of the Pekin gov-
ernment. but the aged statesman un-
it turned out afterwards. Without any
warning, it singled out his man and
killed him Instantly, and then escaped
into the jungle, without hurting any-
one else, We had an elephant out with
a party hog hunting, carrying our
things. It was seen to go off without
its mahout, but before doing so it re-
placed with its trunk some things that
had fallen off its back. What won-
derful reasoning power! Sir P. Wode-
hous had a young African elephant lie
was very fond of showing. One day
it got obstreperous, and he sent for an
old Indian elephant to keep it in or-,
der. It was most amusing to see the
way it whacked the small one with its
trunk, but the whacking had the de-
sired effect. It is a pity these saga-
cious and Interesting animals should
be so ill-treated at times, for they are
undoubtedly very vindictive, and their
memory is wonderful.—Lieutenant-
Colonel M. Fawkes, in the Spectator.
dertook it and brought all the resour-
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AN INDIAN WHO WRITES SONGS.
Special correspondence to the Inter-
Ocean: Claude Haynes, a full-blooded
Kiowa Indian, claims destinetion as the
first red man to compose and publish
the words and music of songs—and
some of them are pretty good songs,
considering the fact that the composer
is an Indian. One of these songs is
called “The Wooing of an Indian
Maiden." It tells how a white raan
succeeded in winning the heart of a
daughter of the red race, and is a
really creditable production.
When only 15 years of age Haynes
composed a song for the ghost dancers
of bis tribe. He says he went into a
trance and tbe great sprit gave him the
words.
His people said at once that he was
going to be a great prophet, but he said
that the medicine was not right for
him. They insisted and honored him
by singing the song at all their dances.
The medicine man took him out into
the mountains alone and they made re-
quests of the Great Spirit. But it was
no use. The medicine was uot right,
and Haynes turned out to be a common
clerk In a store instead of a great
prophet. He has quit making medi-
cine songs and devotes his attention
to love sonnets.
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