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Our accusation against President McKinley is this: He turned away from the history of America, he disdained our traditions, and he reversed the policy of a century.
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Boutwell accuses President McKinley of abandoning American traditions and reversing a century of policy.
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Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.
You are called to a choice between the doctrines of Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln on one side and the doctrines and policy of President McKinley and his supporters on the other side.
President McKinley and his supporters demand subserviency of all who are not within the lines of the American seas.
They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.
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