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Title: History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Raum, Green B. (Green Berry), 1829-1909
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S.)
Publisher: Chicago, Rollins Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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agreat personal triumph of Mr. Masons and demonstrated the fact that he hada strong hold upon the people. Senator Mason took his seat in the LnitedStates Senate. March 4. 1897: his term of service will expire March 3. 1903. Soonafter Senator Mason took his seat in the Senate he made a determined attackon an old rule of the Senate, which enables a minority, by continued discussionand objections, to so obstruct business that no measure can be brought to avote except practically by unanimous consent. Mr. Mason insisted, and as thepublic believed rightfully insisted, that that rule should be changed so that amajority could control the business and bring the Senate to a vote upon anyion on a certain day and hour, as is done in the House of Representatives. Mr. Mason was earnestly in favor of declaring and prosecuting a war againstSpain for the liberation of Cuba, but he was unalterably opposed to the policyoi the National administration for the acquisition of the Philippine Islands by 276
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CyO^&yUAj^d^r^L 277 the government, and by military array overcoming the resistance offered by theFilipinos against the authority of the United States. The Senator insisted thatthese people were fighting for independence, that they were justly entitled to it,and that it was inconsistent with our Declaration of Independence, and our sys-tem of government to subject them to the authority of the United States with-out their consent. In the war in South Africa between Great Britain and theBoer Republics, Senator Mason has been outspoken in his sympathy for theBoers; he has made a number of public speeches upon this subject, and haseloquently plead the cause of the South African Republics. In 1873 William E. Mason was married to Edith J. White, daughter ofGeorge White, a prominent citizen of Des Moines, Iowa. They have a largeand interesting family of children. WILLIAM A. RODENBERG. This gentleman, though comparatively young, is one of the most prominentRepublicans, as well as one of t

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