Evening star., 1896-09-23
ATTACKED THE PRESIDENT.
DR.. Allen Also Pays HIS Respects to
Senator Hill.

DR.. Allen Also Pays His Respects to
Senator Hill.
The regular meeting Of the Jackson DEM
ocratic Association at Myers Hotel last
evening was rather sfimly attended. and
those present explained that 1t was due to
the fact that the meeting had not been
fully advertised. So a motion to hereafter
advertise the meeting in the daily papers
was adopted. President James L. Norris
was absent in New York in connection with
business Of the national democratic COM
mfttee. and Vice President James w. Bar
ker presided. Little or no business was
transacted. and after a motion to meet next
Saturday evening was adopted the rest of
the evening was devoted to short addresses
by ex-Congressman Brookshire of Indiana
and DR.. Charles Allen, a member of the
association.
Mr.. Brookshire. among other things, said
that the democrats believed in home rule.
and he predicted that when Mr.. Bryan is
elected the people of the District will en-
Joy home rule for the first time. He thought
the Jackson Association should take the
greatest interest In the present campaign,
so that its members might, when Mr.. Bryan
is elected. advise him as to his selection Of
District officials. Speaking of free silver,
he said that in Mexico. a free silver coun-
try, wages are not only as high as they are
here, but no one who really desires employ
ment need go without 1t. The people Of
this country who believe in and are fight
ing for free silver. he said, are contending
Tor great principle, and to apply the term
OF anarchy to them would be to make that
designation a most honorable one. He
compared Mr.. Bryan with David, and pre-
dicted that he would. like the biblical hero
carry the head Of the gold money lender
into his camp.
DR.. Allen said to him belongs the honor
of making the first speech for free silver in
the District, making it, he explained when
Grover Cleveland had debauched Congress
n he
ing 1t to defeat the Presidents fiendish
purpose. He also referred to the home rule
plank of the Chicago convention, compar-
ing the declarations of Mr.. Bryan in rela-
ton to home rule with the acts of Mr.
Cleveland, who. he said, brought colored
man here from Massachusetts to fill the
best office in the District, and. when he
failed OF confirmation. brought another
quired DR.. Allen. mo. no. he exclaimed
for 1t YVES the act Of a so-called New
York democrat, and in that state. you
know. political honesty in either party is
unknown. Take Hill. for instance, a man
whom l regard as the greatest political
thug that ever lived, and one who is a
traitor to his party. l hope 10 soon see the
day when such beirgs as he and the pres
ent occupant Of the White House will De
forever destroyed. Do not place any faith
in New York. for Mr.. Bryan Will no more
carry that state than he will Maine. and
Hill. Whitney and Flower and men of
tnelr klHQ Will 90 all In their power 10
appreciate the money of New England.
New York and depreciate that of the rest
of the country. Men like them have no
more democratic principles than the man
now in the White House, and God knows
he never had any and never will. He was
nominated by Wall street gold, elected by II
and has always been controlled by it."
In conclusion DR.. Allen charged that the
expenses of the labor delegations visiting
Mr.. Mckinley are paid by their employers,
and he contended that while the laboring
people are now being intimidated, he pre-
dicted that on election day they will, un-
der the cover of the Australian ballot sys-
tenn, quietly cast their votes for Mr.. Bry-
an, and will elect him.