Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-14
A MEMORABLE EVENT. Thomas Jefferson'S Birthday Appropriately
 Celebrated BY THE WILLIAM J. BRYAN CLUB.

ana, Missouri, Texas and Nebraska and classified them according to the census. The very figures were proof positive of the grossest fraud, yet the republican party was the first to cry fraud. Speaking upon the principles of the party he said: We admit the right of every man to chooze his party and reli- zion, but we deny his right to wear the | livery and repudiate the doctrine We deny the right to take part in the nomi- nations and oppose the candidates
 Tn closing, the governor, in a burst of e.oquence, exclaimed:
 The tablets handed down from the Sinai of democracy never had an Aaron furnished by the party to destroy them and erect in their place golden calf. The party has survived the great cuckoo pres ident matched out from republican egg laid in democratic nest"
 Hon. D. A. Green-"Our Guea.s''
 Hon. D. A. Green in a few we'll chosen remarks welcomed the guests of the Bry- an club.
 Hon. W. J. Bullock--"The Fountain of True Democracy"
 To this toast the speaker responded in splendid oratorical effort. H. refer red to the great growth of our country far-reaching from the lakes to the gulf; from the Atlantic to the Pacific and it's untold millions of wealth. Its curss, he said, was the vast number of national banks representing $700. GOO, 900 of capital
 
 These gigantic institutions work in con cert and harmony. These were the Baal which Cleveland and Carlisle bow ed down to and worshipped. It was be- for= this stupendous mass of wealth that the matchlsss Bryan with his unsullied banner of free coinage went down in de- feat.
 Jefferson was defeated in 1796, but in 1900 he was triumphantly elected. Jack son was defeated in 1924 but won a sig 1a1 yfxaAN OnD of destiny already points with unerring certainty to that peerless orator. match less statesman and stainless patriot, William Jennings Bryan, as winner in 1900.
 Hon. c. A. Mountjoy-"Achieveme of Jefferson.
 The most brilliant oratorical treat of the evening, and one listened to with most marked attention was that of Hon. c. A. Mountjoy. Loud was his eloquent praise of the patriot statesman whose birthday was then being celebrated. He said he had &ha honor of being native of the state which gave birth to the be- loved Jefferson, state which was the home of heroes and statesman He was graduate of th- University of Virginia,
 l wish to speak of the man, he said. He drafted and signed the declaration of independence It overthrow the idol O. foreign lands and declared America was land whose government was of, for and by the people. Thomas Jefferson founded the democratic rarty. At no tinDs, as Gov. Johnston stated, has the democratic party lost it's strength, and at no time was its strength more grandly portrayed than at the close of the war. Like the lion, it shook the dew of morn from its mane and planted itself firmly for the preservation of the constitution. The democratic party has been the champion of the people.
 I had rather be citizen of the United States and live in foreign lands under a republican administration than be a for eigner and live in America with my own party in power
 Thomas Jefferson inspired the consttu- ton of the United States. What greater achievement could a man desire?
 Hon, W. J. Boykin-"Return of Our Party to the Principles of Jefferson"
 We all have weaknesses, MT. Boykn said, for new things. We will even want new wives, some of us, but when it comes to our politics and religion we don't want so many changes. He referred to the policy of the Ocala platform and that of Omaha, and yet, he said these men claim to be descendants of Jefferson and ad- herents to his principles.
 I like the name of your club and the principles it enunciates History teaches us we can never accomplish anything except by concerted action. Do you doubt 1t? Look at Napoleon, who with his combined armies shook the whole of Europe. Look again and see him on the isle of St. Helena.
 MT. Chairman, the English gold stand ard, monopolies and trusts have come into our fair land-the land of the free and home of the brave and is sapping its very life blood and reducing our homes to penury and want Oh! for Napo- leon to banish them from our shores to another St. Helena. Thank God we have one-William Jennings Bryan. If the liberty-loving people of America will stand by him and hold up his hands as he stands on the Chicago platform we can make him strong enough to do so. Are you democrats? If so you need no in vitation. Let me ask you not to be dumb driven animals, but follow in the lines of the great democratic party and when you do so William Jennings Bryan will have been elected president; the principles of the Chicago platform will have been enacted into law and then and not until then can we say the party has been in ducted into power.
 Ton. w. c. Garrett-"The Principles of D amocracy-the Doctrine of Jefferson.'
 w. J. Garrett responding to the above toast. He said more than hundred years of practical application attested the virtue of the doctrines of Jefferson. He characterized them as the bulwarks of constitutional liberty. That the last grand national plebescile more than G. 100000 American patriots sealed their de- Vot1on by supporting the platform and candidates of the democratic party.
 ''The briefest statement of the prinoi- pies of democratic doctrines of Jefferson, found expression on Sinai's brow"
 Referring to the last national demo- cratic platform Mr. Garrett declared it a most magnificent document-"an ann pl flea tion and aggressive assertion of the inherent and unadulterated truths of democracy" and that it would have re- ceived the unqualified indorsement of Jefferson and Jackson and all other true and loyal democrats, as 1t met the ap- proval and indorsement of Bryan and Joseph F. Johnston, Morgan, Pugh and a host of other fllustrious democrats
 MT. Garrett closed his speech with the following eloquentsappeaI M
 We do well tonight to renew our party VOWS and bow reyerent heads at the shrine of Montecello; and in doing so, we pay homage to two other gerat leaders, whose names will be forever inseparably