Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07
FREESILVERB
DETROIT DEMOCRATS HAVE A
FEAST OF REASON.
Congressman Lentz, the Principal Speaker. and
He Draws Gloomy Picture Of the Corrup.
ton Of the Money Power Of the Country.

Congressman lentz, the Principal Speaker, and
He Draws a Gloomy Picture of the Corrup.
ton Of the Money Power Of the Country.
In Detroit, Mich, on the 3Oth ult.,
four hundred Democrats, with con-
siderable company of ladies, enjoyed
the third annual banquet of the Mo-
hawk Club. the leading Silver Demo-
cratic organization of Michigan. The
large auditorium of the Harmonic
clubhouse, in which the dinner was
served, was gay with patriotic decora-
tiOns. A life.sized portrait of Col.
William Bryan was conspicuous fea.
ture. Letters of regret from Col.
Bryan and others we're read.
Hon. Z. E. Tarsney, president OF the
club, introduced Mayor Maybury as
toast-master.
The Mayor paid his respects to the
trusts by saying that no mob was ever
so dangerous to the peoples interests
as the capitalistic greed which is cul-
minating to-day when great aggrega-
tions of capital are seeking to lower
the cost of production, particularly at
the expense of labor.
Hon. Thomas E. Barkworth, Demo.
cratic candidate for justice of the
State Supreme Court, (the bench
which is occupied wholly by Republi-
cans), responded to the toast "Parti-
sanship and the Judiciary Are They
Always Separable?"
The principal address Of the evening
was the response by Congressman
John j. Lentz, of Ohio, to the senti-
ment "Reform the Trusts First and
the Filipinos Afterward." He said:
Let but one side of any case be
presented to q jury and of course q
verdict will always be brought in ac-
cordingly. So the American. people
are like jury, and if selfish and de-
signing men possessed of great wealth
or political power are permitted to
control and abuse the newspapers OF
the country it will be easy for them
to control and use the people of the
country. One of the curses of the
day is the fact that newspaper lie
will travel around the earth while
Truth is putting on her boots. There
is no better illustration of this than
the floods of lies with reference to the
conduct of Germany during the war
with Spain"
Mr.. Lentz told of alleged efforts to
show animosity toward the United
States ON the part of Germany which
he declared never existed.
There was no cause, he declared,
for the apprehension felt by the peo-
pie of trouble with Germany. Said
he:
"These facts could easily have been
given out by the State, the war or
navy department, or the chief execu-
tive while making political speeches
in the West, the South and New Eng
land.
Why could not this administra.
ton, while decorating the graves of
the Southern dead for political pur-
poses. have also dropped in word or
two of explanation for patriotic pur-
poses and relieved the people of
thoughts of new graves and all the
horrors of war with Germany? For
that would not have been q war with
Spain.
"The contrast between Abraham
Lincoln and William Mckinley grows
wider and wider every day. 1t was
Lincoln who could say:
LET us have but one war ut q
time 1t was William Mckinley who
could remain impotent and silent
throughout this campaign of falsehood
and malice against Germany.
"It has been the trick of European
powers to get into war with each
other whenever the masses of the peo-
pie begin to consider and discuss the
rights of men, and so fear in this
country those who dictate the policy
of this administration became so
thoroughly alarmed at the awakening
which took place in 1896 that they
have sought refuge temporarily from
their impending fate by hiding their
greedy purposes behind war clouds.
We shall have more than enough to
do if we turn our Gatling guns on the
public enemies at home"
Mr.. Lentz denounced what he
called the whitewash" OF Secretary
Alger, and said: "Eagan, Corbin
and Sampson, who were never near s
fight, are promoted and rewarded
Schley and Miles, who whipped the
Spaniards ut every turn in the lane
without sacrificing our own soldiers
are discredited and slandered. Is this
war or is this politics? Is this Spain''
sense of justice or is this America
national honor?' Let the memorie!
of Jackson and Lee, OF Grant ant
Sherman, answer"
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