The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
DEMOCRATS SCORE
THE PRESIDENT
soss
See
Conduct During the War
Criticized.
ALGER SCORCHED LIKEWISE
20. -
/. DENOUNCED IN HIS OWN HOME
60 CITY.
ALGER SC0RCHED LIKEWISE
some Pretty Serious Charges Are
:. Made by Congressman Speak
ing at the Mohawk Club
.-.s Banquet.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

DETROIT, March Colour hundred
Detroit Democrats, with a considerable
company of ladies, enjoyed the ninety
third. annual banquet of the Mohawk
Club, the leading Silver Democratic or
ganization of Michigan. The large au-
ditorFum of the Harmonic clubhouse
IN which the dinner was served, was
gay with patriotic decorations. A life
sized portrait Of Colonel William ].
Bryan was conspicuous feature. Let
ters of regret from Colonel Bryan and
. others We're read.
Hon. T. L. Tarsney. president of the
club introduced Mayor Maybury as
tCastmaster. The Mayor paid his re-
spects TO the trusts by saying that no
mob was ever so dangerous to the peO-
PIES interests as the capitalistic greed
WHICH is eliminating to-day, when
great aggregaUions of capital are seek
ing to lower cost of production, partic-
ularly at the expense of labor.
Hon. Thomas Z. Barkworth Demo-
cratic candidate for Justice of the State
Supreme Court lthe bench which is
occupied wholly by Republicans, re-
spohded to the toast "Partisanship and
the Judiciary; Are They Always Separ-
able The principal address of the
evening was the response by Congress-
man John J. Lentz Of Ohio TO the senti-
ment Reform the Trusts First, and the
FiHpinos, Afterward.'
He said: Let but one side of any case
be presented to a jury and Of course a
verdict would always be brought in &C
cordingly. So the American people are
like a jury, and if selfish and designing
men possessed OF great. wealth or po-
ltica3 power are permitted TO control
and abuse the newspapers of the coun-
Try il would be easy for them to con-
trUl and use the people of the country.
one Of the curses of the day is the fact
that q 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 refer
ence 10 the conduct Of Germany during
the war with Spain"
Mr.. LentZ told Of alleged efforts to
show anlmOSlty toward the United
States on the part OF Germany, which
he declared never existed. There was
no cause, he declared, for the apprehen-
sion felt by the people Of trouble with
s Germany. Said he: These facts could
easily have been given cut by the State
the War or Navy Department, or the
chief executive while making political
speeches in the West, the South and
New England.
why could not this administration
3 while decorating the graves of the
Southern dead for political purposes,
have also dropped in a word or two Of
explanation for patriotic purposes and
relieved the people Of thoughts of new
graves and all the horrors of war with
Germany? For that would not have
been a war with Spain.
. The contrast between Abraham Lin
coin and William Mckinley grows
T. wider and wider every day. 1t was
Lincoln who could say, Let US have
but one war at time It was McKin-
ley who could remain impOtent and ST
lent throughout this campaign of false
hood and malice against Germany.
1T has been the trick of European
p6Wers to get into war with. each other
" whenever the masses of the people De
gan to consider and discuss the rigals
of man And SC, 1 fear, in this Coun-
. try thGse Who dictate the policy of this
administration became 50 thoroughly
alarmed at the awakening which took
place in 1896 that they have sought
refuge temporarily from their impend-
ing fate by hiding their greedy Pur-
poses behind war clouds. We shall have
more than enough TO do if We turn Our
Calling guns on the public enemies at
home
MI LentZ denounced what he called
the ''whitewash' of Secretary Alger,
and said:
again Corbin and Sampson, who
were never near q fight are promoted
and rewarded. Schley and Miles. " no
whipped the Spaniards at every turn
in the lane without sacrificing our own
soldiers, are diScredlted and slanGered.
Is this war or is this politics? Is tins
SPANS sense Of justice or is this
Americas national honor" Let the
memories of jackson and Lee, Of Grant
and Sherman answer.