Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-31
WOLVERINE DEMOCRATS EAT
Many Speakers Flny Alive Capitnlis-
tic Greed and the Administrn-
tons War Policy.

DETROIT, March 30-Four hundred De-
troit democrats, with a considerable COM
pany Of ladies, enjoyed tonight the third an
nual banquet of the Mohawk club, the lead
ing silver democratic organization of Michi-
gan.
The large auditorium of the Harmonic
club house, in which the dinner was served.
was gay with patriotic decorations. Let
ters of regret from Bryan and others were
read, with telegram from Congressman j.
Hamilton Lewis of Washington, who was to
have been one of the speakers. He stated
that he had just returned to Washington,
d. c., from Cuba, and was i'll with jungle
fever.
Hon. T. E. Tarsney, president of the club,
introduced Mayor Maybury as postmaster.
In his opening remarks the mayor paid his
respects to the trusts by saying that no mob
was ever so dangerous to the peoples In
forests as the capitalistic greed which is
eliminating today, when great aggregations
Of capital are seeking to lower cost of pro-
duction, particularly at the expense of labor.
The mayor predicted that the time is COM
ing when the advantages being taken for the
enrichment of the few will be turned to the
benefit Of the many.
Hon. Thomas e. Barkworth, democratic
(the bench which is occupied wholly by re-
publicans), responded to the toast, "PartI-
sansIhip and the Judiciary; Are They Always
Separable?"
Mr.. Barkworth said that real partisanship
was an accompaniment of freedom and does
not exist in an autocracy. The contest of
ideas is fruitful of progress; minorities are
not merely protests, but active factors in
the control of affairs. Entire separation of
the judiciary from the plane of partisan
conflict Is neither possible nor desirable.
Partsanship ia as commendable in judge
as in a citizen, but some manifestations of
its power are reprehensible both in home
and forum. A tolerant partisan is not in
danger of denying to Others what he claims
for himself But intolerance is always and
everywhere a menace to liberty. The cor
nerstone OF democracy is none too secure,
The old time prejudice against manhood
suffrage is now wholly destroyed.
There is no trend of popular thought
away from self government. Only those in
hated with privileges improvidently granted
are restiye under its restrictions. By all de-
vices known to INSCRIPTIONS schemers they
lull into fancied security those waom they
would enslave. Courts are not deaf to their
pleadings and these insdious advances are
encouraged by their mandates. The
best approximation to an bipartisan court
is a bipartisan one. If some practicable plan
could be devised to procure its permanent
adoption in every court OF last resort greater
respect would be paid to their decisions. The
outlook is portentous; only the privileged to
face the future with concern. If a safe
haven is reached it will not be through
partisan actions of an intelligent people.
The principal address OF the evening was
the response by Congressman John j. Lentz
of Ohio to the sentiment, Reform and
Trusts First, and the Filipinos Afterward" ="
Other responses were those to american
Liberty" by Charles 5. Hampton, secretary
of the democratic state committee, and The
Enthronement OF the Trust" by Stanley e,
Parkill, candidate for regent of Michigan
university