The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-31
Forces That Control the Mckinley
Administration.
EXPOSED BY DEMOCRATS
WARM SPEECHES AT THE DE-
TRoIT BANQUET.
Congressman Lentz Denounces the
Trickery of the Mckinley Crowd
Raising War Clouds to Conceal
Their Greedy Purposes-McKinley
the Tool of the Goldbugs.

Detroit, Mich, March Colour hun
dred Detroit Democrats. with a con-
siderable company of ladies, enjoyed
tonight the third annual banquet of the
Mohawk club, the leading silver Dem
ocratic organization of Michigan. The
large auditorium of the Harmonic club
house, in which the dinner was served,
was gay with patriotic decorations. A
life-siZed portrait of Colonel William j.
Bryan was a conspicuous feature. Let
tiers Of regret from Colonel Bryan and
others were read.
Hon. T. e. Tarsney. president Of the
club, introduced Mayor Maybury as
. POSTMASTER.
The mayor paid his respects to the
. trusts by saying that no mob was ever
so dangerous TO the peoples interests
as the caDitaiistic greed which is Gull
minating today, when great aggrega-
tions Of capital are seeking to lower the
cost of production, particularly at the
expense of labor.
Hon. Thomas L. Barkworth, Demo-
cratic candidate for Justice of the state
supreme court Cthe bench which is
occupied wholly by Reoublicans)
RESPONDED to the toast, "Partisanship
and the judiciary; are they always
SeDara BILE
Inc AI1IGIldi dQUH6SS VI lllC CA tlilAL5
was the response by Congressman John
j. Lentz of Ohio, to the sentiment, Re
form and trusts first, and the FilipinOS
afterWard."
He said: Let but one side of any
case be presented to a jury, and Of
course a. verdict Will always be brought
in accordingly. so the American peo-
Die are like jury, and If selfish and
designing men possessed of Sreat
wealth or political power are per-
mitted to control and use the news
papers Of the country, il viii be easy
FOR them to control and use the people
of the country One of the curses OF the
day-is the fact that a newspaper lie will
travel arund 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 con-
duct Of Germany during the war with
Spain.''
GERMAN WAR SCARE.
Mr. Lentz told of alleged efforts to
show animosity toward the Uuited
states on the part of Germany, which
he declared never existed. There was
10 cause, he declared, for the appre-
tension felt by the people 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 executive
While making political speeches in the
west, the south and New England.
why could not this administration,
While decorating the graves of the
southern dead for political purposes,
have also dropped in a word or two
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
wider and wider every day. 1t was
Lincoln who could say:
Let US have but one war at a
time 1t was William Mckinley who
could remain impotent and silent
throughout this campaign Of a false
hood and malice against Germany.
1t has been the trick of European
powers to get into war with each other
whenever the masses of the people be-
gan 10 consider and discuss the Rights
Of man. And so 1 fear in this country
those who dictate the policy of this ad-
ministration became so 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-
noses behind war clouds. We shall
have more than enough TO do if we turn
our gatling guns or the public enemies
at home.
Mr.. Lentz denounced what he called
the 'whitewash" of Secretary Alger, !
and said:
'Eagan, Corbin and Sampson, who
We're never near a fight, are promoted
and rewarded. Schley and Miles. who
whipped the Spaniards at every turn
in the lane without sacrificing our own
Soldiers are discredited and slandered |
Is this war or is this politics2 Is this
SPANS sense of justice, or is this |
Americas national honor? Let the |
memories Of Jackson and La, of Grant !
ana sherman answer