The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-08
Banquet of Young Mems Democratic
Club at Columbus.
WAS A DOLLAR DINNER
SILVER MUST BE ISSUE IN NEXT
CAMPAIGN.
Judge Tarvin Insists That There
Must Be No DECKER or Trade for
the Purpose of Securing the Vote
of New York State-Mr. Bryan
Speaks of Trusts.

Columbus, o., July 7--About 1000
people attended the dollar dinner given
by the Young Mems Democratic club
of Columbus in the auditorium tonight
1t was the largest banquet which the
local Democracy has had since that
given in honor of the seventy-seventh
birthday of the late Judge Allen c.
Thurman, in the same hall ten years
ago. The affair was strictly Demo-
cratic in its simplici.--- all classes be-
ing represented. There were also large
number of ladies in the assemblaSe.
The chief guest was Colonel William
Jennings Bryan, at the table with
whom were also seated the Hon. c. II.
Callahan and George Fred Williams of
Massachusetts,; Judge Tarvin, Ken
lucky; the Hon. Allen w. Thurman of
Columbus, the POSTMASTER, and num-
Der of others prominent in state poll
tics. The entrance of Colonel Bryan
was greeted by an outburst of ap-
plause, which lasted until after he had
become seated.
Judge Tarvin, president of the League
of Bimetallic Clubs of Ohio Valley. re-
sponded to the toast Party and Prin-
ciple." In q vitrolic speech he de-
nOunced the attempts being made TO
relegate the silver question to the rear.
He insisted that the issue must be made
as prominent in 1900 as il was in the
Chicago platform. The party must not
tolerate any dicker or trade for the
purpose of obtaining the vote of New
York. He declared that the men in con-
troll of the Democratic organization in
New York City were VIGOROUSLY out of
sympathy with the Chicago platform,
and said it was known to all men that
the organized wealth of the country
owned the New York City organization
body and soul. He denounced the EFF
forts now being made by the organized
wealth of the country in New York,
in Chicago, in Indianapolis, to destroy
the force and power of the Democratic
party by mutilating the Chicago plat
form of 1885,
Speech of Colonel Bryan.
When Colonel Bryan was introduced
there was another outburSt of applause
that continued for several minutes
When quiet had been restored he
launched upon a discussion of the is
sues of the day in response to the toast
Democracy
Colonel Bryan insisted that there
must be no retreat from the position
taken in 1896 He spoke also of the
trust question, declaring that the trusts
must be taken in hand by the federal
government ana recalled a recent state
ment of Attorney General Griggs TO the
effect that If anything is done to con-
troll the trusts, it must be done by the
states
Colonel Bryan maintained that the
president, through his attorney general,
could enforce the law now in existence,
but he declared that the Republican
party had mortgaged itself 10 the trusts
to obtain money To carry on the last
election and said when the methods en-
ployed in that election were under
stood mo one can wonder that the
general is undisturbed by the |
of stock, the discharge of |
men and the eXtortion prac-
ticed on the consumer"
Mr.. Bryan deplored the taking of life |
in the Philippines and insisted that the !
people of those islands should be given /
the same freedom as had been promised |
TO the Cubans.
The last speaker was George Fred |
Williams. his toast being THE Eastern |
Democrats"
The boom for the Hon. George Fred |
Williams of Massachusetts as a can
iidate for vice president in 1900. /
aunched by c. T. Callahan in his |
speech created stir among the Ohio
who have been hoping that
his honor would be landed by Ohio.