Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-06-03
Hon. Matt O'DOherty's Able
and Eloquent Response to
That Toast.
A Gathering of Notable Men
Addressed by w. j. Bryan
and Others.
JUDGE TONEY'S HAPPY REMARKS

The Gait House was the scene We'd
nesday night of a gathering of the Ohio
Valley Bimetallic Convention, held in
honor of William Jennings Bryan and
Judge Tarvin, the President of the State
Silver League. Over three hundred
guests were present at the banquet.
While the banquet was being served Mr..
T. NJ. Gilmore, the POSTMASTER, intro
duced the speakers of the evening.
Judge Tarvin, the President of the
League, in a short address thanked the
Young Mems Democratic Club for what
they had done in honor of him.
Judge Tarvin was followed by the Hon.
William ]. Bryan. In a speech replete
with oratory and facts, among other
things he said that the Chicago plat
form was not written for one campaign,
and although the Democratic party was
defeated in the last contest, the principles
for which it contended were bound to
triumph.
Bryan's speech was received with tre-
mendous enthusiasm.
After Mr.. Bryan concluded his speech
he Immediately took the train for Mann
moth Cave.
He was followed by Hon. c. X.
Wheeler, who spoke on the American
Army and Navy. He said that while
Dewey was accorded all honor for his
achievements in the Orient, Schley was
also one of the heroes of the late war,
and while Shafter was the ranking
Major General in Cuba, everyone knows
that Joe Wheeler was the brains and the
action of the glorious campaign in that
island.
Judge 1oney then followed in one of
those neatly turned speeches for which
the Judge is famous. His subject was
"The Uncrowned Queens of America
He spoke of all the famous women of
history-of their deeds for the elevation
of the human race, and especially of the
mothers who gave up their sons to fight
for their country in the recent war with
Spain.
Mr.. David R. Murray then spoke on
the subject, 1--WE should not keep the
Philippines" Suffice to say that Mr..
Murray handled the jingoes without
gloves. He said that from the way
events are moving now our Chief
Executive would be known as the
President of the United States and the
Emperor of all the Philippines.
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld spoke
for about half an hour on Government
and Municipal Ownership of Public
Franchises" He handled the subject in
a masterful manner. During his speech
he was frequently cheered, and when he
took his seat he was warmly applauded.
George Fred Williams spoke of "The
Money of the Constitution" Hon Matt
O'Doherty took for his subject, "Peace
and Commerce with all Nations; En-
tangling Alliances with None" He
said:
Mr. Chairman: The sentiment con-
tanned in the toast just proposed is one
that should be dear to the heart of every
American citizen. The lesson it teaches
comes to us from the hsllowed lips of the
fathers and founders of our republic and
almost in their exact words. 1t embodies
the wisdom of every great American
statesman from Washington to Lincoln,
from Lincoln to Blaine, and from Blaine
to Bryan. 1t is as distinctively American
as is the great fundamental truth which
we have adopted as our own that govern
ments derive all their just powers from
the consent of the governed. Yet am
aware that the sentiment proposed, wise
as we believe it and American as we
know it to be, must by its very terms
give offense to that loud-mouthed faction
of degenerate Americans whose theories
of government, or rather of misgovern
ment, it implicitly if not explicitly con
dennis.
In their eyes, and tested by the stand
ards which they have erected, the toas
to which am to respond, "Peace with
all nations and entangling alliance will
none" falls only a shade or two short o
being rankest treason, and as for tha
other great American document already
named, of which the sentiment proposed
is but necessary compliment, that gov
ernments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed, we are
assured by them that it is an exploded
: theory which we have outlived; that W,
have passed by rapid graduation, by sor
of inverted evolution, from government
e by consent to government by injunction
and from government by injunction tc
government by the sword.
have spoken of these men as degen
crate Americans. If they are Americans
: at all, it is by the accident of birth only
This faction, for despite their clamo