Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-10-18
COL. JAMES HAMILTON Lewis
At National Convention of Demo
cratic Clubs at indianapolis
MADE THE HIT OF THEM ALL
Among Such Orators 10 W. j. Bryan,
BOurke Cochran, Gov. Mcmillan and
Mayor Jones, Col. Lewis Carries or
the H0nors. The Speech In Part.

"Not alone to do, but to undo, are we
here. We are the invincible Democracy
We come at the call of the nation. We
respond to the cry of the republic. She
shrieks as she is smitten with the hand
of her own guardian. IT'S her hour of
danger, she knows her friends, she trusts
her saviors.
"There are no patriots if democrats be
not.
"No servile suppliants for official favor
are we. No dictator SWAPS his detestable
rule over us. No corporate influence COM
mands, or domination of wealth directs.
"We know no masters but the people !;
we worship no king but God. No bloated
gorgon, swollen with party dictatorship,
sits in sacred places, blinking his splenic
eyes at US as signals for our every move
ment. No debauched despot babbles
with decreptitude of ideas and senility of
principles his commands at us. Our ideas
are our property; our manhood is our
honor. All the people our children, the
free nation our sacred care. We abandon
these to no man. We surrender these to
no power and defy the insolehce of mas
ters or the arrogance of Office to take
one jot of our independence from us.
WEAKNESS OF MCKINLEY.
"Nor have we to put forth candidates
for high Office the chief of whom never
advocated policy which he would not
Immediately denounce for party advan-
tage, nor denounced principle which
he would not espouse for the enticements
of Office.
"a silver man, when silver lining was
necessary to his cloud of political despair.
A gold man, in return for the golden
promise of presidential nomination. In
the morning of the first day free trade
with the Porto Ricans was plain duty ;
in the evening of the same day he was
only playing with the Porto Ricans and
they must pay the duty. The tobacco
trust had smoked his convictions out and
the sugar trust had sweetened his sense
of duty. abandoned by promise Of liberal
campaign contributions. In the hour of
humanity forcible annexation was crimi-
nal aggression. when not popular with
the party.) Now criminally aggressive
for forcible annexation when profitable
to favor syndicates.
"a gentleman who in the commercial
sense greets his party's ever changing
policies by becoming its accommodation
indorser.
"a gentleman whose supreme public
virtues as vouchsafed by his nearest
friends are that he never disobeyed his
masters and unerringly takes his political
religion from the gospel of Mark.
PANDERING TO FANTASTIC ELEMENT.
"Now, sirs, shall we he driven to the
desperate ends of bolstering the decaying
strength of failing chieftain by pander-
ing to the fantastic element whose hollow
huzzas for what they neither understand
nor can, is the only hope of imposters in
the hour when neither reason nor justice
dare be appealed to sustain them?
1--WE can but sympathize with that
party driven to such straits as would
transform spectacular horizon into a
political magician whose appearance with
whirr of sword and ambulati0ns of a
felt hat is guaranteed to dazzle all search
ing eyes and bewilder all inquiring
minds. (Howls Of Roosevelt
DEMOCRATS STAND AS MEN.
ave have men who stand as men. Sun.
crowned men, high in the esteem of man.
kind who damned the demagogue to his
face and fight his fight for principle-for
principles sake alone. We have such
men as Schley, derided and slandered be-
cause of his politics, Disseminated against
because of nationality. Schley, without
whom there would have been no glory of
San Juan or victory at Santiago.
OPEN DOOR TO ALL.
democrats, this is the hour when we
extend open doors and outstretched
hands to all who love their country bet
ter than pelf, who hope for freedom
rather than power. TO us must come
him who would be free or be homeless.
Standing upon the platform of principles
we have enunciated, we draw about the
citizen the circle of our holy church. He
is within the temple made for freedom,
and repeats the creed written for the
salvation of his country. In love to all
we 60, in sincerity of purpose mankind
comes to us. We ask no more than that
he be true to country and just to US.
"We must reckon with the horrors OF
the situation-the darkness of the hour.
Over us hangs the cloud threatening to
break in storm which will deluge our
country in fire and blood. On the van
tage places stand those who summon up
the furies and bid them fly at the Threats
of freedom.
ECHO OF MARCHING ARMIES.
"In nation dedicated to the ways Of
peace the tramp of marching armies il
to echo through every byway: 4 people
consecrated to industry and thrift are to
be overcome by the fever Of strife and the
spirit of conquest. Their factories and
mills converted into military barracks
and their children apprenticed to death
"The constitution, SO long our chart
and guide to freedom, so long our palla-
dunn of liberty, is now Knocked at by new
raised tyrants and pledged as an asset to
the money barons Of the world. Our i'm.
perishable flag, once-and God help il
ever to be-the emblem OF Christian
country, the guaranty of peace at home
protection abroad, and the star signal Of
equality to all men, is to have its holy
purpose furled to the stock, its inspiring