The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-28
LOCAL DEMOCRATS MEET
Organization of a Club fer Cam
p paign Work.
Vigorous Resolutions Adopted-Mem-
bers Pledge Themselves to Labor
for the Election of Bryan and
Stevenson The Candidates Conn
mended for Truth and Justice.

The District of Columbia Democratic AS
sociation was organized for the campaign
of 1900 last night at 9O4 Pennsylvania Ave
nue. The officers elected were. Edwin y
Newman, President; Robert E. Mattingiy
Secretary; James B. Finch, Assistant Sec
retary; Herman ]. Sehulteis, Treasurer,
and J. ]. Garvey, Sergeant alarms.
Mr.. Newman said:
Brother Democrats: Another national
campaign is at hand, and We assemble tc
perfect our organization and take up The
work commenced in 1895. This is the work
ing Democratic organization OF the Dis
trict Of Columbia. Its work in 1886 was
more extensive and more effective than
that of all other Democratic associations
in the District of Columbia, or of any or
ganization in the State of Maryland. II
is not as generally understood a Maryland
organization. While the association has
been known as the Lakeland Democratic
Association, It being a branch Of the club
formed at Lakeland, Md, July %, 1895,
yet the District of Columbia branch was
in reality the working head and centre OF
activity OF what was then and is now
sociation.
In 1885 We he'd meetings every night
in our large and beautifully decorated hall
at 931 Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, at
which large audiences of the voters from
Maryland, Virginia. and the District of
Columbia were entertained by speakers OF
national reputation and in that year cur
association swung across Pennsylvania
y
the most beautiful banner that has evel
been displayed in the District of Colum-
bia. and ours was the only District asso-
citation that displayed a banner in that
year.
This association organized more than
one hundred and fifty clubs and meetings,
distributed literature and campaign but
tons, and carried speakers throughout the
State OF Maryland. The association ia
proud of its record Of four years ago, and
intends to make a still better record in
the present campaign. We expect to lead
all other organizations in the fight for tho
rights of the people and against the en-
croachments OF organized greed, and 10
battle in every honorable way TO save the
Republic and TO drive from power forever
the party that is solicitous only for the
welfare of organized wealth. trusts, and
monopolies, and is seeking to change the
ing the Republic into an empire
''Inssmueh as il is our purpose to carry
on a campaign On 4 large scale, it is well
that the public should not be misled by
the name. In fact, the organization being
distinctly a District of Columbia organiza-
tion, It ought no longer TO be known
as a branch Of a Maryland orgs1iza-
tion, therefore l would suggest that We
drop the word Lakeland and insert in lieu
1F "a. hot
hereafter the organization will be known
as the District OF Columbia Democratic As
sociation, as the term Lakeland was some
what misleading.
while our tone is in this beautiful
city. the capital of the nation. and tbs
fact that We cannot individually exercise
the elective franchise, it is our intention
TO extend cur work in neighboring States
TO promote the holding CT large number
of meetings in Maryland. West Nir-
ginie and Delaware, and TO send litera-
ture into every part of the UEion."
4 constitution and bylaws were adopted
and various committees appointed. The
following resolutions were adopted:
The recurrence Of another Presidential cleo
ton renders il Necessary that the people Of tia
United States. snartinE under the humiliation
ana d'sglgce inflicted upon them by the present
iInbecile and dishonest Administration, should
unite, give voice 10 their opinions, and o.
laHize for vigorous ard effective campaign that
will result in the restoration oi the rule oi
JeffeTsonian Democracy. Therefore. be it
Resolvsd, by the District Of Columbia Demo
cratic Association. tha1 pledge ourselves, IN
diyidually and collectively, 10 use every hon
orahle effort first 10 secure the selection OF
candidates ior all Offices who are fit opponents oi
the principles Of JeiieTsonisn Democracy, anu
secord, TO work untiTingly until the going dow
Of the sun on election day for the election ol
such candidates.
Be it further resolved, First. that we ple,lge
our every effort to the election to the Prcsi-
dency and Vice Presidency Of William J. BIydn
and Adlai I. Stevenson, respectively, the cand:-
GATES Of the people great and complete men
who stand Tor truth and justice, and the in
slieEable rights OF mankind life, hb5rty, ard
the pursuit Of happiness.
Second. that governments are instituted am0nc
men 10 secure these rights and derive their Just
powers from the consent Of the governed and
that government by, Of and for the people mag
not perish and be supplanted by one o. indus
trial despotism, piutoeracy, crown colonies I'M
perialism, and military rule We hereby de-
nounee the policy Of Hanna Mckinley. and Their
subalterns 10 subvert the Declaration of Inde-
pendenee and the Constitution and appeal to
American voters TO hurl them from power by
their ballots in November next
Third. that We believe Of the greatest
dangers confronting the common people OF our
land is the tendency toward plutocracy ant
aristocraey, and oppose the concentration Oh
wealth in the hands Of the few We oppos,
legislation in favor OF the classes and destructive
OF the Interests OF the TnaSses- and urge upDt
our great leader the appointment Of an At
torney General who will leave no step untakcr
to crush the multitude OF greedy and graspins
trusts that the Mckinley Administration and
the Dfngley tariff bill have created in the three
years past.
Fourth. that we believe in the money Of the
Constitution-silyer and gold-snd we believe
that the eighty millions Of people con
stituting the population of the United Sta;oi
are rs fully able to throw of this fall th'
monetary supremacy Of England, the domination
Of national banks of issue, and the burden q
the gold standard as the three million in
habitsuts OF the colonies to throw Of its po
hticzl supremacy in l776, and we therefore iayo
the free coinage Of both silver and gold at tht
ratio Of 10 to ] without waiting for the con
sent Of any other nation on earth, fully be
leving in the power OF this ration 10 re-estab
iish and maintain the parity between the tgG
metals.
Fifth, VIC believe that the platforms adopted al
Chicago in 1886 and at Kansas City this yesi
are the truest expositions Of Jefersonian Demoe
racy applicable to the present time and condi
tions, and would be endorsed by the author
were he living, of the immortal Declaration c
Independence as 4 new declaration against th'
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