New-York tribune., 1900-04-10
DEMOCRACY AND TIE DECLARATION.
PRETENsIoNs OF THE PEERLESS LEADER OF
MODERN DEMOCRACY PUNCTURED BY A
NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN.

NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN.
Chicago April s-The tenth annual banquet Of
the Hamilton Club. which was held tonight at the
Auditorium Hotel. was a brilliant success. over
three hundred members and guests being present
All former benquets of the club, which is political
organization, have been of social nature, but
this being a Presidential year it determined
TO make to-night's banquet an exception. and the
addresses all of political nature George
W. Miller POSTMASTER and the toasts ana
speakers as follows: "Our Policy in the Far
East" Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Of Massa-
chusetts; The Quadrennial Search for an Issue,
Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw of Iowa; "A Great Con-
gressional Prerogative as Recently Exemplihed.
Congressman Robert W. Tayler, of Ohio; The Ma
tional Spirit in the South" Congressman r. b.
Hawey. of Texas: Democracy and the Deeiara-
ton William F. Gurley. of Nebraska. Mr.. Cur
ley said in part:
am aware that there is an apparent insopsiss hs,
party and the Of 70 Ipde D1e
prietorshp IN this instrument, so far as l can
r9 @ c a Written BY
crat. II / read history Alright. the Democrats
the Of that the the He He
brew race b has to the d m oY eg91 ane
tian who ever lived lew.
hybrid organization hourishes on famine prospers
on panics and breeds by virtue OF bankruptcy Is
can party places the dollar above the man. when.
sought to discount the Declaration in the interest
of the dollar The Republic grew and waxed strong,
time the Nation knew that it had conscience.
Until then the great truths of our cnarter or re-
practical Democratic demonstration II required
a Republican party, Republican principles and Re-
the teachings Of the Declaration. deduce the les
of this great political parable 70 peTsonty
those splendid epgrams of liberty without limta-
9 ehe5 Is as fG Gr @ riot 1t is the recs
less radicalism of the twentieth century Demos
BILE theories of government in the blatant palaver
9stroosers of old seeks to interpret signs and
omens through the medium of a selfish ambition
torian of the future will record with i'll concealed
surprise, the hypnotic power OF TINS poy orator orator;
this % Victim of vocabulary who never hickers
in his fiueney. yet whose smooth sentences wouia
thought.
The Republican party is arraigned because it pro
supplant tyranny and oppression and internecine
struggle BY order 96 and nd sa and sr S
Democrats, tree silver Republicans. Populists and
Tagals marshaed under the leadership OF Wniam
under the title of Defenders of the Declaration
pine problem is ir,evocably bound to the eternal
principles of justice by more than forty years or
gioo9s Sa epty phrases bV which political
conjurers and mountebanks seek to deceive ana
1t is favorite occupation of the Democratic
party-attempting to turn back the dial Of history
cratic general upon platform declaring the Civil
War failure, They propose to try II again in
platform declaring the Spanish American War a
failure. The result will be the same The spanish
great crusades of freedom Our flag files in the sky
OF the Orient as the haroinger OF the dawn. The
of the archipelago, but the spirit Of freedom has
It's home In the 6 bepH n aeve the sand
I1uZon.