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FOR THE OLD DEMOCRACY
A GAEL SOUNDED At BROOKLYN
CLUBS DINNER.

A Letter from Grover rClcvcl0nd-Prip. .
ciples Should Not be subordinated "a
Party Control-Hon. James Z. Camp.
bell Declares Against AGiIiation with
| PopuIists-SiIver Issue Dead-Life OF
Death ofIhe Party at Stake.
New York, April 18.-The Brooklyn
Democratic club gave a dinner tonight
at the Germania club to commemorate
the 157th anniversary of the birth OF
Thomas jefferson. A. H. Eastmond
the president, presided and about 15t
persons were present. At the guests
table We're Hon. James e. Campbell OF
Ohio, Hon. j. j. Willett of Alabama
and other prominent public men. For
mer President Grover Cleveland sent a
letter regretting his inability to be
present and expressing his opinion on
the present democracy. In his letter
Mr. Cleveland said in part;
None of us can close our eyes to the
fact that the democratic party is only
formidable in it's own strength. Its
power to win victories has always been
found to depend upon a sturdy and con-
| sistent adherence to it's time honored
principles which have proved sufficient
to meet every emergency of our national
| life. Whatever successes may have at
r%x Af ,rit will
spread for every transient breeze OF
popular sentiment or excitement expe-
rience has abundantly demonstrated
that democracy Is so constituted that 1t
is only strong when courageous in the
right and only victorious when its forces
are marshalled under its old and we'll
recognized standards.
THE healthfulness of our party may
we'll be questioned when it shrinks from
such an examination of its position as
will enable it to avoid disaster by keep
Ing course of safety, under the guild
ance of true democracy
therefore, those who claim to be fol-
lowers of Thomas Jefferson will fail to
discharge a solemn duty if in this time
of doubt and temptation, they neglect
such an examination, and If this dis
closes a tendency In party control to
subordinate the principles of true de-
mocracy and to distrust their conquer
ing power, then conditions should not
continue without brave and early demo-
cratic protest I have addressed these
words to fellow democrats, in the full
consciousness that l am far removed
from any influence in party manage
ment. but | love the old democratic
party, and l have written under the
sanction of that freedom of speech
which Thomas Jefferson placed among
the cardinal factors of our democratic
creed"
Hon. James E. Campbell spoke on
THE Restoration of Jeffersontan De-
mocracy." He said in part: 1.-THE po-
litical party founded by Thomas Jeffer-
son cannot survive half democratic and
half popuistic. There must be either
dissolution or restoration of pure de-
mocracy. 1t is true that many thou
sands of us will again support the
nominees Of our party, no matter into
what mistakes it may fall, but 1T is
equally true that many other thousands
will forever abandon the party If it
mocracy means the opportunity, eleva-
ton and reign of the individual, but
populism is that perverted form of So
cialism which can lead only to the
thraldom Of the individual and the en-
thronement of the plutocrat. The
Chicago platform enunciated many
great and enduring truths, but it has
coupled to them to at least one fatal
error--the un-Jeffersonian and (under
existing mining and commercial condi-
tions) the impossible proposition of IS
to L.
"a majority of the electors of the
country were bimetallsts. Forced to
choose between the true forms Of mono
they chose gold. BY this
choice they were not only saddled with
the gold standard but also with finan-
cial bill which creates that most power
full and dangerous of all trusts-a mon
ey trust. 1t is sufficient to know that
sixteen to one is dead and that just
30 long as we proclaim our intention to
1t, just that long will our res
be postponed"
He declared the army of voters had |
plenty of work at good wages, Contin-
uing, he said: 1T will be hard to enlist
their cooperation to destroy oppression
in Porto Rico, or stay imperialism in |
the Philippines unless we first aban- |
don the menace to their own prosper
ty."
A letter was also read from Former |
Governor Boies of Iowa in which he !
advocated the freedom of Cuba and the |
giving up of the Philippines. General |
Joseph Wheeler and Colonel Norris G.
Osborn also sent letters of regret. The |
latter was to have responded to the |
toast, Thomas Jefferson" Hon. Jo-
seph Willett responded to the toast, IA
Century Of Democracy"
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