The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-03
LEWIS RESPECTS.
Paid to Republican Leaders at
indianapolis.
Speaks Before Convention of
Democratic Clubs.

Indianapolis. Oct. 3.-The quadrennial
convention Of the National Association
Of Democratic clubs was called to order
in Tomlinson hall by President w. r.
Hearst at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The hall was profusely decorated with
flags and bunting and portraits of the
two national Democratic candidates and
other distinguished members Of the par
ty were prominently displayed. The
morning trains greatly augmented the
ranks of the delegates and an i'm
prOnptu procession was formed with
1,000 men in line headed by the 17zth
Continental guards in their yellow and
blue uniforms, from Nebraska, which
marched through the streets for an
hour.
President w. R. Hearst and James X
Jones, chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee, arrived at 1 o'clock
from Chicago.
Tomlinson hall has a seating capacity
of 5000 and every seat was occupied
when President Hearst raped for order.
Mayor Taggart made an address Of
welcome in behalf Of the state.
President Hearst responded in behalf
Of the convention.
James K. Jones was next introduced
and spoke.
Mayor Samuel NJ Jones, of Toledo,
was the third speaker and held the audi
ence closely for ten minutes. He was
Washington, who said in part:
There are no patriots If Democrats
be not. No servile supplicants for oft1-
cia1 favOrs are We No dictator SWays
his detestable rule over us. No corpora
ton commands a domination or wealth
directs. We know no masters but the
people; we worship no king but God"
In referring to Senator Hanna he
said:
mo bloated Gorgon, swollen with
party dictatorship SITS in sacred places,
blinking his splenic eyes at us as sig
nails for every movement Our Ideas are
our property; our manhood is our honor.
All the people are our children and the
free nation our sacred care We aban-
don these to no man, and we defy the
insoIence Of masters or the arrogance
of office to take one jot Of our tndepend-
ence from u.s.
With reference to President Mckinley,
he said:
ssIor have we to put forth candidates
for high offices, the CHIEF of whom never
advocated a policy which he would not
Immediately denounce for party advan-
tage nor denounced a principle which he
would not espouse for enttcements OF
"A silver man when a silver lining was
necessary to his cloud Of political despair;
a gold man, in return for the golden
promise of a presidential nomination.
In the morning of the first day free
trade with the Porto RicanS was a plain
duty; in the evening OF the same day
Rfcans and they must pay the duty.
The tobacco trust had smoked its con-
victiOns out and the sugar trust had
sweetened his sense of duty abandoned
by promise of liberal campaign contri-
buttons In the hour Of humanity forci-
BILE annexation was criminal aggression
when not popular with the party; now
criminally aggressive for fOrc1Dle an
nexation when profitable to favored syn
dicates. A gentleman who in the COM
merciaI sense greets his party's ever
changing policies by becoming its ac-
endOrser."
Mr.. Lewis alluded to Governor Roose-
welt and said:
1--WE shall never be driven to the des-
perate ends of bolstering the decayinS
strength of a falling chieftain by PAN
dering to the fantastic element whose
hollow huzzas for what they neither un-
derstand, nor can. is the only hope Of
imposters in the hour when neither rea-
son nor justice dare be appealed to to
sustain them
Democrats, this is the hour when we
extend open doors and outstretched
hands to all who love their country bet
ter than self; who hope for freedom
rather than power. In a. nation dedica-
ted to the ways of peace. the tramp of
armies are to echo through
every byway. The constitution so long
our palladium of liberty is now Knocked
at by new raised tyrants and pledged as
an asset to the money barons Of the
world. For the hope of more million
aires and the multiplication of dollars,
war is to be our occupation.
In this perilous hour who shall an
sWer2 Upon whose head rests the col
lossai crime of time; in whose hands the
blood of the century? Not Democracy
To the hOary accuser Of after years our
spirits can answer to every charge,
Thou canst not say I did it, we came to
save not to destroy; we came bringing
peace, not the sword
Governor Benton AIcNIillin of Tennes-
see was to have been the concluding
speaker but owing to a temporary in
was compelled to forego his
The convention then took a recess un-
til o'clock in the evening
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