Evening journal., 1900-04-19

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CAN
NOT SURVIVE DISSOLUTION IFI
IT CONTINUES IT'S RELATIONS
WITH THE PoPULIsTs AND SUP
PORTS FREE SILVER.
New York April 19.-The Brooklyn
Democratic club gave a dinner last
night at the Germania club to COM
memOrate the l57th anniversary of the
birth of Thomas jefferson. About l50
persons were present At the guests
table We're Ex-Governor James Il.
Campbell of Ohio Joseph J. Willett of
Alabama and other prominent public
men. Former President Grover Cleve-
land sent letter regretting his in
ability TO be present and expressing
his opinions on the present Democ-
racy. The letter was in part as fol-
lows:
Though the faults of the party in
power are many, and though its Of
| fenses against the political health and
safety of the country are flagrant,
these things should not encourage us
to base an expectation of success and
o. hope for the restoration Of whole
some administration upon the short
cOmings OF our adversaries. We should
tco we'll understand their ability to
attach to their fortunes the powerful
contingent of selfish interests to place
confident reliance upon the weakness
which ought to be the penalty of their
misdeeds.
Our principles are so simple, and
| they accord so well with the honest
/ American disposition which loves free
dom and cares for the public welfare,
| that they are easily understood by the
| Democratic masses. AS q result of
! this there has never been a time when
/ false leadership of our party and de-
/ parture from simple Democratic faith
have not been quickly discovered and
ruthlessIy rebuked by listless support.
pronounced detection and bitter de-
feat. These consequences have thus
far been so inevitable that the lessons
they teach cannot be disregarded with
4 out inviting calamity"
A letter was also read from eX-Gov-
ernor Boies, of Iowa, in which he ad-
vocated the freedom of Cuba and the
giving up of the Philippines. Gen.
i Joseph Wheeler and Col. Norris c..
Osborne, editor of the New Haven
Palladium. also sent letters of regret.
Joseph j. Willett responded to the
toast "A Century of Democracy" and
i Ex-Governor Campbell followed with
an address on "The Restoration OF
Jefersonian Democracy" He said in
| part:
/ THE political party founded by
/ hu1
| Democratic and half Populistic. There
must either be dissolution or restOra-
tiOn of pure Democracy. Il is true that
many thousands of us will again sup
port the nominees of our party, no
matter into what mistakes it may fall,
but It is equally true that many other
thousands will forever abandon the
party if it again supplants truth with
error. The Chicago platform enunci-
ated many great and enduring truths,
but it coupled them to at least one
fatal error-the impossible proposition
of sixteen to one.
"A majority of the electors Of the
country were bimetallists. Forced TO
choose between the true forms of mon
: ometallism, they chose gold BY this
choice they were not only saddled with
the gold standard, but also with a
financial bill which creates that most
powerful and dangerous of all trusts
' a money trust. 1t is sufficient TO know
that sixteen to one is dead, and that
Just so long as we proclaim our in
tention to resurrect it Just that long
= will our resurrection be postponed.
r Labor Is jailed or shot at Couel
3 d'Alene: treaties are made which bar.
ter away the Monroe doctrine and binC
US captive to the chariots of European
potentates; the constitution of the
United States is debauched and recon
Ol structed until we are certain of oui
own rights-certain only that our un'
happy captive lands have no rights tha
a white man is bound to respect; scan
u dals in army contracts, purchases o.
ships, sales Of custom houses, fav
l. ored bank deposits and all other forml
II of money grabbing are rise on every
=, hand: great corporations. already
"a giutted with profit, are to be subsidiz
B ed under the specious pretext Of re
. storing our wasted merchant marine
= This may be our last stand. lie
- the party OF plutocracy once more sue
~ ceed, and the census and the election
statistics will become the powerful
y weapons whereby the Democratic soutl
y \ shall be deprived of her rights unde
s the tattered remnants of the cOnstitu
! tion. If the men of the south low
lei Populism more than they love truth
!. let them adhere to il. Their day of re
Ia pentance VIII come, but it Will then b
eyerlastingly too late