Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-07

Oldham OF hCarney, WnCSe HOWlnB perlOus
and elegant dictlon would challenge that
admiration OF Doctor Johnson and battle
the skill Of Lndley Murray Even Judge
Scott could not equal the sandhill orator.
simon-Pure Popuiism.
II w. j. Bryan refuses the title, the first
populst, pure and simple, TO address an
assemblage of banqueting Jacksonians, was
Judge Holcomb, who, by strict adherence
to the principles Of the new alliance, In
letting no office escape, had earned a stand
| ing in the club as then constituted. He
made his appearance in 1898, at a banquet
over which !. J. Dunn presided. William j.
Stone, ex-governor of Missouri, was the
principal speaker, and William Joel spoke
on a subject dear to his heart, that of
Business and Politics" Truly, a master
mind arranged that program, FOR until the
campaign OF 1900 no man had demonstrated
his ability to make business Of politics
so well as the lanky Missourian, who has
the reputation of being the most cold.
blooded man in tho political arena Of Mis-
souri,. At the present time, II current
stories are true, the speaker of that day
no doubt wishes he had confined his po.
ltical business to the west for it is gen.
orally believed that his Tammany CO.
workers in New York in the last campaign
cleaned him up by advising him to bet on
Bryan and furnishing the brokers the money
which covered his on the books. At this
meeting the democracy OF the Jacksonian
club. which had outgrown the principles
| of Judge Wakeley, DR.. Miller, Colonel
North, Governor Boyd and men of that
sort, listened with rapt attention and
| denonstrative appreciation to the sapient
utterances OF T. ]. Nolan, w. ID. Oldham,
A. G.. Shalenberger and f. c. Page.
John Peter AItgeId's Chance.
DR.. A. Hugh Nipple presided over the
| banquet of 1899. Adlai Stevenson he of the
meat AK, was present, but the next dem
ocratic candidate for vice president took a
| back seat for his fellow citizen, John p.
Altgeld. the man who had made himself
| famous as the one gubernatorial champion
of anarchy and misrule. 1t was perhaps the
NEST vivid illustration Of the revolution
which had taken place in the organization
Under the auspices of the club OF the same
name law-lovinS officers and statesmen Of
! ability had discussed questions OF momen-
| tous import in a manner to command the
admiration and respect, IL not the conf
| dence. OF their opponents. At no time un-
der the old regime were political hrebrands
honored by the democracy of Nebraska, but
at this meeting Aitgeld reigned supreme
and. like dead mackerel in the moon
light" shed his light and odor upon all who
surrounded him. This would have been bad
enough, but the papers of the next day
record that his remarks were received with
cheers and his sentiments fully endorsed
! william Sulzer OF New York delivered Il
better address, but II was not received with
half the enthusiasm as the words of the
red headed ex-governor of Illinois. j. S.
| Robinson OF Madison then newly elected to
! congress. responded to the toast The
| Democracy of Nebraska" and 1t is said the
man and subject were in perfect accord in
every particular.
drunk in Their Words"
| Last year. upon the eve of his second
nomination for the office of president, W.
]. Bryan spoke on the money question. His
remarks recalled to the hearer the first ad-
dress on this subject delivered before an
annual banquet OF the club, when Dr. Miller
spoke in favor of an honest dollar. Logic
history and philosophy. which were called
to strengthen the position of the earlier
speaker, were all cast aside by the later
champion of fiatism and the reason of his
hearers was drowned in flow Of verbiage,
musical to the ear, but death to the under
standing David Overmeyer, the disorgan-
iZer OF Kansas democracy, was another
speaker who endeavored to prove that two
unreal to which he led his auditors met
with perfect success. Willis j. Abbott the
man who later was to edit all Of the dem
ocratic weeklies OF the country, responded
to the toast THE Press" In the cam
paign which followed he was given an op-
portunity to put his theories into practice
and showed that he was as good at that
phase of the work as his superiors were in
conducting the general campaign.
Coming of the CntncIysm.
Tonight upon the threshold of the new
century, the Jacksonians will demonstrate
to the local world of politics that the
cloying sweet of honeyed words is more to
their liking than the stubborn facts OF
human existence; that many-hued theories
are to be chosen above practical common
sense and minor strain of the totally unfit
above the triumphant paeans of logical rea-
son. carried out through the effort OF sturdy
honesty. w. J. Bryan will be the center
around which the lesser lights of Tillman
of South Carolina, Beckham of Kentucky
aud ]. Ham Lewis of Washington will shine,
carrying with them such satellites as VIII
NJ. Maupin, a. G. Shellenberger and Harry
O'Neill
The speakers for the tenth annual ban
quet of the Jacksonians have been secured,
The senatorial cyclops from South Caro-
lima will bring his pitchfork across the
Mississippi and will swear brotherly atiilia-
tion with the silver-tongued word assembler
from Nebraska. He will tell how while the
latter has endeavored to make half a dollar
the legal equivalent of 100 cents, he and
his kind have succeeded in making half a
, voter in the south more than equal to a
voter of the northern states in the house
OF representatives and in the electoral col
lege by the systematic and cautious use of
the shotgun and other democratic argu-
ments He has sacrificed much. say the
, local democracy OF the latter day, TO visit
the principal city of the transmissouri coun-
| try, and he may be depended upon to make
! the effort of his life.
) 'Descensus Avcrnt."
' Mr.. Bryan is to talk OF Democracy" He
, is expected to begin at the beginning and
, trace the party succession from the days OF
the hero of New Orleans to the present
day OF the Tillmans. the Altgelds and the
Crokers. He may be depended upon tc
carry his hearers into the land of the lotus
: eaters, where the voice of Old Hickory may
have the sound of the Tammany ward beelel
calling upon a policeman to contribute tC
the campaign fund where the statesmanlik'
: utterances OF the Sage of Grammercy Parl
can be confused with the vaporngs of tn,