The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-14
KNOX'S CHOICE ASSAILED
Ex-senator Hill Decries the At
torney's Appointment.
The President md Thomas Jefferson
Compared in "a Speech to Buffalo
Democrats-The Prospects for the
porty,s Success in the Future.


BUFFALO. y. Y. April 13.-The Jeffer-
son Club celebrated the 10lth anniversary
of Jefersons Inauguration. as well as his
birthday. at the Teck Theatre tonight,
with ex-senator David i. Hill as speech
maker
Mr.. Hill arrived here this afternoon and
was entertained by committee heaoed
by David Gray. Maurice B. Spratt, who
recently became attorney Tor the New
York Central, presided at the meeting
Not any of the guests at the dinner with
Mr. Hill tonight exceeded thirty-three
years of age The old timers like Daniel
L. Lockwood, Augustus A Scheu. and
John Cutneen were spectators. Mr.. Hin
compared Jefferson's Inauguration with
McKinley's, saying:
ut well illustrated Jeffersonian sim
pIicity and the ushering in of the rule OF
the plain people What a contrast did
that Inauguration present from the enc
that recently occurred in Washington,
amid ostentatious splendor and magniti-
cence and grandeur more befitting a royal
coronation under an imperial Government
than the installation of the President of
the Republic"
Discussing the formation of the Steel
Trust, Mr.. Hill said:
I'VE may well believe that Jefferson.
who was equal to every emergency in the
early history of our country, would. IL he
were in power, find some appropriate and
adequate remedy to curb the rapacity ana
restrict the dangerous power of these gi-
gantic combinations. We may at least be
quite sure that he would not appoint TO
the high office of Attorney General of the
United States the man recommended by
the friends and promoters of these very
schemes, whose official province 1t would
be to prosecute all violators of those Fed
eral statutes passed to prevent the CON
summation of just such public wrongs
Again he said: Had the present Ma
ticnal Administration been in control OF
the most despotic monarchial Govern
ment in Europe it could not well have
manifested less Indifference to the fate of
the Boer Republics, than it has exhibited
ever since the terrible outrage in South
Africa was initiated"
Speaking of party future, he said:
I'VE must not be dismayed by recent
defeats. The Democratic party was not
horn to die. 1t has survived the political
yicissitrdes of a hundred years-disasters
which world have destroyed any other
political organization. but it still lives
with 6, }i2, 900 voters, unterrifed. unpur-
chasable conscious of the rightfulness of
its cause. and confident OF the ultimate
supremacy of its principles.
I'VE have a right to be proud of our
ancient political lineage. onr party is the
great conservative force in the country
today and absolutely necessary to its vel
fare. 1t antagonizes monopoly on one side
and socialism on the other. 1t is opposed
to imperialism in the Philippines and to
anarchy in Cuba 1t respects the vested
rights of capital, and at the same time
sympathiZes with labor oppressed.
'It has no alliances with powerful cor
porated interests, neither is it in league
with the demagogues who disturb society
and agitate for the mere sake of agita-
ton. IL does not regard the possession
OF wealth as a crime nor does it consider
poverty as either disgrace or virtue
1t makes no war upon class. but opposes
corrupt and vicious systems and methods
wherever they art to be found.
III has no use for the passing .isms' of
the hour. 1t proDoSes as its general policy
TO adhere to the fundamental principles
upon which the party was founded by the
great Jefferson himself In that path
there is safety, honor. success"