Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09
RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE
Lust of Money and BLOOD Caused the
Election Result

Lust OF Money and Hood Caused the
Election Result
Judge E. f. Dunno made an adj
dress of retrospect and prospect,
speaking In part as follows:
ION the anniversary dedicated to
the memory of Andrew Jackson,
sternest and truest friend of the COM
mon people, we meet to revere his
heroic character. to attest our devo-
ton to the principles he advocated
and typified, and to take council for
Sthe rehabilitation and perpetnatipn OF
those principles.
Andrew jackson was a man of the
people by birth, by instinct and by
choice. An ardent disciple of Jeffer-
son, he equaled his great master in
his passionate love of Democracy, ex-
oelled him in swiftness of execution
and was his inferior only in intel
lectual strength and polish. He was
the first man in the United States to
open war upon monopoly.
with both houses of congress, the
influential press and all the far-reach-
ing influence of the combined wealth
of the nation in opposition, he sue
ceeded in breaking up the first great
trust in this country-the United
States bank. We do well in these
days, when trusts are as thick as
mushrooms and as destructive of in
dividual effort as the plague. to keep
alive the memory of one whose will
and indomitable energy accomplished
what millions of men are battling for
today, seemingly without avail
''There can be but one possible ex-
PLANTATION of the result of the recent
election The American electorate
were Influenced by the lust of money
and the lust of blood. Having en-
gagged in a disgraceful war for the ex-
tinction of liberty in the islands of
the Pacific and meeting opposition.
the American voter lacked the moral
courage to admit the mistake until his
country had succeeded in bludgeon-
ing resistance into insensibility; ana
the American manufacturer and his
mechanics and laborers finding them
selves busy as the result. of this war
and others equally disgraceful hadn't
any time for politics and voted for
the party in power.
1.-The campaign just closed was car
ried on by the Democratic party on
high ground and upon principles of
imperishable justice and truth. We
were led by man who excelled in
purity of private life, in honesty and
earnestness of purpose. in forensic
strength and in intellectual greatness
any candidate that the Democratic
party has nominated since the days
of Andrew Jackson. he conducted
a campaign which is without parallel
in history, and yet an electorate. suf-
fering from a combined attack of war
begotten hysteria and an Injection of
gold--in chlorides or some other form
-repudiated him and our doctrines at
the polls In word, we were beaten
because we were waging war abroad
and waging men at home.
But, gentlemen, we are undiS-
mayed and confident of ultimate sue
cess. We are advised by our friends
the Republican press to 'reorganize.'
They exhibit a most magnanimous
disposition toward fallen foe. They
wal us to get upon our legs again
and quickly, and their advice is TO re
pudiate the men who when the cause
of the common people was deserted
by those whom they had exalted to
Office stepped into the breach and
proved their devotion in the hour of
peril Nay, more, they would have
us turn to the men who went over to
the enemy or sulked In their tents
during the battle for advice and lead
ership- When the Democratic party
wants counsel and advice 1t will hard
ly turn to such source. No sane
man or party VIII follow the advice
of its enemies
"A distinguished ex-president, who
was elected to that high Office as h
Democrat; has also recently, through
the public press, expressed his views