The times., 1901-04-14
KEOX'S CHOICE ASSAILED
Ex-senator Hill Decries the At
torney's Appointment.

! The President and Thomas jefferson
! Compared in Speech to Buffalo
| Democrats-The Prospects for the
Party's Success in the Future.
BUFFALO. \. Y. April 1S.-The Jeffer-
son Club celebrated the 10)th anniversary
| of Jeferson's inauguration, as well as his
| birthday. at the Teck Theatre tonight,
with ex-senator David b. Hill as speech
maker.
Mr. Hill arrived here this afternoon and
was entertained by committee headed
| by David Gray Maurice g. Spratt, who
! recently became attorney for the New
York Central presided at the meeting
Not any of the guests at the dinner Win
| Mr.. Hill tonight exceeded thirty-three
| years of age. The old timers like Daniel
! L. Lockwood, Augustus A. Scheu. ana
| John Cutneen were spectators. Mr.. Hill
! compared Jefferson's Inauguration with
| McKinley's, saying:
1T well illustrated JeffeTsonian sim
| plicity and the ushering in of the rule OF
the plain people. What a contrast did
| that Inauguration present from the cne
| that recently occurred in Washington,
amid ostentatious splendor and magnif-
| cence and grandeur more befitting 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, If he
were in power, find some appropriate and
| adequate remedy to curb the rapacity and
=, of ii
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 it 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 wei 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
dorm To Nlt'- II lle1S Sii NaNth tAiN poi'NANNNi
vicissitudes of a hundred years-disasters
which would have destroyed any other
political organization. but it still lives
with 6, ,}i2 900 voters, unterrified, unpur-
chasabIe conscious of the rightfulness of
its cause. and confident Of the ultimate
supremacy of it's principles.
I'VE have a right to be proud Of our
ancient political lineage. our party is the
great conservative force in the country
today and absolutely necessary to its well
fare. 1t antagoniZes monopoly on one side
and socialism on the other. II 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.
1T 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-
tion. 1t does not regard the possession
of wealth as a crime nor does it consider
poverty as either a disgrace or a virtue.
1t makes no war upon class bat opposes
corrupt and vicious systems and methods
wherever they ARE to be found.
''It has use for the passing -isms' of
the hour. 1t DroDoses 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"