Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-02-27
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An important Democratic confer
ence was held with the Manhattan
Club, New York, on Waghinoton,s
birthday. Following are extracts
from speeches delivered and letters
sent by prominent Democrats;
DAVID B. HILL
~ speak tonight in favor Of the
maintenance of the landmark Demo-
cratic party. In that path there lie
saIeIy, nonor, success. We trace our
political lineage back to Jefferson,
VINO was the author of that immortal
protest against British imperialism
known as the Declaration of indie
pence. Opposition to the precepts
ana pfactlces OF Imperialism was thus
one OF the cardinal principles of our
party faith at the very INCEPTION of
the government
eve should adhere to the policy
involved in Jeffersonian expansion.
the reasonable and natural acquire
ment OF territory adjacent to our own.
wherever the American flag of right
flOats it should be as an emblem Of a.
free government and the aegis of con-
5titutiOnal liberty.
Neither should tariff war nor Gus
toms duties ob8truct the path of Am
eflcan trade from one portion of this
government TO another portion. The
spectacle Is at present presented of
CUBA renewed from Spanish Oppres-
sion only to be enslaVed by the United
States IN commercial bondage. JUS
tlce demands that these impOsitiOns
shall cease. Nothing but self interest
stands IN the way of tariff reform for
Cuba.
The Democratic party should
again press to the front the issue of
revenue reform. The Republican
principle or practice of protection
- based on the right to use the
powers of government for individual
purposes. Our Republican friends
make revenue the incident and pro-
tecton the main purpose of all tariff
taxation.
1.-THE policy of reciprocity is and
always has been a Democratic policy.
We believe in a strict construction of
the federal constitution as essential
for the public welfare. We believe in
home rule for states. We favor an
amendment to the Constitution pro-
Viding for the election of United
States senator's by the people. OppO-
o'DACh w NCLb gus COl DOI duo COllI-
binatiOns Of capital should continue
to be the Democratic position. The
Monroe doctrine, first enunciated by
a Democratic President, should re-
main settled policy of the republic"
HENRY WATTERSON.
LET us oppose against the Repub-
lican government of syndication and
the syndicates, a democratic govern
ment, laid in the written law of the
land, strictly construed, and headed
for the benefit of the many, not the
enrichment of the few. On these lines
| believe we can carry the election of
1904. To some over Jealous demo-
Gratis they may seem insufficient. But
| believe that half loaf is better
than no bread. We are first of all to
rescue the government from the syndi-
Gates, to put restraint upon ar
bltrary pOwer-nOt to reform the
world, nor to deal out specifics of
universal application-a and, if in the
beginning we draw line between the
possible and the impossible, where it
may not meet the hopes of the most
fervid-it will surely conduct US out
of the long dark night of dissension
and into the dawning light of the day
star of Democracy, reunited, inter
rifed and undefiledn'