The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-25
CALL TO DEMOCR RATS
yrxTUCIxY's ELOQUENT SON TO
VIRGINIANS.
A ROAST FOR ROOSEVELT.
wATTERSoN COMPARES PRESI-
DENT TO DIAZ.

with Sarcasm and Polished Invec-
tive He RidicuIes the "BrOnchO-
h,ster" ia the White HOuse-Re-
suits of the Present Policy of Re-
,ubIicans Will BE to "Mexicanize''
one-Man POwer-A Vivid Word
picture of the Sway of the Syndi-
c,tes-Lewis Nixon Makes Pleasant
Promises for New York.
Washington, March 21.-About $50
quests were present tonight at the
biennial banquet of the Virginia Demo-
cratic Association held in the banquet
room of the Metropolitan Hotel. They
;,cuded Democrats of national promi-
ranee and most of the political leaders
and Democratic members of the Con-
oress from the Old Dominion. Owing
70 the fact that the constitutional con-
,.ention is in session and that the Vir-
oinia general assembly is nearing its
close GOV. Montague, Senator Daniel
and Attorney General Anderson were
unable TO be present and sent their re-
grets.
col. Robert N. Harper, president of
the association. acted as POSTMASTER
Those who spoke included the follow
ing. 4. w. Bullock, second vice pres
ident of the association; Hon. Henry
Watterson of Kentucky, Senator Car
mack of Tennessee, Hon. Lewis Nixon,
the leader of Tammany Hall; Repre-
sentative w. w. Kitchin of North Car
DINA, Representative DeArmond of
Missouri, and members of Congress
from Virginia.
Col. Watterson urged on Democrats
general union of forces in opposition
to Imperialism in all forms. He said:
Mr. WattersOn's Address.
There is no drop of blood in my
veins which is not Virginia blood. AL
though for purposes of my own, hav-
ing a deep design beneath them, l
chose this capital of the nation for my
birthplace, my earliest vision of para
dise-the very dawn of all my concep-
tons of honor and duty and glory
nestled among yonder hills, across the
Potomac; and, when go hence, my
ashes shall repose upon the bosom of
Kentucky Virginia's first-born and
fairest daughter. There seems, there
fore, some fitness in my sitting among
you. Anyhow, being a Kentuckian and
a Democrat, 1 am glad to be here and
you will not, l hope, think me assum-
ing any consequential airs and graces,
if l add that l feel very much at
home.
We are Democrats. We love our
country. Our hearts beat true to its
institutions. We would rescue the gov
eminent from the hands of those who
are converting it into a government OF
the trusts, for the trusts and by the
trusts, and restore it to the hands of
those who will have some regard for
the rights of the people. The Republi
can party is a syndicated party. Arbi-
trary power is it's motor, the almighty
dollar its trademark. If it be not
checked in the gait it is going it will
IN the end surely MeXicanize the re-
public.
The Man on Horseback.
Once again in the White House we
have the man on horseback. Affecting
the simplicity of the cowboy, he con-
eeals beneath the self-confidence and
queer manners of the broncho-buster,
the sentiments and ambitions, if not
thlng like treating an admiral of the
navy, wearing the laurel leaves of
imperishable renown, as if he were a
oaDy in arms now to be dawdled and
now to be spanked is merely an I'M
uress affair begun and ended during
oH-moments between breakfast and
luncheon. To him the reprimanding
ol the lieutenant general of the army,
grown gray in the fighting of the bat
1f.-xv lN.1nN ON
ing morse play, meant to relax his
muscles and illustrate his high-mighti-
ness whilst warning lesser officers of
,ne army to obey orders and say moth
!Hg. AS these things go forward, par
taxing somewhat of the character of
Ieats to divert and blinds to hoodwink
pubic opinion, a bill of army organi-
Iaton is prepared and urged upon
DoHsress, which, If it becomes law,
VIII make the power of the President
absolute, and which it is not too much
~ say ought to be entitled, An Act to
wake the President of the United
3lates Military Dictator Because
tne reprimanded lieutenant general
answering the summons of a commit
zee OF Congress-as was his duty-eX-
presses an opinion adverse to this bill,
u IS proposed to retire him from the
service. Taken in connection with
sumo other matters of more or less
sinister suggestion, these are menaces
Vi most ominouS import.
The Trail of the Trade Mark
But, turn from the White House to
!he Capitol,and look at the Republicans
III Congress. The trail of the trade
marx is over them all. Old high tariff
uances the can-can in the House. whilst
Olq ship-subsidy does the regulation
Cdke-Walk in the Senate. Everything
LOT the syndicates. Nothing for the
people. And, not content with their
aroltrary power in the White House
ana less mercenary power in Congress,
ole leaders of this party of Federalism
%nu false pYNension would rip open
-dHuora's box to fitch thence the black,
pfaucal flag of negro domination-the
elually disreputable and bloody shirt
vi sectional agitation-and, in order to
i"dke sure of the next House, they are
Roposing to bring forward another
!oFce bill to smite the South, to blight
,le North and to convert a land teem-
Hs with love and peace into a land
sehlng with hate and strife. Such Is
IHe banquet to which the exit of Nc
N'uley, the statesman, and the advent
Vted us.
am something of a lingo myself.
9eHeVe in the expanding greatness
wa glory of my country.
ever see the flag floating above
ne | dome on yonder capitol
uat may heart does not throb with
Houd, glad thought-that my eyes DO
h.va 80. faar ~