The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-25
|WAT GRSON | <xdE ORATOR |es: ::akS to Virginia Demo- 2 cratic Association. HE ARRAIGNS ROOSEVELT Presidents Treatment of Miles
 is Condemned. Senator Carmack and Lewis Nixon, Leader of Tammany Hall, Among the Speakers of the Evening.
HE ARRAIGNS ROOSEVELT

Q were present tonight at the biennial banquet of the Virginia Democratic As- sociation. held in the banquet room of the Metropolitan Hotel. They included Dem- ocrats of national prominence and most of the political leaders and Democratic minion. Those who spoke included the following: T. W. Bullock. Vice-Presi- dent of the Association; Colonel Henry Watterson of Kentucky, Senator Car mack of Tennessee; Hon. Lewis Nixon. the leader of Tammany Hall; Repre- sentative w. W. Kitchens of North Caro- lima; Representative DeArmond of Mis- souri and members of Congress from Virginia. Colonel Watterson urged on Democrats a general union of forces in He said:
 There Is no drop of blood in my veins which is not Virginia blood. Although for purposes of my own, having a deep de- sign beneath them, chose this capital of the nation for my birthplace. my earliest vision of Paradise-the very dawn of all my conceptions of honor and duty and glory-nestled among wonder hills across the Potomac; and when l go hence. my ashes shall repose upon the bosom of Kentucky, Virginia's first-born and fair est daughter.
 I've are Democrats. We love our coun- try. Our hearts beat true to its institu- tions We would rescue the government from the hands of these who are convert ing 1t into a government of the trusts. for the trusts and by the trusts. and re- store it to the hands of those who will have some regard for the rights of the people. The Republican party is a sym dicated party. Arbitrary power is its motor, the almighty dollar its trade mark If it be not checked in the gait it is going. it will in the end surely Mexi- canize the Republic.
 "Once again in the White House, we have the man on horseback. Affecting the simplicity of the cowboy, he conceals beneath the self-confidence and queer manners of the broncho buster, the senti- ments and ambitions, if not the talents. of Diaz To him, little thing like treating an admiral of the navy, wearing the laurel of imperishable renown, as if he were a baby in arms, now to be dandled and now to be spanked, Is merely an undress affair begun and ended dur ing off moments between breakfast and luncheon.
 ''To him, the reprimandng of the Lieu tenant General of the Army. grown gray In the fighting of the battles of his coun- try, becomes an amusing horse-play meant to relax his muscles and illustrate his high mightiness whilst warning lesser officers of the army to obey orders and say nothing As these things gor forward. partaking somewhat of the character of feats to divert and blinds to hoodwink public opinion. a bill of army reorganiza- tion is prepared and urged upon Congress which if it becomes a law, will make the power of the President absolute and which it is not too much to say. ought to be entitled, An Act to Make the Presi- dent of the United States Military Die tator.'
 He reprimanded the LieutenantG General answering the summons of a committee of Congress-as was his duty-and ex- pressing an opinion adverse to this bill. and now it Is proposed to retire him from the service. Taken in connection with some other matters Of more or less sim ister suggestion. these are menaces of most ominous import.
 But turn from the White House to the Capitol and look at the Republicans in Congress. The trail of the trademark is over them all. Old High Tariff dances the can-can in the House, while Old Ship Subsidy does the regular cake walk in the Senate. Everything for the syndi- cates Nothing for the people. And, not content with their arbitrary power in the White House and thelr mercenary power in Congress, the leaders of this party of federalism and false pretension would rip open Pandora's box to filch thence the black, piratical flag of negro domination-the equally disreputable and bloody shirt of sectional agitation-and. in order to make sure of the next House. they are proposing to bring forward an- other force bill to smte the South, to blight the North and to convert land teeming with love and peace into land reeking with hate and strife. Such is the banquet to which the exit of Mckinley, the statesman. and the advent of Roose- welt, the Rough Rider. has invited US.
 'I am something of jingo myself I believe in the expanding greatness and glory of my country. l never see the flag floating above the dome of wonder Capi- tol that my heart does not throb with the proud, glad thought-that my eyes do not fill with happy exultant tears-that I. too, am an American citizen. God bless the flag and God bless the boys that fight be- meath it. I would carry it inviolate. I would keep it spotless. And, with this in view I want to know what is going on away out wonder across the multitudn- ous the mysterious waves of the Pacific sea I want other witnesses than self seeking politicians and self-exploiting soldiers to come here and tell me. l re- fuse to hold my tongue. I refuse to rest content. And. if I am told by whipper snapper in shoulder straps that unless do, I am a traitor to my country, my re- Dlv to him shall be slap fin the face.
 Friends, brothers. Democrats, let us have done with dissension. Let us turn our backs on the past, our eyes to the future. calling the old fight off and the old scores square. He who stands with me against these things IS my com rade no matteFswhat he thinks or ever thought about Silver or gold He who would deny me place by his side to light them. must either be very perverse or very blind. Let us cross no bridges till we come to them. But already we can see far enough ahead to take our reckon ing.
 s.ThAra xyiIl he hut one test of a Demo-