The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-25
Calls Him n "Man on Horseback" a
"Cowboy,- and a "Broncho Bust
err" Who Wants to BE a Diaz.
PATS GEN. MILES ON THE BACK
BECAUSE HE WAS REPRIMANDED By
"HIs MIGHTINEss."
MIR. wattersOn Also Works on Some
Choice Expressions About Rough
Riding and syndicates.

WASHINGTON, March A.-About lao
guests were present tonight at the biennial
banquet of the Virginia Democratic Asso-
citation, held in the banquet room OF the
Metropolitan Hotel. They included Demo
Gratis. of national prominence and most of
the political leaders and Democratic MEM
bers of Congress from the old Dominion.
Owing TO the fact that the constitutional
convention is in session and that the Vir-
ginia General Assembly is nearing its close.
Governor Montague, Senator Daniel and
Attorney General Anderson were unable to
be present and sent their regrets. Col. Rob-
ert a. Harper, president of the association,
acted as POSTMASTER. Those who spoke in
cluded the following: 7. W. Bullock, sec
ond vice president of the association; Col
Henry Watterson, of Kentucky; Senator
Carmack, of Tennessee; Hon. Lewis Nixon,
the leader of Tammany Hail. Representa-
tive W. w. Kitchins. of North Carolina;
Representative De Almond, of Missouri
and members of Congress from Virginia.
Colonel Watterson urged on Democrats
general union OF forces in opposition TO i'm
periallsm in all forms. He said. in part:
I'VE are Democrats. We love our coun-
try. Our hearts beat true to it's institu-
tions. We would rescue the government
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
Republican party is syndicated party.
Arbitrary power is it's motor. the almighty
dollar its trademark II it be not checked
in the gait il is going ii will in the end
surely MeXicanize the Republic.
"Once again in the White House we have
the Man on Horseback. Affecting the SIM
plicity of the cowboy he conceals beneath
Of
the broncho buster the sentiments and am
billions, if not the talents of a Diaz. To
him, a little thing like treating an admiral
Of the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of
imperishable renown, as IL he were baby
in arms, to be handled and now TO be
spanked, is merely an undress affair begun
and ended during off moments between
breakfast and luncheon To him, the rep
rimanding of the lieutenant general of
the army, grown gray in the fighting Of the
battles of his country becomes an amusing
horse-play. meant to relax his muscles and
illustrate his high mightiness, whilst warn
ing lesser officers of the army to obey or
derS and say nothing
LAS these things go forward, partaking
somewhat Of the character of feats to di-
vert and blinds to hoodwink public opn-
ion, a bill of army reorganization is pre-
pared and urged upon Congress- which If
It becomes law, will make the power of
the President absolute and which il is
not too much to say ought to be entitled
An Act TO Make the President of the
United States a Military Dictator. Because
the reprimanded lieutenant general answer
ing the summons of a committee of Con-
gress-as was his duty-expresses an opin-
ion ADVERSE to this bill. 1t is proposed TO
retire him from the service. Taken in con-
nection with some other matters of more
or less sinister 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, whilst Old Ship Sub
sidy does the regular cake-walk in the
Senate. Everything for the syndicates,
nothing for the people. And, not content
with their arbitrary power in the White
House and their mercenary power in Con-
gress the leaders of this party of federal
ism and false pretension would rip open
Pandora's box to fitch thence the black.
piratical flag of negro domination-the
equally disreputable and bloody shirt of
sectional agitation-end, in order to make
sure of the next House. they are proposing
TO bring forward another force bill to smite
the South, to blight the North and to con-
vert land teeming with love and peace
into a. land reeking with hate and strife.
Such Is the banquet TO which the exit of
Mckinley. the statesman: and the advent
of Roosevelt, the rough rider, has in
vited us.
II am something of lingo myself. I be-
lieve in the expanding greatness and glory
| OF my country. / never see the nag float
ing above the dome yonder Capitol that
my heart does not throb with the proud,
glad thought-that my eyes do not fill with
I L.
American citizen God bless the flag, and
| God bless the boys that fight beneath it!
| would carry II inviolate. | would keep
them spotless And with this in view L
want TO know what is going away out
! yOnder across the multitudinous, the mys-
! terious waves of the Pacific ] want
/ other witnesses than self-seeking polti-
clans and self-expIoting soldiers to come
! here and tell me. | refuse to hold my
! tongue. l refuse to rest content And, If
! I am told by a whippersnapper in shoulder
straps that unless | 90 | am traitor to
! my country. my reply to him shall be a
| slap in the face.
Friends, brothers, Democrats. let us
/ have done with dissensions. Let us turn
/ future calling the old fight off and the
/ old scores square. He who stands with
/ me against these things is my comrade. no
/ matter what he thinks or ever thought
about silver or gold. He who would deny
/ me a place by his side TO fight them must
/ either be very perverse or very blind. Let
us cross no bridges till we come 10 them.
! But already we see far enough ahead
/ to take our reckoning. There will be but
one test of a Democrat I'm 1904-toe the line,
/ toe the line, saying to arbitrary power and
absolutism: Thou shalt go no further. We.
/ too, are in the expansion business, but our
/ expansion is for the religion of the Con-
| stitution no less than for the religion OF
/ Christ and Him crucified: expansion
means peace, hot war: the honor, not the
degra datiOn of the flag: and just as surely
as Jefferson wrote the Declaration Of indie
/ pendence and Jackson fought the battle OF
/ New Orleans 10 resist despotsm shall we
make a new Fourth Of July and celebrate
another Sth of January In resisting this I'M
/ righteous scheme TO abolish the Constitu-
/ ton and Mexicanize the government