Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-24
Made at Meeting Of Demo-
Gratis at Nantasket.
NOTED LEADERS THERE
BRYAN, SHEPARD AND cARMACK
MAKE SPEECHES.
Prior to the Mass Meeting a Banquet
Was Attended at Rock
land Hotel.

great tent on the shore of Massa chuset.s
bay for hours today a throng of men and
many women listened to distinguished ora
tors from various parts Of the United i
States as they delivered addresses upon the
principal political issues of the day from
the democratic point of view. The speech
making followed a banquet, the first to be
given by the recently organized New Eng
land Democratic League, in the Rockland
Hotel. at which about 800 were present.
The entire program was intended ID give
the league, the membership of which en-
braces many of the leading democrats Of
New England, a fitting introduction t. the
public. To this end the list of speakers
was made as notable possible, and the
league was able to present P. A. Collins.
former consul general to London and now
mayor of Boston, as presiding officer, and
William j. Bryan, twice democratic presI-
Dental candidate: Edward M. Shepard OF
New York, recent democratic candidate for
mayor of that city, and Senator F.. w.
Carmack of Tennessee to make addresses.
Senator J. w. Bailey of Texas was expect
ed to attend but he sent letter instead.
No Presidential Boom Launched.
From the first the committee tried to
keep constantly before the interested the
fact that the league did not propose to
boom any candidate for the presidency. To
quote Secretary Henry F. Hollis:
THE New England League is simply or
ganized to harmonic all democrats and to
conduct the congressional campaign in
every one Of the New England states. We
expect to elect democrat in ex-Speaker
Reeds district In Maine, and also to get
one district in Rhode Island There will be
no issue of silver or gold"
The hour scheduled for the banquet was
/ O'Clock, and 1t was planned that the pub
lie exercises should begin an hour later.
The distinguished guests did not reach Bos-
ton until this forenoon.
For an hour or more following breakfast
Mr.. Bryan was "at home to few friends
at the hotel. There was public recep-
ton AT 10 O'Clock Mr.. Bryan went to the
fremont Temple to address the Newsboys'
Protective Association. The other members
of the party occupied the time in various
ways, and shortly after II o'clock, under
to the steamboat wharf to embark for Nan
tasket On arrival there the party proceed
ed at once to the Rockland House.
E. M. Shepard's Remarks.
Mr.. Shepard said In part: We, who came
from other states, owe a real debt to the
democrats Of New England that they have
called US together on this midsummer day
1t Is good for us to affirm the larger, I'M
DERIVING creed upon which we agree, what
ever may be our differences in its applica-
ton. 1t Is good for u.s. it Is useful to the
country. to affirm our agreement upon
those questions Of national policy which,
In this present year. 1902, are ripe for
practical and present decision by the Amer
lean people at the congressional elections
Nor do We need, in doing this, to deny or
defend or perhaps even regret the differ
ences of past opinion whether among lead
ers OF our party or among us of the rank
and file.
For democrats equally sincere patriotic
and intelligent have, since American party
life began, differed and differed widely upon
practical and present applications of
party creed to which all were devoted Nor
will such differences end while party life
continues sound and useful. In the eleven
decades of the career of the democratic
party there have been such practical diff
ferences, some of them deep and long con-
tinued. The scars of some of them are yet
visible. A half century ago the various and
difficult questions of African slavery led to
a revolt in the party singularly embittered
and calamitous, and a little later they de-
stroyed its traditional wing competitor.
Former Revolt Of Democrats.
democratic statesman of the first rank
whose party had seated him in the presi-
| dency and made him it's candidate a second
time. became the candidate Of the revolt in
| 1S4s. But within three or four years, and
measures by which Henry Clay, aided by
| statesmen Of both parties, sought to save
the Union when threatened by the irresist-
| ible progress Of a moral and humanitarian
| sentiment, the purpose Of the revolt in
| the democratic party became obsolete;
| the bitterness was forgotten in the
presence Of new public dangers and under
| the stress Of cotemporaneous and practical
| questions upon which the leaders and
| masses alike Of the party held a common
| doctrine.
Among the ablest and most virous of the
| supporters Of that revolt, which many good
| democrats then pronounced objectionable,
! was another democratic statesman, and he
| one of the wisest and most far-seeing men
| of his day, who later on, in 1876, was chosen
| by a united militant, high-minded democ-
racy to the chief magistracy of the repub-
| lie, although he was excluded from the
| place to which he was chosen.
Divided During Civil War.
| During the civil democrats found
themselves in internecine struggle. bloodier
| and fiercer than competitions for public Of
flee disputes over political platforms.
| Even before that war began, democratic
differences were bitter enough.
| But in 1868, after the present and prac.
| teal questions of that time were set at rest
| at Appomattox, the democratic party, re-
| uniting its fragments north and south upon
| Tie ptItHilidl CTeeu OF us IOun-
| ders, chose for its presidential candidate the
| democratic war governor of New York, who
| had surpassed all other governors Of the
| land in the number of troops which he sent
| to the war for the Union, and for it's vice
| presidential candidate a noble soldier and
statesman Of Missouri, who, when the issue
| of slavery extension had been dominant
| had been one Of the founders Of the repub-
| lican party.
| You all remember what in 1872 the demo-
| cratic party did in the hope more quickly
| to heal 1.-THE wounds Of the civil war How
ever much we may doubt whether 1t were
| either right or wise to nominate as its
| leader man fundamentally out of SYM
pathy with it's own creed. nevertheless the
democratic party then gave an EXTREMIST
| Illustration of It's ability to be magnani-
nous. and Of its will whether applied
Alright or misapplied) that at every cleo
| ton its political action and policy should be
| firmly related to the national questions
which were then timely. practical, ready for
| popular decision.
| Anent Silver Coinage.
| Again In our own day when economic
conditions and the will OF the people made
| question Of the right or wrong OF coin
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