The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1902-04-17
WATTERsON's 7OCsIN.
"Toe the Liner the Democratic
Rallying Cry For 1904.
AGAINST DEspoT1sM AND DOLLARS

The Trademark of the Republican
party--once Again There's Man
ON Horseback In the White House.
The Democratic Kind OF B<pan-
sion-Peace and Honor.
At the annual banquet Of the Vir-
ginia Democratic association in Wash
ington Henry Watterson was the guest
of honor. Mr.. Watterson's speech was
as follows:
1--WE are Democrats. We love our
country. Our hearts beat true to Its
institutions. We would rescue the
government from the hands Of those
who are converting II into govern
ment 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 a syndicated
party. Arbitrary power Is Its motor,
the almighty dollar it's trademark. Ii
II be not checked in the gait it is going,
1t will In the end surely Mexicanize
the republic.
"Once again in the White House we
have the man on horseback. Affecting
the simplicity of the cowboy, he con-
ceals beneath the self confidence and
queer manners of the broncho buster
the sentiments and ambitions If not
the talents of Diaz. To him little
thing like treating an admiral of the
navy, wearing the laurel leaves of i'm
perlshable renown, as II he were a
baby in arms, now to be dandled and
now to be spanked, is merely an un-
dress affair begin and ended during
off moments between breakfast and
luncheon.
"To him the reprimanding 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 while
warning lesser officers of the army to
obey orders and say nothing.
"As these things go forward, partak-
ing somewhat of the character of feats
to divert and blinds to hoodwink public
is prepared and urged upon congress
which IL II becomes law will make
the power of the president absolute
and which 1t Is not too much to say
ought to be entitled AN act to make
the president of the United States q
military dictator
Because the reprimanded lieutenant
general, answering the summons of a
committee of congress, as was his du-
ty, expresses an opinion adverse to
this bill II is proposed to retire him
from the service. Taken in connection
with some other matters of more or
less sinister suggestion, these are men-
aces Of most ominous import.
"But turn from the White House to
the capitol and look at the Republicans
in congress. The trail of the trade
mark is over them all. Old High Tar.
if dances the cancan in the house,
while old Ship Subsidy does the regu-
lation cakewalk in the senate. Every
thing for the syndicates, nothing for
the people.
And not content with their arbitrary
power in the White House and the
mercenary power in congress the lead
erB of this party of federalism and
false pretension would rip open Pan.
dora's box to 9lch thence the black
piratical flag of domination, the
equally disrepY able and bloody shirt
of sectional agitation, and in order to
make sure .1f the next house they
are propos" lg to bring forward an
other fo,H bill to smite the south, to
blight Y 0north and to convert land
teem,ng with love and peace into a
lan@ reeking with hate and strife.
9 am something of lingo myself.
!. believe In the expanding greatness
and glory Of my country. 1 never see
the flag floating above the dome on
Sonder capitol that my heart does not
throb with the proud, glad thought,
that my eyes do not fill with happy,
exultant tears. that 1, too, am an
American citizen. God bless the flag,
and God bless the boys that fight be-
meath it! would carry it inviolate.
l would keep them spotless.
know what Is going on away out yon-
der across the multitudinous, the mys-
terious waves Of the Pacific sea. l
want other witnesses than self seeking
politicians and self exploiting soldiers
to come here and tell me. / refuse to
hold my tongue. refuse to rest con-
tent And If l am told by a whipper
snapper in shoulder straps that unless
] do / am traitor to my country my
reply to him shall be q slap in 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 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
to them. But already we can see far
enough ahead to take our reckoning.
There will he but one test of Demo
crat In 1904-toe the line. Toe the
line, saying to arbitrary power and abb
solutism, Thou shalt go no fartherr
We, too, are in the expansion business.
3ut our expansion is for the religion
OF the constitution no less than for the
religion Of Christ and him crucifed.
"Our expansion means peace, not
war; the honor, not the degradation, of
the nag, and just as surely as Jeffer-
son wrote the Declaration of Inde-