Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-25
WATTERSON CALLS TO ARMS
Kentucky Editor Sounds Political Toosin
for Union in Democracy.
SAYS THAT DEFEAT LURKs IN DlScoRD
Urges All Democrats to Forget Party
DissensiOns and Fight Harmoni-
OusIy Against sO-CaIled
Imperialism.

WASHINGTON, March 24-About $50
guests we're present at the biennial ban
quet Of the Virginia Democratic associa-
tton held in the banquet room Of the Met
ropolitan hotel. Colonel Robert ~ Harper
president Of the association, acted as toast
master. Those who spoke included T. w
Bullock, second vice president of the as
ISOLATION; Colonel Henry Watterson Of Ken
lucky, Senator Carmack Of Tennessee, Hon
Lewis Nixon, the leader of Tammany Hall;
Representative w. w. Kitchins OF North
Carolina, Representative De Almond OF Mis-
souri, and members of congress from Vir-
ginia.
Colonel Watterson urged on democrats
general union of forces in opposition to i'm
perialism in all forms.
In the course of his speech he said:
We are democrats We love our country
our hearts beat true to its institutions. We
would rescue the government from the
nanas q nus OF those who are converting it into
government of the trusts, for the trusts
ana Dy the trusts, and restore IL to the
nahus or those who will have some regard
iican party IS syndicated party. Arbi.
trary power is Its motto the almighty dol
th tSr its trade- e. mark If II be not checked in
MeNicanize the republic.
Man on Horseback.
Once again in the White House we have
e the man horseback Affecting the sim
picity of the cowboy he Conceals beneath
tbe the tdI, tseiI-Gonlidence and queer manners of
tne proncho buster the sentiments and am
bitons II not the talents of a Diaz To
MN little thing like treating an admiral
or the navy, wearing the laurel leaves Of
imperishable renown as if he were a babv
In arms, now to be danded and now to he
spanked Is merely an undress affair begun
ana ended during off moments, between
breakfast and luncheon. To him the repri-
arnnS sII1Iuiils OF the lieutenant general of the
battles of his country, becomes an amusing
morse play meant to relax his muscles and
Illustrate III his high -mightlness. whilst warn
ing lesser, officers of the army to obey
orders and say nothing. As these things
go 20 forward; partaking, somewhat of the
hoodwlnk, public opinion bill OF army re-
6ganas oagsnisation is prepared and urged upon
Tlie congress which If 1t becomes a law will
and which IT is not too much to say ought
TO be entitled AN act to make the nresiS
tator." VIZ
Menaces of OminOus ImpOrt
Because the reprimanded lieutenant gem
eral' answering the summons of a com
mittee of congress-as was his dutySeX-
presses an opinion adverse to this bill II is
Taken In connection with some other mar.
ters OF more or less sinister suggestion
these are menaces of most omnous i'm
But turn from the White House to the
capitol and look at the republicans in con-
them all: Old High Tariff dances the can
can IN the, house, whilst Old Ship Subsidy
aoes the regular cakewalk in the senate
the people And not content with their tI
arbitrary Nepyer In the White House Isnd
Of thsy party of IN the
box to filch thence the black praticai SOf nag :
OF negro domination-the equally disrepiIt7
able and bloody shirt of sectional agitation
and and IN order to NAL Ike sure of the next
another force bill to snite the south 70
blight the north and to convert a land
Ieeming with love and peace into a land
Ieeklns with hate and strife.
Banquet of Transition.
Such is the banquet to which the exit of
Mmcklnley the statesman and the advent of
roosevelt the rough rider has invited u.s.
l am something of a lingo myself 7 he
lieye in the expanding greatness and glory
or my country. j never see the flag float
ing above the domes of yonder capital that
my heart does not throb with the proud,
happy, eXultant tears-that l, too, am an
american am ri citizen. God bless the nag, and
oSiI6 zoo 6iess e the boys that fight beneath it.
would keep them .spotless, and with
this In view | want to know what is going
on away out yonder across the multi
tudinous' the mysterious waves of the Pa
enc sea- want other witnesses than
seIf1seeking politicians and self-exploiting
-.
10 hold my tongue. ! refuse to rest con-
tent; and If am told by a whipper-snapper
In shoulder straps that unless / do | am n
traitor to my country my reply to him
shall be slap'in the face
Away with DissensiOn.
Friends, brothers, democrats, let us have
done with dissension. Let us turn our
backs on the past, our eyes to the future:
call 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 sill
yer or gold. He who would deny me a
place by his side to fight them must either
be very perversed 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 be but one test of a democrat
In l9O4-toe the line-toe the nne-saying TO
arbitrary power and absolutism "Thou
shalt go no further, we, too are in the ex-
panslon business; but our expansion Is for
the religion of the constitution no less than
for the religion of Christ, and Him cruel
ned; and our expansion means peace NOT
war; the honor, not the degrade ton OF the
nag, and Just as surely as Jefferson wrote
the Declaration Of Independence and Jack-
son fought the battle of New Orleans-to
resist despotism-shall we make a new
Fourth of July and celebrate another Sth of
January In resisting this unrighteous
scheme to abolish the constitution and
MeNiCaniZp the N-'N