The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-03-29
Pace BAKING PowpEa Co,
CHICAGO.
wATTERsoN SPEAKS TRUTH,
Republicans Attempting to Mexicanize
This Nation.

At a biennial banquet of the Virginia
Democrat Association held at Washing
ton, Monday night Col. Henry Waiter
son, editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, spoke as follows:
"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 it into a govern
ment Of the trusts, tor the trusts and by
the trusts, and restore it to the hands
Of those who have some regard for the
rights Of the people. The republican
party is a syndIcated party. Arbitrary
power is its motor, the almighty dol
lar its trademark. If 1t be not checked
in the gait it is going it will in the end
surely Mexicanlze 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 Ct the broncho buster
the sentiments and ambitions, If not
the talents, OF a Diaz. To him, a little
thing like treating an admiral of tho
navy, wearing the laurel leaves of i'm
perishable renown, as If he were a baby
in arms, now to be handled and now tC
be spanked, is merely an undress affair,
begun and ended during off moment:
between breakfast and luncheon. TC
him, the reprimauding of the lieutenant
general Of the army, grown gray in tht
fighting Of the battles of bis country,
becomes an amusing horse play, mean n
to relax his muscles and illustrate biz
high mightiness, whilst warning lesser
officers Of the army to obey orders and
say nothing. AS these things go for
ward, %partakiug somewhat of thl
character Of feats to divert and blind;
to hoodwlnk public opinion, a bill 0
army reorganization is prepared anC
urged upon congress which, if It be
comes q law, will make the power 0
the president absolute, ana which it j
not too much to cay ought TO be en-
titled IAN act to make the President o
the United States a military dictator.
Because the reprimanded lieutenan
general, answering the summons of
committee OF congress-as was hi
duty-expresses an opinion adverse t
this bill, it is proposed to retire hir
from the service. Taken in connection
with some other matters Of more or les
sinister suggestion, these are menace
OF most omlnous import.
"But, lurn from the white house /
the capitol aud look at the republican
in congress. The trail Of the trade
mark is over them all. Old Hlg
Tariff dances the can-can in the hous'
whilst old Ship Subsidy does Il
regular cake walk in the senate. Ever,
thug for the syndicates. Nothing fl
the people. And, not content vii
their arbitrary power in the viii
house and their mercenary power
congress, the leaders Of this party
federalism and false pretension wou
rip open Pandora's box to flch them
The black, piratical flag Of negro don
ination-the equally d%isreputable at
bloody shirt Of sectional agitation.
and, in order to make sure Of the ne
house, they are proposing to bril-
forward another force bill TO smile 4
south, TO blight the north and to co
vert a land teeming with love al
peace into a fand reeking With ha
sud strife. Such is the banquet
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