The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-25
ATTACK ON ROOSEVELT.
W4TTERSON SPEAKS AT BANQUET
 IN HARRINGTON.

Once Again tise Man on Horseback In
 the White House-Affsctation of the
 Simplicity of a Cowboy.
 Washington, March 24--About 150 ! guests were present tonight at the bi- ennial banquet of the Virginia Demo- cratic association at the Metropolitan | hotel, They included democrats of na- tiona prominence and most of the po- l litical leaders and democratic members 1 of congress from the old dominion. Gov l ernor Montague, Senator Daniels and l Attorney General Anderson were un- l able to be present Among the speak CTS were Colonel Henry Watterson, Of | Kentucky; Senator Carmack. of Ten nessee; Hon. Lewis Nixon, the leader of Tammany Hall; Representative w. w. Kitehins, of North Carolina; Rep- resentative De Aimond, of Missouri, and members of congress from Vir- ginia.
 Colonel Watterson urged on demo- 1 crats general union of forces in oppo- sition to imperialism in all forms He said in part:
 We are democrats. We love our country. Our hearts beat true to it's institutions. We would rescue the gov ernment from the hands of those who are converting 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.
 "Once again in the white house we have the man on horseback. Affecting the simplicity of the cowboy, he con- eeals beneath the self confidence and queer manners of the broncho buster, the sentiments and ambitions, if not the talents of Diaz. To him, a little thing like treating an admiral of the navy as if he were a bab: in arms, is merely an undress affair. To him the reprimandng of the lieutenant general of the army becomes an amusing horse play A bill for army re-organi- zation urged upon congress, which if it becomes a law, will make the power of the president absolute. Because the lieutenant general answering the sum mons of committee of congress ex- presses an opinion adverse to this bill, it is proposed to retire him. Look at the republicans in congress.
 The trail of the trademark is over them all Everything for the syndi- oates; nothing for the people, And, not content with their arbitrary power in the White house and their mercenary power in congress, the leaders of his party would rip open the pandoras box to f1lch thence the black, piratical flag of negro donina tion--the equally dis reputable and bloody shirt of sectional agtation-and 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 convert land teeming with love and peace into land rocking with hate and strife. Such is the banquet to which to which the exit of Mckinley, the states man, and the advent of Roosevelt, the rough rider has invited us
 T want to know what is going on across the Pacific. l want other wit neses than self-seeking politicians and self-exploiting soldiers to come here and tell me 1 refuse to hold my tongue If am told by whipper- snapper in shoulder straps that unless do am q traitor to my country, my reply to him shall be slap in the face
 There will be but one test of demo- crat in 1904-toe the line, saying to ar- bitrary power and absolutism thou shalt go no further, we. too are in the | expansion business; but our expansion | is for the religion of the constitution | no less than for the religion of Christ. Our expansion means peace, not war; the honor, not the degradation, of the flag; and Just as surely as Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence to resist despotisnl-shal we make a new Fourth of July in resisting this un- righteous scheme to abolish the consti- tuition and Mexicanze the govern ment'
 
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