Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-04-02
THE DEMOCRATIC WAR CRY!
No Government OF Trusts, by Trusts and fol
Trusts Henry Wattersons Speech.

No Government OF Trusts, by Trusts and for
Henry Watterson's Speech.
About $50 guests were present on
Monday night, March Oath, at the
biennial banquet of the Virginia
Democratic Association, held in the
banquet room of the Metropolitan
Hotel, Washington, d. G. They in
cluded Democrats of national promi-
nence and most of the political lead
ers and Democratic members of Con-
gress from the Old Dominion. Owing
to the fact that the Constitutional
Convention is in session, and that
the Virginia General Assembly is
nearing its close, Governor Monta-
que, Senator Daniel and Attorney
General Anderson were unable to be
present and sent their regrets. Col.
Robert N. Harper, president of The
association, acted as toastmaster.
Those who spoke included the fol-
lowing: T. w. Bullock, second vice
president of the association; Col.
Henry Watterson, of Kentucky !;
Senator Carmack, of Tennessee !;
Hon. Lewis Nixon, the leader of
Tammany Hall Representative w.
w. Kitchin, of NorSh Carolina !:
Representative De Almond, of Mis-
souri,, and members of Congress from
Virginia.
Col. Watterson urged on Demo.
Gratis a general union of forces in op-
position to imperialism in all forms.
He said
"There is no drop of blood in my
veins which is not Virginia blood.
Although for purposes of my own,
having deep design beneath them,
I chose this Capital of the nation for
my birthplace, my earliest vision of
paradise-the very dawn of all my
conceptions of honor and duty and
glory-nestled among yonder hills,
across the Potomac, and when | go
hence my ashes shall repose upon the
bosom of Kentucky, Virginia's first
born and fairest daughter. There
seems, therefore, some fitness in my
sitting among you. Anyhow, being
Kentuckian and Democrat, am
glad to be here and you will not, /
hope, think me assuming any conse-
quential airs and graces if I add that
l feel very much at home.
awe are Democrats. We love
our country. Our hearts beat true
to its institutions. We would res
cue the Government 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. The Republican party
is a syndicated party. Arbitrary
power is its motor, the almighty
dollar its trade mark. If it be not
checked iii the gait its going it will
in the end surely Mexicanize the Re-
public.
"Once again in the White House
we have the man on horseback. AZ
fecting the simplicity of the cowboy,
he conceals beneath the self-conf-
dence and queer manners of the
broncho buster, the sentiments and
ambitions, if not the talents, Of a
Diaz. To him little thing like
treating an admiral of the navy,
wearing the laurel leaves of imper-
ishable renoWn, as if he were baby
in arms, now to be dawdled and now
to be spanked, ie merely an undress
affair begun 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, whilst warning lesser
officers of the army to obey orders
and say nothing. AS these things
60 forward, partaking somewhat of
the character of feats to divert and
blinds to hoodwink public opinion, a
bill of army reorganization is pre-
pared and urged upon Congress,
which, if it becomes law, will make
the power of the President absolute.
and which if it is not too much to
say, ought to be entitled sAn act to
make the President of the United
States military DICTATOR Because
! the reprimanded lieutenant general,