The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-24
SAYS TIME is RIPE.
David b. Hill Tells the Demo-
Gratis What They Want.

New York Feb. 24-Democrats of
local and national reputation from
thirty-eight states were present at the
Manhattan club dinner Saturday night
1t was a reception given to out of
town members of the club" The resolu-
ton of the club authorizing the recep-
ton stated that the time lis ripe for
reviving the interests of the people IN
the fundamental doctrines upon which
our Democratic government was found
ed" The speakers were Ex-Governor
David B. Hill, Justice Charles H Truax,
Mayor Patrick Collins of Boston and
Edward NJ. Shepard.
At the guests table were Governor
Toole of Montana, P. A Collins of Bos-
ton, Edward NJ. Shepard of New York,
Horace H. Lupton of ohio, ID. A Her
bert of Alabama, Allen l. McDermott
of New Jersey, H St George fucker OF
Virginia, Willard Salisbury of Delaware,
Edward Murphy of New York. Don NJ.
Dickinson of Michigan. David B. Hill OF
New York. James Smith. jr-. of New
Jersey, Dennis O'Brien of New York,
Robert F. Patterson of Pennsylvania,
William F. Harrity of Pennsylvania, w.
"A. Clark of Montana, General Joseph
Wheeler of Alabama. John Clinton Gray
OF New York. Frank Campbell of New
York. William Elliott of South Caro-
lima, Charles E. Hooker of Mississippi,
A w. SullOWay of New Hampshire. .
S. Morss of Indiana, c. s. Thomas of
Colorado, Frank Brown of Maryland,
H. s. Cummings of Connecticut, Il:
Elias of North Carolina, c. Z. s. Wood
of Oregon, Joseph Bryan of Virginia,
Judson Harmon of Ohio, James H. Mar
tin, william Travers jerome, John G.
Sheehan of New York city. Judge
Amos NJ. Thayer of Missouri, Charles s.
Hamlin of Massachusetts and Nj. E.
ingalls, of Ohio
David b. Hill said in part: Il speak
tonight in favor of the maintenance of
he old Democratic V.
that path there lies safety, honor, sue
cess. New York will be the great battle
ground of the campaign of 1904. Mr..
Roosevelt will be nominated for presi-
dent. 1t is true that with unseemly
haste and before the burial of the late
president. he publicly announced that
he would not be a candidate, but soon
thereafter he retracted the statement
Permit me to say that the views l eX-
press are my own, but / believe they
are in accord with the sentiment of the
Democracy of the middle states.
we should adhere to the policy in
volved in Jeffersonian expansion, the
reasonable and natural requirement of
territory adjacent to our own When
ever the American flag of right floats it
should be an emblem of a free govern
ment and the aegis of constitutional lib
erty. Neither should tariff wars nor
customs duties obstruct the path of
American trade from one portion of this
government to another portion.
CUBA STILL IN BONDAGE
THE spectacle is at present presented
of Cuba relieved from Spanish oppres-
sion only to be enslaved by the United
States in commercial bondage. Justice
demands that these impositions shall
cease Nothing but self-interest stands
in the way Of tariff reform for Cuba.
The Democratic party should again
press to the trent the issue of revenue
reform. The Republican principle of
protection is based on the right to use
the power of government for individual
purposes. Our Republican friends make
revenue the incident and protection the
main purpose of all tariff taxation. The
policy of reciprocity is. and always has
been, a Democratic policy.
I'VE believe in strict construction of
the federal constitution as essential for
the public welfare We believe in home
rule for states. We favor an amend
ment to the constitution providing for
the election of United States senators
by the people.
Opposition to dangerous corporate
combinations of capital should continue
to be the Democratic position The Mon
roe doctrine, first enunciated by DEM
Ocratic president, should remain a set
tied policy of this republic.
I'VE believe in hard money-the mon
ey of the constitution-and are unalter-
ably opposed to irredeemable paper cur
rency.'