The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-25
TATTERSON DESCRIBES
ROOSEVELT As DICTATOR
e,ys the Proposed Army Bill COntempIate8 Mon
8rhiaI Capitalization Of Power.
,os Humor and Sarcasm Directed at the Occupant of the
White HOuse-DemOcracys Future

thing for the syndicates; nothing for
the people. And not content with their
arbitrary power in the White House
and their mercenary power in con-
gress, the leaders of this party of fed
eralism and false pretensiOn would rip
open Pandora box TO fitch thence the
black, piratical fiag Of negro domino
tiGn-the equally disreputabie and
bloody shirt of sectional agitation
and In order to make sure of the
house, those are proposing to bring
forward another force bin TO smite the
south, 70 blight the north and TO con-
vert a land teeming with love and
peace into a land reeking with hate
and strife.
Believes in the Country.
Such is the banquet to which the
exit of Mckinley, the statesman, and
the advent of Roosevelt, the rough
rider, has invited us.
Il am something Of q lingo myself.
/ believe in the expanding greatness
and glory Of my country. ] never see
the flag floating above the domes on
yoHder capitol that my heart pOes not
throb with the proud, glad thought
that my eyes don't nil with happy eX-
ultsnt ideas-that / am an American
citizen. God bless the flag and God
bless the boys that fight beneath it,
] would carry IL inviolate. I would
keep the most spOtless. And within
/ this view ! want to know what is 60
/ ing on away out yonder across the
mVltitudinOus. the mysterious waves Of
/ the Pacific se&. 7 want other witnesses
/ thar self-seeHng politicians and self
exploiting soldiers to come here and
tel me. ] refuse to hold my tongue.
. I refuse to rest content. And II ! am
/ told by a whipper-snappe il shoulder
straps that unless L do [ am a traitor
/ TO my country my reply TO him shall
/ be q slap in the face.
Friends, brothers, Democrats, let
us done with dissension. Let rs turn
our backs on the past. our eyes to the
future. calling the old fight of and the
/ old score square. He who stands WITH
me against these things is my conn ade,
no matter what he thinks on ever
/ thought above silver OF gold. Re who
/ would deny me place by his side ,
] night them must either be very perverde
/ or very blind. Let as cross no bridges
/ tn. we come IL them. But already we
can see far enough ahead 10 take our
; reckoning. There Will be one test or
2 a Democrat IN 1904-toe the Inc, Toe
ne line. saying 20 arbitrary power and
/ absolutism. tTF.aU shalt go no 1urther'
/ we. too, are in the expansion business,
I but our expansion is for the religion
/ Of the constitution no less than Tor the
! religion of Christ and him cTuclhed;
our expansion means peace. not war
/ the honor. not the degradation OF the
flag. and lust as surely as Jefferson
wrote the Declaration Of Independence
and Jackson fought the battle of New
/ Orleans-to resist despOtism-shal we
! make a new Fourth of July and cele-
brate another eighth OF January, n
resisting the scheme to abolish the con-
/ stitution and MeXicanize the govern
m-ut,"
/ Lewis Nixon. the Tammany leader
also spoke. predicting Democratic mar
mony and victory in New YORK