Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-04-03
DEMOCRATIC DUTY
AS OUTLINED BYHENRY WAITER.
SON IN A RECENT SPEECH.
The Man on Horseback in the White House, to
Whom All Things Come Easy-Watterson
Pays His Respects to Consress-ic Appeals
for Harmony.

At the biennial banquet of the Virginia
DemOcra &c Association, held at the Ma
tlonal Capitol March "a, Henry Waiter
son, the principal speaker, urged upon
the democrats the general union of
forces in opposition to imperialism in all
forms. He said in part
'We are democrats. We love our coun-
try. Our hearts beat true to its institu-
tons. We would rescue the govern
ment from the hands of those who are
converting it into government of 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 syndicate party. Arbitrary
power in its motive, the almighty dollar
it's trademark.
''Once again in the W hite House we
have the man on horseback Affecting
the simplicity of the cowboy, he conceals
beneath the self-confidence and queer
manners OF the bronco buster the senti-
ments and ambitions, if not the talents,
OF Diaz. To him little thing like
treating an admiral of the navy, wearing
the laurel leaves Lf imperishable renown,
as ii he were baby in arms, now to be
handled and now to be spanked, is merely
an undress affair begun and ended dur
ing of 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
county, becomes an amusing horseplay,
meant to relax his muscles and illustrate
his high mightiness whilst warning
lesser officers Of the army to obey orders
and say nothing.
"But turn from the White House to
the capitol and look at the republicans
in congress. The trail of the trademark
is over them all. Old High Tariff dances
the cancan in the house. whilst old Ship
subsidy does the regular cakewalk in the
senate. Everything for the syndicates,
nothing for the people. And, not content
with their arbitrary power in the White
House and their mercenary power in
| congress, the leaders of this party OF fed
eralism and false p,etension would rip
open Pandora's box to fitch thence the
black, piratitcal flag of negro domination
the -e(rsilly disreputable and bloody
shirt of sectional agitation-and in order
to make sure OF the house, they are pre-
posing to bring forward another force
bill to smite the South, to blight the
North, and to convert a land teeming
with love and peace into land rocking
with hate and strife. Such is the ban
quet to which the exit of Mckinley, the
statesman and the advent of Roosevelt,
the rough rider, has invited us.
81 am something of lingo myself. I
believed in the expanding greatness and
glory of my country. l never see the flag
floating above the dome on yonder cap
itol that my heart does not throb with
the proud glad thought that | am an
American citizen. God bless the flag,
and would carry it inviolate | would
keep it spotless And with this in view
l want to know what is going on away
out in yonder. across the multitudinous,
the mysterious waves of the Pacific sea-
l want other witnesses than self-seeking
politicians and self-exploiting soldier to
come here and tell me. l refuse to hold
my tongue. refuse to rest content. And
if am told by a whipper snapper in
shoulders straps that unless do am a
traitor to my country my reply to him
shall be slap in the face.
"Friends, brothers, democrats let us
be done with dissension. Let us turn our
backs on the past, our eyes to the future,
calling the old fight off and the old score
square. He who stands with me against
these things is my comrade, no matter
what he thinks or ever thought about
cllNCi VI SOiNs iiC W III WOultt uclly ulc
place by his side to fight them must
rather be very perverse or very blind.
Let us cross no bridges till we come to
them. But already we can see far en-
ough ahead to take our reckoning.
There be will one test of democ at in
19O4-toe the line, saying to arbitrary
power and absolutism. "rhou shalt 60
no further; we are in the expansion
business; but our expansion is for the re-
ligion of the constitution no | IS than
for the religion of Christ and Him cru
Gifted 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
and Jackson fought the battle of New
Orleans, to resist despotism, shall we
make new Fourth of July and celebrate
another Sth OF January, in resisting the
scheme to abolish the constitution and
Mexicanize the government