Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-29
w. j. Bryan Speaks Before New
England Democratic Club
BANQUET HELD At NANTASKET
Thousands of People Listen to
Prominent Democrats Discuss the Is
sues of the Day From Their View
Point.

Nantasl1et, Mass, July 24.-In the
great tent on the shore OF the Massa-
chusetts bay for hours today, throngs
of men and not a few women, listen
ed to the distinguished orators from
various parts of the United States as
they delivered addresses upon the
principal political issues of the day
from the democratic view point.
The speech making was followed
with a banquet, the first to be given
by the recently organized New Eng
land Democratic league, in the Rock
land hotel, at which about 800 guests
were present. Among the list Of
speakers were Hon. P. A. Collins, for.
mer consul general to London and now
mayor of Boston; William Jennings
Bryan; Edward M. Shepard, of New
York, recent democratic candidate for
mayor of that city and Senator E. w.
CarmacH of Tennessee.
The Hon. William ]. Bryan respond
ed to the toast, "The Basis of Har-
mony." He said:
''In view of numerous harmony dim
ners, and the discord they have Great
ed, it may not be out of place to con-
slider the basis of harmony. The word
harmony is euphonious, and the idea
which it conveys is delightful one
Harmony! How it soothes the ear
and calls up visions of peace and love
and joy. Harmony, whether among
the heavenly bodies whose movements
make the music of the spheres or
among the bodies terrestrial with their
conflicting interests and varying
moods, who can resist it's claims or
dispute it's sway Harmony is but a
synonym for order. and is not the re-
suit Of chance but product of mex
orable law. The musician must learn
the scale and properly arrange the
notes, or harmony, no matter how ear
nestly wooed, can never be won.
Harmony in government is likewise
the result Of fixed and Interchangeable
rules. Jefferson states two of these
rules-namely, absolute acquiescence
in the will of the majority and fire.
quent elections-the second aids the
first by giving hope of remedy from
present ills, however grevious. If he
were living today his observation
would probably suggest third rule,
namely, the ascertainment of the will
SO honest that the minority cannot
doubt that that will has been actually
expressed.
Follow Jefferson's Rules.
Jefferson also laid down the rules
by which, and by which alone, real
harmony can be secured within a par
ty. say real harmony, for that har-
mony cannot be considered worthy of
the name which, like the harmony tenn
porarily existing between the conf
dence man and his victim, is purpose
" employed fo: deception and injury.
f'The great founder of the democrat
ic party, whose profound philosophy
sounded all the depths of human ma
ture and measured the heighth and
breadth of human government, not
long before the end of his eventful life,
said in a letter to Mr.. Lee, that there
were but two permanent parties, the
aristocratic and the democratic; that
these two parties existed in every
country, and that where there was
freedom to think, speak and write,
these parties would become apparent
With their aristocratic party he class
ed those who fear and distrust the
people and wish to draw all power
from them into the hands Of the high
er classes With the democratic party
he classed those who identify them.
( selves with the people, have conf.
dence in them, cherish and consider
them as the most honest and safe
though not the most wise, depository
of the public interests Every well in,
formed student Of history will recog