The age-herald., 1902-03-25
HerH VattersOn Severely Af- raigns Roosevelt and the
 Republican Party
"EXIT OF STATESMAN AND ADVENT OF BRONCHO- BUSTER
Not Satisfied With Playing to the AL mighty Dollar, MT. Watterson Says the Republicans Are Stir
 ring Up Bitter sectionaism.

Washington, March 24-About one hun dred and fifty guests were present to- night at the biennial banquet of the Vir- ginia Democratic Association held in the banquet room of the Metropolitan hotel They included Democrats of national prominence and most of the political leaders and Democatic members of Con- gross from the Old Dominion. Those who spoke included the following: T. W. Bull lock, second vice president of the asso- ciation; Col. Henry Watterson, of Ken lucky; Senator Carmack of Tennessee; Hon. Lewis Nixon, the leader of Tam many Hall, Representative W. w. Kitch- ems of North Carolina; Representative De Armond of Missouri and members of Congress from Virginia
 Col. Watterson urged on Democrats a general union of forces in opposition to imperialism in all forms. He said:
 Republicans Will Mexicanize.
 There is no drop of blood in my veins which is not Virginia blood. although for purposes of my own, having a deep de- sign beneath them, l chose this capital of the nation for my birthplace, my earl fest vision of paradise-the very dawn of all my conceptions of honor and duty and glory-nestled among younder hills across the Potomac; and. when l go hence, my ashes shall repose upon the bosom of Kentucky, Virginla's first born and fair est daughter. We are Democrats We love our country. Our hearts beat true to its institutions We would rescue the gov ernment from the hands of those who ara converting 1t into a government of the trusts for the trusts and by the trusts and restore 1t 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 it's motor, the almighty dollar it's trade mark. If it be not checked in the gait it is going. it will in the end surely Mex tcanize the republic.
 Once again in the White House we have the man on horseback. Affecting the simplicity of the cowboy, he conceals beneath the sef-confidence and queer manners of the broncho-buster the senti- ments and ambitions, if not the talents of Diaz. To him. little thing like treat ing an admiral of the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of imperishable renown, as if he were a baby in arms, now to be handled and now to be spanked, is mere ly an undress affair begun and ended dur ing 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 go forward partaking somewhat of the character of 
 public opinion, a bill of army re-organi- zation is prepared and urged upon Con- gress which, if it becomes a law. will make the power of the President abso- lute, and which 1t is not too much to say ought to be entitled An Act to Make the President of the United States a Military Dictator" Because he reprimanded the lieutenant general answering the sum- mons of a committee of Congress-as was his duty-expresses an opinion adverse to this bill, 1t Is proposed to retire general from the service. Taken in con- nection with some other matters of more or less sinister suggestion these are menaceS of most omnibus import
 Roosevelt, the Rough Rider.
 "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 
 Subsidy does the regular cake-walk In the Senate. Everything for the syndi- cates. 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 federalism and false pretension would rip open Pandoras box to fllch thence the black piratical flag of negro domination-the equally disreputable and bloody shirt of sectional agitation; and fin order to make sure of the next House, they are proposing to bring forward an- other force bin to smte the South, to blight tho North and to convert a land teemfng with love and peace into a land reelzing with hate and strife Suoh is the banquet to which the exit of McKin- lev the statesman, and the advent of Roosgyet, the Rough Rider has invit- ed us.
 q nm something of jingo myself. believe in the expanding greatness and glory of my country, I never see the | flag floating above the dome on wonder Canitol that my heart does not throb | with the proud. glad thoug4lt-that my | eves do not i'll with happy exultant tears | that I. too, am an American citizen. | C,oa bless the flag and God bless the boys | that fight beneath 1t I would carry 1t l iuytoiate; I would keep 1t spotless; and | with this in view, want to know what | Is going on away out ycnder across the | multitudfuous, the mysterious waves of | tbe Pacific sea. I want other witnesses | than self-seeRing politicians and self-ex- | noiting soldiers to come here and tell | me. I refuse to hold my tongue. refuse | to rest content. And if am told by a | vhtpper-snapper in shoulder straps that l un,ess I do I am a traitor to my coun- | try, my reply to him shah be a slap in | the face
 "Friends, brothers. Democrats, let us | have done with dissension. Let us turn |