The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-23
OLD LINE DEMOCRATS
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Ill crush you" The odious sedition laws
of the old Federalsts are revived and
| upon these are grated the modern Cos
pei Of Subsidy and tribute to be levied in
favor of those organized interests that
exude freely to Republican campaign
funds. Thus we have a government of
the Syndicates, for the Syndicates and
by the Syndicates. Patriotism, as con-
| strued by the Republicans, is but another
| name for Syndication. InsCuba 1t evolves
| about the sugar duties and tobacco. In
| the Philippines about the Offices, the con-
tracts. the public franchises and hemp.
| There comes difference of opinion
among Republicans. as in the case of
| Porto Rico. Rather than face a di-
| vision of his party, President McKin-
| ley recedes from his plain duty" and
let's the syndcates have their will In
the case of Cuba. President Roosevelt
| seems more obdurate, And what fol-
| lows? Why, the leaders get together,
| propose rebate to the Cuban sugar
planters and bounty to the Louisiana
sugar planters and other producers of
domestic sugar. and, at once exclaim
| the faithful, "let it go at that" Who
| yields the rebate to Cuba? The Ameri-
can taxpayer. Who. yields the bounty
TO the home producers? The American
taxpayer Everything for the syndi-
Gates. Nothing for the people. That is
latter-day Republicanism pure and SIM
| pie.
l. 1t seems to me that We have here a
very pretty quarrel as it stands. Why
| complicate 1t with visions, which may
be premature and out of the common
sight, or with theories. about which
| there will be differences of opinion?
1t is a good rule to cross no bridges
until We come to them. We live in a
country where, there being neither
rank nor titles, business considerations
are bound to prevail. We live in an
age of things actual and real. Let US
| meet the Republican claim that the
Republican Party is the only true rep
resentative of the business interests of
the country by exposing the fallacies of
that pretension and at the same time
by showing the merits of our own sys-
tenn of Jeffersonian Democracy; taxa
ton for public purposes embodying a
tariff for revenue only; cleaner methods
of administration at home and in the
outlying territories; recognition of the
power of the people and a greater sense
let us oppose against the Republican
| government of Syndicatism and the Syn
dicates, a 7 nocratic Government, laid
in the written law of the land, strictly
| construed, and headed for the benefit of
the many not the enrichment of the few.
On these lines l believe we can carry
the election in 1904. To some over
jealous Democrats they may seem in
| f9f-so
erything in it's order. 1 am one of those
who believe that half-a-loaf is better
than no bread. We are first of all to ar
rest the downward course of public life,
and to restore the old ideals of liberty
| and law, to rescue the Government from
| the Syndicates, to put a restraint upon
arbitrary power-not to reform the world,
NOR to deal our specifics of universal APP
blication-and, if in the beginning we
| draw line between the possible and
| the impossible, whilst 1t may not meet
the hopes of the more fervid-it will
| surely conduct us out of the long dark
| night of dissenson and into the dawning
light of the day-star of a Democracy, re-
united, unterrified and undefed,
| Henry Watterson.
| The Hon. Charles ii. TruaX, President
Manhattan Club.
Senator Marion Butler of North Caro-
lima and William F. Harrity were greeted
warmly when they appeared in the club
| house. Hoke Smith of Georgia sent a
telegram giving illness as the cause of
his failure to attend. Justice Truax be-
gan the speech making and was followed
by David B. Hill. who was loudly ap-
plauded.
Mr. Hill, among other things, said: II
speak tonight in favor of the maintenance
of the old landmark Democratic party; in
that path there lies safety, honor, sue
cess.
1--WE trace our political lineage back to
Jefferson. who was the author of that
immortal protest against British imperi-
alism, known as the Declaration of indie
pendence. Opposition to the precepts and
practices of Imperialism was thus one
'of the cardinal principles of our party
faith at the very inception of the Gov
eminent. We should adhere to the policy
involved in Jeffersonian expansion. the
reasonable and natural requirement of
territory adjacent to our own.
whenever the American flag of right
floats, II should be as an emblem of free
government, and the Aegis of constitu-
tional liberty, neither should tariff wars
nor custom duties obstruct the path of
American trade from one portion of this
Government to another portion.
THE spectacle is at present presented
of Cuba relieved from Spanish oppression
only to be enslaVel by the United States
In commercial bondage Justice demands
that these impostionS shall cease. Moth
ing but self interest stands i'm the way
of tariff reform for Cuba.
THE Democratic party should again
! press to the front the issue of revenue
re form The Republican principle or prac-
tice of protection - based on the right
to use the powers of government for in
dividual purposes.
our Republican friends make revenue
the incident and protection the main pur-
pose of taxation. The policy of reciproc-
ity is and always has been a Democratic
policy.
1--WE believe in strict construction Of
the Federal constitution as essential for
the public welfare.
I'VE b lleve in home rule for States
I'VE favor an amendment to the Com
| stitution providing for the election Of
United States Senators by the people.
| Opposition to dangerous corporate com
hines of capital should continue TO he
tn d m lcratic position.
'Tha Monroe doctrine first enunciated
| by a Democratic President should re
main "A settled policy of this republic,
We belicEe in hard money-th- money OF
the con, tftution, and are unalteraby OPP
| posed Ia irrt deemable paper currency.
| IF any further enGnciation Of Demo-