The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-23
CONSERVATIVES, KEYSTONE
David B. Hill Outlines, the
Issues to Be Met.
General Charles e. Hooker Urges
Unity in the Effort to Restore
CONSTITUTIONAL, Wise and
Frugal Government.

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New York, Feb. 22.--The Manhattan
| Club was the scene tonight Of the great
tory. Democrats Of local and national
reputation from thirty-eisht. States were
present. The resolution OF the club au-
thorizing the reception state that the
time is ripe for revivins the interest Of
the people in the fundamental doctrines
upon which our democratic government
was founded"
The plan of reception wss in the hands
Of committee consisting Of John g. Car
Isle. Charles III. Truax and William s.
Rudie.
The speakers announced were ex-Gov-
ernor David B. HILL Justice Charles II.
Truax. Mayor Patrick Collins OF Boston.
and Edward NJ. Shepard.
At the guests table were Governor
Tooie Of Montana. r. A. Collins Of Bos-
ton. Edward NJ. Shepard Of New York.
Horace III. Lupton of Ohio. H. A. Herbert
of Alabama, Allen L. McDermott of New
Jersey. II. ST. George Tucker of Virginia.
Willard Salisbury of Delaware. Edward
Murphy of New York. Don M. Dickinson
Of Michigan, David B. Hill of New York.
James Smith. Jr.. of New Jersey, Dennis
O'Brien of New York, Robert f. Pattison
of Pennsylvania, William r. Harrity of
Pennsylvania, W. A. Clark of Montana,
General Joseph Wheeler of Alabama,
John Clinton Gray of New York. Frank
Campbell of New York, William Elliott
of South Carolina. Charles u. Hooker of
Mississippi, A. w. Subway Of New
Hampshire. s. r. Morss Of Indiana, C. 8.
Thomas of Colorado Frank Prown OF
cut. X. Elias of North Carolina. c.. e. 8,
Weed of Oregon, Joseph Bryan Of vir-
ginia, Judson Harmon OF Ohio, James II.
Martin, william Travers Jerome. John
Sheehan of New York City, Judge Amos
NJ. Thayer of Missouri, Charles 8. Hamiin
of Massachusetts, NJ. e. Ingalls, Of Ohio.
Robert b. Roosevelt of New York City,
Edward Cooper of New York City, Daniel
S. Lamont OF New York City. Norman e.
Mack of New York. George w. Taylor OF
Alabama, Augustus Van Wyck Of New
York City, John d. Crimins, ?. H. Dugro
of New York City, Morgan J. o'Brien Of
New York City, Charles 8. Fairchild Of
New York City. Ben T. Cable of Illinois.
Charles Truax, John G. Carlisle, John
Hone, William s. Rude and Perry Bel
mont.
Among the letters of regret received
were those from Senator Blackburn Of
Kentucky, Governor Beckham Of KEN
lucky, Representative Breckenridge OF
Arkansas. Supreme Court Justice Blan-
chard of Louisiana and Governor Gambler
of Georgia. All voiced earnest wishes
for harmony and success A letter from
Henry watterson Of Louisville. KY, was
read as follows:
hers of the Manhattan Club and fellow
Democrats: l regret that in the body
cannot be with you on an occasion from
which look for great good to come;
but in the spirit and purpose OF your
meeting. l am with you heart and soul.
1t is to be tested in 1904. whether the
Democratic party Is, as of old, leader
of nations and of men. or whether 1t Is
to exist under the shadow of a great
name merely as a bundle Of quiddities
not even efflcacious and coherent in OPP
position.
We need to get away from visionary
and theorizing politics and to address
ourselves to the business of the country.
We have had a surfeit of extremism and
sentimentality. Moderate counsels are
generally wise counsels. The fewer and
simpler the issues. the surer the popular
comprehension and approval The lesser
differences will merge in the greater and
in the end adjust themselves.
The Republican party is party OF
false pretenses. II is clever opportun-
list, seeking to impose upon the public
credulity with sleepless activity and alert
intelligence; but. sharp practices railing.
its ever-ready resort Is menace and force.
Even so good a Republican as MI Hoar
Is told on the floor of the Senate that
his official privileges alone secure him
against prosecution for high treason. A
single wear ago such a threat would have
exposed its author to derision. Republic
canisn however, Is progressive at least
In assumption, and the scandalous impu-
tation is echoed and re-echoed by thou
sands of people who ought to see in 1t
nothing other than a covert attack upon
free institutions.
That is not. OF course, its immediate
intention, or aspect. The Republican
marty has not quite got so far as that
1t is at present less an imperialist than
a commercialist; and yet, behind the ear
of corn 1t holds out to the country may
be seen the biind-br!dle of arbitrary pow
er. All its acts and utterances tend to-
ward policy of conquest and aggression
in the outlying territories come under our
Jurisdiction as consequence of tho
Spanish war, by comparison with which
the reconstruction ct the Southern States
will appear in the light of the merest
trial trin,
The underlying principle OF contempo-
rary Rcpublcanlsu reads scratch my
back and I'll scratch your back" The