The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-13
BOOM FOR HEARST
FOR PRESIDENT
Former Governor Budd of Cali.
fornia Its Author.
col. BRYAN ON DESERTERS
NEBRASKAN ATTACKS GOLD
STANDARD DEMOCRATS.

CoLUMBUs. o.. Feb. IA presi-
" dental boom in behalf of VIII
liam r. Hearst, and a bitter at
tack on alleged deserters from the
Democratic party by William ]. Bryan
were the dominating notes at the bar
becue given tonight by the jefferson
Jackson Lincoln league, organized a
year ago by former Congressman John
j. Lentz and others. Twelve hundred
men and women were present. The pro-
gramme OF toasts follows:
Toastmaster's address of welcome
John ]. Lentz. Columbus.
Address Local Self Government for
Cities" Mayor Tom L. Johnson, CIeve-
land.
Address. 1.-THE Plain People and
Their Champions, Ex-Governor James
H. Budd of California.
Address, THE Test of Democracy. -
w. j. Bryan, Nebraska.
Clarence s. DarrOw, leading counsel
for the United Mine Workers, who
was to have responded to the toast.
The Industrial Slave" telegI aph 81
during the day that, owing to his
speech before the strike commission in
Philadelphia today, he would be I'M
able 10 come. The invocation was pro-
nounced by Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow,
the Cincinnati clergyman who made an
unsuccessful campaign for secretary of
state on the Democratic ticket last
fall
Former Governor James H Budd,
who responded to the toast '"The Plain
People and Their Champions" said in
part:
7 might say that I have no objec-
ton to any people asking those to be
leaders who, though not openly sup
porting the parties of trusts and tariff
exaetions, have split the ranks of their
friends and led to victory that ought
not to have been at any time carried.
want them in the ranks, 1 want them
to fight with us but / want the ban
ners in the hands of such men as
Lentz or Bryan or Johnson or Bill
Hearst of New York.
Budd Names Hearst.
Each locality has its men that
it looks upon as champions, and l ind
in the far east those conservative men
who desire to lead the Democracy
again are picking out their champions.
But have not seen a name mentioned
by them under whose shirt of labor
you could strike the iron breastplate
of trusts. Not one of them. In this
state you have champions like Lentz-
You have champions like Tom john
son, whom we have all heard OF. ana
we in the west kaVe Nur champion
The man that We believe, next 10 your
self has done most for the cause OF
the common people; the man who in the
fight when the traitors deserted you,
came 10 your succor and stood an able
lieutenant under your orders; the man
who has fought all his life for
national eight-hour law, for an income
tax for education. for national ap-
propriations for schools, the doctrines
preached by Bryan and the fathers
the man who was born in our state
and a native son whom we regard as
one of the greatest of the times is
William Randolph Hearst, congress-
man-elect of New York -.
sThere are others. many others. But
for me these are enough. Il DO ho'
wish to go farther. because hho"
that I might fare worse.
IN every city of Ohio there shouio
be a club of the plain people VINO
should adopt as its constitution the
constitution of the league that has
given this magnificent dinner tonlgnt,
and if that is the case Ohio IN the mex
presidential election in my certain
Judgment will cast its vote for presl-
dent for one of the four gentlemen
whom | have named as its champions.
w. r. Hearst. who had been invited
to address the banquet, sent his regret
in a telegram in which he said IN
part:
What Constitutes History.
The history OF a country is really
the history of a few great men. III
these men are crystallied the coun-
try's real life and worth Theirs is the
genius which gives expression and
- aOr,trfnfinnC and nTinCl-
ples of the people whom they repre-
sent. The three names that you have
chosen to be represented in unison are
the greatest names in the American
peoples history, save, of course, the
foundation name of Washington.
washington stands apart. He rep
resents the struggle against foreign
supremacy. The three men whom you
meet to honor are the representatives
of plans and thoughts and beliefs OF
the American nation as d free nation.
Washington made American self
government possible, but Jefferson
Jackson and Lincoln directed Ameri-
can government into its popular Demo
cratic channel and made il true.
Until very recently Jefferson, Jack
son and Lincoln could possibly be called
typical Of both of our great political
parties All three of these men stood
for the rights of all the people, and
their views have been represented III
every great political movement until
the later days.
1T cannot be denied that today one
of the political parties has divorced
itself from American principles and
from these great American statesmen
1T is the duty of the Democratic
party to return the power of govern
ment to the people by allying itself
with those popular political forces best
able TO accomplish that result.
What force in the United States to-
day is most in harmony with the true
Democracy. and best able to compete
with this financially organized usurpa-
tion of government?
ITO succeed the Democratic party
must work under the inspiration of the
great names and thoughts of jefferson,
Jackson and Lincoln. And it must
work in co-operation with the ORGAN