The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-03-20
THE IROQUOIS CLUB.
Prominent Democrats from All Sec
tions Barqueted at Chicago.
PLEAS MADE FOR A UNIFIED PARTY.
Democratic Prospects Declared Bright
The Speakers and the Toasts to Which
They What Congress
man De Ar AIond, of Missouri, Said.

man De- AIond, of Missouri, Said.
| Chicago, March 17.-Prominent
democrats from all parts of the
country gathered here yesterday to
attend the banquet of the Iroquois
club at the Auditorium hotel. Pre-
ceding the banquet many notables in
the party held long talks together,
discussing suggestions for the po-
litical campaign of next year. The
speakers at the banquet made pleas
for unified party and the adoption
| of a platform that would meet gen.
eral approval.
Mayor Carter III. Harrison, who yes
terday was renominated by the dem
| ocratic city committee, was the first
| speaker. After welcoming the visit
| ors to the city, he responded to the
toast The City of Chicago" He was
followed by Edward NJ. Shepard, of
| New York, who spoke on Present
| Duties of a Patriotic Opposition"
jackson and the Renewal of the
Bank Charter" was the topic chosen
by Judge Judson Harmon. of Cincin-
natl, attorney general under the sec
ond Cleveland administration.
In responding to the toast Look
ing to 1904" Congressman David A.
DeArmond, of Missouri, aroused the
300 banquetters to high pitch of
enthusiasm. Congressman Dear
mond spoke in part as follows:
political parties, like armies, are
organized to fight battles and win
victories. Enlistments in them are
not for any definite period, but sub
jject to cancellation at any time,
at the option of the enlisted. Once
enrolled as party man, however, it
is a serious matter to desert, and
| more serious far to go over to the
enemy. To attract desirable recruits
and hold them party must have
principles and management which APP
peal strongly to the judgment and
sensibihties of the people; though
it must be admitted that there are
times when an appeal to prejudice is
more potent than everything else.
Parties not well grounded in sound
principles must ever be a menace to
good government, varying in degree
in proportion to their relative size
and prospect of winning elections
directly, or diverting enough votes
from the main column to turn pros
pective victory into sure defeat.
''In our country to-day two great
rivals for political supremacy are
preparing for the contest of 1904, the
republican party and the democratic
party. Flushed with victories I'M
merited, drunken with power usurped
and abused. barnacled with abuses
steadily increasing, under mighty but
bad influences constantly growing
worse, the republicans rely for sue
cess upon the INSCRIPTIONS activity
of the classes whose. interests they
have fostered at the public expense.
hoping they may again delude the
masses whom they have betrayed
Undaunted by defeat, still confident
~ depending upon the people, still
refusing to sacrifice the many for the
selfish favor of the few, however
powerful, still cherishing the princi
pies upon which the party as well as
the structure of our free institutions
rest, the undying democracy gives
promise that it will conduct the
coming campaign with the strength
and ardor and wisdom and unselfish
ness which so often gave it the vic
tory. 1 most sincerely wish that al
who would rescue the republic from
the prOf1igate, reckless. un-AmericaT
rule OF the republican party, may
unite in one grand, harmonious eff
fort for victory for democratic prin
ciples, under the proud old demo
cratic banner.
'Time and events will point ou'
the man for us in 1904. Wha'
thoughtful man can doubt that HI
must be one who was in the demo
cratic column in '96 and again j.
1900? This is not only justice, but i
is necessity as well. Be assured thu
man of the hour will be found: ans
meanwhile let us strive to hea
sores. not to tear open old wounds
Let us invite recruits to join th'
party and not do anything in fol1
or bitterness to drive them from it,
Among the other speakers of tn
evening were J. NJ. Dickinson. o.
Chicago, and Samuel Alschuler, of
Aurora. Ill
Owing to the large number OF
democrats who travelled to Chicago
to attend the banquet and because
of the small number of toasts at
the banquet, a luncheon was ar
ranged in the afternoon at which a
number of out-of-town democrats
responded to toasts.
Former Mayor Thomas Taggart, OF
Indianapolis, in his address, declared
that the prospects for the democratic
party were never better and were i'm
proving every day under the present
administrations. Others spoke in the
same vein as Mr. Taggart and all
viewed the situation enthusiastically.