The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-15
DEMOCRATS ARE READY
TO BATTLE FOR PRINCIPLE
Followers Of Thomas Jefferson Seem Spring From the EahFuArmed,
Vigorous Defiant and Confident Number Of Enthusiastic Members
Of the Party Attended the Banquet Last Eloquent
Addresses By Prominent Men Of the State.

|, to be permitted to meet with and ad-
dress the democrats Of Walla Walla
county. Walla Walla and Spokane
counties were pre- eminently the CEN
ters of the democracy of eastern Wash
ington, and that while at times the
democrats Of other counties in the
STATE had faltered in carrying out the
principles of Thomas Jefferson, yet
WaIla Walla and Spokane democrats
had always pressed forward in a true.
courageous manner and had kept faith
with the mass of the people of the
state and the nation. AS a result they
had been strong and potent figures in
the councils of the party of the state.
and there was every reason to believe
that they would continue along the
same line. He then touched upon the
! party in the nation and asserted that it
| was the party of the people. No mat
| ter how much it had erred, or how
many mistakes it had committed, in
the end it had always returned to its
| first love and continued to carry out
| the great principles which had been
| laid down by Thomas Jefferson. 1t
| was a safer party than one which had
no fixed principle. as was the case
with the republican party The repub-
lican party goes from one mistake to
another from one error to another and
| from one crime to another. It Will con-
! tinue to do SO until it receives the just
rebulle it deserves from the mass Of
| the people of the nation. The demo-
| cratic party WAS still young and Wig
| orous and no matter how many un-
/ fortuna,he defeats it had received it
always come to the front again with
renewed inspiration and courage to
carry on its great work which Will ul-
| timateIy end in boundIess benefit to
! the people of the nation. He COM
pared the great difference between the
two parties and admonished his hear
/ ers that never was there a time in the
| history of the nation when the demo-
cratic party was in so good a position
| TO make a gallant fight which would
result in victory being perched upon
| its banner. Senator Turner then ar
| raigned the dominant party for its
| continued policy of protecting what
was termed the infant industries which
had grown to such an extent that thev
| no longer needed protection. There
was no reason for the building up of a
| high tariff wall about the people. ex-
| cept to foster the manufacturing es-
| tabishments Of the nation at the cost
| Of the people The tariff policy of the
| republican party permitted the trusts
, to reach down into the rockets Of the
people and rob them that the great
wealth of the trust barons might be
| increased to unknown proportions He
| believed that President Roosevelt was
| honest in his convictions and that his
| aims were in the right direction. yet
he was placed in such position by
| his party that he could do nothing.
| He had allied himself with a partv that
was against the people. and he must
surely stand or fall with that party.
| He severely arraigned the republican
party for its Philippine policy which
was contrary in every sense of the
| word to the fundamental principles
of the declaration of independence.
The democratic party believed in
stimulating the trade and commerce