The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-05
DEMOCRATIC ROOMS START.
MCCLELLAN DINNER TAKEN AS
 THE OPPORTUNITY.


 From ihe Governorship to the White House-oIney Praises CieveIand-An Alleged Wireless Message from mr.
 Bryan.
 New York, Jan. 4.-Democrats of prominence from the city, state and nation assembled here tonight at the dinner in honor of George B. McClel- Ian, the newly installed mayor of New York city.
 Grover Cleveland, Judge Alton B. Parker, Senator German of Maryland and Senator Morgan of Alabama sent letters of regret. The speakers includ- ed Messrs. Mcclellan, Olney, Hill, Towne and De Armond. w. Bourke Cochran, who acted as toastmaster, in- troduced as the first speaker Mayor Mcclellan in an address in which af- ter referring to questions of national policy, he briefly touched on political conditions in New York city.
 MT. Mcclellan was introduced as the illustrious son of an illustrious sire. He said in part:
 Tt was my god fortune two months ago to lead the democratic party to vic- tory in this city. It was my fortune to be the standard bearer in the first successful skirmish preliminary to the great battle which is to be fought this year, and so in hearing your cheers, I feel that they are not intended so much for the man as for the cause which he had the honor to represent. And for that cause I ask you to join with me in sending from this great democratic gathering in this great democratic city the goods news to our brethren throguhout the land that we democrats of New York are resolute in our pur- pose to wrest the state and nation from republican misrule."
 The closing paragraph in MT. Cleve- lands letter was as follows: Those far beyond the limit of New York who love the democratic party confidently expect that the methods of the new municipal administration will be so clean and efficient, and it's high pur- poses so manifest in all things, as to impress the entire country with the se- curity and peace promised by the na- tional supremacy of safe and conser- vative democracy"
 General Montague of Virginia in concluding his speech said: "The south did not aspire to direct the considera- tion of the country to a candidate. but she should declare that he be a pure minded patriot, clean public servant; courageous, but not venturesome, zeal- ous but not picturesque, sober in judg- ment but not fanatical in faith. With such a candidate, supporting a conser- vative and just policy for a sane and safe people, the speaker added, we may seen coming to every fireside and to every hand an equality of opportuni- ty and of right and of duty, the pub lies best gifts.''
 MT. OIney was then introduced as a diplomatist who had never followed the policy of wandering around the world, seeking quarrels with weaker nations, and as the pride of New England but enthroned in the hearts of all his coun- trymen."
 Tn concluding his speech Mr. Olney said: MT. Chairman, the man of all men most thoroughly representative of the national policies I have indicated, the most capable and sure of making them effective-the opportunity being given-the man of the proven courage of his convictions, who never yet turned his back upon the approach of public duty, and is too old to learn how, that man unfortunately absent at this time, but a New Yorker by adoption, if not by birth, and one whom New York has always delighted to honor, that man is Grover Cleveland, whose record in the past is an all-sufficient guarantee of his action in the future
 Former Governor Hill was greeted with loud applause when in his intro- ductory remarks he eulogized the lead eIship of Charles F. Murphy and pre- dicted that Mayor Mcclellan would succeed him (I1ill) as governor of the state and precede him in the White House.
 Suggesting a platform, he urged blanks for tariff revision which shall secure equal privileges to all, revenues limited to the necessities of the treas ury and an equitable adjustment of ex- orbitant duties,' and adequate laws for the regulation and control of combina- tions of capital. ''In regard to the money question our differences are greatly exaggerated and much misrep- resented. There ought not to be any difficulty at this time in framing a financial plank acceptable to every in- telligent and reasonable democrat. The logic of events has cleared the situa- ton. It is not believed that any fur ther monetary legislation Is now desir- able. If a specific plank on this subject is needed, then a simple declaration in favor of international bimetallism to be secured by an agreement between the leading nations of the world, in the event that further coinage legislation becomes necessary, would be unobjec- tionable."
 States senators by direct vote; rigid adherence to the Monroe doctrine and the avoidance of an eastern policy pre- venting it's consistent enforcement; the admission to statehood of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, and opposi- 7 ton to the maintenance in American } possessions of colonial systems of gov- ernment analogous to the British colo nial system, were urged his suggestion ! for plank on taxation being:
 "We should declare that we are op- " posed to any system of taxation that 3raises hundreds of millions of dollars 1,more than is necessary to pay the ex-