The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-05
HEARST TO THE HOSTS
ADDRESS TO THE AssOCTATrON OF
 DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.
Urges Members to show Special Activ- tty and UntirfnE Energy from Now Till the Close of the
 Polls

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 doiph Hearst. President of the Ma
 tionel Association of Democratic Clubs has Issued an address to that Associa- ton urging upon its members "spe-
 caal activity and untiring energy from
 now to the closing of the polls" Mfr Hearsts address says in part: T hope
 that every official and every individual member of every club in our associa- ton will do all that he can--and more
 than ever before--to promote and ex- pound the interests and beliefs of gem l uine Jeffersonian Democracy. T call upon all members of the clubs
 to begin earnest campaign work im- mediately, to reoFganize where reor- ganization is necessary and especially 1 to respond promptly and energeticaily to every suggestion that may come from the national management of the Democratic party.
 T have offered my services and
 those of my newspapers to the man agers Of the Democracy and insofar as
 have felt justified as your President | in so doing. have offered the much greater influence of the National As
 sociation of the Democratic Clubs. pledRing the hofEst cooperation of nll members to further effort on the lines of that genuine Democracy in which q majority of tke American people pe- | lieve.
 There are special reasons why the Democrats of the United States. should | assert themselves and work energeti- caily in this campaign.
 First and foremost there is the par l amount duty before us-we must re- | store the government of this country to the hands of the people to. whom | and by whom the government was cre- | ated.
 "As Democrats we are interested this | year in repudiating and disprovins by | earnest, sincere work, the charges | made against us.
 The President of the United States. in his formal letter of acceptance, calls
 all Democrats hypocrites and time servers. He says they are compelled to improvise their convictions, and
 that 1t is no wonder they forget their | convictions over night.
 Tt is the duty of the members of the National Association of Democratic Clubs and of all Democrats to unite m | proving that Democrats have principles l and permanent principles.
 We should unite to preach our Democratic beliefs from now until election day. and to vote for those
 principles on that day.
 The Democratic party has a great ACSpCCk 1OE F0otcuF ndS dlSO l a great hatred of vested wrongs, no
 matter how long or respectable their antecedents. Democrats believe in the | statement of their platform that the rights of labor are certainly no less vested no less sacred and no less in- alienabla' than the rights of capital.
 Democrats denounce the deportation l without process of law of workingmen | and women from the State of Colorado l or from any other part of American | soil. The Democracy detests all kinds l of anarchy, and especially that which puts the executive of State, backed by the military, above the laws and | above the courts.
 The Democracy believes in putting ! the thieves out of the postofices and | sll other branches of public service, | from the United States Senate all the
 way down.
 ''The Democrats believe that public property is public property and that not even the occupant of the White House should turn men of war into i private yachts or make of the officers | and sailors of the navy the domestic
 servants of the Presidents household. The Democratic. Party believes in | expansion--it Is the party of expansion as Jefferson was Americas greatest l expansionist. But 1t Is opposed to im- perialtsm.
 ''The Democratic platform says: we l denounce protection as a robbery of | the many to enrich the few and Dem ocrats mean exactly what the platform | says.
 They know that through protection | they rob the workmen and business | men alike, and Democrats If elected will find a way to pull away from the | trusts their protecting cloak-the tariff.
 Those with a hearty pledge for the l Monroe doctrine, that the service of the soldiers be fairly and generously | recognized, and a vigorous protest against the attempt of President Roosevelt to stir up race hatred as an
 engine of political advancement, con ! stitute the main features of the latest Democratic pIyatform worded to meet
 the special condition and emergencies | of the day.
 We Democrats hold now as we did
 one hundred years ago. to the doctrine | of equal rights for all, and special privileges for none; while. Mir. Roose- velt's party and Mir. Roosevelt with
 every appointment in his gift bestowed
 on some trust puppet. hold to the doc
 Urine of special favors for those who | can and will pay.
 William Randolph Hearst"