The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-02
JACKSON DAY BANQUET,
uUMocHATs or NEBHAs1KA HOLD
 CELEBRATr0N.
congressmen DeArmond of Missouri and Hitchcock of Omaha and Senator Newlands of Nevada
 Are the Orators.

Omaha. Neb., Jan. 1.--Neariy 800 Demo crats of Nebraska tonight celebrated the seth anniversary of Andrew Jacksons victory over the British at New Orleans and the 18th annual banquet or the sscn- sonian Club of Nebrasika- The event was the best attended and most enthusiasuc of any in the history of the club. The Nswiands of Nevada. Congressman David De Armond of Missouri and Congressman Hitchcock of Nebraska.
 Congressman De Armond said:
 Conkressman DaArmond of Missouri, in responding to the toast. What of the Futurer' said in part:
 Tt is a question of the ages, and the ages. will repeat 1t until time shall be no more. It is the question of ambition, of hope. of fear. of love. of hate, of charity. of selfishness. The question of great and small, of good and bad. But. as assigned to me this evening 1t may appropriately be treated as question touching the out look of our party.
 Gan the Democratic party win the coming national election? Yes. Will the victory be ours? That is not so easily answered, for that depends upon what the party will say and do when next 1t con- venes in national convention. If 1t shall wisely address itself to the issues of the Ody, aSSettl HutuluS OhcuoifSAyy dpoio- gizing for nothing, and shall name for it's nominees men who ought to be and therefore will be acceptable to its rank and file, it will win. But if in folly 1t re- pudiates its past-its recent pastor if 1t needlessly antagonizes and drives away clements which were not with 1t or which left it in its recent past, the promise of the times and of conditions will prove delusive, and We shall go down to defeat.
 T have no platform to suggest. no cam didates to commend to the exclusion of others. AS one who followed enthusiasti- cally the party flag, borne so nobly by your great Nebraskan, would be unwiil- ing, even with sweeping victory as the price of the baseness, to say ought or do ought in repudiation of the man who led the millions of devoted Democrats who followed the party banner in '9s or 1900. But 'e6, with its stirring activities, is in the great ocean of time that has been; and so 1t Is with 1900. Today is our day, and this is the year of our pressing polit- ical duty, and inviting political prospect.
 'As would not indulge in self-stllti1- cation, so would not be proscriptive. I would welcome all who come to battle on our side now. for what now Is in issue; and I would repel none whose help we may have now, because we did not get 1t in some campaign of the past; just as we welcomed those who came to us first in 's6, after a lifetime of opposition. None who were against us before but sincerely desire to be with us now will come with words of denunciation upon their lips, or the 'holier than thou spirit fin their hearts. The sincere ones who should find a earty welcome and full fellowsip are those who would be with us now for the country's good; because they believe we are for what, in the fight now on, Is right. Those if there be any, who would come to ask us to repudiate our past and hum bly, giorify them for their past, either are utterly wanting in sincerity, or are too vain and to dictatorial, too narrow ana vengeful, to be of value to the party.
 "I am one of those who believe that no man who did not support the ticket in 'ee or 1e0os can be available for the presi- dential nomination in 1914. The reasons for this conclusion are so many and so evident that any specification would be tiresome as well as useless. But the is- sues will arouse the patriotic citizen to a high pitch of zeal and energy. We shall stand for the reforms so ardently desired by many, so vital to many. The country Is ripe for change. The Re- publican party has been tried and surely has been found wanting, sadly wanting.
 Labor and capital bid fair to unite in support of the Democratic standard bear CT. Our platform should tell the world that in our party the criminal trusts shall find a foe not to be appeased or diverted. We should voice the sentiment of Democracy and of fairness for a re- vision of the tariff; not to destroy but to save from destruction. Extravagance, so typical of modern Republicanism, should give place to Democratic economy, with out which governments become intoler- able. The affairs of these United States should engage the best consideration of our nations statesmen, and wild projects beyond the seas should no longer absorb our substance or undermine our noble in- stitutions. Practical, Democratic sense will win.''
 Senator Francis c. Newlands spoke of Democracy in 1so4." He said in part, that after two disastrous campaigns De- mocracy, though still strong in the South, was now in power in only two of the Northern States--Moutana and Nevada and that Northern Democracy had never, since the civil war, been numerically so weak in the Senate and House as now. The contest of 1904 was to be in the North and West, and the candidates. the issues and the organization must be selected with a view to victory there.
 AS to candidates, no single man in the party had so many followers as Mr Bry- 0AS OuC NHS COuHILy ndu not BuIuCleHLly recovered from the rancor and bitterness of the two campaigns in which he led the reform forces with signal courage and brilliancy. to permit his candidacy. Mir. Bryan, recognizing this condition, haF wisely declined candidacy. His vindics. lion would yet come. Meanwhile he would Dc the great popular leader whose infiu- enee would be most potent in keeping the Democratic party in its ancient grooves of devotion to popular rights.
 Outside of Mir. Bryan it would be dif- f1cult to select a man who would be a platform in himself. Of the older Demo- crats all had been identified with the diff ferences of the last two campaigns, and of late in the Northern States, the Dem ocratic party had had no such opportun- ity in State administration as would
 bring Northern leader into prominence,
 The Democratic candidate must, there fore, be either a new and untried man, or one prominently identified with past differences. It was. therefore, ali the more important that the Democratic party should rely upon a careful framing of the issues of the campaign and a