Evening journal., 1904-09-08
DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATES
Tney Visit Esopus After Dining
at Waldorf-Astoria.
wATTBRsoE SCORES ROOSEVELT.

The Kentucky Journalist Denounees
Presidents Acts In Strong Terms.
Speeches BY Clark Howell Of Atlanta
and Others.
New York. Sept S.-Democratic edi-
tors from all parts OF the United
States who had come here to attend
the editorial congress at the Waldorf
Astoria have gone 10 Esopus 70 visit
Judge Parker They left the Grand
Central station by special train for
Rhinebeck. where the visitors will
board steamer to cross the river to
Esopus.
Last evening n banquet was given
by the Democratic national committee
to the visiting Democratic editors at
the Waldorf-Astoria, Of which Sylvanus
B. Johnson. Washington correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Enquirer. acted as
toastmaster, and there were six re-
sponses 10 toasts. These speeches will
be used as campaign documents by the
national committee.
Colonel Watterson made a character
stlc speech in which he assailed Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his administration
bitterly and suggested Il was time for
public opinion ito get up on its hind
legs and kick the stufiing out OF them
Mr. Watterson said:
Parker. the jurist means peace with all
oil srrlNh
Roosevelt, the war lord. means complica-
tions abroad and corruptions az home,
designed 10 prolong a single party dynas-
~ and TO perpetuate It's favorltes and
agents In power. Every economic quea-
tion must pause before an Issue 90 tran
scendent.
Speaking OF Roosevelt he said:
l would not. for my part. utter an un-
kind or discourteous word. admit that
he IL az sweet a gentleman as ever scut-
tied a ship or cut a throat. indeed very
much that kind OF gentleman, for hoist
ing the black flag over the south. has
he not scuttled the ship Of civil service
reform and cut the throat OF reciprocity 2
Has he ever obeyed the law In case Il
stood In the way Of his humor from the
/ time when over the acquitting report OF
his own commission he removed a state 4
attorney from the ofiice 20 which the peo-
pie had elected him here In the city and
county Of New York 10 the time when,
/ by scratch OF his pen, he usurped the
power OF congress and added many mil
lions Of outlay 20 the pension rollsf IL
he not responsible for the ny by night
theatrical combination mlscalied tho re.
public Of Panama? Was his treatment OF
Miles and Schey the act Of a wise or con
siderate PRESIDENT Was his promotion
Of Wood just either to the army or th'
people7
Herman Ridder, editor OF the New
York Staats Zeitung, followed Colone
, Watterson. His speech was more mod
crate In tone. and he posed as speakin
. for the independent voters Of the na
I ton.
, Howell on the Negro Question.
The burden Of the address made b
, Clark Howell. editor Of the Atlant
[ Constitution, was an attack on Pres
dent Roosevelt for the consideration
he had shown to colored people in IN
south
II speak the sentiment Of the south
be said, when I tell you that the mis-
taken attitude of the Republican presi
dent has done more 10 check the rea
progress of the negro than all else tina
has been done since the war. II hR
rekindled the slumbering embers o
racial hostility TO a degree that hat
not been known since the days OF re
construction"
He said the president had ''in bru
tai and indefensible manner raised tn
lid OF the racial Pandora's box that on
people. black and white might be tor
} mented with the devils that hav'
emerged from H."
The speechmaking was closed by An
drew Mclean. editor Of the Brooklyn
Citizen, who spoke on "The Democrac.
OF the Empire State"