Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-27
HAY AT NEW YORK.
Secretary of State Defends
 Governments Policy.
SAYS PRESIDENT IS NO WAR LORD
No Designs on Constitution and Holds Peace Higher Than All Considerations Save That
 of Honor,


 Considerations Save That
 of Honor.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-The principal Republican mass meeting of the cam paign at Carnegie hall, New York, last night was crowded to suffocation. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt accompanied by MT. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson, was among the audience. The speakers, of whom Secretary Hay was the chief, in- cluded former Governor Black, Senator Depew, Lieutenant Governor Higgins and M Linn Bruce.
 MT. Hay said in part:
 There was a moment this year when we had hopes of salutary change in the Democratic attitude. They were travel stained and unhappy with their wanderings in the wilderness in 1896 and 1900. They seemed to have made up their minds that free trade, repudi- ation and anarchy were out of date and unbecoming; that they no longer ap- pealed to the public taste. So they tried to get as near to the Republican platform as possible. Some of their leaders apparently intended when they went to St. Louis to say to the coun- try: We are just as safe and sane as the Republicans. We are for the gold standard, for a reasonable tariff, for restraining unlawful combinations without injuring lawful business, for self government not abandonment, of the Philippines But the instinct of blundering was too strong for them. As soon as they got together the power of the mass asserted itself. They turn ed down the gold standard proposition, they declared protection to be robbery and came out fatty for the immediate abandonment of the Philippines. Then they tried to make up for this destruc- tive platform by nominating what they called conservative candidates-for the presidency gold standard, or at least a gilt standard, man, who had voted for free silver whenever he got a chance and for vice president south ern Democrat, enormously rich, who believed in protection.
 with this harlequin ticket and tim idly radical platform they have gone to the country. and little by little their well meant disguise has worn into tat ters, and the party appears in it's old familiar shape.
 ssIs it not sight for men and angels to see the solid south, which exists by virtue of it's notification of the consti- tuition, which promises Judge Parker the bulk of his electors through sup pression of a vast majority of it's vot- CTS, attacking Theodore Roosevelt in the name of an endangered constitu- tion? Is it not groveling farce to see Tammany Hall, whose name is hiss ing and reproach to disgusted civil lization, accusing the Republican party of extravaganza and corruption?
 '.And then that hoodoo cry "Unsafe!" How is it to be treated seriously? Un- safe he undoubtedly is, as the law is to the malefactor, as the judge is to the criminal, as the disinfectant is to the microbe. But what shall we say to those who in the same breath accuse him of dangerous hostility to business interests and also of subservience to the great corporations? Let them an- swer each other.
 ''But we are told he is dangerous to the peace of the world; he is fire eat CT, war lord; he wishes to embroil us in a pGlicy of adventure What does the record say? He and his predeces- sor have done more in the interest of universal peace than any two other presidents since our government was formed.
 "He Is now preparing set of arbi- tration treaties with all the countries which desire them. Tn compliance with the call of the Interparliamentary un- ion, who had confidence in his discre- ton and his love of peace, he is trying to induce the powers to come together once more in conference at The Hague to concert measures for the peace and welfare of the world.
 sAnd yet I would not ask you to be- lieye that the president holds peace higher than all other considerations Sacred as the word is to him, there are others more sacred still-honor and duty. So long as the millennium delays he will stand by American interests and American rights, keeping his sword well sharpened and his powder dry"
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