The Cairo bulletin., 1904-01-02
DEMOCRATS HOLD
A LOVE FEAST
Issues Of the Day Discussed by
Big Men.
VIM. J. BRYAN EXT0LLED
FORGET THE PAST AND VEL.
COME TO FELLOWSHIP ALL
WHO COME.
By Associated Press.

Omana, NeD., Jan. Liver ouo Ne /
braski Democrats tonight celebrated !
the ninetieth anniversary of Andrew
Jackson's victory at New Orleans, and
incidentally the thirteenth annual ban
quet of the JacKsonian club of Nebras- /
ka. The speakers were all men of
prominence, and included Senator !
Newlands of Nevada. Congressman
Dearmond of Missouri and Hitchcock
of Nebraska. The banquet was also
a reunion of party factions known as
gold and silver Democrats. The
affair was in the nature of love
feast and the participants were quite
enthuastic. Congressman Hitchcock
spoke on The Laggard Law" in
which he maintained that law has
Jagged behind the outlaw. He thought
the time had come when America
should avoid socialism The regula.
tion of the trusts he said must give
way to the regulation of the man be.
hind the trusts. Put a stop to multi
millionaires and you put stop to
commercial giants" John NJ. Reed
of Des Moines, spoke on Democracy
from the stand point of voter"
Congressman DeArmond, In re-
spending to the toast what of the
Future?" said in part:
1T is question of the ages and
the ages will repeat it until time shall
be no more. 1t is the question of am
bitiOn, of hope. of fear. of love, of
hate, of charity. The question of good
and bad, great ami small But, as as
signed to me this evening, II may ap.
propriately treated as question touch
ing the outlook of our party.
Can the Democratic party win the
coming national election? Yes. viii
the victory be ours? That Is not so
easily answered. for that depends
upon the party will say and do when
next II convenes In national conven-
tion. If it shall wisely address itself
to the issues of the day. asserting
nothing Extensively. apologizing for
nothing, and shall name for It's nom
inees men who ought to be and there.
fore will be acceptable to its rank
and file, 1t will win. But If in folly
1t repudiates its past--its recent past
or II 1t needlessly antagonizes and
drives away elements which were not
with II or which left II in its
recent past, the promises of the times
and of conditions will prove delusve
and we shall go down 10 Gefeat.
II have no platform to suggest, no
candidate to commend to the excu.
sion of others. As one who followed
enthusiastically the party flag. borne
so nobly by your great Nebraskan, |
would be unwilling. even with sweep.
ing victory as the price of the base.
ness, to say ought or do ought in the
Reputation of the man who led on
the millions of devoted Democrats
who followed the party banner in
9G or 1900 But SO, with its stirring
activitits, is in the great ocean of
time that has been, and so IL Is with
1900. Today Is our day and this Is
the year of our pressing political duty,
and inviting political prospect
"As would not indulge in self
qualification, so | would not be pro
scriptive. | 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 II in some
campaign of the past; just as we vel
J coined those who came to us first in
'96. after life time of opposition
None who we're against us before
sincerely desire to be with pc nov
will come with words of denunciatior
upon their lips. or the 'holier thai
: thou spirit In their hearts. The sin
cere ones, who should find a hearty
welcome and full fellowship are thos,
who would be with us now for thei
cotntrys good, because they believe
we are for what. in the fight nov on
Is right Those, II there be any. VIII
T would come to ask us to repudiatt
our past and humbly glorify them TO
their past, either are utterly wan.in
in sincerity or are too vain and to
dictatorial, too narrow and too vengt
full, to be of value to the party.
7 am one of those who believe tha
$ no man who did not support th
ticket In SO or 1909 can be availabl
: for the presidential nomination
1904 The reasons for this concll