Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-14
bryan POINTS TIE WAY
Draws Lessons From Life Of
Jefferson For the Future
of Democracy
BANQUET HELD in CHICAGO
Mayor Dunne's Election Referred to
as Happy Omen for the Future of
the Farty-PrincipIe of the Real
Democracy Claimed to Have Been
Sustained.
Sustained.

Chicago April 14.-Subjects of ma
Gonal significance to the democratic
tors of the party at the Jefferson club
banquet, held at the Sherman house
last night, in commemoration of the
birthday of Thomas Jefferson. The
dinner, however, in a measure resolved
itself into a Notification over Mayor
Edward F. Dunno who is a director
of the club, and was among the speak
ers who responded to toasts. All of
the speakers in their discourses re-
ferred to municipal ownership and to
Mayor DUNES recent election on that
platform.
The POSTMASTER of the evening was
Howard S. Taylor, city prosecuting at
torney
William Jennings Bryan and George
Fred Williams of Massachusetts were
the principal speakers. Mr.. Bryan
chose for his subject Thomas Jeffer-
son." and his remarks were greeted
with unstinted applause. Mr. Bryan
took advantage of the OCCASION to con-
graduate Mayor Dunno on his recent
election as chief executive of the city
of Chicago.
w. j. Bryan's Address.
Mr.. Bryan spoke in part as follows:
"We are told that when Moses, the
first great lawgiver had attained his
majority he looked upon the burdens
of his countrymen and sympathized
with them. Altho he had been adopted
by q, princess and was heir to throne,
his heart led him from the palace and
the society of princes to companion
ship with his oppressed brethren.
When a leader was needed to break the
bondage of the Israelites and guide
them in the formation of nation. this
sympathy fitted him for his work.
And no one, it may be added, does
great work whose heart does not beat
in sympathy with the masses. ever
struggling, ever in need of help. 3
"Thomas Jefferson, a!tho not reared
in the environment of loyalty, was
born and educated among the people
who least sympathized with the rights
and interests of the common man. HIS
heart too, was touched by the strug-
giles of his countrymen: and he early
became their champion altho in so do
ing he alienated the landed aristocra-
CIV and the educated classes. In
wealth he was the equal of the
wealthy and his learning brought hlrli
into association with scholars; put
heart kept him in touch with the PLAIN
people, and he earned the right to be
called The First Great Democrat.
cit was not that he was the first TO
conceive of democratic principles or
Ia nreach the doctrines set forth in the
Declaration of independence. That
doctrine was not a new one; but ne
gave fitting expression to the doctrine
at the time of it's greatest triumph.
The aspiration for sef-government
was born with man. 1t has been the
inspiring cause which has led people
in all ages to struggle for freedom Oh
conscience, freedom of speech, lndlvid-
nal liberty and the recognition OF the
rights of man.
Jefferson knew that the verdict OF
history was in favor of government py
the people rather than government by
the few. He knew that back IN the
DAYS Of Greene, when the people mad
chance to. contrast the rule OF the
thirty with the rule of the people, they
learned how much more the people
we're to be trusted.
Jefferson early adopted this philoso-
phy, and he never varied from it to the
dav of his death. To him the people
were supreme. He knew their weak
nesses and their sources of strength,
and. without expecting perfection IN
man or in the works of man, he put
confidence in the virtue OF the
masses.
Jefferson was so much a lover OF
peace. and so ardent an advocate %of
It that he has been accused of lacking
physical courage. Six years before his
election to the presidency he declared
his love of peace and his anxiety that
the United States Should give the
world still another useful lesson by
showing to them other modes of pun
ishing injuries than by war war; he
said. was as much punishment to
the punisher as to the sufferer Four
teen years after he retired from the
presidency, and near the close of his
life. in a letter to John Adams, he
said: L hope we shall prove how much
happier for man the Quaker policy is,
and that the life of the feeder is better
than that of the fighter His advo-
e:acy of peace, does not prove lack
OF physical bravery, but whatever may
have been his physical courage. there
is no doubt that he possessed that
higher quality, known as moral cour-
age, to an extraordinary degree. His
faith in popular government was sub
lime and his willingness to rely upon
the people was one of his most dis
tinguishing characteristics.
ION the subject of acquiring terri
tory by conquest, now favored by an
influential portion of our countrymen,
he said: If there is one principle
more deeply rooted than another in the
mind of every American, it is that we
should have nothing to do with con-
quest and at another time he said:
Conquest is not in our principles; it
Isl inconsistent with our government
ION the subject of taxation he ever
insisted upon it's limitation to the
ao+ual peeds of government and upOr