The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-14
Appeals For Harmony and Against SectiOnaliSm.
RECEPTION ENTHUSIASTIC
Jefferson Day Banquet in
 New York.
Many Other Orators of National Repu- tation Heard by the Club, Among Them Wiliett
 of Alabama.

New York. April 13.-Seven hundred Democrats attended the Jefferson Day banquet of the Democratic Club of New York at the Waldorf tonight. There were present many men of na- tional reputation and chief anon g these was former Judge Alton B. Park CT. Democratic nominee for President last November.
 In the banquet room portraits Of Jef- ferson were conspicuous.
 In addition to Mir. Parker the speak, CTS were United States Senator New lands of Nevada. Mayor Mcclellan of New York; John W. Kern of Indiana, Congressman Henry T. Rainey of IIli- nois and J. J. Willett of Alabama and Augustus Van Wyck. Senator Car mack of Tennessee was the only one of those expected to speak who could not attend.
 MT Parker was the first speaker and he was enthusiastically received. Ere Quently he, was interrupted by ap- plause. The speech was on the future of the Democratic Party and was re- plete with suggestions for harmony and urgent appeals against sectienaI- ism. MT. Parker said:
 Judge Parker's Speech.
 do not come her to make excuse or explanation about the past, to promote any personal purpose or ambition Tor the future, or to further the ends of any section, faction or interest l am moved solely by a desire to commune freely with my countrymen who be- lieve that the time- honored doctrines Of the Democratic party. as deduced from the great policies defined by the man whose birth We here commemorate, and established by the founders. are still true, still alive, still worthy of accept ance and devotion, and still necessary, if our institutions are to be maintained ed in their early vigor and purity,
 It may be concealed that they are not ewfangled or hystericaL We can also justify the claim that they are not de- structiye of any legitimate, political or those conceptions of liberty and free institutions for which our fathers suf- fered. They have approved themselves people increased in number. wealth aud power, the poor and oppressed, from other lands found refuge and welcome. population spread gradually over terfl- tories peacefully acquired. and indus try was free while taxes were low and so distributed as to discourage monop. oily. When these principles dominated our policies there was no thought of conquest. or of protectorates over dis tant. alien. and turbulent peoples; there was no talk of alliance with the great: no question of making ourselves col lectors of debts. good or had, just or fraudulent; and no suspicion that any where in the lexicon of fr' ] govern ment there was to be four the word "subject."
 Some Elements in Recent Politics..
 We meet after a defeat which was easy to foresee and predict. It was pre- ceded by division and faction in our ranks over period of eight years ana they have done their worst. It was e:n- phasizcd by the use of governmental power for partisan purposes. by the reckless and unprecedented expenditure of money, and by demagogic appeals to interests as wide apart as the poles We have left to us only the smallest measure of power in either house or Congress, we have lost States whose confidence we had long commanded. and the number of Governors and State Legislatures under our control Is sur prisingly small.
 We may, however. recall that this is not the first time that the party has been in what seemed hopeless minori- ty. It was so from 1860 until 1876 when great wrong, which has been far reaching in its effect upon morals and justice. left it In minority for another eight years. But, even when It's condl- tion was least encouraging. 1t was stili the same consistent advocate of patri- otic and manly policies as when It was in the full plenitude Of power during the first sixty years of the last century. Rallylng about its natural leaders as courageous and patriotic as any known to our poIitfcal history-it was then, as always its virtue to be national par ty These leaders kept themselves In touch with every question or current interest in every hamlet in the Cnlon' Nothing American was alien to them.
 Power of the Party as a Minority.
 During the Civil War IT. dncr more .,da tns9 of the firing lines of the two great armies which faced each other, all oeueVlng themselves right. On the morrow or Appomattox. theye the victors and the vanouished. had scattered to their re- spectIve homes, all bent upon promot ing peace, all understanding each otn- triais ali facing the same great prob iems In the foulest of all days in our national life-those of so-calleu recon etruction-these soldiers largely Ie r,itod Tt from other peaceful patriotic men in the North, were found voting to- gether. ., .,,.ra came to the front in our national councils the great historic figures or InurInain' Hendricks, Bayard. seymour; sdce Hff Mcclellan and Tilden. In hto, the idT yoIept preiudices and opposition, which mleht well have daunted the braVest, these men were able to combat ana tU ,,P IEel at come, that sectional policy which at one time almost dominated the couh- try. When, in spite of aggresslohs:; fairly divided between, the nhisISe siS'dfed corruption of the suffrage, these men had been successful, they were rem forced by Lamar, George, Hampton. Hill, Vance, Morgan, Vest. and many other strong and patriotic men from the South,
 field of national politics. so nobly uni ted to combat human passion at it's worst estate, were hundreds of thous- ands of sturdy men in the North who as Governors. members of State legis- latures, committeeman of every grade. and private citizens, carried the strug- gle of free government down into the smallest political division of the coun- try Everything was won except tha Presidency. in spite of which Demo keep at bay the enemies of good will Why the south Has Been and is True. the South has remained solid. and yet no student whatever his prejudices. could overlook the fact, that in poli- tics there is a sense of gratitude. not for favors expected, but for unselfish and commanding services to humanity. Indeed. nothing in all the recorded history of mankind has been more pa thetic. more heroic, more deserving of admiration and sympathy, than the attitude of the South since 1865 As fate would have it. their defeat in war was the smallest of their woes because 1t could neither threaten nor bring dis honor But the new contest-with partisan rancor. with military power. with theft and robbery. with poverty f1~ ,~f