Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1905-04-19
TWO NOTEWORTHY ADDRESSES
Former Nominee Parker, Mayor Nc
CIeIIand, Senator NewIands and 9th
crs Address 700 Democrats at the
WaIdorf-Astoria, Parker Receiving
an Enthusiastic Hearing.

New York. Special-Seven hundred
Democrats attended the Jefferson day
banquet Of the Democratic Club OF
New York at the Waldorf Astoria
Thursday night There were many
there OF national reputation. and chief
among these were Judge Alton b. Par
ker, Democratic nominee for President
last November.
In the banquet room portraits OF
Jefferson were conspicuous. In addi-
tion to MIR. Parker, The speakers were
United States Senator Newlands. of
Nebraska, Mayor Mcclellan, OF New
York, Congressman Henry T. Rainey.
of Illinois. ana ]. ]. Willett, of Ala
bama. Senator Carmack, of Tennessee.
was the only enc OF those expected to
speak who could not attend.
Mr.. Parker was the first speaker.
and he was enthusically rcceivoa
Frequently he was in errupted by ap-
plausc. The speech was on the future
OF the Democratic party and was re-
pletc with suggestions for harmony
and urgent appeals against sectional
ism. John FOX, president of the club,
presided. and his brief speech intro
ducing Judge Parker was applauded
Mr.. Parker said:
/ do not come here 20 make excuse
or explanation aboat tie past to pro-
mote any personal purpose or ambition
Tor the future, or to further the ends
OF any section. faction or interest. |
am moved solely by desire to COM
mune freely with my ccuntrymen who
believe that the time-hoaored doctrines
OF the Democratic party, as dcduced
from the great policies defined by the
man whose birth we here commemor-
ate. and established by the founders
are still true, still alive, still worthy
or acceptance and devotion, and still
necessary, if our institut ons are to be
maintained in their eaIly vigor and
purity.
1t may be conceded that they are
not new-fangled or hys erical. We
can also justify the claim that they
are not destructive to any legitimate
political or industrial interests, or sub
verse to those conceptions OF liberty
and free institutions for which our
fathers suffered. They have approved
themselves in peace and war. Under
their sway, our people Increased IN
number. wealth and power, the poor
and oppressed from other lands found
refuge and welcome. population spread
gradually over territories peacefully
acquired, and industry was free, while
taxes were low and so distributed as
TO discourage monopoly. When these
principles dominated our policies there
was no thought of conquest. or Of
protectorates over distant. alien, and
turbulent peoples; there vas no talk
OF alliance with the great; no question
or making ourselves co lectors of
debts, good bad, just or fraudulent:
and no suspicion that anywhere in the
lexicon of free government there was
to be found the word subject
SOME ELEMENTS IN RECENT.
POLITICS.
We meet after defeat which was
easy to foresce and predicted. 1t was
preceded by division and faction in our
ranks over q period OF eight years and
they have done their worst. 1t was
emphacizcd by the use of governmental
power for partisan purposes, by the
reckless and unprecedented expendi-
ture OF money and by demayogic ap-
peals to interests as wide apsrt as the
poles. VIC have left to us only the
smallest measure OF power in either
house Of Congress; VIC have lost
States whose confidence we had lon &