Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-11
TALKS 1O DEMOCRATS
Bryan and Taggart Address the
Jackson Club at Banquet at
Lafayette, Indiana
WHAT PARTY MOSTLY NEEDS
bryan Discusses That Subject and
Says His Party Can Never Win Un-
til 1t Takes the Peoples Side of Pub
lie ouestions-The Given Text of His
Address.

Lafayette, Ind, Jan. II. - Several
party and many prominent state DEM
orcrats broke bread last night at the
eighth annual banquet of the Jack
son Clue, held in honor of the MEM
DRY of Andrew jackson. Following the
feast there were addresses in which
William j. Bryan received the larg-
est share of the applause. but National
Chairman Thomas Taggart was also
accorded an ovation. There We're many
prominent illinois, Ohio and Michigan
democrats, and nearly every county
in Indiana was represented.
4 Mayor George r. Durgan of Lafay-
cite was the first speaker. He spoke
on the subject, Our City, Hon. j..
w. Kern of Indianapolis was chaered
as he began speaking. He chose for
his subject, Indiana" and reviewed
the record of the party in the Hoosier
state. He urged u close union of all
democrats.
After poem by Howard S. Taylor
of Chicago had been read by Michael
Il. Foley of Charlottesville, owen T..
Thompson of Jacksonville, H., made
an address on illinois, Mayor
Holtsman of Indianapolis was the
next speaker. His subject was "Oui
Capital City" When Mayor Holtz
man had finished speaking, National
Chairman Thomas Tagsart arose. He
reviewed the work of the democratic
| ;,, tI,, Ioc. nc.
| dental campaign, as we'll as those pre-
cediny.
Cheers for Bryan.
William Jennings Bryan was the
| last speaker of the evening. For some
time the applause that greeted hin
| ais he arose continued and with smil-
ing countenance he began speaking
| Nh Bryan spoke in part as follows:
WHAT the democratic party mos'
needs today is to be animated by the
| spirit of Andrew jackson, as 1t APP
proaches pending problems. 1t suf-
fered overwhelming defeat last No
vember, and the prime cause of that
defeat is to he found in the fact that
1T lacked this spirit. 1t cannot hope
either to win or deserve success until
it becomes in reality Jackson party
and like Old Hickory, is ready to take
the peoples side of every question
without stopping to count the cost or
| to measure the prospects of immediate
| success.
"The party's position on the labor
question is the only one consistent with
the party's purpose. The government
| cannot be made or administered in the
interests of a class. 1t must protect
each citizen in the enjoyment of life.
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
and guarantee each citizen just share
of the joint produce of that which he
helps to bring into existence.
AS to Silver.
"And what Of finance? The gold
democrats blame the silver plank for
the defeats of 1896 and 1900. l hope
that no one will attempt to make silver
| the scapegoat against the platform
adopted last July, which was wholly
| silent upon the money question. Judge
Parker declared himself unqualifiedly
| for gold and nearly every silver demo-
crat prominently identified with recent
campaigns supported the ticket in or
der to secure the other reforms for
which Judge Parker stood, and yet the
party polled a million and a quarter
less votes than it did in either of the
two preceding campaigns. While the
increased production of gold has in
creased the volume of money and
brought in part the relief that bimetali-
ism would have brought to a large de-
gree, yet some phase Of the money
question is always before the country
and the irrepressble conflict between
hn ne n
never be safely ignored. Every now
and then there is a measure before
congress- the object of which is to
convert about six hundred million sill
yer dollars into promises to pay gold
and this is but a step in the plan to
retire the silver dollars and leave gold
the only standard money. When the
plan is complete legislation will have
destroyed all the benefits which we
have derived from the increased pro-
duction Of gold.
Not only must the city own the
natural monopolies of the city, but
the nation and the state must for the
same reasons follow the same course
in regard to the monopolies that come
within their sphere of operation.
"The party's position on imperialism
has been stated in two national plat
forms, but do not see how the party
can recede from that position. Colonial
ism is antagonistic to the principles OF
a republic and we cannot stand before
the world as the representative Of the
doctrine that governments derive their
Just powers from the consent Of the
governed and at the same time declare
for the permanent holding Of distant
islands under a government resting
purely upon force.
Trusts.
"The party's position upon the trust
question is the only correct one. That
a private monopoly is indefensible and
intolerable ought to be accepted as an
automatic truth, and a sincere belief in
that truth will lead our party to favor
legislation, both civil and criminal
which will effectively protect the pub
lie from the evils Of private monop
oily.
1.-THE party's position in favor of tar
iff reform cannot be abandoned without
conceding the right Of the government
to tax those who consume the products
of protected industries in order to en-
rich the owners Of those industries. IT
is suggested that we are to have tar
lift commission to investigate and re-
port upon tariff revision. but as that
commission will report in favor OF
protective tariff or a revenue tariff the
question must at last be fought out In
congress and the commission will sim