The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-14

laws are our guilt and all the suffering cry out to US who have offended. 1r myself I cannot wait for revolution. I am already too old. Out of the enthu- siasm and earnestness which you have displayed in your canvass. we may look for national uprising necessitated by the same abuses and inspired by the same principles. Nor am I satisfied to go forward upon a basis of sentiment. I
 want a platform and as soon as may be a candidate.
 "Public ownership and direct legisla
 tion' are words enough for the banner which we shall carry hepeafter. We must give notice to the politicians of the party that evasive platforms and | elusive candidates can no more obtain suffrages in a Democratic convention. Mayor Dunne spoke to the toast
 Two Elections and Their Lesson" He said in part:
 Mayor Dunne's Speech.
 The Democrat, party won in the spring election because its platform plainly clearly and truthfuly declared | for principles which were for the best | interests of the people. It lost last fall | because its platform was a compromise
 and because the people believed that 1t l dealt in platltudes rather than princi- pies.
 HS TSSullS Ol llicS6 IWD titCliOhS | should teach the lesson to the men who stand high in the councils of De-
 mocracy that evasion, insincerity and | retrogression should have no place in | the platforms of the Democratic party. | The party must take and hold an ad- vanced position. It must declare against monopoly In any and all | forms, against special privileges in | every guise.
 Jefferson in his lifetime stood for equal rights to all and special privi- | leges to none and if Jefferson were in
 the flesh today he would be standing | against special privileges given to l great corporatioiO whose money is | contributed by private capitalists that
 have seized and taken possession of | the railroads, the telegraphs and the express transportation of the nation, | of the telephones. electric light plants, water works, gas plants and street | car systems of our city.
 1 Private corporations have seized | and taken possession of these means | of transportation and the conveyance
 of information, light and power. all of
 them monopoIies requiring the use of
 public property. By possession of | these monopolies they have been de-
 spelling and plundering the people of | this country.
 The people have at last been awak-
 ened to the fact that such monopolies
 are unfair, Iniquitous and dangerous | to the republic. The blow struck fin Chicago will be followed by blows of like character throughout the cities of | the United States. It also will be tol- | lowed, in my humble judgment, If the l Democratic party Is wise and prudent l and incorporates In it's next platform
 a ringing declaration in favor of gov
 ernment ownership of interstate all 1 roads. telegraphs and express trans
 portation. by a decisive victory in fa- l vor of the common people of this l country.
 Aggressive Democracy is In tho
 handle and if 1t remains aggressive
 1t will carry the country. If the 1 Democratic platform contains enc
 plank iS favor of government owner l ship of interstate railroads, telegraphs | and express companies and another in l favor of the abolition of the protec- l tive tariff. have no doubt that it will | win"
 Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland was
 the next speaker MT. Johnson also ] spoke on municipal ownership. He ! discussed the possibilities of munich l pal ownership from a traction experts view. Among others who spoke du- ring the evening were J. Hamilton Lewis and Clarence S. Darrow. MT. l Lewis spoke on "A Constitution tc Fit the Institutions"