Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-21

theme of Congressman H. T. Rainey of Illinois at the Jefferson dinner of the Harlem Democratic club in New York city. He said in part:
 "a crisis in the history of the Demo cratic party has been safely passed. The tendency to swing away from tho theories advocated by Jefferson has been arrested. and today Democrats all over the land are again with renewed energy and courage taking up the fight for the honest, old fashioned Democ- racy which the many sided Jefferson believed and taught.
 We have been straying in forbidden pastures, but we are now again re- turning to the straight highway along which we travelled in the days of lief ferscn and Jackson. We have permit ted men 10 occupy the executive posi- tions in the party whose alliances were with the trusts and not with the peo- pie. We have made the mistake of yielding to the conservative, nOnpro- gressive elements in the party.
 The Democratic party. mindful of its glorious career in the past. when il was the party Of progress, is living now in the present and is preparing for the future. In all those sections of the country where the new Democratic spirit of activity is now at work there is no longer any talk of conservatism as that term was used last year. We are not finding fault; there is no time for that in this busy world of action. We only say we have retreated far enough. With battlehags flying, we are again advancing to meet the old enemy, the same enemy Jefferson en- countered a hundred years ago, the same enemy which under various dis guises has always been ready insidi- Ously to attack the rights of the peo- pie and to aSSail the foundations Of free government
 Tn the great fight upon which we are now entered we need the assistance of all who believe fin the rights of the common people-of all who believe in protecting our institutions from the unlawful assaults of corporate wealth. We are glad to see coming back to us the conservatives to whose leadership we yielded last year We go out to meet them while yet long way of, and today, on the anniversary of the birth of the greatest of all Democrats, we have killed the fatted calf and pre- pared the feast in honor of the return of all to the ways of true Democracy
 fr hot al fv.4 ,.f,- which led in the fight last year. You made fight for the offices and lost: come now with us and make a fight for the right and win
 From the west there comes again the voice of the peerless leader of the Democracy in two national campaigns, temporarily displaced. but returning now again to his proper position in the party. sounding the new battle cry, Back to the peopler Such men as Vii liam Jennings Bryan and William Ran dolph Hearst have lived more Democ- racy than can be invented at a thou sand banquets.
 ''The fight for the regulation of rail road rates. for the regulation of pri- vate car lines and terminals, is on. The Democratic party. true to it's tra- ditions and it's history, is leading lf it is found impossible to regulate and control these public utilities-so that they are the servants, not the masters, of the people-Chicago has pointed out the way Rather than submit to rail road ownership of the instruments of government the people will demand
 
 of railroads. X great battle has been fought and won. The people realize now their power. and there goes out now to every natural monopoly from the people a warning-they must sub init to be regulated by the government or owned by the government.
 Writing to personal friend, Jeffer son said: I am persuaded that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves The great leader never enunciated a truer doctrine. The people are now engaged in the business of correcting them selves, and from all parts of the coun- try comes the news of Democratic vic tories, and there are more to follow.
 ''The dangers from trusts and impe- rialism were never so apparent as now. The necessity for tariff revision was never so urgent. The people are beginning to realize that no relief can be expected from the Republican par ty. It is too late now to divert the people with presidential tours. but il is not too late to recall what Jefferson said on this subject. Writing to Gov ernor Sullivan in 1897 and commenting on this subject. he said:
 "T confess that I am not reconciled 10 the idea of chief magistrate pa rading himself through the, several states as an object of public gaze and in quest of an applause which to be valuable should be purely voluntary. had rather acquire silent good will by q faithful discharge of my duties than owe expressions of it to my put ting myself in the way of receiving