The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-16
DEMOCRATIC FEAST
Predict Victory For Folk,
Bryan or Towne.
GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI on GRAFT
Speakers nj KanSns City Press Ran
gUet cali For Party Harmony as
Iarbinger of successful Prcsi-
dental Campaign

KANSAS CITY. April H. Five hun.
bred Missouri Democrats, Including 100
Missouri editors, attended banquet
last night given hy the Missouri state
Democratic Press association TO conn
mennonite the birthday anniversary Of
Thomas Jefferson The principal speak
crs We're Governor Joseph W. Folk.
United States senator William j.
Stone. Congressman charles A. rowne
OF New York and Charles W. knapp
of the 81 Louis Republic. All the
speakers made % plea for party haruo-
NY iu this state. aud al predicted that
an the next election Missouri would
agaiA oc found iu the Democratic col
umn
IL was predicted that the Democrats
would be successful no the next ma
tional election and that the nominee
for president i'm 1905 whether It be
Folk. Bryan or Townc" viii be elect
ed 10y large plurality
Governor FOLK of Missouri was loud
~ cheered on arising and said:
THE life and teachings of Thomas
jefferson are an inspiration 10 the
lovers of representative government
everywhere. .leffersoniau Democracy
means the rule OF the people. not OF
any class nor of any clique nor Of any
special interests Whenever the PEG
pie cease to rule anywhere and gangs
aud bosses govern instead then special
privileges and corruption which springs
from special privileges as necessary
consequence follow
Jefferson announced the cardinal
doctrine of true Democracy when lie
declared for equal rights 10 all special
privileges 10 none This maxim eX-
presses every essential element OF true
Democracy II embraces every essen
tial element Of good government. The
phrase sounds simple but It has taken
generations Tor men I" attain a prac-
ticnl understanding al lis wisdom ANA
Justice II comes to lis today as a
message from the past. for il applies
TO the conditions today with even
greater force than when il was first
announced by the father of Democra-
cy
THAT was one of the first declara-
lions against what is known in modern
times MS graft Graft in its last andy
sis is Il special privilege. either eNer-
ciSed contrary to law or one the law
: ,.s
lege is ut the bottom of every graft
No one ever heard of an official being
corrupted in order TO give equal rights
10 all 1t is always for the purpose OF
obtaining some special privilege for
few
"A very good. rule to follow is 10 as
certain on which side the enemies Of
the people and of representative gov
eminent are fighting and then get on
the other side and oppose them. one
may rest assured that he cannot then
be far from the right"
Charles A. ToWne Of New York city
said in part
Times change. and we change with
them. New cNigcncieS bring new du-
ties, The ISSUES that arise i'm the life Of
a great people must he solved in the
light Of their attendant conditions
Siavish obedience TO the letter Of ira.
dton may involve disregard of its
essential spirit. The highest honor we
can pay to the memory of Thomas JEFF
ferson is TO meet the problems of TO
day not by trying TO discover their
analogy TO the specific questions he en-