Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-30
MAKES FIERCE ATTACK
BoNAPARTE ADDRESSES MARY
LANDERs IN JACKsoN's BEHALF.

A dispatch from Elkton says: Secretary
Of the Navy Charles ]. Bonaparte made a
speech here in the interest of Mr.. Will
liam H. Jackson, the republican candidate
for Congress in the first district He de-
voted most Of his remarks to the critics
Of his Baltimore speech. In that speech
he Is reported to have said:
THE democratic party, since I have
been old enough to know 1t, has had no
principles at all, and policy except to
get and keep Office. no matter how.
THE only really distinctive democratic
principle in Maryland has been and is that
every one. or, at least. every ring demo-
whenever and wherever he can do SO and
escape punishment"
But upon this part of his Baltimore
speech he did not dwell. referring more
especially to his remark in Baltimore that
ut would be hard to find more impu-
dent appeal to stupid credulity than the
your votes that they may help a repub-
lican President against his own republican
party"
Mr.. Bonaparte was extremely severe
upon his democratic critics. referring to
STANDARD Oil Company.
Mr.. Bonaparte's Speech.
Mr.. Bonaparte said in part: ION Friday
last the republicans of Baltimore city
held a great meeting and listened to a
great speech from our Secretary Of War.
a man to whose character, abilities and
public services only history will do full
justice. At that great meeting and be-
fore that great speech | made little
son very i'll with Secretary Tafts, and
for which I claim but the single merit of
becoming brevity: Nevertheless in the lit
tie I said it would seem that l touched a
raw spot. for brought forth howl. In
the evening paper Of the day following l
found myself described as target, the
principal 'archers, or, in less fgurative
language, critics. being Mr.. I. Freeman RAJ
sin. Mr. John ]. Mahon. Mr.. Murray Van
diver and, If am correctly informed, the
local counsel for the Standard OH inter
ests. Those Of you familiar with Pick
wick may remember the occasion when
Sam Weller said he would try and bear
up against such a reglar knockdown o
talent and now I must try and do the
like In truth, Messrs. Rasin and Mahon
and their associates in good works (asso-
to praise in my. sayings and dolngs con
nectad with public affairs for some thirty
years, and 1 fear they and their successors
(if they have successors) will be no less
critical during such years as may remain
to me-
Says It Again.
But it may be edifying here to ask
with the poet Whence such angers IN
celestial minds" and I find their source in
a remark 1 made just before presenting 10
his immense audience the orator OF tnat
meeting. 1 then said. and. at the terrible
risk of further displeasure from those who
didn't like my saying it, 1 say now: 1T
would be hard to find more lmpudent
appeal to stupid credulity than the claim
Of those democratic takers who ask your
votes that they may help republican
President against his own republican par
ty' In these words l denounced false
hood and unmarked a fraud and those
who look to such sources for political gain
tlx4 hn mr.
when they got ready for this cam am
paien the democratic managers ana their
mouthpieces expected to conduct 1T on the
same line as that Of two years ago Their
text book was filled up with abuse ana
ridicule of the President. misrepresenta-
ton of his acts and willful misconstruc-
ton of his language. purposes and mo-
tiyes. such as formed the stock IN trade
Of their speakers and papers in 1904.
A Change of Policy.
More recently, however, all this has
been changed: word has been passed along
the line that. in the view of headquarters,
the part of wisdom is not to repeat what
is there seen to have been a blunder in
Judge Parker and his advisers, but to gain