Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-06
ALBANY POWWOW
District Attorney Jerome at
 State Capital.
SCORES BOSSISN AND SOCIALISTS.
Osborne, Former Mayor of Albany, Denounced Actions of Agents of ". R. Hearst at Buffalo Be-
 fore Conference.

of forgery, bribery, riot and blackmail were made here against the agents of William Randolph Hearst by Thomas w. Osborne, former mayor of Albany, ference at Odd Fellows hall. The speaker was cheered to the echo, and great excitement followed.
 Mr. Osborne in ringing tones assert ed that the agents of a certain multi millionaire" had been engaged in de- bauching the party in their efforts to capture the delegates to the state con- vention at Buffalo from county conven- tions. He declared that these agents had stopped at nothing to gain their end. They had used money. influence, chicanery and criminal practices in or der to compel delegates to pin their al legiance to their employer. MT. Os- borne entered passionate protest against such methods and implored Democrats to repudiate such men and such measures. na.
 Must we submit to be purchased by . multimillionaire for his use?" he cried.
 While most of those responsible for calling the meeting disclaimed it's be- 2ng in the interest of or opposed to my particular candidates for the Dem- 1cratic nomination for governor, it was privately conceded on all hands that it Nvas aimed chiefly to prevent If pos 9fble the nomination or indorsement 6y the state convention at Buffalo of William R. Hearst. Several allusions n the speeches were interpreted as Paving no other possible meaning and the speech of John N. Carlisle of Wa tertown, secretary of the Democratic state committee, of being an explicit attack lacked only the use of names.
 Another incident was a conference of representatives of several radical Democratic organizations from which emanated a statement critieising Mir. Hearst and declaring in favor of the nomination of Congressman William Eulser of New York.
 The chief feature of the early ses- sion of the conference was the speech by District Attorney Jerome of New York, who denounced bosses and the Eocialistic trend of the Democratic party. He was cheered time and again during his speech.
 MT. Jerome mentioned no names in his address. He began by declaring it as his understanding that the confer ence was in the interest of no particu- lar candidacy, feast of all to dictate to or threaten the convention of our party soon to assemble at Buffalo."
 "Real leadership is nowhere in sight" said he, land what passes for leader ship seems to consist of demagogic de nunciation of existing conditions and the advancing of vague schemes of So- cialism and paternalism which are es- sentially revolutionary in character.
 I've are not on the threshold of the greatest political awakening this na- ton has ever known marking the be- ginning of new age,' but We are, believe, about to return to our senses and to earnestly address ourselves to the solution of the difficult problems confronting us by the methods which the past has shown to be entirely ade- quate to meet the greatest emergen- cies.
 "Our elections. where national politi- cal parties are involved, have become little more than ignoble scrambles for office, in which each candidate declares how good he will be if elected to office and vies with his opponents in claiming trust busting and anticorporation vir- tues, not forgetting to emphasize how warmly his heart beats for organized labor.
 'Tn the midst of all this the plain people go about their business. Sober , bnd sensible. industrious and prosper Dus. honest and patriotic, they do their thinking quietly and are neither alarm Dd nor greatly misled by the loud out eries of the politicians.
 ~seeing no real issues of present in- tsrest in dividing the national parties. insy stand indifferent to each. ready and free to choose when an issue arises that interests them.
 '.The Republican party has always been conservative-opposed to change and innoyation-until today. half con sciously, 1t voices its character by de claring itself to be the party of the stand batter.
 ''On the other hand. the Democratic party has been the party of the liberal The fundamental habit and character q It's members has been that of hope. of looking forward. of trust in the morals and confidence in the intelli- renee of the masses of the people. Only recently have efforts been made to drag the party from the path of proeress to that of revolution.
 The leader has disappeared. The boss who has succeeded him Is only apparently a boss and in reality is but the hired man of the capitalist whose sinister influence lies back of party machinery and controls it for his own selfish and corrupt ends.
 ssThe men responsible for the pres enf demorslized condition of the party machinery should be driven out. From . great vote getting organization they have made it simply a delegate getting machine
 The people of the Democratic par ty. disgraced and humiliated by years of uismanarpment. tO give if no harsh CT name. would array themselves be- hind tbeir party candidates if they are men of character standing on a plat form of real DemDcracy.