The sun., 1907-04-14
NO GOVERNMENT IN ONE HAND
IND No TOAST To THE PRESIDENT
At JEFFERSON DINNER.
senator RAyner Makes q Platform for the
Democratic Party and George Harvey
E1tches Into Roosevelt says tie Hopes
for a Final Charge for Democracy.

Many were not present. at Ino Qlnn ner nel0
NJ the Waldorf-AstOria last evening by the
National Democratic Club TO celebrate the
lsith birthday of Thomas jefferson. OF
~oCrse many were present as well, and per-
haps the absentees owed their absence to
the other dinner which was being given in
honor Of the same event and which waa
engineered by that old fashioned Democrat.
William r. Hearst.
II will be remembered without difficulty
by everybody who is up in politics that the
National Democratic Club is the larger
edition Of the Democratic Club, which was
organized with the idea of assisting the
local Democracy Of this city to cut more
ice in the State and national councils OF
the party. The big ballroom of the Waldorf
was comfortably filed last evening. but
it cannot truthfully be said that it was
running over.
Those national Democrats who were
present. and they were several hundred.
had to scratch their heads a bit before
the evening was over, but on the whole
they had a reassuring evening They
heard Senator Isidor Rayner of Maryland
devote his talents to answering the inquiry
What is true Democracy"
Senator Rayner gave it as his opinion
that President Roosevelt was rot a Demo-
crat. He even went 80 far as to add that
in his belief the Republican and the Demo-
cratic parties had not coalesced. After
that. he went on to outline a platform for
che party in which he would guarantee
there should be no splnters.
In the course of this process he declared
that the railroads must be made 10 see
that they were not the masters, but the
servants Of the people. As this sentiment
was allowed to fall from the lips of the
Senator from Maryland Perry Belmont
was seen to open his left hand and let the
palm of his right hand fall upon il three
times.
HOT TALK FROM RAYNER AND HARVEY.
George Harvey, editor Of the North
imericdn Rerie 70, made vitriolic onslaught
on President Roosevelt. He wanted to
know who were the builders Of this coun-
try-the Hills and the Morgans who had
opened the West to civilization. or the
HOosevelts and the Bryans who had divided
their time between offceholding and Office
seeking.
Senator Rayner had given it as his opinion
that Roosevelt himself had some qualities
that weren't despicable, but after Col.
Harvey had inquired II the American peo-
ple stood ready to welcome the destruction
Of the very fabric of free institutions" after
being ~deluded by the spectacle of blatant
probity yawping from the pinnacle of self
appreciation" they did some more head
SCFAtCnlnR ana apDlauOeO DOtn BentRmentS.
John Fox was down 20 preside, but he
was i'll and eX-Justice Morgan j. OBrien
took his place. Martin H. Glynn. Hearst's
state Comptroller. was supposed to be
there. but he ducked. Attorney-General
William s. Jackson was also scheduled
for a seat on the dais, hut strangely enough
he preferred the Hearst party. And where
was Congressman William Sulzer? This
8 not a rhetorical question. He was Some
where Else. So was Comptroller Metz
likewise Juolson Harmon.
But Charles +. Murphy was there on high
seat, along with ex-United States Senator
James Smith, Jr., Augustus Van Wyck,
senator Overman Of North Carolina, Presi-
don't MCGOWAN Of the AldermenN Borough
President John +. Ahearn. Herman Bidder,
Martin W. Littleton. De Lancey Nicol Mgr
Lavelle, John w. Keller, julius Hauser and
Z, {. Benndict. That prominent JeffersOnian
Democrat. Little Tim Sullivan, was much
noticed, along with John + Mcintyre. John
WhAlen and that lover OF constitutional
bulwarks. Andy Freedman, not to forget
John j. Scannell, E. Ross Appleton. Richard
Croker, Jr., James j. Coogan, Coroner
Acritelli and host of holders of city offices
large and small For some unexplained
reason Mayor Mcclellan was not there,
but Commissioner John H. O'Brien and the
Mayors secretary, Frank O'Brien, showed
up. Il was stated. though not by them.
10 -sAAs : t&as AsyoC-di4-no accept an inyitA=.
ton
Justice O'Brien, in getting things going.
said few nice things about I. Jefferson;
among them that he was the man who
made popular government easy and sue
oessful. Then he mentioned Maryland and
the band played the proper tune, while
everybody got up and sang. After that
health Of 3be
was MOI mentioned, as it was taken for
granted that it was excellent.
Senator Rayner got round OF cheers
when he rose to do that carpenter work
~. ola A
about the ballroom that the Senator did
not have a union card but il was too late TO
do anything about IL then, though the
CT. U. viii doubtless be heard from later
speech OF senator RayDer.
Senator Rayner admitted at the start
that when It came to defining Democracy
he was up against 1t, but whatever 1t was
V sprang from the loins Of the Constitution
and he thought it would always exist He
tontinued
Il do not accede to the view that the parties
have cOalesced. On the contrary, | believe
that they are widely apart they have
eveI been. The President will not have a
permanent tenure of Office. One prediction
can be safely made. and that is when the Re-
publican party has another candidate. and il
N bound TO have one al some day or another. IL
wll gradually drift away from a great many
Of his plans and purposes and it will resume
business at its old stand. Then it will be
necessary for us to come back to our old prin-
Cl,es unless in the meantime we have so dis
figured them that we will not be able to reCog-
plze them or TO find them.
Now. have We any principles? ] think We
have Has the Republican party stolen { hem2
acQuit them OF the charge. Think that they
are entirely innocent. and do not believe that
they have any feloniOus intent or design
whatever to appropriate them. Is the Pres-
dent a Democrat? most respectfully deny
il, but will admit cheerfully that he has upon
frequent occasions subordinated the welfare
Of his party to the welfare of his country.
The Republican party is in favor Of Federal
Capitalization. and we are opposed to it that
- TO say, wO ought to be opposed to it. am
~ favor OF exercising every governmental
tower when the emergency or opportunity
arises for its exercise. The Democratic
TSGty. however. cannot stand by and permit
the powers OF the Constitution To be strained
iOr the purpose of depriving the Stat es of their
sovereign rights within their own borders.
We must not yield the slightest fraction of the
supremacy Of the States over their own local
and domestic concerns
What we mean now by the rights Of the
States IL that the Federal Government shall
not leylslate upon matters purely of local
and domestic concern. and by ful
construction interpolate such power into
the provisions OF the Constitution.
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