The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-14
JOHNSON IS GUEST
MrNNEsoTA's GOVERNOR SPEAKS
 IN KENTUCKY. r
Delivers Principal Address at Banquet of Jefferson Club--Was Gives En- thusiastfc Welcome and Intro-
 duced by Govcruor willson


 Louisville. Ky. April 13.--GoverncI Johnson. of Minnesota. was given hii | first formal introduction to the Demo crats of Kentucky at the banquet oi the Jefferson Club. where he delivered the principal address of the evening. The welcome accorded him was ar enthusiastic one. five hundred diners sitting down at the table in the Seei- bach hotel roof garden while the re- mainder of the garden was filled With auditors by the time the speaking be. gan. A number of Kentucky demo cratic leaders were present, although pronounced political flavor was miti- gated somewhat by the presence of Governor Wilson. Kentuckyis repub- lican executive and party of friends Governor Wilson journeyed from Frankfort to meet Governor Johnson and 1t was he who delivered the ad- dress of welcome and introduced his fellow governor.
 Governor Johnson in opening the ad- dress. made feiicitous comment n the presence of Governor Wilson, aug uring a revival of interest in the fun. damental tenets of the father of demo- cracy, when a republican governor comes to join in paying respect to his memory, even though he disguises his mission as hospitality extended the governor of 8 sister commonwealth.
 Governor Johnson then proceeded to re-enunciste the cardinal principles of Jeffersonian democracy which he de- clared were the only ones which would ever give the demecrats lasting and worthy victory. The spirit of the times. he declared. was against tnva- sion of the rights of the states as well as opposed to monopoly fostering tar If and against government ownership and socialistic experiments as 1t was against extortion and rebating by the railroads. All of these evils he pro- nounced to be menaces which demo- cracy must combat. To take up un- tried nostrums for the cure of present great abuses when Jeferson's princi- ples are sound and effiacious today as ever they were, would he declared. be to court defeat or disastrous failure or administration in case the party shoplo win at the polls. In conclusion he said:
 "Expediency never got a nation any thing: 1t never got people anything 1t will never get the democratic party anything. When the democratic party in It's national convention plants it's cause upon the ground of expediency and adopts a platform based on exped- Iency 1t cannot win and it ought nor to win. What we want today is 10 go before the people with patrictic manly declaration and ask for the con : currence of the people in that aeciaEa. lion. The democratic party has not always been worthy of Thomas Jener- son. but he has always been worthy oi the democratic party. He is worthy of 1t because he was not weather vane in politics, he was there yesterday and tomorrow and if the democratic party Is to build wisely and well, 1t wsll stand by Thomas Jefferson and the NAH AunA wronr wherever it might exist"
 Governor Johnson and party arrived late last night from Shiloh battieheid and after the banquet tonight left on a special train for Chicago, en route to Minneapolis.