New-York tribune., 1908-01-09


great basic principles for which we are to hght.
and let US fight for them under the banner or
the man our delegates may select TO bear IL, ne
exclaimed and repeated: 1T is of the utmost I'M
portance that should unite upon those measures
which are essential to the restoration of public ana
private credit to the renewal of industrial de-
velopment the re-establishment Of financial con-
fidence and the extension of our national pros
perty.'
Reverting to the panic he said that the cause Of
II .the malign influence at work well known
He referred to the Presidents speech at Mime
apolis shortly before the assassination OF PRESIDENT
Mckinley, in which he declared that the modern
industrial system required change from the old
attitude of the state and nation toward property
and quoting from a newspaper article. said that
this was diagram to hs-the Presidents-intei-
Iect''; that 1t afforded a key to all his future
vagaries" Continuing. he said
The modern doctrine that certain crimes can be
prevented by indiscriminate attacks upon properly
posed upon innocent stockholders to punish the
the Hf Of the
We are told that the old theories OF govern
swept away The federal government must no
longer keep within the % Sb wpr OF Of m the pa
roads and by an an army OF Psness enterprises
The eG'd od doctrine that there must
separation of power between the executive. LIe
ment has now become obsolete. and in place OF IL
told that what we need Is despo who
VIII Control the national legislature and coerce
res Of the hour is what position is the
Democratic party gong 70 % take on btyeen Those
who stand for the confscation of property anu
those who stand for old-fashioned ideas OF the
rights of property
Mr. O,Rrien said that the proposed inheritance
tax would be nothing but confiscation. pure and
simple" unless the government actually needed the
money that would be raised thereby for necessary
expenses, In regard to the tariff the speaker
said:
class privileges and advantages through leglsla-
ton For this It has 1aVGrea 6as opposed m
duties on imports which have other justifcatlon
nenta fhsn fo WHERE certain tariff
required in order to produce revenues ioa & tne SUP
port of the government, where 1t is necessary ~
entained AT the level required for the develop
ment of good and hopeful citizenship, or where
protection for limited period is needed needed to eo de-
into existence tariff which in effect imposes
upon the great body Of consumers & Is If
but where it cannot be JUSTIFIED upon any & one %
the above grounds. it is robbery NO serious a.
tempt temp rs IoW Dei RepbIicans and Democrats alike
at least pretend to be tariff reformers
After referring to Grover Cleveland in eulogistc
terms ex-Judge O'Brien urged again that the party
return to its old moorings, and that then success
in the next campaign might be expected IN CLOS
ing he said his attention had been called 10 a
letter from Harry w. Walker, in which he declined
to be present at the dinner, because My views on
certain questions were opposed TO MI. bryan =
He said that if the Democratic party had reached
the state when free discussion was depd'feu'
it needed not "a physician, but undertaken"
81 know of but one man in politics to-day sald
he who has any pretensiens to greatness who
declares himself to be infabIe / welcome free
discussion
Former Senator Lindsay the next speaker.
..The paramount issue of Democracy said he lis
the Constitution. Let the party stick by the Con-
stitution and the recognition of the constitutional
relations of the federal and state governments we
can and do agree that the Constitution Is TO DE
administered as it framed and adopted, and
that it is not to be changed by construction at
the hands of the Executive The Constitution binds
the President and the Congress and the courts. II
our government is to be still further nationalized
it must be done by amendments the Constitu-
tion by the forced construction of that
instrument
Now as to Albany. We have in Albany what
have long hoped to see a Governor who is Gov
crnor himself. One who is apparently devoting
himself not to strengthening the party machine
but to strengthening his party by rendering nom
partisan services all the people of the state \
Governor who while not in leading strings himself.
does not seek have strings any of the other
coordinate branches of the states government;
who recognizes that the executive. legislative ana
judicial departments of the government exercise,
or ought to exercise independent functions of gov
ernment not subject 10 the influence control OF
the other-a Governor who is exercising the duty
that he owes all the people of the state. un-
trammelled by any obligations or duties as the
leader Of IL party machine. Why, almost he per-
SHADES us he is Democrat Cady Her
rick at Genessee Society dinner, February > l@'.
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