The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-09
HENRY PATTERSON FEARS CIVIL WAR Republican Party's Success in November Will Mean a
 Long Reign of
 Tyranny.
WHITE HOUSE A PALACE
The President Is a King, the Officials Are Noblemen and the Nation Simply a Monarchial
 Republic.

Louisville. Ky, Oct, S.--Henry Wat terson was the principal speaker at a democratic rally In the Masonic theater tonight, This was MT. Watterson's first political speech since 1892 and probably will be his only platform ut terance during the present campaign. He said In part;
 T behold now an almost reproduction of the evil conditions of 30 years ago, The republican party, grown corrupt and arrogant, Is putting forth tre- mendous effort to retain the power which 1t has so much abused. If 1t suc- ceeds, 1t will never surrender it short of some dire cataclysm, making it's exit the signal for It may be, a civil war To that all it's policies of mill itarism, favoritism and class dlstinc- ton have long been tending. The way to avert 1t Is by occasional change of party, bringing home to our public men their subordnation to the people.
 Whatever usefulness the repub- lican party ever possessed it has for the time outlived. It stands to-day a menace to equal taxation and econ omic administration, if not to orderly i government and free institutions Its leaders know this, and knowing 1t they began early to prepare for the coming presidential battle; to fortify a field which they thought to make impreg- nable by the outlay of vast resources and engineering skill
 They expect to draw us Into this bloody ambuscade and to slaughter us like sheep in the shambles. Disap- pointed in their plan, what do we now seq? We see all disguise of decency thrown aside; the black flag of trust ism run up to the masthead; the I decks crowded with corporation coun. sel The occupant of the White house summons the unspeakable Hearst as his star witness The honest rich arc invoked to make common cause with the lawless rich All the perspective of truth and soberness and common sense are lost amid the rant and cant of self -glorifying laudation and self. accusing promises of reform, whlct Aldrich and Cannon, with Payne anu Dalzell and Sunny Jim Sherman fol their examples"
 Referring to a reported speech 0 Congressman Longworth at Rock Is land H., in which Mir. Isongworth f. alleged to have spoken of Presiden Roosevelt as MT fafts successor, Mir Wattereon said:
 Nicholas LonEworth, the president, son-in law, says he did not say It. Bu 5000 listeners and the notes of tw, stenographers say he did What boot Il whether he did or did not7 No on, who knows what Is going on in tn, national capital and has been going oi for q long time, needs to he told tha they are undermining the popular foun dations of our democratic Fovernmen and converting it into an imperial re public, with nothing wanting of mon archlsm and titular nobility, except tn, nomenclature.
 The White House Is already the pal ace of a king The president Is alread, a sovereign In everything except tn name. Why should not a member O the court circle blurt II out that Taf Is expected merely to hold down tn job for Roosevelt, since ft was though premature to run Roosevelt for the I'm mediate succession"