The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-09
PATTERSON WARNS PEOPLE Veteran Editor Speaks
 in Louisville. BRILLIANT INVECTIvE USED Declares Roosevelt Now Rules as a
 King. Satire Turned on son-in-Law of Roose- veit--ISentucIkinn Says If He Was
 a Republican He Would
 Vote for Bryan.

tefson presided and was tne prInclpaL speaker at a Democratic rally in the Masonic Theatre hero tonight.
 As this was Mir. Watterson's first political speech since 1892. and will probably be his only platform utter ance during the present campaign, much interest was manifested.
 Others who addressed the assemblage were former United States Senator William Lindsay and Congressman Swager Sherley. MT. Watterson spoke in part as follows:
 T truly rejoice that have lived to look upon a reunited Democracy. was born in a Democratic camp dur ing what proved a bad year for Dem- ocrats, and I attained my majority just in time to see the party go over the precipice of sectionalism to what seemed its ruin.
 The politicians tell you that there are many issues. up for settlement in this campaign. l see but one. If we cannot change our rulers at wtll- if an organized and defiant minority inside a fortress can withstand the siege of an undisciplined and ill-equip- ped majority on the outslde--how shall talk about trusts and tariffs, about rebates and bank debopits, about money and morals and stocks and bonds profit us?
 Corrupt and Arrogant
 T behold now an almost exact re- production of the evil conditions, of fifty years ago. The Republican party. forth a tremendous effort to retain the power which 1t has so misused. If 1t succeeds 1t will never surrender it short of some dire cataclysn. mak- ing its exit the signal for, 1t Annay he. civil war. To that end its policies of militarism, favorism and class dis tinction have long been tending. pre- pairing new irrepressble conflict be- tween capital and labor. pray God that this may never come. But the way to avert it is by occasional changes oe party hEinging home to our public men their consolidation to the people.
 If were. Republican I would vote for Bryan. If were a Republi- can would let the big chief with his blk stick go hang. If were a Re- publican, would turn my back upon a candidate, no matter how personally acceptable. who represents the vicious methods of ring rule and the steam roller.
 whatever usefulness the Republican party ever possessed, 1t has for the time outlived. It stands today menace to equal taxation and economic administration. if not to orderly gov erment and free institutions.
 Its leaders know this, and knowing it they began early to prepare for the coming Presidential battle; to fortify a field which they thought to make impregnable by the outlay of vast re- sources and engineering skill.
 They expected to draw us into this bloody ambuscade and to slaughter us like sheep In the shambles. Dis appointed in their plan. what do we now see? We see all disguise of de- cency thrown aside; the black flag of trustism run up to the masthead; the decks crowded with corpora ton counsel. The occupant of the White House summons the unspeakable Hearst as his star witness. The honest rich are invoked to make common cause with the lawless rich. All the perspectives of truth and soberness and common sense are lost amid the roar of rant and cant of self glorify- ing laudation and self-accusing prom ises of reform, with Aldrich and Cam non, with Payne and Dalzell and Sunny Jim Sherman for their examples.
 Having pitched the campaign on a false note starting out with a man of straw on a platform of imposture, no argument Is too absurd. no illustra- ton Is too rank for the men and the AhtCANSNS NHdl uO iOb tO D0 uAc~ lodged if fraud and force can save them.
 Prediction of Monarchy.
 Nicholas Longworth. the Presidents son-in-law, says he did not say 1t. But 5000 listeners say he did. The notes of two stenographers say he did. What boots 1t whether he did or not, no one who knows what is going on in the national capital anr h nn needs to be told that they are under democratic government and converting 1t into an imperial republic. with noth- ing wanting of monarchism, and titu- lar nobility except the nomenclature.
 The White House is already the palace of a king. The President is already a sovereign in everything ex- cept the name. Why should not a of the court circle blurt it out that Taft is expected merely to hold down the job for Roosevelt, since it was thought premature to run Roose- welt for the immediate succession?
 The campaign was. and 1t is. fam fly affair. If the machine which nom- mated Taft was so merciless toward tho Republican allies who dared to resist 1t, why should 1t be counted on to share our free institutions after eight additional years of moneyed ac- cretion and augmented power? only this can account for the personal in- terposition of the President, who throws duty and dignity to the winds and gets down. like a matador. into the bull ring. mud stained and powder smirch ed. swearing like a trooper at all who come within the sound of his voice and the reach of his inflamed fancy"