Evening star., 1909-04-14
Former Opponents Meet.

Representative party men who have not
always pulled together sat at the dais on
either side of John Fox, president of the
club, and at the other tables were demo-
Gratis who have not always been in the
same camps.
| Richard Croker was present. and op-
posite him sat Patrick IL. McCarren of
Brooklyn. The two greeted each other
cordially, but talked little in the course
| of the banquet.
Charles F. Murphy sat at the speakers
| table, and, contrary to expectations in
some quarters. did not speak to any one
| reckoned as McCarren man. Mayor
Mcclellan declined his invitation, as did
| also William j. Bryan.
| Gov. Johnson of Minnesota wrote long
| letter, which was read and which received
| much applause.
Gov. Swanson of Virginia, Gov Burke
of South Dakota, President Woodrow Will
son of Princeton, Champ Clark, Senator
Culberson of Texas. Representative
Rainey of Illinois and August Belmont
also sent regrets.
| At the desk with Mr.. Fox sat Gov.
Harmon, Gov. Marshall. Judge Alton b.
Parker, Norman E. Mack, Rev Joseph
F. Money. Judge D. Cady Herrick: Cor
Patrick F. MCGOWAN, United States Sen
ator Chamberlain of Oregon. Morgan j.
lO'Brien and James T. Fitzgerald.
Introduced by Mr.. Fox as one of the
most potent influences for good in the
Buckeye state, Gov. Harmon aroused the
enthusiasm of his hearers by declaring
that every citizen of the nation was en-
| titled to 100 cents of good government for
every dollar paid by them in taxation.
Harmon Assails Party in Power.
A protest against what he declared were
growing encroachments of special privi-
leges at Washington, especially as en-
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note of the address of Gov. Harmon.
| Asserting that the reductions in the
| pending tariff would be but mOckery of
the demand for relief, Gov. Harmon de-
| clared that real relief would never be Sc
| cured except under legislature and ex-
| ecutive following Jeffersonian rules and
treating taxation as means of public
revenue. and not of private gain.
| special privilege can take no form.
| however specious, and assume no garb,
not even the flag Of the Union. said
| Judge Harmon, (which can hide 1t or win
favor from the political descendants of
Thomas Jefferson. Nor can tolerance of
1t by them be won by any real or prom
ised advantage, public or personal.
1T would cost too dear in the end. as
of trusts and monopolies which have ag-
| gravated thenatural inequalities i'm the
distribution OF wealth and spread harm
and discomfort among the people,
has been to exalt the federal government
at the expense of the state, said the
speaker. one result being the neglect OF
economy and the embarkation Of the gov
ernment upon extravagant enterprises.
i He instanced the action Of the last
Congress in appropriating two billions
OF dollars and the raising Of salaries In
the face of growing shortage of reve-
nues, and continued:
Now. instead of seeking methods of
retrenchment to meet present confessed
deficit of more than hundred millions
the President and Congress are devising
additional taxes to exact from the dimin-
ished means Of the people and proposing
to issue bonds besides. State officials who
would propose such a course would not
/ dare to go home to their constituents and
| would be forever disgraced II they should
take 1t.
AFTER twelve years Of false preteuses.