Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-17
JEFFERSON CLUB
LUNCH INFORMAL
HETEROGENEOUS PROGRAM
Is GIVEN
SPEAKERS DECLARE TAFT HAS
NO DISTINCTIVE POLICIES
Country Attorney Tells of. Joe Cam
mons Only Defeat - Encourages
Democrats over Bright Pros
poets for Near Future

Informal and extemporaneous in
every respect, the program of the JEFF
ferson club luncheon yesterday noon
in Hotel Hollenbeck was of particular
interest to those present. Vice Presi-
dent Albert Chappelle was in the chair
and made brief talk himself on THE
Policies of President Taft" The
speaker referred johingly to his theme
and admitted he found it difficult to
secure data enough on it to make his
words of any value. IF Taft has any
policies" he said, they are so cunning
ly concealed by large amount of eX-
traneous pomp and partisanship we
have not determined what their effect
will be on the country"
Several members were introduced to
the club and made brief comments,
among them r. G.. Doyle, Lewis Cruik-
shank and Judge H. c. Dillon. The
latter referred caustically to the tri-
umphal tour of the president, conducted
with such pomp and state, saying:
when Mr.. Taft left Boston he de-
| clared he was coming west to meet the
common people, to shake them by the
hand and get in touch with them. AS
far as 1 know there has not been
| single point in his itinerary where he
has carried out that plan. He has not
eXpounded his policies Gf he has any
he has been treated has ranged from
SIS to $25, so that only the favored
few were able to observe him closely
let alone to shake his hand. Armed
guards have surrounded him at every
step and he has shown himself afraid
of the common people. There Is a diff
ference as wide as that between the
poles between this president and the
great citizen and democrat for whom
this club is named. Jefferson said he
could trust the American people.
Charles P. Huey of Upland was
guest Of the club, and when called on
responded with a very emphatic and
optimistic talk on the future pros
poets of the Democratic party. He
said in part:
Truth, kept down, will eventually
come to its own. The principles of
right and righteousness that have al
ways dominated the Democratic party
must some day receive recognition, and
to me it appears the time is now pro-
pitious for US. We may be few in
number now, and hedged about by our
victorious foe, but we should never
lose faith In those principles that have
always inspired us and that inspire
us now. Let us be led forward and
lifted from our slough of despond, not
by hopes of power and preferment that
would come with victory, but by the
rectitude of our principles and the
knowledge that we are right
"Press dispatches tell us that short
ly after the visit in Seattle at the fair
there of our elephantine and rotund
president, a common private citizen
went to the same city and that he
was greeted there by crowds even
larger than those which heard and
saw Taft. There is a lesson in that
for us, my friends. 1t shows that the
hearts of the people, though. for a
while turned away are not cold to
the better principles and the righteous
impulses represented by the thrice de-
feated candidate, William Jennings
Bryan.
Defeated Joe Cannon
when I was a young man, Repub-
lican then in politics, 1 lived in the
congressional district of Uncle Joe
Cannon. There were several young
insurgents like myself in the commu-
nifty and we became disgusted with
Uncle Joe, with his policies and prac-
tices, and with the confidence with
which he sailed forth each succeeding
election time to an arrogant and GER
tain victory. We determined to rebel
and promised the Democrats of the
district if they would put up a clean
IldH dBdlIlSl SdllllOll VIC NOulu sup
port him. They took us up, named
Col Samuel Taylor Busey and we
turned to for him. When the returns
were in, instead of the normal major
ity of 1000 Uncle Joe usually had he
was defeated by 873 votes.
II tell you this to show you that
there is no reason for being discour-
aged. The signs are propitious today,
and the bastard tariff revision, an at
tempt to make a new quilt out of very
old cloth, may be followed next cleo
ton, as similar efforts in the past have
been, with a victory for Democracy"