Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-01-15
A DEMOCRATIC
LOVE FEAST.
Held On Jackson Day In Mis-
souri, With 600 Leaders
Present.

hanshS lily last oaLuTudy.
Representative Champ Clark, minor
ity leader in the House Of Representa-
tives, was the principal speaker, and.
following the sentiment Of the speakers
at the day meeting, he pleaded for a
united Democracy that should swing
Missouri back into the Democratic
column. Mr.. Clark also urged the
necessity of gaining control Of Congress.
This, he said, was necessary not only
to help in electing Democratic Presi-
dent in 1912. but to effect an honest re-
vision Of the tariff.
Norman Z. Mack. chairman of the
Democratic National Committee. sent a
letter Of regret, in which he predicted
that the party would control the next
House of Representatives.
Representative H. T. Rainey, of Illi-
nois, declared strongly against ship
subsidy and insisted that present ship
ping regulations handicap American ship
owners.
The "harmony conference" of the
day held sessions in the morning and
afternoon, attended by nearly all the
leaders of the party in the State. In
the morning speeches were delivered
by former Governor Dockery. James A.
Reed and Senator William ]. Stone
The speakers at the afternoon session
were former Governor Joseph w. Folk,
David r. Francis and Congressman
Rainey, Of Illinois.
Taking for his text the distribution
of wealth, former Governor Folk said.
in part
"The great fight in the country to-
day is to equalize the distribution of
wealth. We cannot bring about forced
equality of conditions, but there may
be an equalization of burdens and OPP
portunities. The only purpose of the
protective tariff is to stifle competition,
and to that extent to create monopoly.
"The Democratic party should take a
clean-cut stand against the system Of
protection. The fight should not be for
free raw materials and protection for
manufactured products. nor visa versa,
but for no protection at all. No protec-
ton for monopoly should be the battle
cry in the next campaign.
with Cannonism and Aldrichism in
control of the legislative machinery Of
the National Government, directing
policies. suppressing reformative meas
ures. blocking every movement in the
interest Of the people, making sport Of
representative government, insolent
with power. defying public opinion, and
planning further to serve the special in
terests, there is picture that should
alarm every patriotic American.
LET the Democratic party fight not
wealth, but the abuses that produce
tainted riches on one hand. and unde-
served poverty on the other"
Denouncing ship subsidies, Congress-
man Rainey said
ITO become first upon the seas, we
ought to repeal our useless navigation
laws. Give us free raw material for
ships, give American capital and Amer
ican manhood an opportunity. and this
great industry will soon attain its proper
proportions.
"Give American laborers a chance
and the time is not far distant when our
merchant marine will be second to the
merchant marine of no other country in
the world"
At to-night's banquet. House Leader
Champ Clark declared the harmony
convention" the first gun of campaign
which should give the Democracy the
next House Of Representatives in 1910
and the Presidency in 1912.
"The Republicans. he declared. won
the last election under false pretenses.
They promised revision of the tariff
downward in order to get in, and, when
in, they revise it upward. The aver
age rate of the Payne-Aldrich-Smoot
tariff bill is Ill per cent. higher than
the average rate of the Dingley tariff
bill. The people asked for bread. and
the Aldrich- Cannon crowd gave them
stone. They asked for fish and are
requested to regale themselves with a
serpent.
''In the Congressional campaign Of
1910. the overshadowing question will
be whether public men are under any
sort Of obligation to tell the truth, and
unless the public concience is abso-
lutely dead-which | do not believe
the Republicans will receive the blood
lest licking they have had since 1890.
SIN asking for tariff revision and at