Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-14
LOO DEMOCRATS
CHEERED OVER
SIGNS OF VICTORY
eeon,iaued from First raee.)

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preached the golden rule and equal
rights 10 all men. When we review
the legislation hat has been given US
by the Republican party during the
last decade we can but wonder why the
neonie have allowed il to remain so
long in power. That Republican legis-
lation has made it possible to sell
Ameriean-made goods in foreign coun-
tries cheaper than it is possible TO buy
them in this country is an insult to
The American people; a crime against
our country.
Republican Death-kneli.
But the Republican party has run
its race. The handwriting is on the
wall and the d%eathknell of it's domi-
mace has been sounded. The Republican
Z party is disrupted from one end of the
state to the other. and Democracy is
about TO come again into its own.
Judge Herriek declared that the sue
cess Of the party depends on nnalter-
able opposition &c al extension of Fed
eral power and n tariff that is not for
tariff only. He asserted that the pro
teetiee tariff has debauched the nation.
bought laws and purchased even the
Presidency.
Let every local organization disre-
gard personal considerations and sup
port for office only those we sincerely
believe honest. Then our party will de-
serve and win success.
ut makes me smile and I feel in
clined to laugh to see so many we'll
fed. prosperous Democrats here tonight,
Up in the State where I came from the
Democrats don't iook SO prosperous,
well-fed and well-to-do. 1t affords ne
great gratihcation TO know that the
Democrats of New Jersey are coming
INTO their own.
PARTY conditions. on which il is IN
necessary to dwell. have put New York
and New Jersey out Of the Demo
cratic column. Under a magniieen.
leadership of your State. however. you
are gradually coming back to your an
Gent right and your great city has
been for some time under the honesg,
decent. orderly government of Demo-
cratic officials
After dwelling upon Jefferson's prin-
cirles. Judge Herrick said that there
was a gradual revolt going on among
the Republicans in the West and Mid
die West. because the leaders of the
party had not kept their pledges.
Mayor Sague characterized the pres
ent administration as "a riot of ex-
travs~nncee and declared it a far cry
from Jefferson to that betrayer of the
trust Of the people-the power that
made the Payne-Aldrich tariff pos
sibIe.'
I'VE hear much about the Republic
cans MOI beiro r~asnonsihle for tho high
cost of living, but we all know that if
we were in power we would be held ac-
eountable," he said I'VE have got to
give better government than the Re-
p%ubiicans ever gave. And yet today
the Republicans are in power.
1T IS te Roosevelt, whom the Re
publicans harrassed at every turn, that
the G. .. p. looks to smooth out thelr
troubles. What a situation to occur in
a free and Democratic country"
Mr.. katzenbach said in part:
Thomas jefferson was born April
1743. BY a change in our system o
chronology the anniversary of hi!
birth now falls on April Is.
"You would not, from the birth. edu
cation and associates of Jefferson. haV'
expected in his movement to find mn
on the side of radicalism. He belonged
to the wealthy, land-owning class
which was not subject to that feeling
of oppression which colne to an in
ferior class in society; he a beei
educated in an institution which taugh
only allegiance to the crown; he haC
as his acquaintance only those WHIT
entertained the most eonserYatlV
views.
Notwithstanding these environment
Jefferson was from the beginning II
the forefront of the fight for liberty
The ruling passion of his life was Il hfn
belief in the worth and dignity Q
human nature and in mans capacity
for self-government. He believed ina
popular was the only form
of government by which mai could al
tain the highest political happiness,
''Tl1ese beliefs are voiced in the reso'
mtions which he drafted for the Nir
ginia House of Burgesses; they appeal
in that bold and fearless presentation
of the cause of the colonies published
under the title a Summary View of th'
Rights of British America they burs
forth like the peal of a mighty an
them when he wrote the Declaration
of Independence; they reappear in hi
letters and messages as President; they
formed as much a part of his being il
the evening of his life as in the morn
ing of his manhood; to these ideals Ia
owed his friendships and his enmities.
~"Jefferson's idea of a republic which
would attain these end was a govern
ment which preserved in the fulles
measure the natural and original free
dom of man. He was Jealous Of all gov