Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-18
Leading Demo cratic Orators Make Vitriolic
 Attacks on the Republican Elephant
HARMONY BANQUET IN BALTIMORE
Gaunt Specter of the Tariff Present Afternoon Mass Meeting and at the Evenings Bountful Feast-No Presidential Boom Launched-The 'New National ism Means Treason, Deep and Dark"

Baltimore. Md. Jan. 1.-The gaunt specter of the tariff, with all the vii cissitudes 1t brings from without and within a political party. stalked boldly through the Jackson day gathering of the democrats in this city today. It made it's presence felt at the mass meeting at the Lyric in the afternoon, and it would not down at the boun- tiful feast which was spread at the Fifth regiment armory.
 But the issue was fairly met by all fhe speakers Some frankly acknowl- edged that thero would be differences of opinion among tho democrats on this subject. as there had been among the republicans
 All Pouneed Upon the Tariff.
 Senator Bailey, for instance, while declaring that harmony of action must be the watchword of the democracy if IS to maintain the advantage won at the last election, took direct issue with those democrats who favor piecemeal revision of the tariff. Champ Clark of Missouri, speaker to be of the house of representatives. had just announced that the sentiment among democrats in the house seemed to favor piece meal revision-schedule by schedule, if possible, but item by item, if nec- essary.
 And the most obnoxious items first" exclaimed Mir. Clark
 As between rollen appleS- DlSlSt- cd Senator Bailey "there is no choice. Every schedule in the Payne -Aldrich law is bad
 Governor Harmon of Ohio. one of the most prominent figures in the days gathering. also bounced upon the tarifr as did practically every one of inc long list of speakers at the mass meeting and banquet.
 No Presidential Boom.
 The day passed, as the democratic leaders wished 1t might. without an ntteTHpt from any quarter to launch a boom for the presidential nomination In 1912. Senator Bailey, while lock- ing horns with Champ Clark on the snetfod of revising the tariff, paid the democratic leader of the house the tribute of placing him in the presi- dential class
 Chassd the Republican Elephant.
 And while they were not discussing the tarifr with serious r1ien and hum ble spirit, the democratic leaders were calling out shouts of laughter and rounds of applause by their witty and at times vitriolic attacks on the grand old party. Astride donkeys ~ampant, they chased the republican elephant through the halls of congress. through the corridors of the White house and through the Hobbies of the State cap stols And at the end of the hunt the democrats spitted choice cuts from the poor old elephants quivering car cass upon the javelins of political or tory.
 The whole breed of elephants, it was announced, would be exterminated in fs1z.
 we are not going to elect a pres- ident in that year." shouted Champ Clark. but we are going to elect five or six of them hand-running."
 The New NationaIism.
 Col Theodore Roosevelt came in for q large share of the maledictions hurl- cd at the republican party. Former Senator J. C. S. Blackburn of Ken lucky claimed the privilege at the afternoon mass meeting of dealing with the colonel He declared that the new nationalism" enunciated by Colonel Roosevelt, WAS filled with trea- son deeper and darker" than any charged against the south from '61 to 'c5.
 Senator Bailey declared that demo- crstx were all of accord as to the necessity and extent to which the tar sff should be revised and the principle which would underlie that revision
 In rapping new nationalisin," Sen etor Blackburn insisted that the three coordinate branches of government