Evening journal., 1912-09-12

ing party to satisfy an ambition to
become a candidate for public office
points the way to other disgruntled
graspers for an opportunity to shine
before the people as q candidate for
Office, u was recalled. too. that
Houston not many months ago was
denouncing Roosevelt
Another spectacle that afforded
amusement to some observers of af-
fairs yesterday was that Of Or. Caleb
r. Layton, the shrewd AddickE leader,
reading a platform denouncing polit-
cal corruption and the voters assist
ant law Many Of the hearers agreed
that DR.. Layton ought to know by
experience the working Of the voters
assistant law because Of his activity
in the old Addicks days.
II was 215 o'clock when Chairman
McCommons called the convention to
order, the invocation being made by
the Rev. c. A. Behringer Of Milton.
Del. At the time the Opera House was
not filled. Wilmington was repre-
sented by a smaller delegation than
| any other section of the state. In the
| gallery we're sixteen women. including
| Niirs TIhN1Ac L. luf NnAt MINs 4N0lDNdn
! =. John and Mrs. ]. r. Nilligan. Jo-
seph r. Holland, who was a Demo
cratic candidate for governor the day
before; Alexander NJ. DAILY. Demo-
crat, and D. Mifin Wilson and Col
euel A p. Conrer Republicans, were
among those I'm the audience.
Then Onward Christian Soldiers
was sung by tho convention. all
standing Herman c. Taylor of Dover,
a Democrat former member of the
Legislature, and a newspaper cores
pondent, who is noted as a singer,
was requested by Chairman McCom-
mons TO lead the singing
Senator Clapp Speaks.
When Senator Moses h. Clapp of
Minnesota, was introduced to address
the Convention he was enthusiast
cally applauded, some Of the women
waving bandanas. Senator Clapp S
first sentence was:
when ] heard you singing ! was
reminded OF the statement in a cloak
room of the Senate during the clos
ing days, of a Senator who remarked
When the women get to vote in
nominating presidents and the con-
yentions get to singing onward Chris
tian Soldiers, it will raise hell with
politics. / think IL viii take the hell
out OF politics"
Senator Clapp pictured the genesis
and history OF the Democratic and
Republican parties, dwelling vividly
on Civil War times and added:
Three years ago We came to real
ize that the Republican party, that
grand party of Lincoln. Mckinley and
Roosevelt had fallen into the hands
OF as vicious a plunder-bund as ever
oozed MP from the seepage OF civiliza.
ton.
The trouble with the Democratic
party is that Il has always been an
academic. intellectual interrogation
{ point. 1t has lacked the heart throb
Rule Of the People.
Party policy must come from tn,
rank and file OF the people and no
be handed down tc the rank and nj,
by self-styled leaders. II was recog
I milton Of this law that made Abraham
: Lincoln immortal.
e 1T was recognition OF this. too
Y that made Mckinley great. Il wa
e recognition OF that law that gave III
e our next big leader.
+ There IS nothing personal in me
T. To me the president OF the Unite,
+ States is no more than the man VIII,
] drives the cab from the station.
we talk about the big stick WELD
ed by Theodore Roosevelt. but he di,
/. not need TO sink a plummet into tn
y national heart He was the incarna
r tion OF the will OF the people. and h
welded over the heads Of a reluctan
Congress the threat of authority 4
. MAKE them do their duty.
"Since he left office in three sbor
years the Republican party has bee
wrecked. In this catastrophe d
not wish 20 consider the chief acto
in a personal light. President Tai
was elected on the implied principl
: that be would carry out the Roosevelt
policies. His apolog'sts say the
we're carried out NY friends the
we're. / was there. They were car
ried out on a stretcher and I witness
ed the ceremony. They were carrie
out and dumped on the scrap heap
Senator Clapp denounced Presiden
Taft for setting himself up as III
. "titular head" Of the Republica
party. and continued:
when Senator Aldrich in the Ser
. ate found himself unable to iustif
. any measure he wanted passed h
fell back on the argument that tn
. President wanted H. Ny friends, dur
ing the seven years Roosevelt wa
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