The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-14
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ton of Speaker Champ Clark, and
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio and
Governor Tom" Marshall, of Indiana,
were given warming up gallop at
the Democratic Club here tonight. The
occasion was the annual Jefferson
day celebration of the organization
and the function was converted into
the most notable democratic reunion
in the recent history of the party.
In addition to Col Bryan, who as a
guest of the evening had a place on
the program, speeches pregnant with
democratic doctrine we're delivered
by Mayor William J. Gaynor of New
York Governor John A. Dix, of New
York; Governor Simeon q. Baldwin, of
Connecticut; Governor Woodrow WIZ
son, of New Jersey; Governor James
A. Hawley of Idaho; United States
Senator James A. OGorman and a
host OF lesser lights from all over the
country.
A seat had been reserved at the
guest table for Charles Francis Muir
ply, boss of Tammany Hall, and one
of New York's big four" to Balti-
more. The New York leader, howev-
er, sent regrets. through tom
Smith, who explained that Murphy
was suffering from a sore throat.
Great interest attached to the
speech of Mayor Gaynor because or
the belief that he is the real dark
horse" choice of not alone Bryan but
of Murphy and Tammany. His topic
was What would jefferson say" and
he proceeded to flay those who be-
lieve that attacks on the courts and
the constitution are evidences of an
archy. Gaynor was formerly justice
of the supreme court here and great
interest was taken in his attack on
the court
Jefferson" said Gaynor, "only
smiled at the stupid conservatism
which proclaimed that everything is
all right as 1t is. He was a progress
sive, but felt his way, and blazed his
way all the time that we might fol-
low.
Jefferson opposed all forced con
stitutional interpretations by the
courts while he was living and said
that II allowed to run their course,
the constitution and our form of gov
eminent would be Slapped and mined
by the courts In their natural tendency
to aggrandize themselves with power
over the legislative and executive
branches of government
Gaynor scored the New York court
of appeals for multiplying the laws pro-
hibiting underground bake ovens, to.
bacco manufacture in tenements, wo
men working at night and the EN-
ployers liability act.
Such decisions cause the growth Of
socialism" he snapped, and should
either be nullified or recalled"
He then bittery criticised favorit
ism in railroad freight rates declar
ing railroads are not private road.
but public highways. AS remed,
for trusts, which as he explained, ar
merely holding companies, the mayo
said repeating the statutes unde
which they are organized is the onl
means of real relief. The rights o
the people are of more concern thai
the rights of these law-breaking COZ
porations," he said.
To make the constitution of tn
United States, as we'll as the stat
laws, Gaynor suggested constitutions
conventions every twenty year.
which, he said, would end the no.
cumbersome and difficult methods {
amending the constitution.
Governor Dix spoke at great lengt
on the tariff which &c denounced a
forcing the people of this country |
pay to a favored class tribute none
amounting to net less than a billie
and half of dollars"
The governor repeated his we
known views on tariff reduction,
claring 1t was high taxes and n
high wages that kept America fro
dominating the markets of the worl
He denounced Schedule 4" in par
cular as working more injury
American labor than the entire nor
of Europe's pauper labor"
The country Is facing serio
crisis, Dix said. brought about in
Dor circles entirely by the tariff.
declared that the issue of the conf
campaign that overshadowed all ell
was the question of reducing the tar
20 'emancipate American agricultu
and industry and create opportuni
for worldwide industrial conquest
intelligent American workers
U. S. Senator O'Gorman, of n,
York, reviewed the career of Jeff
son as a constructive statesman a
on it predicated an arraignment
what he termed republican was
and extravaganza He referred
Jefferson's belief that the presiden
should be limited to two terms and
clared that the failure Of Preside
Grant to force his denomination
the third time would be paralleled
the case of distinguished citizen
this state, who is deceiving hims
with the hope that the American PEG
will confer power which Washingt