Gunnison news-champion., 1920-01-16
JIMMY NOLAND TALKS ON
tP-TO-DATE DEMOCRACY

D-h DE--uoNh-tS
Following are extracts from tn
speech of James L. Noland, Secretar-
OF State, at the jackson Day dinner
OF the Democratic Club, given at tn
Albany Hotel in Denver January sth
he national leaders gathered a
the Jackson dinner in our nationa
capital tonight are the hub of tn,
Democratic party. We are one O.
the % spokes in the wheel The rim
and tire which is TO bear our combin
ed weight in Soyember-and there.
after-is being welded in Washington
tonight. II Will be stamped with the
name Of some one of our many strong
men who are fully capable Of carrying
US to victory next fall. This man,
whether II be our beloved leader
Woodrow Wilson, Owen. Underwood,
Daniels, Cox, Gerard, Bryan, Clark
McAdoo, Pomerene, or Attorney Cen
eral Palmer--or some dark horse
must have our united support, how
ever, in order to win.
The Republicans are preparing to
throw out a barrage of gold they
hope will blind the people to the dup
hcity, incompetency and truculency of
their Republican congress. And this
curtain of deceit and bribery is TO -ex-
tend TO every nook and corner of the
United States. National Democratic
leaders have recently told me that
the Republican program calls for the
expenditure of a million dollars in
Colorado, alone, if necessary, to elect
Republican United States senator.
This threatened flood of dirty money
should not frighten us. Still, il is a
menace we must prepare to combat.
And take it from me, unless the
Democrats Of Denver settle down to
an Andrew Jackson basis of true
Democracy and combine their strength
with the Democrats of the state
against the common enemy instead of
battling with each other, the peril will
destroy US.
If party tradition is to be taken as
reliable guidejost, however, it is
certainty that the Democrats of Dem
yer and the state alike will present n
solid front this fall, by which mean,
IT is a time-worn tradition that in ord
er to get the Democrats together you
must first slick hell out of EN- We
certainly got the licking all right at
the last election.
Never in the history of our nation
have we faced the conditions which
confront us today. The masses of the 4
people are restless, discontented, dis 4
satisfied. To my. mind the cause of
this nationwide attack of the nerves
Is a direct out-growth of the failure
OF ne Republican party to give us a
definite and lasting peace 1t was
with the understanding that this was
TO be made warless world that our
boys offered up their lives on what we
all had night to believe and expect
would be the altar Of universal peace.
Those battle-scarred returning war
riors-and all who returned to us
were battle-scarred in body or mind
began to look for the fruits of their
labor. The fathers and !,
mothers, the sisters and brothers, the
wives and sweethearts of those re-
turned heroes entered upon this same
eager search.
: Our Godgiven Democratic president. ,
Woodrow Wilson, was their guiding
,tar-and is still their beacon light.
But while he could point the way. he ,
.ould not force q passage thru the
'teel-barred gates Of the Republican | .
congress, even though he has all but !
yiven his life in the attempt. :
This heartbreaking search and this :
demand Of the soldier for .
he just reward the Republicans have
'ersistently refused to him and his :
'eople has been in progress now for !
more than year. And the soldier
an no more understand the unreason-
bile and damnable delay than he
would have understood an order to
ease firing against an advancing
'orde Of bloodthirsty Huns on the !
attlefields Of France. We wanted
ction there, and he saw to it that we
'ot 1t. By this same token he has =
'anted action here-and while the Re-
ubhcan congress could not order him 3
cease firing, it has managed to :
ompel him to mark time.
Meanwhile the profiteers, feeling z
ecure IN the trenches so carefully r
tanned and dug for them by this
anne republican congress, have be-
ome buccaneers. Yes, even worse.
lan buccaneers, for while the pirates
OLD robbed people of any wealth ;
,und upon them, they did not de-
land an option on the future earnings .
their victims.
Concerted action, however, fidelityi~
party and to candidates, the casting
side Of petty personal differences and
lncied grievances, not to mention the
Assing Of the Knockers and malcon-
'nts a in our political family circles,
II BRING victory to us in our state.
III materially assist in national =
NY victory and VIII prove that vel :
e worthy descendants Of our politi- :
y AessiAh h hSnor Of whose memoryls
: are assembled here tonight. Ard
- y particularly true 1t this time -
'cause the Republican leaders in Col