Cheyenne record., 1920-01-15
Jackson Day Dinner
Extracts from the address Of Janice r
Nolan. Secretary # State. at she
Jaeksoa Day Dinner Of the
Denver Dsmoesatie Club
January ., 1870.

Denver Dsmoerasie Club
January .. 1920.
The national leaders gathered at the
Jackson dinner in our national capi-
tai to night are the hub of the Demo-
cratic party. We are one of the fifty.
four spokes in the wheel. The rim and
tire which is to bear our combined
weight in November-andt thereafter
is being welded in Washington tonight
1t will be stamped with the name of
some one of our many strong men who
are fully capable of carrying us to vic
tory next fall, This man, whether 1t
be our beloved leader, Woodrow Viii
son. Owen, Underwood, Daniels, Cox,
Gerard, Bryan, Clark, McAdoo, Pom
creme or Attorney General Palmer
or some other dark horse" must
have our united support, however in
order to win.
The Republicans are preparing to
throw out barrage of gold they hol e
will blind the people to the dnplicity,
incompetency and truculency OF their
Republican congress. And this cur
tain OF deceit and bribery is to extend
to every nook and corner of the Uni
ted States. National Democratic lead
ers have recently told me that the Re-
publican program calls for the expend
iture OF a million dollars in Colorado
alone, ii necessary, to elect q 3epub-
lican United States Senator. This
threatened flood of dirty money should
not frighten us. Still, it is U menace
we must prepare to combat. And take
4jt from me, unless the Democrats Of
Denver settle down to an Andrew jack
son ba,is OF true de'nocra'y and COM
.bine their strength with the Democrats
of the state against the common enemy
instead OF battling each other, the per
il will destroy us.
If party tradition is to be taken as
a reliable guide post, however, it is a
certainty that the Democrats OF Denver
and the lstate alike will present solid
front this fall. BY which m ear, tits
time-worn tradition that in order to
get the Democrats together You must
''first lick hi out of SEM" We cer-
tainly got the licking all right ut the
last election-I think we're all agreed
on that point. And if the Republicans
had not double-crosscd themselves with
the civil service amendment we kwould
be now scrambling for breathing space
instead of on our feet and fighting.
Never in the history of our nation
have we faced the conditions which
confront us today. The masses of the
people are restless, Disseminated, dis
satisfied. To my mind. the underlying
cause Of this nationwide attack of the
nerves Is direct outgrowth of the fail
ure ,of the Republican party to give
US u definite and lasting peace. 1t was
with the understanding that this'was to
be made Warless World that our
; boys offered up their live. on what we
all had o right TO believe and expect
would be an altar Of universal peace.
Those battle-scarred returning war
riors-and all who returned to US ere
battle STARRED in body or mind-began
to look for the fruits of their life-sac-
rificiny labor. The mothers and faith
.ers, the sisters and brothers, the wives
and sweethearts of these returned he.
rocs entered upon this search.
Our God-riyen Democratic presi-
dent, Woodrow Wilson, was their
guiding star-and is still their beacon
light. Bnt while he could point the
way, lie could not force u passage
through the steel-barred gates of the
Republican congress, even though he
has all but given his life in the heroic
attempt.
This heart t-breaking search and this
everlasting demand of the soldier fo,
the just reward the Republicans haze
persistently refused to him and his
people has been in progress now for
more than year. And the soldier
can no more understand the unreason
able and damnahle delay than hi
would have understood an order tt
cease firing aguinst an advancing
horde of blood-thirsty hung on the ba
tlefieids of France He wanted actor
there and lie saw to it that he got it
BY the same token, he has wanted &c
ton hcre-and while the Republican