FJSV'-r-"- - rwfqpfKn5rfy 15"EP"T"$fT",S8 JANUARY 12, 1S12 The Commoner. 7 stick with which to make much noiso and do no service, appearing unexpectedly through Day Banquet at Washington evory trap door of opportunism and disappear- Jackson ing acrobatically through every open window of timo-sorvin- g expediency. Tho Jackson Day banquet, held at Washing- Speaker Clark exchanged cordial greetings, but "With Roosovelt as harlequin and Root as ton on the evening of January 8th, was largely it was noticeable throughout tho room that tho Columbine, with Rockefeller as clown and Mor- attended. Nebraskan was anxious to confer with Governor gan likewise, tho whole progressive movement con- Mr. Bryan's speech will be printed in full Wilson, whom ho joined as soon as he aad would become a roaring Christmas pantotrans-matio- n in a later issue of Tho Commoner. cluded a short talk with the. speaker. Governor scene, whore prosperity would again dis- Following are extracts from the Associated Wilson and Mr. Bryan talked for several minutes. solve into panic and whore Morgan and Rocke- Press report: Former Governor Folk was the last of tho presi- feller revealed enthroned in Wall streot, would "Washington, Jan. 8. Democratic "leaders of dential possibilities to enter the banquet hall. once moro save tho country in order to divide it the coUntry, at the Jackson day dinner here Though he passed Speaker Clark's chair there satisfactorily between thomsolves." tonight, urged their,, followers to stop fighting was no sign of recognition from either of Mis- Judge Alton B. Parker, who preceded Gover- each other and assail the common enemy, the souri's distinguished sons. Mr. Folk, however, nor Wilson, was tho first speaker to make direct republican party, with a united front. Governor engaged Mr. Bryan in earnest conversation. reference by name to formor Presidont Roose- Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, Speaker Champ Tho dinner over, tho program of toasts was velt. He called tho assault on tho trusts "a Clark, William J. Bryan, William Randolph inaugurated with the address of welcome from cheat and naBty fraud." Hearst, Joseph W. Folk and other democratic Edwin A. Newman, chairman of the district "The statement of Roosovelt that tho trust chieftains who have differed in the past joined committee, who was followed by Senator O'Gor- law was impotent was untrue, and you lawyers in an unanimous plea for harmony in 1012 man, the toastmaster. know it," he said. "I charge now and when tho and predicted that political victory would "The country is looking hopefully to the opportunity is presented and I am asked for follow. democratic party for relief from the manifold facts and figures I will prove It, that all his It was a tumultuous dinner, in which pros- Ills that afflict it," said Senator O'Gorman, "and tirade against tho law, tho courts and the states pective candidates for the presidential nomina- a great triumph awaits us, a great opportunity was to attract attention away from tho truth tion shared the honors of the occasion. Gover- for patriotic service and public usefulness is and that every bit of the responsibility for tho nor Wilson, who spoke earnestly on the issues before us, if we but keep our ranks unbroken conditions of today rests upon tho republican of the day, was given a tremendous ovation. and, adhere to the teachings of tho man wo party. When he said it was the duty of the democrats honor here tonight." BRYAN IS LAST SPEAKER In consideration of the trust problem "to pit the Representative James T. Lloyd, chairman of Mr. Bryan, who came last on the program heads that we see and see that our shallales the democratic congressional committee, pre- spoke on the subject, "The Passing Plutocracy." are of good hickory," the banqueters almost sented a glowing prospect for tho party's suc- Nothing that ho said awoke so much applause raised the roof. cess in tho coming campaign, and Alton B. as his poetic peroration quotod from Byron. When William Randolph Hearst declared he Parker discussed briefly "some conditions of This Is what Mr. Bryan quoted: would use every "source and resource" in hiB success." Mr. Parker saw a bright future for "The dead have been awakened shall I sleep? power to bring about a democratic victory and the party, but sounded a note of warning. The world's at war with tyrants shall I crouch? characterized Theodore Roosevelt as a "harle- William Randolph Hearst, another of the The harvest's ripe, and I pause to reap." quin of politics," there was another explosive orators of the occasion delayed by tho storm, When Mr. Bryan had spoken these lines tho outburst. arrived late at the feast. Mr. Hearst reached banquet hall cheered with a deafening din. When Champ Clark, the speaker of the house, the banquet hall just before the speaking began Here and there above the noisy tumult could be called attention to the harmonious action of and was ushered to a seat at the speaker's table heard mingled cries of "Yes, stay asleep," and the democratic majority in the lower house of beside Senator Johnson of Maine. He was "You are still a live one." Mr. Bryan continued congress and the results they had accomplished greeted with the same enthusiasm that attended his quotation when tho tumult had subsided and and sot it up as an example for tho party to the entrance of tho other honored guests of tho concluded with this: follow, the climax of the democratic optimism evening. "I slumber not the thorn Is in ray couch; of the occasion was reached. The democrats lingered long at tho feast be- many Each day a trumpet soundoth In my ear; Mr, Bryan, who followed other speakers, fore the flood of oratory predicting tho revolu- Its echo In my heart." predicted a revolution of political action at the tion of party control of the country's affairs be- polls in November and appealed without any gan. During the festivities a demonstration was In referring to political affairs Mr. Bryan suggestion as ;to who should be- - the standard given' Henry 'Gassaway' Davis, veteran West,'t characterized the movement for popular election bearer, for a united democracy He was -- given Virginian, former senator and candidate for of senators as tho greatest national reform of an ovation that rivaled those of his campaigns the vice presidency in 1904. Mr. Davis was tho generation, and urged elimination of tho for the presidency. cheered for several minutes when he was partisan Issue that has been Injected Into the No party dissension, no sectional prejudice escorted to the toastmaster's table. controversy, asserting that neither of the great as to where the coming convention should be Norman E. Mack, chairman of the national parties could hope to win a constitulonal vic- held, no partiality as. to the nominee for presi- committee kindled a fiery outburst at the begin- tory unaided. dent marked the Jackson day banquet at the ning of the speaking program when he said: He indorsed the direct primary and advocated Raleigh hotel, attended by nearly a thousand "I think it is time we democrats stopped its application to national elections in every leading democrats .from all sections of the fighting one another and began an unanimous state in tho union. country. attack on the common enemy. The country is Speaking of the future of congress, Mr. Bryan Harmony brooded over the banquet board, ready to turn its affairs over to tho "democartic made a plea for tho immediate declaration of around which were, seated delegates to the party if we behave ourselves." the nation's purpose in tho Philippine question, national democratic committee meeting, who Governor Woodrow Wilson was cheered for adhering to the democratic platform promise of only three hours before were involved in bitter several minutes when he arose to speak. The independence. controversy. governor of New Jersey discussed the tariff and In speaking of the approaching campaign as After the band had played "America," other issues before the country, but his reference ono giving promise of victory to the demo- Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie," and other pa- to the currency question awakened the greatest cratic party, Mr. Bryan warned his hearers "that triotic tunes and the photographer from an over- interest. at this time when the whole country is alive head balcony had shouted: "Look pleasant, William Randolph Hearst, who was given a with progressive sentiment, it will be criminal please," the array of democratic leaders facing rousing reception, expressed his faith in the folly for our party to falter in its onward the lens from the toastmaster's table, aroused principles of democracy and said his only desire march, or to show cowardice in the fact of the tumultuous cheers from the assemblage. was to lend his best efforts "to help true demo- powerful enemy which is drawn up in battle Senator O'Gorman of New York, the toast-mast- er crats control tho party in the Interest of true before us." had at his right Champ Clark of Mis- democracy." "As much as we may be interested In the souri, speaker of the house, one of Missouri's "This coming election' said he, "and many tariff question," he continued, "wo must not aspirants for the presidential nomination. To elections to follow, will be decided by the in- Ignore the menace of tho trusts. The demo- the right of Mr. Clark was Alton B. Parker of dependent, progressive voters of this country cratic party must meet immediately and boldly New York, defeated candidate for the democracy and this great body of intelligent citizens will tho issue presented by the supreme court in the in 1904.