Show I BOOM FOR HEARST FOR PRESIDENT t Former Governor Budd of Cali Call California California fornia Its Author BRYAN Y N ON DESERTERS ATTACKS ATT GOLD G LD STANDARD DEMOCRATS I t 0 O Feb 12 A prest presidential C j boom in behalf of Wil Wit William WilHam liam Ham R Ft Hearst and a bitter at attack attack attack tack on alleged deserters from the theD D party by William J Bryan 1 were the dominating notes at the bar barbecue barbecue barbecue given tonight by the Jefferson league organized a I year ago by former Congressman John JohnJ J Lentz and others Twelve hundred j men and women om n Were v re present The pro I j gramme of toasts follows Toastmasters address of welcome John ohn J Lentz Columbus Address Local for Cities Mayor Tom L Johnson Clev Cleve Cleveland Clevland land Address The rhe Plain People and Their Champions James JamesH 3 H Budd of California Address The Test of Democracy W J Bryan Nebraska Clarence S Darrow leading counsel J for the United Mine Workers who was to have responded to the toast Tie The Industrial Slave aph fl during the day that owing to his speech before the strike commission in J Philadelphia today tad a he would be un unable una able a e to o come come 0 The invocation was pro pronounced t flounced by Rev Re Herbert S Bigelow Bigelo the Cincinnati clergyman who made an unsuccessful campaign for tor secretary of j state on the Democratic ticket last fall Former Governor James H Budd who responded to the toast The Plain People and Their Champions said in j part partI I might say that I have no objection objection tion to any people asking those to be leaders who though not openly sup supporting pottIng porting the parties of trusts and tariff exactions have split the ranks of f their friends and led to a victory that ought not to have been at any time carried I want them in the ranks I want them to t fight ith us but I want the ban banners banners banner ners ner in the hands of such men as Lentz or Bryan or Johnson or Bill Hearst of New York Budd Names Hearst Each locality has its men that It looks upon as champions and I find In the far east those conservative men who desire to lead the Democracy again are picking out their champions But I have not seen a name mentioned by them under whose shirt of labor you could strike the iron breastplate of trusts Not one of them In this state you have champions like Lentz You have champions like Tom John Johnson Johnson Johnson son whom we have all heard of And we in ia the west Save JVe e ar ur 11 champion The man that we believe next to your yourself yoUrself yoUrself self has done most for the cause of 1 the common people the man who in m the fight when the traitors deserted you came to your succor and stood an able lieutenant under your orders the man who has fought all his life for a national law for an income tax for tor education for national ap up appropriations appropriations for schools the doctrines preached by Bryan and the fathers the man who was born in our state whom we regard as and a native son one of the greatest of the times is William Randolph Hearst congress of New York There are others many others But enough I do not for me these are wish to go farther because I know that I might fare worse In every city of Ohio there should be a club of the plain people who the its constitution should adopt as constitution of the league that has hag given this magnificent dinner tonight and If that is the case Ohio in the th next presidential election in my certain judgment nt will cast its vote for president president dent for one of the four gentlemen whom I have named as its champions W R Hearst who had been invited to address the banquet sent his regret in a telegram in which he said in part What Constitutes History The history of a country is really the history fils tory of a few fe great men In these men are the coun real life and worth Theirs is the genius which gives expression and reality to the convictions and principles pIes ples of the people whom they represent represent sent The three names that you have chosen to be represented In unison are the greatest names in the American peoples history save of course the foundation name of Washington Washington stands apart He lie rep represents represents represents resents the struggle against foreign supremacy The three men whom you meet to honor are the representatives of plans and thoughts and beliefs of the American nation as a free nation Washington made American self government possible but Jefferson Jackson and Lincoln directed Ameri Amen American can government into its popular Demo Democratic cratic cratie channel and made it true Until very recently Jefferson Jack Jackson Jackson Jackson son and Lincoln could possibly be called callet typical of both of our great political parties All An three of these men stood for tor the rights of all the people and theirs views have been represented in every great political movement until the later days It cannot be denied that today one of the political parties has divorced divorcee itself from American principles and from these great American statesmen It Is the duty of at the Democratic party to return the power of govern government government government ment to the people by allying itself itsel with those popular political forces best bes able to accomplish that result What force In the United States to today today today day is most in harmony with the true tru Democracy and best able to compete with this financially organized usurpation tion of government To succeed the Democratic party must work under the Inspiration of the great names and thoughts of Jefferson Jackson and Lincoln And It mus must work vOrk in cooperation with the organ organized organIzed manhood and independence of this country count the greatest greate t Democratic force of today Bryan Roasts Deserters The ovation n tendered Mr Bryan was the he most enthusiastic of the evening He asserted that if there is any anyone one man in the country who has suffered on account of lack of ot Democratic harmony he is that man and charged that it was the opposition of alleged d Demo Democrats Democrats Democrats within the ranks of his party part that hat brought him to defeat in 1896 and 1900 He said that he knew all the themen themen themen men who had gone in those years and that since then tien they had h d suffered severe heart burnings If it Is such a serious affair to change party part allegiance Mr Bryan said I r hope these men will stay out of ot the Democratic party There can be no harmony between Democrats who carry knives for each other and hate each other There is a beter better chance to o make Democrats out of Republicans than out of Palmer and Buckner Dem Democrats Democrats Democrats These men can never ne er be Je e in harmon with us unless they or w change our political convictions I still believe in inthe inthe inthe the platform adopted at Chicago in IS and In Kansas City in 1900 I have no thought hought of surrendering my convIctions ions Our principles were true then they hey are true now I would not change them if I r could Neither would I sur surrender surrender surrender render my principles to win any victo victory ry however great for my party A party like a ma man needs a character and a membership that knows know what w at is right and then will do it Mr Bryan said he did not propose to o take his Democracy from any Dem Democratic Democratic leader who received his train training ing lug from Wall Vall street An expected clash between the John Johnson Johnson Johnson son and McLean factions of the state committee did not develop to an acute stage no action of any y kind being taken takenA A postponement of disputed points Is looked upon as a victory for Johnson as it is said McLeans friends backed down from the aggressive stand taken |