| Show I i Keir Hardie has announced his Inten I tion to stand for East Bradford and ism hopes for a brilliant victory for social I < t WATTERSON THE GUEST EXTEItTAJXED BY GOLD DEMOCRATS DEMO-CRATS OF lVDIAXA Gentleman From Kentucky Advocates Advo-cates the Jileit of Keeping Ui the National Democratic Party Believes Be-lieves Bryanites Will Sec the Errors of Their Ways Indianapolis Dec 10The national na-tional executive committee of the Nap Na-p tional Democratic party held its first meeting since election at the Bates house in this city his afternoon and tonight enjoyed a dinner at which Henry Watterson was the guest of honor The business of the afternoon was the auditing of the accounts of the committee and discussing the question of organization during the next four years Those present were W D Bynum chairman John P Frenzel treasurer and John R Wilson of this city the latter holding the proxy of L C Krauthoff of Kansas City Henry Watterson W B Haldeman and George 11 Dauce all of Louisville Thomas H Clark of Montgomery Ala holding the proxy of J M Faulkner 1 R Spellman of New Orleans G Foster Peabody of Brooklyn Brook-lyn John P Hopkins of Chicago C Vey Holman of Rockland Me F W McCutcheon of St Paul and William B Given of Columbia Pa holding dolphin the proxy of John C Bullitt of Phjla It was decided to hold the organization organiza-tion intact as it stands and to make an effort to extend it into states where it had no footing in the last campaign as well as to make it more thorough in those states where it was active Various subcommittees subcommitees were appointed appoint-ed and resolutions were adopted on the death of John R Fellows of New York and C A Ewing of Illinois WATTERSON8 SPEECH At 830 oclock in the evening the members of the committee sat down to a dinner in the ordinary of the Bates house which resolved itself into a discussion of the future of the National Na-tional Democracy Chairman Bynum introduced the speechmaking with a few congratulatory remarks Mr Wat terson was received with applause upon arising and said in part I am in entire sympathy with the movement which has brought you together to-gether here Of course there are two courses open to those of us who are in the movement inaugurated here at Indianapolis One is allying ourselves with the Republican party which elected the presidentthe other ig i to maintain our own organization and use it to disband both of these party extremes on the one side and the I other Manifestly we cannot identify ourselves with the Republican party because the Republican party is committed com-mitted to a policy the results of which we can have no faith in Mr McKinley Mc-Kinley himself if he is an honest and sincere man and I take it for granted he is is also committed to that policy In that event we can have nothing in common with him I Our movement in the beginning had for its ai the preservation of the J Democratic party pure and undefiled Incidentally the result of our action assisted in the election of 11 McKinley Mc-Kinley and the defeat of Mr Bryan But in our present position we are compelled to follow one of two lines either to act with the Republican party or to recognize the Democratic party I we are to have a Democratic party it must be organized upon the lines laid down by you gentlemen at your convention in this city and upon I no other I believe if we adhere to j this organization that in the next 18 months perhaps a million and a half or two million of Democrats who voted for Mr Bryan will have no other place to go I see no reason why in 1900 this organization will not be able to dictate terms to the country I agree most heartily with this movement because be-cause if the country is to go year in and year out between these two extremes ex-tremes of seesaw first up and then down it is only a question of time I when this Democracy will be in the saddle and get hold of the country In that case I see nothing between the country and the peril which some of us prophesied during the last campaign cam-paign We cannot stand with the Republican Re-publican party and protection and without protection the Republican party cannot stand with us I has no great leader who can combine those two forces as Sir Robert Peel did in England politics 50 years ago when the Liberal Unionists formed their coalition with the Conservatives I is only a question of time when defeat I will overtake the Republican party Paternalism is the father of protection protec-tion and the godfather of Populism We cannot follow the Republican party on those lines and therefore I can see no way in which we can cooperate cooper-ate with the Republicans as the Liberal Unionists did with the Conservatives and I wholly agree with this organiza I tion which you have assembled here today to perfect I should be perfected per-fected We should stand by our guns We must work along these lines as long as we are the men we are I believe be-lieve our strength will increase from day to day I have just returned from a long absence and have not yet arranged in my own mind any details of the work but you gentlemen have doubtless doubt-less done so but Ishall throw myself into this work as Warmly and as heartily a I ever did in any fight in my life After a little more general talk the committee went into executive session and subcommittees reported At 1 oclock the committee adjourned leaving the question of the local headquarters head-quarters and plan work to be determined deter-mined at a session tomorrow |
