The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-27
MR.. CLDVELAND'S REPLY To NH.
BRYAN-WHY HE HAS CHANG
ED

Mr.. Cleveand's speech before the Re-
form Club in New York on Saturday
night, which is printed in full in to-
days paper, bears on it's face that 1T is
intended as a reply to Mr.. Bryan's
speech at the jefferson dinner i'll Wash
;ngton 1t will be remembered that in
his speech on Jefferson's birthday Mr..
Bryan served notice on those Democrats
who had refused to support the nominees
in 1896 that they would be welcomed
! back when they came ''as Democrats,
ready to abide the will Of the majority"
Mr. Cleveland attempts to answer this
challenge by defense of the Pamerites,
by the false charge that the banners
of the Democratic party had been stolen
by ruthless agitators," whereas the men
who bore the banner in 1896 were chosen
by the same orderly party methods as
those by which Mr.. Cleveland was three
times made the standard bearer of the
party. Whatever Of bold declarations
were inserted in the Chicago platform
were made necessary by the undemocrat-
had conducted his administration upon
Republican and Federalistic lines, and
the Democratic party was forced to repu-
date such policies or to see itself bodily
annexed to the Republican party. AS
proof Of the abandonment of the Demo-
cratic party, Mr.. Cleveland and his cuck-
COS used every effort in their power to
elect Mr.. Mckinley, whose policies they
had declared meant ruin and disaster to
the people. The people, after reading Mr..
Cleveland's defense of his desertion by
slandering his party, will applaud Mr..
Bryan's declaration that he and his fol-
lowers cannot come back into the party
until they repent Of their sins, come "as
Democrats" and express willingness
to abide by the win of the majority.
There is no room in the Democratic party
for Cars or cuckOos.
Mr.. Cleveland's denunciation Of Sir.
Mckinley and his policies is on a par
with his reckless characterization of his
own party. He knew better than any
other man that Mr.. Mckinley would sub
ordinate everything else to the enactment
of another Mckinley bill OF denominations
He and his cuckoOs helped TO elect him
with this knowledge because they wanted
4 a.
vention which had aepudiate ted Cleveland's
party perfidy and party dishOnor." In
their chagrin and anger. the goldolaters
went over head and ears into the protec- |
ton camp, and now they are expressing
great Indignation because they are not |
permitted ito can the Sggersr in the Re
publican dance. They are reaping in
April what they sawed in November, and
all their wry faces are made because Mr.
will not listen tsthem and tarn
his back upon the records of all his past |
career
1t will be observed that: Mr. Cleve>
land makes am argument 5or the" trusts /
and monopolies by damniHg those whe |
would prevent such extortions with the |
charge that they are Hagitaters ana dem
agogues." This is i'm line with hu- last
to Congress when Mr.. Cleve-
land sought to excuse his friendship for
the trusts anu syndicates by declaring
that their regulations and suppression
must be left to the States. There was y
a time when Mr.. Cleveland thundercd' a b
gainst trusts, rnonopohes, and those who
illegally upon the swest and toll
VI the masses There, was a time when I
he denounced Mr. MCKINLEY IN his own
State because he had said '''giseap and i
nasty go together Then Mr.. Cleveland B
plead earnestly and esoquent)y for the
humber members of society who, are rob (
bed under the forms OF law. En,his naes- /
sage to Congress in Decembez, 1883 lie
wrote these words:
''The communism of sombineti'
wealth and capital, the outgrowth'
Of oyer-weenmg eupidity and selfish
ness, which insidieusly undermines;
the justice and integrity of free insti-
tutions, is not less dangerous than
the communism of oppressed poverty
and toll, which, exasperated by injus-
tce and discomfort attacks with wild
disorder the citadel of rule
No man, not even Mr.. Bry-
an, ever held UP those men, who
employed the aggregation OF capital for
their illegal enrichment as enemies of
their kind and breeders of communism.
And yet, now, except upon tariff rob
berry, he is their best apolog;st and de-
fender If those who were scattering
the seeds of discomfort" are the authors
Of all our ills, as Mr.. Cleveland charges,
he is more guilty than any other man,
for ever since 1884 he was until 1892
the most persistent agitator in the coun-