The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-04-30
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The Great Democrat Ut
tiers Words of Wisdom.

America were guests, several
of whom delivered addresses,
among the number being Elk
President Cleveland, John @.
Carlisle, VIM. L. Wilson,
Senator Caffery, Josiah Pat=
tcrson, VIM. d. Bynum and
others. The BULLETIN re-
produces the speech of Mr..
Cleveland in full:
We are gathered here tonight as
patriotic citizens, anxious to do
something toward reinstating the
prosperity of our fellow countrymen
and protecting the fair name of our
nation against shame and scandal.
On every side we are confronted
with popular depression and COM
plant. These are largely due to
causes of natural and certain recur-
renee as the inevitable accompani-
ment of all human endeavors, and
perhaps they are as largely due to
the work of agitators and dema,
gogues, who have busily sOwed the
seeds of discomfort in order that III
the harvest they may reap personal
advantage. Distressing ills, real
and imaginary, have been so con
stantly and luridly presented to the
minds of honest men, that they are
tempted TO accept, without taking
counsel of reason or judgment, any
nostrum cunningly offered as a rem
edy for their low condition.
But even so promising field as
this has not satisfied the designs OF
ruthless agitators. While scatter
ing the seeds of discomfort, they have
also cultivated a growth of section
al and class suspicion and distrust,
which threatens to choke or destroy
that traternal feeling which leads
to considerate counsel in the day OF
common misfortune, and which is
absolutely essential to the success
of our plan of government. The
fundamental truth that our tree in
situations offer opportunities to all
within their influence for the adj
vancement and improvement OF
their condition has been so far de
MED that honest accumulation is
called a crime, and the necessity
and habit of individual effort anC
struggle, which are the handspring.
of sturdy Americanism, are describ
ed as unjustifiable burdens, while
unwholesome paternalism is pre-
scented in handsome and inviting
garb.
Those enlisted in this crusade o.
discomfort and passion, proclaimin2
themselves the friends of the PEG
pie, exclude from that list all theil
countrymen except those most un
fortunate or unreasonable and those
whom they themselves have made
the most disconnected and credu
lous. These forces and condition.
have for years, with greater or less
distinctness, lowered about OU
national life, lacking effective or
ganization and concentration, neg.
lected by those who deprecated
their existence and unheeded even
by those who partially appreciated
their dangerous tendency. In the
mean time there has laid in wait
behind them all an impatient power,
ready to marshal them in effective
activity when depression, misfor
tune, neglect and passion had done
their work. This power, born OF
sOrdid greed and maintained by sell
fish interest and partisan ambition,
has at last assumed command, and
has largely recruited its forces 10y
infaming those inclined to be pa,
tient with tales of an ancient crime
against their rights to be avenged
by encouraging the restless and tur-
bulent with hints of greater license,
and by offering to the poor as a
smooth road to wealth and to those
in debt as a plan for easy payment,
and to those who from any cause
are unfortunate and discouraged as
a remedy for all their ills, the free
and unlimited and Independent coin
age of silver at a ratio of I6 to l.,
with a deprecated currency and
cheap money.
1t was a rude awakening for the
and overconfdent and a
day of terror for sober and patriot
lie men when the bold promoters
of this reckless creed captured the
organization of powerful political
party, and, Selling its banners,
shouted defiance to the astonished
and conservatism of the
country.
Hosts of honest men in blind
loyalty gathered behind the party
flag they had been accustomed to
follow, failing to discover that their
party legends had been effaced.
None can forget the doubt and fear
of that boisterous and passionate
campaign, when the fate of the ma
ton seemed in the balance. The
danger of the situation arose from
the hasty impulse of those whose
misfortunes had been cruelty played
upon, and from the enthusiasm of
unquestioning, thoughtless party
fealty. The deliverance came
through the action of those who saw
-he trick and loved the principles of
heir party too well to follow its stol-
IN banners in an attack upon those
rational safeguards, which party as
we'll as patriotism should at all times