Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-28

untold thousands of later converts to Bryanism.
 Here we have brought before us the reverse picture. On Saturday night last MT. Grover Cleveland. of Trenton, N. J., was the mighty one of the 508 who assembled around Banker Warner within the gorgeous splendors of the new Wal dorf ball room. New York, to cross their legs under a $6,000 democratic @ reform dinner. Carlisle, Josiah Patterson, By mum, Wilson and others, not Bryan men, were of the distinguished company, but no Bryan man was there, nor did Mir. Cleveland mention the name of Jefferson
 MT. Cleveland's speech carefully pre- pared. was intended as the text for By mum in the missionary tour which he will soon undertake, under the auspices of the New York Reform club, in the Bryan states or as the orator put it, 'where fi- nancial error is most general
 The great Allah of the dinner was most careful to string his platitudes of learned length and laundering sound, all along from beginning to end, upon supercal- ious air of patronage toward the Bryan element I am holier than thou; 1 pray three times a day and give aims. Speak ing of his surprise in the action at Chica- go he thus refers to the deluded ones:
 "The danger of the situation arose from the nasty impulse of those whose misfortunes had been eruellyplayed upon and from the enthusiasm of unques- tioning thoughtless party fealty.'
 Speaking in the peroration of the duty of the 1S4, coo of his own kind toward the 6,5OO coo of the Bryan school, he said:
 "The work has already been inaugur- ated by the creation of an organization founded upon the declaration of demo- cratic principles so sound, so clear and so patriotic that they should rally to their support every true democrat and supply an inspiration forbdding defeat"
 It will hardly be denied by the atteE- tive reader that MT Cleveland's speech in the ms tier of it and in the temper of 1t, is a feeble pivot upon which must revolve the anti-Bryan democracy. It tickles Banker Warner and his brothers in banking circles, to hear an eX-presi- dent descend to rather scurrilous har- anguing in their assumed interest al so great a dinner. The plain voter will disentangIe the subtle thought from the verbose rhetoric He will readily dis cover that while Mr Cleveland admits he and his followers elected Mckinley, there is an undereurrent of threat to at- tempt the same thing again How would it do to lay up this remembrance and when Apostle Bynum mounts the ros- trum at Birmingham, ply him with some curt interrogatorles along that line? MT. Cleveland denounces the Bryan men for "sordid greed" partisan ambition" and declares these grovelling instincts are at the bottom of the argument of the G,500,- GOO for free and unlimited coinage of silver a the ratio of f6 to 1" Returning to his low-bred patronizing air, he coun sels firm congratulations" The Bryan ties must be taught that party conven- tiens Gas at Chicag go) may go wreng. In such a case, every fiftleth voter has the palpable right to corral the forty beside him and lead them and at their head "break through the influence of mischievous leadership"
 The speech of MT. Cleveland is amaz- ingly ridiculous in the light of Bryan's orations from border to border of the land. But it is surprisingly welcome, for it commits Apostle Bynum to the funeral pier in the south and west B.