Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-31
Silver Orator Holds There Has
Been No Retreat.
DEMOCRATS AT THE FEAST.
Platform OF 1900, Brc says. VIII be
Written by Those Who supported
Chicago Pjnuks.

Topeka. Kan, March so.--Thc Demo-
cratic conference aud banquet under
the auspices of the Democratic State
central committee was held In this city
this evening. Prominent speakers. In
Guiding Col. william j. Bryan " Ne
hruslsn. Champ Clark Of Missouri. Allen
o. Meyers of Ohio and sidney clark OF
Oklahoma were present. Covers were
laid for more than n thousand guests.
The new Library hall. whor. the ban
quet was held. presented n brilliant
scene. with thousands Of incandcscont
llghts and decorations OF natural roses.
nnHs ana bright -coinrcd bunting. The
meeting was IN the nature OF confer
Wirr nf the Democratic leaders, the
policy Of the party In the campaign Of
1900 being touched upon. Mr. Bryan
himself was given the most prominent
place. his subject being Democracy"
Mr.. Bryan stood out Hqudrvly FOR the
Chicago platform, ana said that there
had been no retreat from the positions
taken IN 1896 "Wc nro not only holding
our own no declared. but we are
gaining back those Democrats who left
us without fully understanding the ma
turc Of the struggle.
"somctlmca we hear pleas for hnr-
from those who opposed the par
ty In iSa6.' continued AIR. Bryan. but
harmony. instead OF being thing
hoped Tor, IN at last q thing realized.
not pretended harmony between
those entertaining antagonists princi-
pics, but an actual harmony between
those who are united IN n common pur-
pose ngainHt a common enemy. The
Democratic party was never more hnr-
moniour. ana it, harmony can only
20 disturbed By admitting within the
fold uho9o who nrc Mt variance with It's
principles and aspirations.
The Democratic platform OF 1900 win
be written by those who stood upon the
platform % 1895. not by those who
tried to overthrow the Democratic par
~ IN TINT campaign. The failure which
attended those who organized the gold
PARTY and wrote the indianapolis plat
iorn. ought 90 restrain thcm from
pioneering their services ~ plntf0rir-
mntoir for some years 60 come"
MI. lityan declared that events have
been vindicatlnr the policies proposed
ny the Democratic party In 1886 Hc
then passed on TO the subject of trusts,
ana characterized them ~ the products
OF Republican methods. Ne gave this
warning. III the Republican party
goes into the next campaign upon q
platform defending the trusts, II will
nntagonixe sentiments which are rap
idly GROWING against them even In the
RANKS OF thut party.
Mr. Bryan closed with dcnuncln-
tlon OF militnrism. and what ne termed
the tendency Of the prc4cnt admlnistra.
ton toward Imperialism. He said,
The Republican party came into OK.
iHtonce IN an attempt to apply the
Declaration ~ Independence 10 the
black man; II seems likely 10 20 out N
existence for Its refusal 90 apply the
same principles To "A brown man-only
half black"
Champ Clark Of Bowling Green, Mo-.
had fof his subject "proHperity-Past
Present aud Future" lie said: Print
Ing flaming advertisements In metro
poltan papers, even In the guino OF
editorials. announcing that prosperity
has arrived. fails 90 prove the truth
OF the statement to the mon who,
though tolling industrlously In SUM
mcr'n heat ana winters cold, ana
economizing TO the utmost. atiil mud
themselves sinking deeper and deeper
into debt as the years so by.
II wish TO heaven prosperity. uni
verral and abiding. would come, care
not who brings ~. ~ u comes. | would
acclaim " as cheerfully. Justify and
gratefully II brought about by William
Mckinley and Republican Congress
as ! could n produced by William Jcn-
grcsa.
From the bottom ~ my heart I wish
President Mckinley we'll lie Is n most
gracious, tactful aud pleasant gcntlc-
pan, but unless he and the F1fty.alxth
Congress do more 10 fuifili the multi
faflous and georgcous promises of 1870
than he and the Fifty-nfth Congress
have done. Il viii become tho agreeable
and patriotic duty OF President Bryan
aud tho Flfiy-acvcnth and Fifty
eighth Congresses 10 lnduct the country
into an era OF general and lasting pros
perlty."
lie was followed by Allen o. Mycra
of Columbus, a., whose toast was ''rhe
East and the West"
The toast, responded 10 by sidney
clark of Oklahoma city, which wus
"oklnhomn, the Next star In the Flag
Of the Union"
McCuLLOCH MAY RETURN.