Evening journal., 1900-04-21
SATURDAY, APRIL 81.
mARNtNas IRON ooLD MEN.

BRYAN Democrats have scored
another mark against Former Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland and Former
Governor James E. Campbell, Of Ohio.
Their latest oifense against the l6 toI
men consists Of utterances, written
and oral, at the Jeffersonian banquet
in New York on Wednesday night. In
his letter of regret Former President
Cleveland said:
Our principles are so simple, and
they accord so well with the honest
American disposition which loves free
dom and cares for the public welfare,
that they are easily understood by theI
Democratic masses. AS a result OK
this there has never been time when
false leadership OF our party and a de-
parture from simple Democratic faith
have not been quickly discovered and
ruthlessly rebuked by listless support,
pronounced detection and bitter defeat.
These consequences have thus far been
so inevitable that fhe lessons they
teach cannot be disregarded without
inviting calamity.
These are bitter words to come from
a former idol Of Democracy on the eve
OF a campaign, but they will meet with
a hearty response from sound money
Democrats the country over. The same
false leadership" which existed four
years ago exists to-day. William J.
Bryan and the Free Silver element still
dominate the Democratic party and de-
clare for free silver as they did then.
They are as guilty of what Mr.. Cleye-
land calls "a departure from simple
Democratic faith" This being true,
what are the sound money Democrats
going to do about it? VIII the contin-
ued heresy OF the Bryan following be
''ruthlessly rebuked by listless sup
port, pronounced detection and bitter
defeat?n Mr.. Cleveland warns the
Free Silver men that these conse-
quences have thus far been so newt
able that the lessons they teach can
not be disregarded without inviting
calamity" II these words are any
thing at all, they constitute a warning
TO the Kansas City Convention that 81
the Bryan men want the support OF tn,
Sound Money Democrats in the ap
preaching campaign they must keei
Free Silver in the background.
In the speech of Former Governor
Campbell we find the same warming
He said:
"The political party founded b,
Thomas Jefferson cannot survive hal
Democratic and half populistic, Their,
must either be dissolution or restora
ton Of pure Democracy. It is true tina
many thousands Of us will again sup
port the nominees OF our party, M
matter into what mistakes Il may fall
but Il is equally true that many othe
thousands win forever abandon tn
party II it again supplants truth witt
error. The Chicago platform enuncl
ated many great and enduring truths
but 1t coupled them to at least on
fatal error-the impossible proposition
Of sixteen 10 one"
But the Free Silver Democrats ar
determined to nominate William ]
Bryan; and for William J. Bryan b
stand on a platform which does no
contain a plank in advocacy OF the "im
possible proposition Of 16 to ~ is ou
OF the question. He viii run again, an
he will be defeated by the combine
vote OF the Republicans and the Col
Democrats. The American people wi
not permit the present prosperity G
the country to be destroyed for tn
mere sake of permitting Mr. Bryan t
make experiments in some Of his pc
theories.