Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-11
NAKEI TO THE WORLD.
che Blowing Up of Derelict CIeve-
land Successfully Accomplished
by MI. Bryan.


Hon. Grover Cleveland is a political
derelict, dismasted and waterlogged,
floating ~ponderously in lonely seas,
- menace to navigation. Following
the weI1-known rule in such cases
made and provided, Hon. William J.
Bryan has proceeded to blow him up.
The job was well done-how well, our
readers may judge from the follow
ing extracts from the Commoner:
"Mr. Cleveland and his political as
sociates are long on high sounding
phrases, but short on definitions. If
Mr.. Cleveland's recent admonition
it might have been explained by a
wink or a gesture suggesting that he
himself was the embodiment of the
principles to which the party should
return, but when the words appear in
cold type they require a key.
"When the battle was on between
a republic and an empire-between a
democracy and plutocracy-between
bimetallism and monometallism-he
refused to say a word or lift his hand
in behalf of the rank and file for
whom he now expresses such an af-
f~ectionate solicitude. As soon as the
election was over he came forth from
his seclusion and made the air vocal
with his suggestions. Assuming to be
inspired by a purer democracy and
boasting of a superior virtue, he be-
gan to offer unsolicited advice to the
party to which he once belonged. He
is like the soldier who was de-
scribed as invisible in war and in
vincible in peace
"To desertion of the party organ
ization and betrayal of the principles
of the party he adds ostentatious pre-
tense of interest in the plain people,
while he ~conceals his ideas in pom
derous and platitudinous phrases. If
he will clearly and candidly define the
democratic principles about which he
is so prone to talk, the people "a de-
eide for themselves whether he is the
same Mr.. Cleveland who turned the
treasury over to a foreign financial
syndicate and intrusted J.. Pierpont
Morgan with the combination of the
government vaults, and then sup
ported the republican ticket because
his administration was not Endorsed
the same Mr.. Cleveland who de-
nounced trusts in his message, but
failed to enforce the law against
them-the same Mr.. Cleveland who
condemned imperialism and then
gave passive support to an imperial
istic president, or whether he has
repented of his folly and is ready to
accept the democratic creed"
If there is a democrat in the coun-
try who dissents from this character
ization of the man who set out IL
1893 to destroy the party which had
twice elected him to the presidency
we do not know his name. 1t is con-
ceivable that creatures of the Dick
inson, Bynum and J. Sterling Morton
order might utter a word of protest.
but any disclaimer from them would
only add to the force of the indict-
ment. Mr.. Bryan has simply un-
dressed the Princeton recluse with
his pen, and he stands before the
world much as God made him-the
missing link between hypocritical
democracy and trust ~plutocracy.
The picture is not attractive. but it
will not 500 be forgotten.
Mr.. Bryan possesses the unusual
ability of writing quite as well as he
talks. Mr.. Cleveland has something
of the same faculty, but in his ase
it is based upon that interesting phe-
known to b~illiardists as re-
verse Observation-Disclosures Times.