Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-04-19
4 MENAcR LAD BARE.
The Blowing Up OF Dereliet Cleve-
land Successfully AccoDpllshed
by ME-. Bryan.


Hon. Grover Cleveland is a political
derelict, dismasted and waterlogged,
floating ponderously in lonely seas,
menace to navigation. Following
the wen-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
had been spoken, instead of written,
it might have been explained by q
wink or a gesture suggesting that he
principles to which the party should
return, but when the words appear in
cold type they require key. -t5
when the battle was on between
republic and an empire-between
democracy and plutocracy-betwee
bimetallism and monometalhsm-h
refused to say a word or lift his hand
in behalf of the rank and file for
whom he now expresses such an af-
fectionate solicitude. AS soon as the
his seclusion and made the air vocal
| with his suggestions. Ass Stunning to be
| inspired by a purer democracy and
boasting of 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 T-g
~ 0f fh0 ,or.fv n
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 can de-
eide for themselves whether he is the
| same Mr.. Cleveland who turned the
| treasury over to foreign financial
syndicate and intrusted ]. 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
| GAch"LAc SdH1S NIL. O1CNC1dHo WIZ
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" i
| If there is a democrat in the coun-
| try who dissents from this character
ization of the man who set out in
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 soon 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 case
| it is based upon that ting phe-
nomenon known to billiardists as re-
verse Eng1ish.-Washingt Times.
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