The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-06-27
BRYAN ALSO FOR HARMONY

BRYAN ALSO FOR HARMONY.
Colonel Bryan meets than
half way Doctor Cleveland's impas-
stoned plea for harmony in the demo-
cratic party. In fact the colonel ig-
nores imaginary lines of demarcation
and boldly walks into the doctors
corner, so that the distinguished gen.
tleman from Buzzard's bay may
catch the full meaning and import of
his remarks. ID
The reply is no less characteristic
of the man than was the appeal.
Both are remarkable for their egotism
and inordinate vanity and bumptious
assumption of individual power and
influence. Cleveland boastfully speak
ing Of his u~nregeneracy and haunting
the other fellows with their weak
n~essess, and Bryan arrogating to him
self leadership and incarnation OF
the only genuine and real democracy
and d%enouncing those opposed to him
as renegades and traitors affords a
spectacle as amusing to the republi-
cans as it must be humiliating and
annoying to the men of the other
party who are really in earnest in
their efforts to heal the breach which
has disrupted their organization ever
since the memorable campaign of
1896. Bryan refers to the doctor as
former democrat Cleveland" and de-
clares there can be no such thing as
harmony between men like him and
those who believe in democratic prin-
ciples. He designates the doctor as
he has in the past designated the re-
p%ublicans, tool of plutocrats," "wor-
shipper of Mammon," friend of
trusts" in fact opens wide the gates
of his store room of %invective and al
lows their flood to overwhelm the new
ly made doctor of jurisprudence. He
says even harsher things of him than
w he said of any republican, go
ing SO far as to accuse him of hav-
ing made use of his appointing pow
er to place upon the bench. of the SUI
preme court of the United States
men who could be depended upon to
look after the interests of their former
clients, the railroad companies. Hav-
ing done this and filled his cabinet
with corporation agents, he says
Cleveland turned the national treas
ury over to a Wall street syndicate
and connived at robbing the people
to- the extent of selling bonds at a low
figure and then buying them back at
much higher ones.
But in the matter of trusts the col
onel deals the hardest blow at the
apostle Of harmony. He.says that
while laundering at them, the doctor
did ven less than the present repub-
lican attorney general has done,
which, according to the colonel, is
making it about as strong as it car
be made. He also accuses the good
doctor with having debauched the
party, defowered it and robbed it of
it's virtue in the most cruel and malev-
olent manner, and then deliberately
murdered it to prevent it from return
ing to the paths of morality and de-
cency.
Enough has been said to give a fair
idea of how Colonel Bryan feels on
the matter of harmony and how he
regards a reorganized democracy. He
says the fight is on and will continue
between "a democracy that means
democracy and Clevelandism, which
means plutocracy." The speech of
the doctor, he declares shows clearly
the odiousness of the policies for
which he stands.
However we'll intentioned the doc.
tors remarks may have been. it is
evident that the fight is to continue
and that If harmony is to be restored
in the party either he or Bryan will
have to be put where their influence
and power cease. With both of them
well and hearty and each having a
following more or less large the demo
cratic camp will continue in its pres.
ent condition Of active eruption and
Killkennian concord.