The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-06-28
EXIT CLEVELAND AND HILL.

Alter six years Of retirement Grover
Cleveland has come out of his obscurity
and taken a place in the ranks OF rcor-
eanizd Democracy. At a meeting oil the
Tilden Club held in New York city June
10 Mr.. Cleveland and David b. Hill were
the principal speakers. The ex-Presi-
dent pleaded for the reorganization oil the
Democratic party and advocated har-
mony within its lines.
The object oil the Tilden Club, OF
course, was to unite the party. and while
its efforts seemed successful while the
meeting was in progress, alter its ad-
iournment and after the speeches OF the
two principal speakers had been read by
the rank and file that make up that great
political organization, an opposite feeling
prevailed, and from all quarters an earn
est protest was entered against either
Cleveland or Hill OF both posing as lead
ers of true Democracy.
The first man to oppose the assump-
ton of these two political mountebanks
was Henry Watterson, the great Ken
lucky Democratic editor, who called at
tention to the fact that Cleveland had
twice betrayed the Democratic party for
his own selfish ends and left it leader
less and divided to the mercy Of the
winds and waves Of factionism.
William. j. Bryan was invited to be
present at the meeting, but it was spe-
officially stated that he was not to speak.
The idea of inviting Mr.. Bryan to a meet.
ing Of that sort was ridiculous, and the
gentleman very properly declined the
invitation.
In speaking Of the meeting. however,
Mr.. Bryan made some very caustic re-
marks regarding the previous course Of
the ex-President. A few extracts taken
from what he said are as follows:
''The banquet given on the evening of June
10 by the Tilden club of New York was adj
vertised as a harmony meeting but it turned
out to be what might have been expected OF
such a gathering. an ovation to the chief
guest, former Democrat, Grover Cleveland.
There can be no such thing as harmony
between men like him and those who believe in
Democratic principles.
"He (Cleveland) secured his nomination in
1892 by q secret bargain with the 6nanciers;
this committee collected from the corporations
and spent the largest campaign fund the party
ever had; he filled his cabinet with corpora
tion agents and placed railroad attorneys on
the United States bench to look after the in
terests of their former clients. He turned the
treasury over to a Wall street syndicate, and
the financial member of his official family
went from Washington to become the private
attorney of the man who forced the treasury
to sell him bonds at los, and then resold them
at III. He tried to prevent the adoption Of
the income tax provision; he refused to sign
the only tariff reform measure passed since the
war, and while laundering against the trusts
in his messages, did even less than Knox has
done to interfere with their high-handed
methods.
The fight is on between a Democracy that
means a Democracy and a Clevelandism,
which means plutocracy. Every speech made
by Mr.. Cleveland shows more clearly the cd.
~iousness of the policies for which he stands.
We have more to fear from those who, like
Mr.. Hill, indorse Mr.. Cleveland's views, but
conceal their real purpose in ambiguous Ian.
guage,"