The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-07-04
RRYAs's OPINION OF CLEVELAND.
He Stabbed His Party 10 freEe"'
It's Return to the Paths OF
Duty"

I,na 10 nv the Tilden club OF New
Work. CITY was advertised as a mar
monv meeting. but it turned out TO
he what might have been expected Oh
sucn a gathering. an ovation 10 inc
chief guest, former democrat Grover
Cleveland. There can be no such
thing as harmony between men ike
him and those who believe in demo
cratic principles. and he is frank
enough to say so. He spent no time
looking for middle ground upon
which TO gather together discordant
elements. He boldly called upon the
members of the party to abandon
their convictions and accept the con-
struction winch he places upon demo-
cratic principles. He even tainted the
marty with being a sort OF prodlgal
son and invited to give mp its diet OF
busks and return to its fathers house
The text Of Mr.. Cleveland's speech
is presented on another page that the
readers of The Commoner may know
that it sustains the EDITORS contention
that the reorganizers do not want har-
money. but control, and that their con-
troll means the abandonment OF the
party's position and return to the
policies and practices of Mr. Cleve-
lands second administration. He Sc
cured his nomination in 1892 by a
great bargain with the financiers; MS
committee collected from the corpora
tions and spent the largest campaign
fund the party ever had; he filled his
cabinet with corporation agents ana
placed railroad attorneys on the Unlted
States bench to look after the interest
of their former clients. He turned the
treasury over to Wall street syndl-
cate, and the financial member OF his
official family went from Washington
to become the private attorney OF the
man who forced (?) the treasury de-
partment to sell him government bonds
at 105 and then resold them at III.
He tried to prevent the adoption OF the
income tax provision, 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 inter
fere with their high-handed Methods
His administration, instead OF being
q fountain of democracy sending tort1
nure and refreshing streams, became
stagnant pool from whose waters lou
vapors arose poisonous to those VINO
fingered near.
Having debaunched his party he was
offended by it's efforts to reform ano
gave comfort to the enemy. Vlrglnlu'
killed his daughter to save her chastity
Cleveland stabbed his party to prevent
its return to the path of virtue
And now, still gloatlng over his
nolitical crimes, he invites the rart1
TO return to him and apologize for TIM
contempt which it has expressed FOL
him! Will it? Not until the prln
ciples of Jefferson are forgotten ana th'
works of jackson cease to inspire.
If we are to have reorganization
Cleveland himself should accept tn
presidential nomination. 1t would b'
due him his reinstatement would Of
poetic Justice to him and retrlbutlor
"a those whose democratic conscience
revolted against his UndemOcratlc con
duct. Of course he would get NJ
democratic votes, but being closer Il
plutocracy than any republican hkel.
to be nominated, he might divide tn
enemy, and even democrats would nav
what little consolation would com
from receiving their disappointment
in advance.
A merchant, about to fail, invited
his creditors to dinner, and afte
stating his condition secured a year
extension from all present. One
the number, a relative, waited unit
after the others had retired and thel
accosted the debtor: "Of course
promised with the rest to extend TN
time, but you are going to make m
a preferred creditor, are you notf
Yes replied the debtor, II IL max
YOU preferred creator. I'll tel
YOU now that you are not going to ge
ANYTHING the rest won't find 1T on
for year. e.
Mr.. Cleveland's nomination woui
have this advantage over the nomlna
ton of any other organizer; he woul
make the democrats preferred creditor
and tell them that they would not b.
benefited by his administration
The fight is on between democrac
that means democracy and Cleve
landism which means plutocracy
Every speech made by Mr.. Clevelan
shows more clearly the odiousness
the poll cies for which he stands. W
have more to fear from those who. lik
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