Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-24
Bryan ON HARMONY
Former Candidate for the Presi-
dency Discusses Principles
and Party Unity.
His Criticism oil CleveIand's Po-
sition Gives Unusual Inter-
est to Utterances.
Declares the Party Can MOI
Abandon It's Policy on the
Money Question.

/ bay, for hours today. Il thfoNS OF ineH
and not a few women listened to dis
| tinguished orators from various parts
| of the United Sta'es as they delivered
addresses upon the principal political
tissues of the day from a democratic
view point. Speechmaking followed
the banquet, the first to be given by the
recently organized New England Dem
| ocratic League, in the Rock Island ho-
/ tel, at which about three hundred
guests were present. Among the list
| OF Speakers We're Hon. p. a. Collins
former counsel general to London and
now mayor of Boston; William Jen-
nings Bryan; Edward Nj. Sheppard, OF
New York recent democratic candi-
| date for mayor OF that city and Senator
E. w. Carmack, OF Tennessee.
The Hon. William j. Bryan responded
| 10 the toast, The Basis OF Harmony.
I He said.
| I'm view of numerous harmony dim
hers, and the dscord they have created,
| i, may not be out of place to consider
hte basis of harmony. The word 'har-
| mony' is euphonious, and the idea
which it conveys is a delightful one.
! Harmony. How it soothes the ear and
| calls up visions of peace and love and
| JOY, Harmony, whether among the
| heavenly bodies whose movements
make the music of the spheres or
among the bodies terrestrial with their
conflicting interests and varying moods.
who can resist its claims or dispute its
sway. Harmony is but a synonym for
order and is not the result of chance.
but a product of ineNorable law. The
musician must learn the scale and
properly arrange the notes or harmony,
10 matter how earnestly wooed, can
| Hever be won.
"Harmony in government is likewise
the result of fixed and Interchangeable
rules. Jefferson states two of these
rules-namely, absolute acauiescence in
the will of the majority and frequent
elections, the second aids the frs! by
giving hope of a remedy from present
lills. however grievous. If he We're lv-
ing today his observation would proba-
bly suggest a third rule namely. the
ascertainment of the will of the meth
eds so direct. so fair and so honest that
will have been actually expressed.
Jefferson also laid down the rules by
which, and by which alone. real har-
lnony can be secured within a party.
say real harmony. for that harmony can
not be considered worthy of the name
which, like the harmony temporarily
| evisting between the confidence man
and his victim. is purposely employed
for deception and injury.
The great founder of the democratic
party. whose profound philosophy
sounded all the depths OF human nature
and measured the height and breadth
| of human government. not long before
the end of his eventful life said in a let
| ter to Mr.. Lee that there We're but two
permanent parties, the aristocratic and
the democratic: that those two parties
| existed in every country, and that
where there was freedom to think,
speak and write. these parties would
| become apparent With the aristocratic
| rarty he classed those who fear and
distrust the people and wish to draw all
| power from them into the hands of the
higher classes With the democratic
| party he classed those who identify
themselves with the people have conf
| dence in them. cherish and consider
| them as the most honest and safe, tho
rot the most wise. depository of the
| Iublic'S interests Every we'll Informed
/ student of history will recognize this
| distinction"
There can always be harmony among
/ democrats who have the purpose that
jefferson had and are wiling to employ
the methods that jefferson employed.
There can always be harmony among
democrats who believe in a government
of the people and are willing that all
/ the departments of the government
shall be operated by the people and fol
the benefit of the people. Differences
of the mind can be reconciled; differ
enceS of purpose can not. Between one
! who is at heart an aristocrat and one
who is in reality a democrat there is
a great gulf fixed And, it may be add
ed, among the aristocrats there will he
found the same division that exists
among the beasts of prey-some have
the courage of the lion. and others the
1 lcunning and treachery of the fox, but
they can hunt together if their object is
/ spoil. whether ii be aNowed or con-
] cealed. Between those really democrat t.
/
/ or permanent alienation because. haN
IS ing no ulterior motives they are oper
TO arguments and amenable TO reason;
being honest in purpose, they have
/ confidence in the triumph of theii
/ cause. and are content to employ hon
est methods They will neither conspirt
against others nor against each other
If they make mistakes in Judgment. as
all are liable to do they are not only
willing, but anxious to correct their
| mistakes. In politics. as in religion
there is an essential difference between
a doubt of the head and a doubt of the
4 heart.
1T is impossible to secure harmony
between people of opposite sympathies
and it is Il difficult thing TO change 9
mans sympathies; it requires politi-
! cal regeneration to make democrat
out of an arstocrat. 1t is much easier
task to show Il man that the principles
he has been advocating and the pol-
Icies which he has been supporting are
arstocratic In their present effect OF
In their tendencies. The republican