The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-03
BRYAN FAILS TO
 SEE ANY HARMONY
MERE MENTION OF WORD SUG-
 GESTS DIFFERENCES.

Declares Reorganization Means Retreat
 and Retreat Decentralization and Dis-
 aster-A Million Moro Votes Cast at
 Last Election for the Democratic
 Ticket Than for Cleveland, Even Be-
 fore His Political Crimes Were Dis-
 covered.
 Des Moines. Ia, April 2.-Three hun dred democrats attended the Jefferso- nian banquet here tonight. The prin- cipal speakers were William J. Bryan and former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson. MT. Stevenson gave his views as to the proper policy for the democratic party in the coming presi- dential campaign. He said in part:
 We are almost upon the, threshold of another presidential campaign. The main issues of the struggle even now can be clearly defined. The party in power will stand for high protective tariff, for the trusts and for foreign conquest. The extravagant appropria- tions by the recent congress will pave the way for greater extravaganza yet to follow.
 Tn unrelenting hostility to all this, the democratic party will favor the ab- clifton of all unnecessary and unjust taxes; will demand reduction to the minimum in the cost of every needed article of consumption. It will stand, in reality, the antagonist of trusts.
 Confident that the experience of century has demonstrated the wisdom of avoiding foreign complications and entangling alliances it will oppose inn perialism. In a word 1t will be the aim of the party of Jefferson and Jackson to supplant dangerous experiments, reck- less extravagance and corruption with economical and. constitutional methods of administration in all departments of the republic.
 Tn the approaching struggle for po- litical supremacy appeal will be made, more earnestly than ever before, to democrats to present an unbroken front"
 Mir Bryan, who spoke on "Democra- cy," said in part:
 While this banquet has not been ad- vertised as harmony banquet it is much more in the interest of harmony than high-priced banquets, which are held for the purpose of securing se- lect audience for the men who have not recently appeared on the stump in be- half of the democratic party. f'The mere mention of harmony sug- gests differences that need reconeilia- ton, and the vociferous talk about har- mony among those who left the party and lent their influence to the enemy naturally recalls the issues that creat- ed the disturbance and suggests the in- quiry whether the prodigals have re- pented or demand repentance from the party.
 "The difference which existed on the money question still exists, for, while the republicans are boasting that the money duestion Is settled, money is tight in the great financial centers, and the financiers of this country are re- sorting to extraordinary methods to get enough money into circulation to carry on business.
 ''On the, trust question the same line of cleavage appears. The men who | threatened panic if silver was restor- ed now threaten a panic If the trusts are disturbed, and the trust magnates are casting about for a. democratic can- didate so much like a republican that the trusts can rest easy, no matter which candidate is elected.
 1 Reorganization means retreat and retreat means demoralization and dis aster. From the low standpoint of ex- perience retreat could no. be justified. The party boiled nearly million more votes in support of the Chicago and Kansas City platforms than were poll ed by MT. Cleveland, even before his political crimes were exposed. There l is sordidness about the arguments made by the reorganizers which ought to disgust any well meaning or high minded citizen. It is really insulting to a man to intimate that he thinks it is more important that we get control of the administration than that we ad- minister power in accordance with democratic principles and in the inter- ests of the people at large.
 ITO say that a right principle must be dropped because the party has suf- fered defeat in support of the principle is as ridiculous as it is cowardly.''