Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-21
CLEVELAND IS SCORED
W. J. Bryan Spsaks at Kan.
sas City Banquet.
DEMOCRACY"
SAYS FORMER PRESIDENT DIS.
GRACED HIMSELF.
Incidentally Charges Him With Hav-
ing About Wrecked the Demo-
cratic Party.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 21.-Wm j.
Bryan spoke this morning to the toast
Democracy at the banquet given by the
Democratic jackson County Club and the
newspaper men of Missouri complimentary
to Senator VIM. ]. Stone. The addresses
did not begin until long after midnight.
Mr. Bryan bitterly arraigned Grover Cleve-
land and his supporters who are making
the plea for harmony among democrats.
The assembly was made up of representa-
tive Missouri democrats, and the remarks
of Mr.. Bryan met with enthusiastic favor
with his hearers He said in part:
what we need in this nation is moral
courage among men. We need moral cour-
age more than ability, and we want the
kind of moral courage that will fight for
honest democratic principles. In your
junior senator, VIM J. Stone, you have in
Missouri man who possess both moral
courage and ability. l am glad you have
harmony in this state. l believe the demo-
Gratis of Missouri give the best idea of how
to secure harmony among the democrats
of the nation. l believe in harmony.
Bed Big Enough for ALI.
"The democratic bed is wide enough for
all who want to come in. but we do not
want to live to sit up nights to keep certain
invite all who have strayed from the fold
to come back if they SO desire, but we
want them to stay in after they come.
We have had enough Of Clevelandism in
the democratic party. We had four years
OF Cleveland, and after his administration
was over we found ourselves weaker than
we had ever been before, because we had
been betrayed. These so-calfed harmon
izers, Cleveland and his followers, showed
their nearness to republicanism by desert
ing US in our hour of greatest need and
supporting the republican party. The
democratic party won great victory in
1892, which gave our party great oppor-
tunity, but Grover Cleveland betrayed the
democratic party and 1t carried the burden
of his administration through two national
campaigns. and there was not a plank in
either platform that was such a detriment
to me in those campaigns II that burden
was. -
cleveland had the best opportunity to
redeem the democratic party ever offered
to any man since the time of Andrew Jack
son, but, instead Of being true to his party,
he disgraced himself. AS a party we must
stand true to democratic principles, and if
we do ! believe that democratic victory will
some day come, and it will be here to re-
main when it comes.
Value of Ideals.
.'He is of the highest service to his fel-
lows who can give the highest ideal. There
try. Money is talked about morning. noon
and night Commercialism is the curse Of
the country today, and it has debauched
our country. The foreigner has come to
regard the American simply as a money
maker. and we gave cause for the belief
that we put nothing beyond wealth and
that money is ruling the country with an
iron hand. There never was time when
the people were more ready to accept demo-
cratic principles than today. We must ap
peal to the common sense Of the people
Three remedies for existing evils have been
conscience of the people; second, by legis-
lation. and, third, by revolution But revo-
luton is not to be thought of. Revolution
is not remedy in a country where people
can vote. People can vote themselves free
in this country, and If they could not do
that they could not fight themselves free
Never swerve in your loyalty to democratic
principles. l would not give one democrat
who really believes in democratic principles
for a whole barn-yard full of democrats
and compromisers who pretend to be demo-
Gratis"
Senator William ]. Stone, who did not
arise to speak until 80 am, said in the
course of his remarks;
I'VE are apart; let us get together. The
platform is the creed of the party, and the
man who does not subscribe to 1t does not
believe In the democratic party"
Speaking of next years convention, he
said:
There will be no abandonment or reor-
ganGauon, and no man unworthy to hold
up the old Jefferson flag will be named
and If he is, God pity us, for we will be de-
feated.''