The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-22
BRYAN IN CHICAGO.
Views of Leading Dailies There as to
 His Visit.


 Very little interest was taken in MT. Bryan when he rode through the streets of Chicago Saturday, but some interest attaches to the speech which he delivered Club because of the preliminary advertis- ing which it received. It was to contain highly seasoned roast" of Cleveland and was to be a political pronunciamento of national significance.
 The attack on Cleveland was made &C., cording to expectations, but MT. Bryan has about exhausted his rhetoric in phil ippics of this sort and we know only what we knew before. that he will do his utmost to prevent the Cleveland Demo- crats from gaining control of the next Democratic National Convention. His logic on the injury done his candidacy in 1896 by the record of the Cleveland ad- ministration is curious enough, however, to deserve some notice. The odium of that record, he says. did more to defeat the Democratic Party than any one plank of the Chicago platform, or even than all the blanks that were severely criti- cised. In sense this is true but not al All in the sense that MT. Bryan means. The greatest influence against the Dem ocrats was the hard times, and In all probability 1t would have defeated any Democratic candidate If there had been no silver question. But there was a very general bellf that the hard times were due 10 the Wilson tariff bill, which had the support of MT. Bryan in Congress, and which both MT. Cleveland and MT. Bryan nesired should become law in a more TaQ1CaI form than that In which 1t .Inally enacted.
 There was no divergence between the two men on this point, and if the Chl- cago platform sIrucK at Cleveland in It's approval of Altgeld S views of government by injunction and of Stales rights, MT. | oryan's own speciality was IS to l. th.. paramount" issue. Here he diverged from Cleveland very widely, but Cleve- before the election of 1892, and they were the winning ideas in the elections of 1896 and 1900. It is hardly clear. therefore, that the Cleveland administration was So | much worse than the Bryan convention as vote repeller, and Mir. Bryan ought to l get his reasoning powers into a better state of repair
 | As for. his speech as whole we cannot discover that it is keynote or rallyng | cry. It is strongly denunciatory of Nam | mon. but has no self-p -professed friends on | the stump among Democrats or Republi- cans.-Chicago Record-Herald, QndO ! The man who has made a good living l for ten years past as an attorney for the | silver mine owners of the West. the bo- nanza men of other days addressed a gathering of city hall pay rollers in this ] city on Saturday.
 1 Naturally enough he undertook to libel 1 Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Par | ty, for whatever distinction has come to | him has been at the expense of Democ racy, and, with every prospect of Demo- cratic restoration, he necessarily takes l alarm.
 So long as men of MT. Cleveland | character and standing can be kept out | of Democratic councils there is a pros pect of continued and lucrative employ ment for the Bryans Hence the con agogue who has fallen so low in the last | few years that outside the disreputables of the Chicago city hall, there are few ! to do him honor.
 The man who lives by his advocacy of the cause of silver producers is well un- derstood in these parts. His hostility to MT. Cleveland is commercial as well as personal and political. He is nearing the | end of his employment.
 | When this archdemagogue in the ser vice of mine owners as greedy as the coal | barons of Pennsylvania makes bold in the | presence of the city hall lazzaroni of Chi | cago to stigmatize the administration oi Grover Cleveland as ''cornoration-con- trolled" decent men know well enough 1 He means that the administration was | corporation-con because it enforced the laws against the moos to which the silver mine attorney has been appealing ever since. because it preserved the credit | of Government and people which the sll- yer mine attorney has been assailing ever since, and because in the presence of po- litical idiocv. fanaticism and betrayal un. examuled in the history of the republic il adhered resoutely to Democratic doc urine and tradition.
 Grover Cleveland is not the greatest man that ever lived. but certain charac- teristics of his shine with dazzling ef- the traits with which the people have been familiarized in the person of the Lincoln. Neb.. demag gogue.
 He is honest. He is a Democrat He has served the people faithfully. He is neither trickster trimmer nor noun. tebank He has been elected President oi the United States twice. He has no
 grown rich in the service of the silver mine owners. He never appealed to a mob except with bayonets and cannon
 He enjoys no popularity in the rocking
 precincts of the Chicago city hall
 When the well-paid favorite of the bis
 bonanzas gains a reputation and a record
 like this his libes will carry farther thar
 they now do.-Chicago Chronicle. CDem ,,