Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-21
BRYAN WAS HOT.
Responded to the Toast, "Dem- ocracy" At Kansas City.
MIR. CLEVELAND WAS SCORED.

the Party Weaker Than Ever-Wil-
 liam J. Stone Was Highly Compli-
 mented by MT Bryan.
 Kansas City, Mo, April Civilian toast Democracy at the banquet given by the Democratic Jackson Coun- ty club and the newspaper men of Mis- souri, complimentary 10 William J. Stone, at which the addresses did not begin until long after midnight, bit terly arraigned Grover Cleveland and | his supporters who are making the plea ot harmony among democrats. The assembly was made up of rep resentative Missouri democrats, and | the remarks of MT Bryan met with eIl- thusiastic favor with his hearers. He said in part:
 What we need in this nation is moral courage among men. We need moral courage more than ability, and we want the kind of moral courage that will fight for honest democratic principles. In your junior senator, William J. Stone, you have in Missouri a man who possesses both moral cour- J have harmony in this state. I believe the democrats of Missouri give the best idea of how to secure harmony among the democrats of the nation. believe in harmony. The democratic l bed is wide enough for all who want to come in, but we do not want to have l to sit up nights to keep certain pre- | tenders from picking our pockets. We l invite all who have strayed from the | fold to come back if they so desire, l but we want them to stay in after they come We have had enough of Cleve- l landism in the democratic party We had four years of Cleveland, and after l his administration was over we faund l ourselves weaker than we had ever ! been because we had been betrayed.
 These so-called harmonizers, Cleve- l land and his followers, showed their nearness to republication by deserting us in our hour of greatest need and supporting the republican party The 1 democratic party won great victory in 1892, which gave our party great opportunity, but Grover Cleveland be- | trayed the democratic party and it car Tried the burden of his administration through two national campaigns, and there was not plank in either plat | form that was such a detriment to me in those campaigns as that burden was. Cleveland had the best opportunity to redeem the democratic party ever of- | fered to any man since the time of An l drew Jackson, but instead of being l true to his party he disgraced himself. ! As a party we must stand true to dem- ocratic principles, and if we do l be- lieve that democratic victory will some 1 some day, and it will be here to remain 1 when it comes.
 "He is of the highest service to his l fellows who can give the highest ideal. l There has been a lowering of ideals in this country. Money is talked about morning, noon and night. Commercials ism is the c'lrse of the country to-day, l and it has debauched our country. The | foreigner has come to regard the Amer 1 ican simply as money-maker, and we | give cause for the belief that we put nothing beyond wealth and that money l is ruling the country with an iron hand | The manhood and womanhood of the I United States are more important than | money. Jefferson set a higher ideal for us than that of the worship of money, and nothing but the ideals of I Jefferson will ever lift us out of the slough of despond The democratic party is not the enemy of honestly ac- 1 quired wealth. I have heard it said that democrats believe that man can not have money and be honest. deny that as being false. A man can have money and be democra,. but if money
 has him he has to be a republican. Jefferson believed that money should be subsefvient to the man, and Jefferson l was an educated man. There are peo- Isll1n tf,d d yhf hiy11y hot tha nd, 4o6 I man should be spared from the com
 mon rabble. Jefferson believed that
 the man who was too good to take part
 in politics was not good enough to live in land like this. Jefferson did not
 create the principles of the democratic party; they existed long before Jeffer-
 son lived. He simply put the princi- pies into living form. There never
 was time when the people were more
 ready to accept democratic principles than to-day. We must appeal to the
 common sense of the people. Three
 remedies for existing evils have been suggested to me. First, an appeal to l the conscience of the people; second,
 by legislation, and third, by revolu- tion. But revolution is not to be
 thought of. Revolution is not a reme-
 dy in 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. Jefferson stood for the people and their
 interests and Hamilton believed that
 the president and the senate should be
 elected for life or during good be-
 havior. The republican party to-day
 is forming not Jefferson clubs, but
 Hamilton clubs.
 Never swerve in your loyalty to
 democratic principles. would not
 give one democratlwho really believes
 in democratic principles for a whole
 barnyard full of trimmers and com
 promisers who pretend to be demo-
 crats."
 Letters of regret from Richard Ol-
 ney, Senator German Senator Car
 mack, w R. Hearst. Tom L. Johnson,
 Edward NJ. Shepard, ID. B. Hill and
 Senators Daniel, Clark of Arkansas.
 and Bailey were read.
 4 POLICY PLAYER HEAVILY FINED
 New York. April 21.-Justice Scott