The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-21
DENOUNCES
CLEVELAND.
Bryan Bitterly Arraigns the
Former President
At a Democratic Banquet in
Kansas City.
is HELD RESPONSIBLE
For All the Ills That Have Fall
Ell Upon the Organization.
Letters From Hearst and John
son Greeted With Applause.

Kansas City, Mo-, April Civilian
J. Bryan, speaking this morning to the
toast Democracy" at the banquet
given by the Democratic jackson Coun-
ty club and the newspaper men of Mis-
souri, complimentary to William J.
Stone, al which the addresses did not
begin until long after midnight, bitterly
arraigned Grover Cleveland and his
supporters who are making the plea for
harmony among Democrats. The as
sembly was made up Of representative
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
courage more than a bility. and we want
the kind Of moral courage that will fight
for honest Democratic principles. In
your junior senator, William Joe1 Stone,
you have in Missouri a man who pos
sesses both moral courage and ability.
believe in harmony. me Democratic
bed is wide enough for all who want to
come in, but we do not want to have to
sit up nights to keep certain pretenders
from picking our pockets. We invite
all who have strayed from the fold 10
come back if they so desire, but we
want them to stay in after they come
We have had enough of ClevelandisnI
In the Democratic party. We had four
years of Cleveland and after his ad-
mlnlstration was over, we found our
selves weaker than we had ever been
before, because we had been BETRAYED
These so-called thermometers Cleveland
and his followers, showed their nearness
to Repubicanlsm by deserving us in our
hour Of greatest need and supporting
the Republican party. The Democratic
D7TfW 2 victory in
gave our party a great opportunity but
Grover Cleveland betrayed the Demo
cratic party and carried the burden Of
his administration through two national
campaigns and there was not a plank
in either platform that was such a
detrlment to me in those campaigns as
that burden was Cleveland had the
best opportunity to redeem the Demo-
cratic party ever offered to any man
since the time of Andrew Jackson 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, I believe that Democratic VIC
tory will some day come and It wifi be
here to remain when it comes.
Never swerve in your loyalty to
Democratic principles. I would not give
one Democrat who really believes in
Democratic principles for a whole barn
yard full of trimmers and comprOmisers
who pretend to be Democrats
Letters of regret from Richard Olney,
Senator German, Senator Carmack, ".
r. Hearst Tom /. Johnson, Edward NJ
Shepherd. D. B. Hill. Senator Daniel,
Senator Clark of Arkansas, and Senator
Bailey were read. The letters of John
son and Hearst raised a. tumult of ap-
plause.
Senator William J. Stone, who did
not arise to speak till $3.50, said in the
course of his remarks;
we are apart; let US get together.
The platform is the creed of the party
and the man who does not subscribe TO
it does not believe in the Democratic
party"
Speaking of next years convention,
he said
orga nization and no man unworthy to
hold up the old Jefferson flag will be
nominated. And if he is. God pity US,
for he viii be defeated