The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-04-23
cleveland IS FLAYED|
BITTERLY ARRAIGNED BY WILL
lam J. BRYAN IN A KANSAS
CITY SPEECH.
Ex- PRESIDENT A BURDEN

the PIanks in the PIatform-Demo.
cratic Bed Wide Enough for All Who
Destire to Return to the Fold.
Kansas City, April 22-William j.
Bryan, speaking to the toast, "Democ.
racy." at the banquet given by the
Democratic Jackson County club and
the newspaper men Of Missouri, COM
plimentary to William j.. Stone, at
which the addresses did not begin I'M
til long after midnight, bitterly ar.
raigned Grover Cleveland and his sup.
porters, 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 ability, and
We want the kind of moral courage
that will fight for honest Democratic
principles. In your junior senator,
William Joel Stone, you have in Mis-
souri, a man who possesses both moral
courage and ability. 1 am glad that
you have harmony in this state. l be.
lieve the Democrats of Missouri give
the best idea of how to secure har.
mony among the Democrats of the ma.
ton. believe in harmony. The
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 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 Demo.
cratic party. We had four years OF
Cleveland, and after his administra.
tiCn was over we found ourselves
weaker than we had ever been before
bec.use We had been betrayed. These
so-called thermometers, Cleveland and
his followers, showed their
Nearness to RepubIicanism
by deserving us in our hour of greatest
need and supporting the Republican
party. The Democratic party won a
great victory in 1892, which gave our
party great opportunity, but Grover
Cleveland betrayed the Democratic
party and L carried the burden Of his
administration through two national
campaigns, and there was not plank
in either platform 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 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 Demo.
cratic principles and if we do l be-
ieve that Democratic victory will
some day come and it will be here to
remain when it comes.
He is of the highest service to his
fellows who can give the highest ideal.
There has been lowering of ideals in
morning, noon and night. CONNER
cialism is the curse of the country to.
day and it has debauched our country.
The foreigner has come to regard the
American simply as moneymaker
and we give cause for the belief that
We put nothing beyond wealth and
that money is ruling the country with
an iron hand.
Never swerve in your loyalty to
Democratic principles. l would not
give one Democrat who really believes
in Democratic principles for a whole
barnyard full of trimmers and com.
pro1nisers who pretend to be Demo
crate -