The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-04-29
CLEVELAND The bUaAB00.
Hot Speech Of v. ]. Bryan al
Kansas City.
The Ez-DEHoe2ATIe CANDIDATE
For The Presidency Denounces
Ex-President Cleveland And
Other Eastern Democrats as
"So-CaIIed Harmonizers.'
The EX-DEMoGRATIc CANDIDATE

Kansas City, Mo, April 21.-Wil-
liam j. Bryan, speaking this morning
to the toast Democracy" at the
banquet given by the Democratic
jackson County Club and the uewspa-
per men of Missouri complimentary to
Senator William J. Stone, at which
the addresses did not begin until after
midnight, bitterly araigned Grover
Cleveland and his supporters, who are
making the plea for harmony among
Democrats. The assembly was made
ND cf representative Missouri Demo
Gratis and the remarks of Mr.. Bryan
met with enthusiastic favor with his
hearers. He said in part:
.ssWe 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 Celve-
land and after his administration was
over We found ourselves weaker than
we had ever been before because we
had been betrayed. These so-called
harmonizers, Cleveland and his fol
lowers, showed their nearness to Re
publicanism by deserting 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 oppor-
tunity, but Grover Cleveland betrayed
the Democratic party and it carried
the burden of his administration
through two national campaigns, and
there was not plank In either plat
form that was such 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 Jackson, but instead OF being
true to his party he disgraced himself.
AS 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
remain when it comes.
ssHe is of the highest service to his
fellows who can give the highest ideal:
There has been a lowering Of Ideal
in this country. 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 give cause fo1
the belief that we put nothing beyond
wealth and that money is ruling the
country with an iron hand. There
never was a time when the people were
more ready to accept Democratic prin-
ciples than today. I would not give
one Democrat who really believes in
Democratic principles for a whole
barnyard full of Democrats and COM
promisers who pretend to be Demo
crats.''
Senator William J. Stone 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 it does not be-
lieve in the Democratic party
Speaking Of next years convention
he said: "There will be no abandon
ment or reorganization, and no man
unworthy to hold up the old Jefferson
flag. will be named, and if he is God
pity us, for he will be defeated. -