Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-04-27
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
DELIVERS A HOT ROAST TO
GROVER CLEVELAND.
He Denounces Cleveland As Traitor to the
Party. and Declares the Ex.president Is
Responsible For Democratic Defeat in
1896 and 1900.


to the toast Democracy" at the banquet
given by the Democratic Jacksonian Club
and the newspaper men of Missouri com.
plimentary to William J. Stone, bitterly
arralgned 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 reed 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,
yon have in Missouri man who pos
sesses both moral courage and ability. /
am glad that you have harmony in this
state. believe the democrats OF Mis-
souri, give the best idea Of how to secure
harmony among the democrats OF the
Nation. I believe in harmony. The
democratic bed is wide enough far ali
who want to come in, but we do not want
to have to sit up nights to keep certain
p,etenders 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.
ave have had enough OF Cleveandism
in the democratic party. We had four
years Of Cleyeland, and after his admin
stration was over we found ourselves
weaker than we had ever been before
because we had been betrayed. These
so called barmonizers, Cleveland and his
followers, showed their nearness to re-
publicansm by DESERVING us in our hour
of greatest need and supporting the re-
publican party. The democratic party
won great victory in 1892, which gave
our party a great opportunity, but Grover
Cleveland betrayed the democratic party,
and carried the burden Of his admins.
tration through two national campaigns,
and there was not plank in either plat
| fol m that was such d detrment to me in
those campaigns as that burden was.
Cleveland Lad the best opportunity to re.
deem the democratic party ever offered
to any man since the time of Andrew
Jackson, but instead OF being true to his
party he disgraced it.
''As party we must stand true to the
Democratic principles and, If we do, l
believe that to the democratic victory will
some day come and it will be here to re.
| main when it comes.
"He is of the highest service to his fel-
lows who can give the highest ideals.
There has been lowering Of ideals in
this country. Money is talked about morn.
ing, night and noon, 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 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. The manhood
and womanhood of the United Statcs are
more important than money. Jefferson
set . higher ideal for US than that of tho
worship of money. and nothing but the
ideals Of Jefferson will ever lift 10 out OF
the slough Of despond.
"The democratic party is not the ere
my of honestly-acquired wealth. have
heard it said that democrats believe that
man cannot have money and be honest.
l deny that az being false. A man can
have money and be a democrat, but if
meney has bin, he has to be q republi.
can. Jefferson believed that money should
be sebseruient to the man, and Jefferson
was an educated man. There are people
today who think that the educated man
should be separated from the comm on
rabhle.
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 prin-
pies OF the democrats they existed long
before Jefferson lived. He simply put the
principles into living form. There never
was time When the people were more
ready to accept democratic principles
than today. We must appeal to the con.
science Of the people.
Three remedies for existing evils have
been sugg .stel to me. First, an appeal
to the conscience OF the people; second,
by legislation, and third, by revolution.
But revolution is not to be thought Of.
Revolution is not remedy in country
where the 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