Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-18
Says Even Possibility of Re-
turn to Clevelandism Will
Kill Party
HE SCORES THE Ex-PREsIDENT
Accuses Him of All Kinds of Perfidy
and With Having Sold Out to the
onopoies-Discusses the Subject of
Democratic Ideals in Chicago This
Afternoon.

Chicago, July 1S.--William Jennings
thusiastic democrats at the Chicago
democratic picnic at Brands Park in
the outskirts of the city today. He was
received with hearty applause when
he stepped on the platform, after
short Introductory speech by Mayor
Harrison. His Grafton was toned with
Hdacy of Grover Cleveland in 1904 and
he and his supporters came in for some
severe eNcoriation at the hands of the
speaker.
The subject of Brsan's speech was
Democratic Ideals" He said in part
Surely il there ever was a time when
preaching Of democratic gospel ought
TO be opportune, now is that time. The
character of our party is to be deter
mined by the manner in which it meets
the opportunity and the manner in
which 1t meets opportunity will be
determined by the ideals that donin-
ate it. VIII our party hesitate or take
counsel Of its fears? VIII it abandon
its championship OF the peoples in
terest in the houe of conciliating re-
lentless foes or of purchasing a few
offices with campaign contributions
that carry with them the obligation to
be made good out of the pockets OF the
people? The democratic party must
appeal to the democratic sentiment OF
the country and this sentiment is far
wider than any party. Wherever the
question has been submitted in suci,
way that 1t could be acted upon in
dependently there always has been an
overwhelming majority in favor of that
which was democratic and our party
can appeal successfully to this dem
ocratic spirit If we but convince the
people OF our earneStnesS and of our
hdeilty to those principles.
We are handicapped just now by the
fact that the last democratic admins
Tation that we had was more suhserv-
lent TO corporate dlctation than any
republican administration that had
preceded 1t, and the record OF that ad-
ministration has been a milestone about
the party's neck ever since. The lnflu-
ence exerted by Wall street over the adj
ministrations policy, the use of patron
age to award those who betrayed their
constituents. and the employment of
the most reprehensible of republican
methods, made the administration
stencil in the nostrils of the people and
kept in the republican party many who
were disgusted at that party's course
The odium which Cleveland's second
administration brought upon the party
which elected him did more to defeat
the party than any one plank of the
sl,t
that were most severely criticized. The
greatest menace that the party has to
meet today is not the probability, but |
the possibility of the partys return to
the position that it occupied from 1892 I
to 1896. This damage is not so immi- |
nent as the corporation controlled pa |
pers make 1t appear. but so far as 1t |
at all threatens, it paralyZes the ener- |
gies of the party and nulliiies its prom
ises. Such return would indicate
degradation of the partys ideals and |
perversion of its purpose. If the demo-
cratic party will stand erect and face
the future with confidence and defend |
the rights of the people and protect
their interests wherever attacked, |
whether the attack comes from finan-
ces, monopolists, tariff barons, or from
1t can look with confidence
for a revolution of sentiment that will
give us a victory worth having and
this victory, when it comes will not end
as the victory of 1902 did, in demorali-
zation of the party. burt in building up
a democratic organization, which will
deal aggressively with all the evils OF
the government and find its bulwark in
the affections and confidence of the