The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-12

Then vehemently Mir. Bryan exclaimed: | "I have more right to dictate to the six million who voted for me than he has to offer advice to the six million whose ad- vice he tried to thwart." sa.
 Mir. Bryan then argued extensively for the reafilrmation of the Kansas City plat form.
 He declared that tLe reorganizers had offered no substitute. for the platform. The New York World he. said. had printed a platform for the next convention, but the Republicans had immediately claimed every plank in it.
 Kansas City Platform.
 eff man tells you" said MT. Bryan. ''that he. Is opposed to the reafilrmation of tho Kansas City platform ask him what he wants, whether it is in a com mittee or a. beat meeting. He does not know what he wants. He will sneak out and go over to some newspaper office and ask what he wants.
 twill the reorganizers mention the gold standard in their platform? They dare not do 1t.
 'Will they. declare for bimetalIsm? They dare not do 1t.
 'If the Kansas City platform is not mentioned in the next convention the can he is elected, will abandon it. Say to them we must go forward. I appeal to your conscience and they appeal to your thirst and desire for office.".
 He again abused the Cleveland adminls- l tration beginning with 1892 That cam paign, he said, was fought out secretly and under cover. He quoted from, the platform adopted and declared that the latter part of 1t was nothing more than steps to get off the platform. As soon as | Cleveland got in. he said, he recommended | a financial hill that identical xzyifh a bill introduced by q Republican thirteen months previously and that bill was passed by Republican votes. He took the ground that free silver and bimetallism had never been repudiated In 1856, he said,' the Republicans had, in | their platform, endorsed bimetallsm while the Democrats had endorsed free silver. The Palmer and Bucknerites, he said. had stood outright for the gold standard be- ing the only party that had done so and they had received only one per cent of ! the vote cast. e..
 Inveighs Against Cleveland. He declared that the party had been weakened when Cleveland was President, Claiming loss of Congressmen during tho Cleveland administration he said: That was the effect when they were in office. They were traitors in lS9S. Now tell mo what would be the eject of leadership in
 
 out their party. Look back at your State Tn 1892 and 1894. Why. Alabama almost lost her Democracy under Clevelandism and it remained for the platform of 1c9i to build 1t anew"
 MT. Bryan passionately denounced the second Cleveland administration as "thO most plutocratic administration that eve- cursed the United States" He declared | that the party had mo .tgaged itself to the | iY, ha nf av,d had secured the largest campaign fun !: that 1t had ever had.
 In alluding to an editorial in a Nash. villc newspaper he said: This paper claims to be Democratic p1per, but 1t hasn't worked much at It's trade in thi past eight years
 He said the platform of 1896 was honest and for that reason the corporations had not contributed to the fund They had however, given the Republicans the larg- est fund that any party ever had. At this junctuHe he made this remark able statement: tIn two campaigns had to bear the Odium of two alleged Demo- cratic administrations and they did more 10 defcnt us than any two blanks in our platform. And. l want to say right here If they mortgage my party to the corpo- rations shall make them put that mort gage on record before the election" |" Some Time Will Elapss Before Actual
 MT. Bryan at this point left the vltuper atlve portions of his address and gave hi' views on what the party should do. Hn urged that the Democrats should not fol- low in the footsteps of the Republicans. | Instead of seeing how near we can get to the Republicans. he said. "let us seS now Tar We can get away from them"
 He said moral questions ran through al questions with which the people had { zeal and they could be trusted to settle