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NOT ALL ON THE SAME ICE.

NOT ALL ON THE SAME ICE.
1t has been apparent for some time
that there were gaping chasms between
members OF the Democratic party. In
fact, this ancient organization Just now
resembles an ice pack in the spring
So long az 1t was bitterly cold POLITICAL
" the Democrats were Kept together in
the company that misery loves, but as
soon as things seemed TO be getting q
little warm the pack broke up and the
sea was covered with a lot Of fragments
on which are small and isolated groups
In this state may be found as good
an illustration Of the scene as anywhere.
Vigorous Warhorse Bill White finds
himself separated from the trough
loving jelly fish Of his party. Lee Hart.
who cannot tolerate anything but pur-
tty and consistency in a political body,
Ii drifting away upon an ice foe from
James Hamilton Lewis. who. for his
part. has each foot upon a slippery
chunk and does not know upon which
70 put both.
There are others. but It would be un-
kind to mention their names. because
they already fesl mortified when they
see from distance the kind Of COM
pany they have been keeping. There
are old time. Democrats, like T. b.
Hardin and Alfred Battle and James
b. Howe, who belong to the Democratic
party In this state because they called
themselves Democrats at hom.. They
do not stand on the same block OF ice
as many Of the Democrats do here, but
they were trained to regard it as not
respectable to belong to the Republic
can party--in the Southland have not
overcome their prejudice. although they
ind the Democracy of a Northern state
an entirely strange community, and
they have nothing In common as South
ern Democrats with the Democratic
party whose mouthpiece Is W. J. Bryan.
and which is typified in this state by,
say. Dick Warner.
Equally serious differences in taste
and Judgment are to be found In other
states. For instance, Gen. Patrick A.
Collins. consul general in England I'M
der the Cleveland administration does
not seem to be at all of the same char
acter of Democrat or man as w. j.
Bryan. He was criticised for not max
ing a personal canvass for votes, al
though he desired to be elected mayor
Of Boston. He answered.:
II have an old fashioned notion that
man who manages his own political cause
Is embarrassed, II at all modest: and IL
not modest, quite likely to overdo the
business. Moreover, Q fairly modest man
can't very well discuss himself any con-
siderable length of time without getting
some contempt for the subject, and the
other KIND Of a man can't do 1t very long
without making people very tired"
This sort of delicacy makes one feel
uncomfortable lest w. J. Bryan should
read what Gen. Collins said. At least,
IL WOutQ lIdhC -Oue utCOiQIOTtuDle Il
there was any fear that Bryan would
either apply 1t to himself or be at all
abashed IL he did. Gen. Collins says
that one kind of man cannot very we'll
discuss himself for any length Of time
without getting some contempt for the
subject, but that has to be "a fairly
modest man." The other kind, he says,
cannot do 1t very long without making
people very tired
Even one who was very partial to Will
Ham Jennings Bryan would hardly go
SO far as to describe him as "a fairly
modest man." and so this leaves the
unpleasant alternative of assuming that
he IL making people tired.
Outside of the campaign 1t is not al
ways easy to learn Just how a majority
of seventy-five million people feel upon
an issue not squarely before them, but
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