The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-07
THIS IS roo BAD.

Verify and truly the old Advertiser has A hard time-several of them, in fact. NO sooner do we begin to feel good over the thousands of evidences of appreciation and popularity, and begin to feel that We are going to move smoothly along the paths of pleasantness and peace than here comes some envy-burdened icono- clast and rips us up the back and down the abdomen, athwart the spine, and makes us feel like thirty cents.
 Here, for example, is The Marion Coun- tv News which winds up an ill-natu-ed diatrbe with this:
 The Advertiser Is the worst enemy the Democratic party has in the State of Ala hama 1t does more to keep up stTl1e and contention within the party than all other agencies, and glories in the defeat of the party II IL cannot haVE n.naocrstl S p" ic paper and has not been since Il bolted the ticket in 1896, and the sooner the party recognizes this fact and entirely ignores its pretended Democracy the pet fer it wiH be for the Democratic party of the State.
 Now isn't that a jolter? "The worst enemy of the Democratic party" ''ls not A Democratic paper!" These be hard say ines. and there is danger that the poor Advertiser must go out of business. True, it has today larger circulation, greater popularity and more influence than ever before. True, 1t has today more Demo- cratic subscribers than at any time In its existence True. the best and most intelligent Democrats in Alabama recos- nize and appreciate its fidelity to prln- ciple, it's absolute fearlessness and US unfiinching adhesion to its convictions as never before since 1t began the pleasant and patriotic work of teaching pure De- mocracy to the people of Alabama-a work from which 1t has never rested ana in which it has known no variation. ana a work by the way, In which 1t was en- gagged decades before such papers as The News were known on earth.
 All this is true, and thousands of the hest men and best Democrats in Alaba- ma know 1t is true, and testify their knowledge by endorsing and supporting The Advertiser. It will be pursuing the same course, advocating the same ooc- | Urine and receiving the same support and | approval when some of its present oe- | tractors will be but dim and shadoWy l blot on the history of the age and people | will wonder why they ever existed or what they were supposed to accomplish This venomous and characteristic enu- sion of The News was brought out by | the fact that The Advertiser has the pre- | science and intelligence to see, what | any one should see who Is not hopelessly | and Willfully blind, that the fallacy Of free silver is as dead as Balaam's ass | and that thosn who advocated it to the temporary ruin of the Democratic party afW,nf fa tfG Because we have been able to see this, and can predict that old-fashioned Dem- ocracy will again take the reins. will write the platforms and name the candi- dates; and because we make bold to say that at least very large majority of those who were led astray have seen that they were wrong and will be ready and
 willing to give their labor and Influence to the good work of replacing the Demo- cratic party on the solid foundation from
 which 1t was toppled in 1SS6-because of
 all this The Advertiser is not a Demo-
 cratic paper!
 It may be among the possibilities of the
 future that Alabama will not get en-
 tirely out of the wilderness before an other national campaign opens. It may be that those who have kept the faith anC who have never wandered after strange Gods may have to again endure the hu
 initiation of being trodden down by thu followers of a new dogma, so far al Alat ana is concei ned. but we have not moment of fear that the National Demo cratic party will any more be controlle' by the influences which controlled 1t Il 1896 and 1900, or that we shall again b called OH to support a man who Is un certain as to his political belief
 To The News we wish better digesuo and improved vision.