The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-03-16
Democrats Possibilities Viswon
by Watters0n.

Democrats Possibilities View
| by Watterson.
New Orleans States.
In ligh, and breezy wsy
Colonel Watterson, Of the Louis
Vile Courier Journal. discusses
Democratic possibilities. He save
the woods are full Of presidential
candidates, while in the Democratic
camp there is nothing At present but
"fog, mist and shadow" ana he
poceeds to explain himself by saying:
''The two or three names which are LETT
outstanding are almos. as empty IS 90 many
houses to let. imagination herself Stands
oPen-eyed in the presence of vacancy.
Bryan, twice defeated; German, figure
speech; Hill, good goods, yet something
od IL sron,
except conjecture: nothing behind them.
except chaos"
Therefore he holds that il the
Democratic party is to come again
cit must come revicutualed and re-
vitallzed, and not reorRanized, and
it will come in the person of its
presidential nominee with some new
man, fresh from the people, En-
forcing this idea it is declared:
.s'rhe hope of the Democrats in any inn
mediate and practical future lies in the
development of some hitherto unknown
party leader, such as the Republicans de-
veloped in Lincoln, such as the Democrats
least expected. He may come from God
knows where. If it be the purpose Of the
Almighty to rehabilitate Democracy, to call
down Republic.nsm from the high horse of
INN 2lnSnN he emil
he will surely come; and. when he comes he
he will not only carry a banner in one hand
and a baton in the other, but he will come
astride barrel; he will be able to meet
Brother Marcus Aurelius Hanna on his own
ground, TO play him his own game. to stack
up with him pile against pile, to care nothing
about the limit. and, having ham-struck and
whp-sawed him, to laugh him into the
poorhouse on the suniown!''
Again, in his pleasing serio-cOmic
vein, Colonel Wattersou announces
the discovery of an available
Democratic candidate for President
in the person of Tom Johnson, of
Ohio, who is running for the
of Cleveland, and he re-
marks: ''Was not Grover
the mayor of Buffalo and
did he not become the Governor of
New York, to step from the latter
Office into the White House at
Tom Johnson, he
says, has a barrel as ample as Mark
Hanna's.
If elected Mayor of Cleveland,
why not Governor of Ohio7 And if
Governor, why not President The
boys In the trenches would rally as
never before, '.from Bitter Greek in
Kentucky to the source of eternity
in Texas and Oregon.
"Why not this friend of Henery
George; this millionaire anarchist,
so-called, who has fighting blood,
race horse blood, In his veins; who
springs from stalwart revolutionary
stock; who was born lucky and got
rich by his own genius and exertion;
at once typical American and a
thoroughbred Kentuckians. crossed
on a Buckeye; representing the
common people, yet not affrighting
the classes; possible Tilden;
possible Cleveland; and planted not
merely in Ohio, the Virginia of
Modern States and statesmen, but
in Cleveland, Ohio, the home, the
citadel of the Warwick, who is said
to make and unmake Presidents7
What no, there! trenches ahoy!
Down on your marrow bones, every
mothers son of you, and pray, pray
for Tom Johnson!"
This is good fun, but back of it .
suspicion of common sense and
seriousness, and SO it is passed on to
set Democrats thinking.
Children often inherit feeble