The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-07
JIM HAM LEWIS AT THE TICKER.
One Eye on Stocks and One on Poll
 tics for 1904.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 Propelled by nervously powerful fin- gers an ordinary writing pen inscribed with flowing elegance on the Hoffman register yesterday this name:
 James Hamilton Lewis Chicago, Ill"
 There it stood boldly. without abbrevi- ation or expurgation. But the person de- scribed was the same Jim Ham Lewis who two short years ago was a repre- sentative in congress from the state of Washington, a representative fiery in speech when a trust showed a horn or hoof, always there with a belaying pin when the octopuses got fussy.
 The eyebrows of the hotel clerk tilted back bit when Jim Ham signed "Chi- cago, H." Later in the day the states man made full confession. He has gone the way of Charles A. Towne, Of Min nesota, and James Hogg of Texas, and other distinguished democrats who used to go trust throttling whenever there was a hall to let, holiday to celebrate or legislative floor that wasn't oc- cupied.
 Mir Lewis is now attorney for the beet sugar trust He has removed from the state of Washington and has offices in Chicago bounded on every side by other offices where the hired men of the trusts work merrily.
 From the wreck of his former self MT. Lewis has saved an impressive fringe of his Individuality. The whiskers that were the centre of cults when he aired his vo- cabulary in the house of representatives are still with him. The beet sugar trust has allowed him to retain them and each pink hair continues 10 grow in a different direction.
 When callers sought Mir. Lewis at the Hoffman house they were told that he was not in his room.
 'Mebbe he's in the brokers office" said one of the bell boys He's been running in and out of there all day.
 Jim Ham, a slave of the ticker, called for all the elasticity of the imagination. There he was, snatching glimpses at the tape and seemingly absorbed in Air brake. Two years ago they couldn't put the air brake on him whene'er he rose until he'd filled four numbers of the Congressional Record.
 Between quotations, which showed the operations of the helllsh money Tower down in Wall street, MT. Lewis dropped these observations about the democracy.
 What do I think of Cleveland's lat est? Mir Cleveland lives in the mem- ory of yesterday. He can't see anything but the tariff. In his mind the god of democracy has but one prophet and he's at Princeton.
 'The democracy can't guide itself alone by the history of the past. It must look at the sign posts of the future. The tariff is only a part of the question of tax ation, and taxation is only one of the many questions with which the party of the future must deal.
 Just now there are only three men who have a chance for the democratic nomination for the Presidency. Bryan could not be nominated or elected If the radical end of the. party controls the next convention, the section that nominated Bryan, 1t will not be strange if Tom L. Johnson Is the candidate. True he was whipped pretty well in Ohio, but I think my conclusion still holds good. Hill will be candidate, I suppose, but it seems doubtful, very doubtful, If he can be nominated. Out west they don't believe he'll be able to get the support of New York. Richard Olney will be the man for the conservative democracy; and If Hill should forget himself for once in his life he could bring about the nomination of MT. Olney."
 MT. Lewis cooked his eye at the as- cending Traction stocks and started in to settle the republican situation:
 Much the same situation will exist in the republican party. If existing condi- tions develop along natural lines there will be two candidates, Hanna and Roosevelt; and I believe that by 1904 the conservative republicans will be for Hanna as against Roosevelt. But Roose-