The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-04

Senate. Hitts place is the State De- partment. but he would be an ornament to the Senate. Dan Voorhees, was great CT in the House than he ever was in the Senate, though he was Chairman of the Finance Committee. Joe Blackburn was a picturesque and forceful personality in the House: he has only vegetated in the Senate.
 And speaking of Joe. He made speech the other day in the Senate in which he displayed more ignorance of analrs poilt- ical in Kentucky than Chauncey Depew. But Joe hit the New Yorker sockdolo- ger when he called him a railroad law yer" Of course it is disreputaple to be a corporation counsel; but corporations are creatures of the law and entitled to the protection of the law. One of their legal rights is to be represented by coun- sel in courts of justice. and if they can not secure the services of the cream of the profession, the profound, the i'm maculate. the learned. the altruistic- such lawyers as Joe-they must do the best. they can and put up with such jack leg lawyers as Chauncey Depew John Carlisle, Bill Lindsay and Alec Humph- rey. It is not the fault of the railroad. the telegraphs, the telephones, the cleo
 tric light companies that Joe does not hold their briefs-Joe won't have their retainers. But then. was 1t not rather cruel of him to rub 1t in by hurling scorn at Depew?
 Democratic statesmen in both houses Of Congress are busy with the quadrennial job of making a candidate for President. Four years ago there was but one name discussed, but one name tolerated ana that the name of Bryan. who was HUI oneling, as Judge Jerre Black called m It; q
 down in Florida. Colonel Bryan mas done a great many fool things, but ms soldering was the chiefest. It was only little piece of war-not over one man in a hundred had a chance>to even near a hostile gun, much less see II, ana tdho it at the point of the bayonet. Ills Join. ing the army was only a piece or peanut politics for 1t was nothing but poiiti- cal play that neutralized all the patriot ism that his most enthusiastic supporter could make of it. No man, however, hao the hardihood to oppose the nomination of the "matchless statesman the peer less orator." who began to crate Just as he shucked himself of his uniform
 But Bryan is not even considered as d. possibility these days-that is, consld- cred by any respectable number Of Dem ocrats in the two houses of Congress. And that Is not all of it. nor the Worss of it-no other silver man is spoKen nn, or except Joseph W. Bailey, and he neVtr was as much of a silver man as some oth ar silver men were. The talk IS mos.iX of Hill, and there Is no doubt that m. Is tn. strongest Democ Tt In states Indt will furnish the votes if the next fres ident Is Democrat-that is the North Atlantic States and the South. But there is plenty of time for the Hill movement to be killed two or three times before the convention assemblies
 Arthur P. tiorman knows that. ana Mir. German is a mighty smart man That he will have d boom IS as certain as that he will live until the convention is held. and it will be marvelously well boom at that. But can anybody get the nomination MT. Bryan opposes? That is something Governor Hill and Sen ator German are doing a devilish deal of thinking about-you bet they are.