The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-06
FORECASTS FROM THE ENEMX.
 Referring to a recent letter from MT. Cleveland to The Meridian. Miss.) Star, The New Orleans Itemt Rep.) says:

Now that MT. Cleveland has broken his silence, we may assume that he will appear pretty soon as the adviser, if not leader, of the old-time> Democracy who held sway before the rise of MT. Bryan. He is magnificent organizer and a man of dauntless will and cour- age. He can easily bring around fthe Democracy of the Northern States to his way of thinking and obtain a majority in the next national convention without the aid of delegates from the South and extreme. West. If the free-silver-social- istic element under MT. Bryan attempts to check the convention by applying the two-third rule. the convention can by majority vote abrogate the two-thirds rue and proceed to business. When they once lay down their platform the South ,ern Democrats will stand on 1t with their usual enthusiasm for anything that comes along. The greater part of the Southern Democracy are already tired of the Bryan nonsense and would gladly return to the old stand to 6o business. In truth. they were never heartily in favor of that crown of thorhs and crossvof gold busi- ness. and looked upon 1t rather as a play to the galleries. They formerly
 made the welkin ring in their shouts for Cleveland, and they will repeat those shouts just as soon as the | majority of the next national convention | wipes out the old platform and makes a
 new one upon the principles which will be- formulated by the ex-President. Cleve- land is in the saddle again. He is rough-rider and the machine boys may
 as well get out of the way. If he is not
 the next Democratic nominee for the
 Presidency he will name tho man. and
 the mans name will not be Hill or Cor
 man. It would be Olney if he were a younger man. and it may be Whitney. We can sometimes learn, as well as
 obtain information, from the enemy. and
 these statements and predictions of The
 Item are none the less worthy of notice
 because they come. from Republican
 source. We do not know. or pretend to
 know, what Mir. Cleveland's intentions
 are. or whether he desires another nomi-
 nation. for the Presidency, but we do
 know that what The Item says about
 him as an organizer, and as a man of courage is true. If there has been any public man in these United States who possessed to its fullest extent what is usually alluded to as ''the courage of his convictions' that man is Grover Cleve- land. He has In an eminent degree that kind of courage which leads a man to follow that path which he believes to be right without regard to what effect 1t may have on his own fortunes or Iros-
 poets. It is both moral and physical courage that induces public man to
 antagonize his party and his personal
 friends because his convictions will not allow him to play the role of trimmer or dodger.
 If MT. Cleveland should set himself seriously to work to obtain the nomina- tion it would require a strong man or | an extremely favorable combination ot | circumstances in another's favor to enable him to prevent the nomination ol
 the ex-President. The delegations from
 the North and East, and from tho
 greater part of the West. would noml- | nate him, without any votes from the | south, but we do not by any means be- | leve that he would Tall to get votes from
 thls section. Much Of the bitterness that l was felt towaros him has passed away, | and, what b equally important, a Srea. | ueal of the glare and attraction which surrounded the man wno was ill a..
 respects the antiInesis of Cleveland ia gone and he is no longer worshlpped as
 tne chosen apostle or new dlspensauon. We beAeve, further. that II MT. CIeve- | lana should be nominated on a conservA- uve put sulcIIy Democratic platform Una. | ne would carry nearly, II not Quite, al.
 the Southern States. The South Is Demo l cratic, however much it may oiner anu | wrangle over questions ore policy. anu | wlll vote the Democratic ucKet An
 Democrats possessing any Knowledge oI | conditions and probabilities see that the
 l6 to business cannot again be made to
 do duty. A recrudescence of that experi-
 ment is as improbable as 1t is undesirable
 The Item may not be altogether a false
 prophet.