The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-26
MIR. CLEvELAND's ENEMIES.
They Object to His Friends Jesting About Him.


 Letter to Birmingham Age-Herald. The most comical quality in our polit- ical world is the passionate and fearful
 devotion with which some persons hug to themselves the nightmareish delusion that Mr. Cleveland desires another term as President. Eyes grow watery, lips tremble and tongues fashion foul oaths as the ina aginations of these persons picture the great man vainly pining to take up anew the burden he twice made illustrious.
 MT. Cleveland's simple name uttered in passing is to these persons as red rag
 Is to a bull: they fly at 1t with frightful rage, for they are desperately in earnest. They hate MT. Cleveland with rejoic- l ir,; hatred, and there would seem to be ID power in the world that could lead them | to doubt that he Is eating his heart out yearning for the office he cannot get again. The conviction that he is thus suf- | tering gives them large joy; to them II IS bliss, 1t Is bliss. They lie awake O nights gloating over the belief that he IS lying awake, tossing, grieving. deiirious for | the prize that has been the sport Of in- competent men. If one so much as hints | doubt that MT. Cleveland desires an other term of the least desirable great office under the sun, the hint Is accepted
 as almost personal insult to those who | find joy in hating a man who Is growing
 old gracefully with his wife and his cnii- | dren--the ideal American man!
 However serene one may be in attach | ment to and faith in MT. Cleveland, these | hearty haters will not suffer one to even 1 l great man may prefer ducks and fishes l to the Presidency of the United states. | The haters will not suffer one to be good natured or jolly about the matter: they | are proud to be accounted followers of | Mir. Cleveland, shall appear grief-laden. ! weary and afraid. Now that doesn't seem quite fair. It | isn't much to ask that one be permitted | to be happy in following "a beaten man without following" If one believes a | thing, in ones heart that thing Is true: If | one doesn't see the wart on ones wires | chin, why, there is no wart there II one | can't perceive the eleven hoot to great | ness, there is no cloven hoof. If the rag picker in the uptown ward esteems Alder | man John to be a great statesman. 1t Is
 so. and there's an end to all argument
 Jus Just m now, When it is of supreme inter est to the country, which is suffering more than ever from gross misgovern- ment, that all Democrats Of all Individual or collective views should stand as one man against Republican usurpat~a or authority, there are found some Demo- crats who are wrathful against MT. Cleveland because he ventured from ms l cherished retirement to sound note Of hope for the party, which he alone has led to victory within nearly half cen-
 tury. There are filings and sneers ana
 jeers at this great Democrat for trying to aid his party in winning another VIC tory Of course he knows nothing ot the
 outcry of the noisy ones against him on |
 would not heed 1t if he knew. But his followers know, and 1t Is not human na- ture for them to take 1t kindly or quietly. Take away the Democrats who believe
 in Mir Cleveland. and the party Is lett powerless to elect even majority or } the House of Representatives. to say notn- ing of the Presidency. If the party IS ever
 again to win anything 1t must not only
 he thoroughly united. but must so shape it's whole policy as to win that 1ndepen-
 dent vote which is the determining fac
 tor in every closely contested eleckon ., m
 this country. Neither the DeHocrS'ie It . President without support from the in- , dependent element in the close states ot , the North Everybody is aware of this,
 and therefore the statement or IL IS
 merely a recital of familiar fact
 , Therefore. if the existing organization of the Democratic Party means to scorh the overtures of MT. Cleveland, who pre-
 sumahly speaks for all Democrats belieV- , ing as he believes. we might as well not undertake a campaign, 1t would be r waste of time. money energy and pa Let us get together" Is a cry so long 5 and so oft repeated In the Democratic t Party as to become at times tlresome
 but we are not to hear 1t very much r | longer Unless we mean 1t now, and dc f get together and stay together until we
 | arc welded into one solid mass of mer
 by a great victory n 190i none may have e the heart in the aftertime to make tht l plea.
 t safety nurture enmity within their ranks |, amongst their own members. than car
 a private household afford to suffer hate to fix the delth' s-head and crossbones
 over the horseshoe above the door.
 What matters 1t now what occurred si1 or sixty years ago-we of tc lay are deal n ing with today, that we may shape tn'
 destiny of the morrow!
 !" Why hate a man for politics. or fol f anything? There Is 10 man living wh' 1 should be suffered to arouse any goo'
 man't hate in any circumstance
 l. Let us get together. V With the Roosevelt adminlstratlon SUI W . | gone to pot, Congress Is hurrying to th | end of the session. Suffer thou thy serV n ant to say he told you so, and so In goo'
 | time tourney homeward in peace.
 If ever things legislative and things DO | utical were confusedly mixed, assuredl
 Ithey are mixed now In so Tar as IL concern " the dominant party. Two-score kepres n V tatives and A score of Senators have sue o cessfully defied the man in the Whit House who was master. and the first O n all his wishes has been denied him. II - | staked his political power on his owl
 form of reciprocal trade relations betwee d this country and Cuba. and-lost It l Q | naedless now to discuss the issue betweel l him and those of his party in Congress U who refused to follow him. He claim Q q change of venue after the trial is end
 cd and so goes to the country" as tn EneIish parliamentary phrase runs
 Thus in the pending Congressionl L. campaign we shall have the oldest O
 all imaginable political situations. Tn l. Republican President and a majority O o the Republican Senators and Representa . tives will appear on the stump denounc ing the action of a powerful minority c e their own party Tn Congress, including