The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-14
PRESIDENTIAL BEES.
And How They Have Buzzed Around
 Some Mems Ears.
Savoyards Washington Letter to Louis

Sayoyard's Washington Letter to Louis-
 vile Evening Post
 It takes a good many things to make successful politician. One of them IS pa tience. David $. Hii has that quality Tn abundance, and now he reaps the reward and is boss of his party in the Empire State and sole dictator of its politics. MT: Hill has long hoped to be President or the United States. The bee is in his hon. net. and 1t will not let him rest The man with the bonnet and the bee is not or tho guild of whom the American people make President. Clay, Calhoun. Webssef, Douglas, Seward, Chase. Morton, Hen dricks, Blaine and sherman were some examples. Then there are Bryan, Hill and Reed, among the living, who are also among the disappointed, but as long as there is life there Is hope, and the man of the bonnet and the bee is always hopeful. Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan were two exceptions. They nad bonnets and bees and they attained tbe Presidency; but Van Buren was very bitterly disappointed man, and visited de- feat on his party in 1S4S because II had repudiated him in 1S4t. He played the part of the blind Samson, and Samuel men our country has produced, declared that Martin Van Buren was our greatest statesman. As for Buchanan, he was one of the most ruthlessly maligned and cru ely misunderstood men of our history He was the victim of brutality in Amer ican politics.
 The bosses make nominations, The mugwumps make Presidents: If condi- tions do not change David B. Hill will be the Democratic nominee for President in 1904. If he gets the mugwump vote hs will be elected. Can he get that vote? That vote has never yet been cast for such a man as Governor Hill. That vote exists because parties have made leaders of such men as Governor Hill. It is protest against bossism. In matters or tsn hn lcrlV filthy lucre, Governor Hill is above sus- picion In matters of party nominations and official patronage Governor Hlil IS a mediaeval baron, and has strong arm and a good lance. Unless Roosevelt falls down 1t will be next thing to the im- Dossible for Hill to beat him. Grover could make it mighty interesting for Teddy,
 As for Bryan, he went up like rocket and is coming down like a stick. Indeed. he is already down. By 1904 there will be nobody whose influence is worth the devils bringin" who Will care rap Tor what Bryan thinks or pay the slightest attt ntion to what Bryan says. American politics is full of life. and has no use for ''dead 'uns.' The American people got the columns of The Commoner. They could stand boy eloquence. served hot, but boy journalism served cold they could not swallow.
 Mir. Bryan is thoroughly and com nletely discredited statesman in every particular. There never was anything in him except some alleged oratory. tlOrid and boyish. though tuneful, after a fash ion. His rise was due to the tariff and his acquaintance with that subject was confined to certain free trade epigram- matic cat ,h words invented by French man named Bastiat. Ir 1896 he surrender ed his tariff catch words to such pro- tectionists as Henry M. Teller. William N. Stewart, Charles A. Towne and other short dollar men. The markets of 1897 eX- ploded every prediction he made in 1896. Then he must needs he a soldier and pose before camera. After tho War he forced the Philippines on tho country, for it Is notorious th1t the treaty would have bee l Then he proposed an Impossible policy | for the Philippines. went to the country on it and got dsistrously left. Lately he ] established The Commoner and exploited