The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-09

nothing in anything the ex-President has said or done since he left the Presidential office which indicates a purpose or wish to again assume and bear its heavy du- ties responsibilities, and labors.
 Col. Watterson. in his very latest pict- uresque, splenetic, and hysterical tirade in The Courier-Journai against the ex- President. says that ito the great body of Democrats of the West and the South Mir. Cleveland Is an eyesore and offense, a red oinodr dlod rdluordluoinoinaoin less all the political signs seen in the Western skies during the last two years are false and misleading, 1t is not half true. The antithesis of Cievelandism is Bryanism, and in Democratic conventions and at the polls the Democrats of the West have either by silence or indirection repudiat ted Bryanism and all it's poli- cal heresies. In the South there are still many Democrats who love Bryan and hate Cleveland because of their radi- cally different financial creedS.
 1t is true that when Mir. Cleveland re- tired from office of President he did not enjoy an overflowing measure of popular ity among either Republicans or Demo- crats; the gravest injustice was done him even by those of his countrymen whom in his resolute. unconquerable defense of the financial integrity and security of his country he had best served. His entire Administration. had been a contentious one: the path he trod in 1t was "up the steep amid tn wrath of deadly hostile creeds." no less deadly because political
 Not only the South and West. but North and East, failed to perceive the un- selfish patriotism. the fine integrity. the loyalty to truth the devotion to high American ideals. which marked MT Cieve- lands public services as President. Time works many changes. but seldom has 1t wrought a greater one than that which has changed misunderstanding to under standing. injustice to justice, in respect of Grover Cleveland. whose .'clear-grained human worth and brave old wisdom of sincerity" indomitable will. courage and loyalty to principle are now so common ly recognized even by hosts of his for mer political enemies.
 It is doubtful if the ex-President appre- ctateS how general has been the belated recognition by his eountrymen of the ma tive worth, the simple dignity of the man and the inestimable value of his public strange if he should now desire to go into "the enemy's country" where Bryanism was so lately rampant against him. and standing face to face with the people speaking to them of the truth of things bring them to a better understanding of the man he really is--a man who, in de- spite of all opposition, unfifiinchingIy did his duty when to do 1t meant to invite the the stings of calumny. the blows of nal Ice, and the wounds of envy, hatred. and detraction
 MT. Cleveland can afford to bide his time and to abide his fame, sAting the wise, informing years work him justice yet his wish to go out among his old op- ponents and detractors. that he and they may by personal contact-by presence, by speech-know each other better is neither unnatural nor unreasonable, and such a wish on his part is sufficient. The Public Ledger thinks. to solve the so-called mys- tery of his Western tour. What She Pub. lie Ledger does not think is that third term ambition or purpose has anything the lpaHt-t0 d0 with if