The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-07
THE CLEVELAND BOOM
MACK IS FOR CLEVELAND; A
 SIGNIFICANT UTTERANCE.
Bryan's National Committeeman and
 Hills Ally of 1902 Predicts Party Reorganization.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle. Norman E. Mack, Democratic national Committeeman for New York, has de- clared for the nomination of Grover dispatch from The Suns correspondent from St. Louis, where Mir. Mack was yes- terday. The statement Is exceedingly interesting to Democrats of this State, be- mitteeman by the Bryan National Con- vention at Kansas City in 1900 and be- cause he affiliated with David B. Hill in the State campaign last year.
 Anti-Hill Democrats in Brooklyn are very much pleased. believing that MT. Mack has at one stroke topped off the Western New York strength of the Hill machine and practically assured it's col- lapse before the Presidential convention. Democrats of both the opposing groups agree that Mir. Mack's declaration marks the permanent downfall of Bryanism in this State. In 1896 and 1900 the Buffalo leader was the principal New York ad- herent of Bryan. It was on the Bryan Issue that he separated from Hill, with whom he had been on friendly terms be- fore that time.
 In 1896 he co-operated with the city Democracy in carrying the State organi- zation against Hill. In 1898 he helped the city Democracy to nominate Augustus Van Wyck for Governor In 1900 he stood for John B. Stanchfield against Hill and B. s. Coler.
 MT. Mack was among the interior statesmen who bowed to Hill's will last year. under large misapprehensions of Hill. During the summer preceding the State convention MT. Mack had become convinced that MT. Hill seriously wanted Chief Judge Alton B. Parker to run for governor. For about three months Mir. Mack believed that MT. Hill was working day and night to induce the judge to consent. It was not until the evening preceding the nominations at Sara ffer fA.A
 deceived. It was to late to save Parker, or even to defeat Coler MT. Mack went back to Buffalo in dis couraged frame of mind He did not, however, criticise MT. Hill, believing that possibly Mir. Hill had himself been inn posed upon. Later, 1t is said. he has received new information about the events which preceded the convention, which made 1t clear to him that Mr. Hill was not the man to dominate the Democratic politics of the State.
 According to The Sun dispatch MT. Mack said yesterday at St. Louis that he believed that MT. Cleveland would be the Democratic candidate for President next Tariff for revenue only" the doctrine made famous by Cleveland himself
 The antagonism that was formerly felt against Mir. Cleveland" said MT. Mack.
 has disappeared, and the people have had time to give a sober second thought to the place he shall occupy in history. All know now that he was one of the best Presidents the country ever had. That the Democratic party will be reo -gan.zed next year there is not the slightest doubt
 If MT. Mack should bring Erie and ad- tacent counties into the State convention for MT. Cleveland next year, Democrats were saying this afternoon, it would probably unblance the Hill machinery so far as to make an indorsement of Hills Presidential candidacy impossible. That much accomplished, the question would be upon the candidates respectively of Mir. Cleveland and of Chief Judge Parker A Brooklyn Democrat of importance said this afternoon:
 If Mir. Cleveland is in the field he will certainly be able to secure the indorse- ment of the State Democracy as against MT. Hill. and he will probably be able to secure 1t as against Judge Parker. It is a recognized condition at this time that Parker has been weakened by the complications adroitly thrown around him last fall by Hill. Cleveland has, on the other hand, risen above entdnglem ants of partisanship in the New York Democraay He has steadily grown in popular strength, and Hill has as steadily lost ever since the campaign of 1888, when Cleveland lost the Presidency and Hill gained the Governorsnip under 'lrcIm- stances which The New York Tribune described by saying:
 Hill has sold the Presidency ard bought the Governorship.'
 Colonel Bryan Is, in the mea1time. working over time in the organization of his Democratic clubs through )It the country. It has been announced that Nebraska, the silver leaders home State, has been made solid for him by his sys- tenn of club organization. Now 1t Is said that Iowa and Michigan have been Bry- anized in the same manner