The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-29
MR. BRYAN,s CHOICE.

Recently some one asked Mir. Bryan to name what he thought would be a strong Democratic ticket. After having spent several minutes in silent thought. as the statement runs. he delivered himself thus:
 While will not be committed to any candidate or ticket, believe can name two gentlemen who are likely to prove son of s Ino. anS Wiam Ts % R Hesrst of New York. The former has always been a consistent Democrat As Assistant Postmaster General he pleased all wings of the party. He was success as Vice. President with MT. Cleveland. and he was defeated as the vice-Presidential candi- date with me. MT. Hearst has also proved himself a consistent Democrat. He has spared no effort to win victories for the party. He has no enemies in the party.
 It will be remembered that Mir. Bryan has lately, been right handy with his mouth in the business of suggesting can- didates. It has been but a few days since he was boosting William J. Stone of Mis- souri as the man to lead Democracy out of Egypt but he has apparently found out that that cat won't jump and seems to have dropped him. Stone hasn't pam ned out very we'll recently and 1t appears that even Bryan doesn't care to stand for him.
 As to the two men mentioned above the suggestion Is decidedly Bryanesaue. He neglects to tell us which he intends for the head and whicE for the tail of the ticket, but that makes little difference. s~ ti, leader next year. notwithstanding MT. Bryans assurance that each is "a con- sistent Democrat" That assurance will add nothing to their acceptability with the Democrats who will control the party next year.
 But there is one feature of the above endorsement that is just little peculiar, and we are sure that MT. Bryan didn't realize how it would he taken, When he says Mir. Stevenson was a success with Mir. Cleveland but was defeated as a can didate on the Bryan ticket he leaves the impression that he meant to be under stood as asserting that Stevenson elected Cleveland and defeated him. If either of those claims or charges is true it would be a singular reason for Bryan's endorse ment. He has little love or federation for any man who helped to make MT. Cleve- land President. and doubtless has stiil less for any one who was responsible for his own defeat. Which ever way we look at it we fail to see how Bryan could en- dorse Adlai.
 Int hof at oak v1ya repeat that either of the men is impossi- ble as Democratic candidate next year. If we are to go into the fight with any hope of success we must unite on stronger man than either of them. With out going into particulars, we can safely assert that the Democratic party is not going to take up a man who was defeat ed in 1900 and especially when that defeat was received as the running mate of MT. Bryan. That is amply sufficient to put him out of the list of eligibles.
 As to the young man. Hearst, we sec but little use to argue of or about him. He has been diligently engaged of late in the work of pushing himself towards the front in which occupation he has re- ceived little but ridicule. except from those papers which hope to gain some- thing from the Hearst newspapers. It would be as impossible to elect him as 1t would be to elect Bryan himself and would be less creditable to the party. However. we are not fearing that the Democratic party will go into the suicide bushes ss in 1904.