The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-19
REFUSES TO TALK BRYAN
Ex-PreSident Also Silent as
 to Editor WatterSOn.
aratified by the Expressions From the South in Regard to His Speech on the Race
 Problem.

Washington, June 1s.-(SpeciaI )-'The man who Is closest in this world to the mind and heart of Grover Cleveland knows that there Is not an idea in the one nor an impulse in the other that in- pels or persuades him to contemplate without repugnance the suggestion of his becoming for a fourth time the Demo- cratic candidate for President"
 This was the remark made to your cor respondent tonight by George M. Bailey of The Dallas (Tex.) News. well-known Washington correspondent. who has just come from the home of the former Pres- ident at Princeton. N. J.
 That man. added Mir. Bailey. 'is Grover Cleveland"
 Mir. Bailey spent yesterday aftegsoon with Mir. Cleveland. and is today sending his paper an account of the visit. The correspondent believes Mir. Cleveland deeply in earnest in two things. the first that his name shall not be considered In connection with the Democratic nom- iration. The second is his hearty desire for the unity of the party and success of Democratic principles.
 The following statement was made by Mir. Cleveland:
 No Talk of Candidacy.
 T have never spoken to anybody on the subject of a fourth candidacy. have never written to & single political friend one way or another, nor have been written to or spoken to by them. There is not a political leader of any prominence endeav- bring to advance any movement to nom mate me in any State so far as I have been advised. nor do I anticipate that any such offer would be made by any leader, prominent or obscure, in any lo- cality of the country. In this respect, the situation is more than pleasing.
 Tn earnestly desiring the Democratic Party to become strong and united as of old, committed to the simple traditions and sound principles which made 1t ag- gressive and victorious, no thought of personal interest has disturbed me. I have on several occasions within a year undertaken to perform the labor which usually falls to the private in the ranks, but there has not lurlsed within me the hope of any reward save the conscious ness of having made an effort to assist in bringing about salutary conditions in the party"
 Mir Cleveland. Mir. Bailey said, would talk no more of politics, but in response to the remark that Southern people were pleased with what he had recently said on the race question: the face of the for- mer President kindled with interest as he said 1t was indeed gratifying to him to know this. He said he had received hundreds of letters conveying kindly sent iments from the Southern people since he has spoken on the race problem and believed he has fairly appreciated the dif- faculties with which the Southern people had always to contend 1t was the more pleasing reflection that he had the com mendation of people for whom he had ever entertained respect and admiration
 There was some talk attempted by the correspondent to elicit an expression on the subject of the latest attitude of Mir. Bryan and Editor waterson toward Mir Cleveland, but said MT. Bailey, He would not talk about that. The infer ence was unmistakable that he did not intend to dignify with notice any personal animadversions from those sources"
 R. H. Watkins.