The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-15
No. wE ARf NOT SURE.


 The York (Pa.) Dispatch still thinks 1t is sure of some things. and thus en- deavors to prove it:
 The Advertiser Is recognized as the leading newspaper in Alabama. Conse- quently it knows that an up-to-date newspaper never expresses an opinion unless 1t knows what 1t is writing upon; The election last November convinced The Dispatch that the people In the United States are opposed to tariff tinher- ing The Advertiser is shouting. foh Cleveland. Should Mir. Cleveland be nominated. he will never be elected Presi- dent The Dispatch is 'cock-sure" on that point The last time he was in office he was a failure, and soup houses were opened in every large city. This private citizen-in fact, he is an example to many men-but his sun has set and the knowledge that he is '.boomed" by Wall Street and newspapers subservient to stockholders will cause every honest Democrat to vote for President Roose- welt, a man who represents the people. The Advertiser as The Dispatch remark ed before, is the leading newspaper in Alabama, but its editor should wipe his glasses before he attempts to express an opinion on the political situation outside of Alabama.
 It is almost amusing to read these same old cut-and-dried soup-house arguments. We presume all well-equipped Repupli- can newspaper offices keep them stereo- typed so that they may be run in when there Is a vacancy in the editorial cranium. A Republican paper without a good assortment of these arguments would be dismal failure. We suppose that if we should tell one of them, as we can truthfully do, that most of the trouble and depression which occurred during Mir. Clevelahd's administration resulted from Republican misruie and sx- travagance the only reply we would get would be the yell of "soup-house!' and let it go at that.
 Now, we assure The Dispatch that there is no smoke on this editors glasses. so that no wiping is needed. We can see that the country is dissatisfied with the present administration and Is ripe for a change We can see that the highly protested industries and the resultant trusts have the Republican Party by the throat and that there will be no tarinf revision or modification if the leaders Of that party. from Roosevelt down, can prevent it. They are going to stick to their tariff unjust and oppressive as it is. and the country is ready to unload the whole of them, tariff and all.
 But with pretty fair Knowledge of passing events, and with some claim to human provision, The Advertiser will not. like The Dispatch. positively de- clare that Mir. Cleveland will be elected if nominated, nor will 1t positively assert that MT. Roosevelt cannot be elected.
 'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius-we'n Il
 deserve it.
 as Allison says, and we have an aIbid- ing faith that the Democratic Party will deserve success next year. In this world success does not always fall to those who deserve it, but none the less is it the duty of all good citizens to strive earn estly for success in all that is best for the country and, for all the people. We believe as sincerely as we believe any thing that the continued domination of the Republican Party Is a menace to good government. and we look on 1t as a solemn duty which good citizens owe to themselves and to posterity to nse all honorable means to put that party out of power and install a Democratic ad- ministration. We do not know that Cleveland will be nominated, nor do we know that he can. be elected. but he rep resents the only kind of Democracy that has any possibility of success, and for | that reason we hold that the Democrats should nominate him, or some man of his character and politics, and unite in one grand effort to send Republicaaisn to the obscurity it so richly merits. But we are not sure of anything in politics.