The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-10
IT IS GETTING READY TO BOLT.

| = = ~ S84 A AkS& kk&2kAC 4S 0SA<A, The evidence of returning sanity among the Democratic newspapers of the South has been so pronounced that we had almost decided to offer a motion to make 1t unanimous, but that would have been c little too previous. There are still . few of the brethren who either faint or froth whenever the name of Cleveland is mentioned, but they are becoming so few in number that we expected soon to have the entire Southern Democratic press in line for the greatest Democrat of them all, but we have been rudley jarred. It remained for Chattanooga to furnish the only genuine bull in the China shop, in the shape of The News, of that city. Discussing the proposition to nominate Mir. Cleveland The News says:
 A faction may nominate him, but the great mass of the party will never agree to It. If Cleveland is nominated by a faction in the next national convention, It will be result of suppression of the popular win in State conventions. Should such an unexpected condition arise, we would like to see some Democrat call on every man in that convention who be- lieves in the principles of Democracy to follow him from the hall in a bolt, if such It may be termed, to nominate ticket on platform that will preserve those principles. No man who will be in the convention could do this service better than MT. Bryan, and 1t may be that he will again be a star actor inyEa tional poli- tics.
 List to the berserker! We had expect ed that perhaps The Courier Journal would submit a few remarks appropriate to the occasion, but with all its antagon- ism to MT. Cleveland~it would not advise a bolt. especially one to be led by Mir. Bryan. as The News does. Perhaps we have been mistaken during the past seven years. So much has been said about those of us who didn't see proper to follow MT Bryan into the ranks of Populism in 1896. and the word ''bolter" has been fired at us so frequently and with SO many different accents that we were almost convinced that bolter was about the last possibility in the way of a political ] sinner.
 Perhaps we have been wearing thasgarb | of the penitent unnecessarily. Possibly we have been experiencing a sort of cast-out- of-the-synagogue feeling when there was | no real cause for 1t, | We have suffered | -in-the-mouthness without any reason. Taking The News as authority bolt may be a very wise. proper and patriotic think to do, especially when Mr. Bryan is to be the star ector" in the performance. Not that 1t will be a neW role for him. He bolted the national ticket'+in 1892 and announced that he would do So again in 1896 if the candidate and the platform failed to suit him. To bolt or to lead a bolt will come natural to him as The News doubtless knows as well as anyone. ''.' .'
 The News. finds two classes who may be expected to follow or flock to MT. Cleveland. These are first, "that small, but noisy gold standard class" and the other Is S.anT army of patriots with no principles except a desire to hold office. D It denies that these two claims are numerically strong, but that they have among them "astute politicians who know how. to pull a wire and work conven- tions."l
 Now, if the ron were. called we susnect that majority of Democrats in the United States today would announce their Indifference or,'hostilfty to free silver, and
 if auothsE trellswere called we suspect that there would be as great proportion as among the sound money wing. How ever that may be, The News admits that
 the two classes 1t hates may be successful and it adds:
 Should they succeed, and force Cleve- | land. or a man like him, on the party, a bolt will be in order. That would split
 the party wide open, re-elect Roosevelt, | to be sure, but 1t would preserve intac [ | the principles of Democracy. The Cleve- | land w1ng would not carry a single State the Bryan wing would carry a few. Prob ably in 1908 reconciliation could be
 brought about on lines that would restore former conditions in the party.
 | News, Really, it would almost be worth all 1t would cost if we should see these immaculate party men who have been rising on their hind feet and yelling
 ''bolter" at all who refused to look on | Bryan as another Moses-we say it would almost be worth all 1t would cost to see these gentlemen gathering up their doll rags and filing solemnly out of the con- vention hall in the wake of the king bolter of them all. We apprehend that their leader would not carry even the third part of the stars with him in his fall, and that his boiling convention would be thin and scrawny.
 As for the results which would follow the nomination of Mir. Cleveland and the bolt of MT. Bryan The News Is badly mistaken. MT. Cleveland would carry every Southern State that Bryan carried and he would carry several Eastern States that the other never did and never can carry, no matter how he is nominated. As for his leading a bolting ticket, we should be at loss to pick out a single State that would give him its vote. He could not carry his own State, nor is there any other that we should care to guarantee.
 Really. 1t is almost funny, and if we were not afraid of causing The News to tear its trowsers We should like 1t to pre- pare' Sa bolt.EbsS
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