The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-18
-WIiey ron Cleveland

Wiley on Cleveland. Representative Wiley in a conversation recalling former President Cleveland's re- cent letter touching the Democratic norn- ination for President. said: t M 1.-TWO weeks before this letter was pub llshed an intimate friend of the cx-Pres- ident saiasised i, me that, at ]. the proper time, such an annSuncement would bs made anthOritatively. l: was not surpris- ed sthefefofe. when his letter appeared In pint. Notwithstanding the fact that hls conduct gave offense to strict party Democrats. when. lie, refused to support MT. Bryan in 1s96, on account of the money question: itscannot be denied that the Solid South. would have voted for him with practical unanimfty. if he had been nominated; and it is the veriest noneense and twaddIe to pretend to say, he would not have made q splendid race. He has an 3enthusias following in every State of. the Union.- Now. that he is out of politics. it must be. gratifying to him, in his retirement. to know that 60 many good people, representing the business inc terests of this great country, wished him to bear the Democratic standard in tho coming campaign sof 1894.
 y'T want to say on behalf of the gen. erous citizens of the south. and espe- ciaIly. for Alabamajans. that they believe him to have been both honest and fear less in the discharge of every public duty. andf that they feel grateful to him for the many acts of kindness and con alteration he manifested for our section. He proved himself a loyal friend of the South. He trusted us and honored us. During his last administration he called into his official family his cablnet--four Southern gentleFnen-C Carlisle of Ken lucky, Herbert of Alabama. Smith Of Gkorgias ,and Wilson of West Virginia. He commissioned ex-Senator Ellstis of Louisiana. to be minister to France, and Hannis Taylor of Mobile. in our own State, to be Minister to Spain. He ap- pointed Judge White of Louisiana, asso- highest judicial tribunal in the world. Tn every department and bureau in iWasn- ington were Southern men, to say noth- ing of the large number of them who filled consular positions abroad; nor is 1t necessary to recount the bad tendencies he checked, nor the kaithfulness he show ed in small as well as in great things.
 His character has stood the most en- vious scrutiny ever since he challenged the corrupt political rings of New York. during his official term as Governor of the Empire State. The Southern people remember and appreciate these things. Their natures are reciprocal. But am sure he is now entirely out of the prest- dentiaI contest: and speaking for my self, want to deprecate~wlIat some now a-day politicians think popular-this con stant abuse of the only Democratic Pres ldent we have been able to elect in forty years: and to say, moreover, that de- sire the nominate. of any gentleman, German, Parker, Olney, Hearst-anybody who can win on a Democratic platform in the next presidential race. no matter his name, or from what State he haiis.
 
 William Bourke Cochran.
 Bourke Cochran will take the place in Congress of George B. M JClellan, repre- sentative of the Twelfth New York dis : - - ,S-1---1,.. ....,.,I 5,,.,. Is.e,a rsohtN