The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-22
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 An esteemed contemporary. The Macon. (Ga.). News, has evidently been eating something that doesn't sit we'll on the ed- itorial stomach. Because The Advertiser playfuliy intimated that the longer Mir. Bryan stays abroad the better we will bs pleased, The News says: esF
 Thts Is the true Cleveland spirit. It is is n,sSy Sy nsssy eve Syss ia The Bnqtiirsr-sun. The Montgomery Ad- vertiskr is known, far and wide, as 8 Cleveland worsiipper. n long since sur rendered itself willing captive at the shrine Of Clevelandism.
 There is a good deal more of the same nature. but this shows the soreness or sourness of a clever newspaper. '"rhe true Cleveland spirit" says The News. Perhaps so. Perhaps an earnest and un- compromising advocacy of genuine De- mocracy. through good as we'll as evil re- port Is ''the true Cleveland spirit" In fact. we rather think 1t Is. and we rather think we are proud of it. All the same, The Advertiser Is not "a Cleveland wor- shipper" It leaves man-worship to some of its brethren who are not friends of MT. Cleveland. Perhaps The News can lay it's finger on one of them. We mere ly regard Mir. Cleveland as the strong est Democrat in the Union today. We believe he could more surely win than could any other man In the Union. For those reasons we have advocated his nom- nation. We still believe he ought to be nominated without dissent, and that he would accept and be elected. It Is not worship of the man. but devotion to the Democracy he represents, and which Is the only kind of Democracy that stands any show to win. If the party sees f1t to select another standard bearer. so be it. We propose to do whatever lies in our power towards eleoting the man selected, whether he be our choice or not.
 But to get back to what The News calls a fling at Mir. Bryan. but which was nothing of the kind. Let's argue the point little. When we said ''the longer he remains abroad the better we will be pleased" it was merely somewhat frivolous reply to the vicious fling of So&ASCAhROA& oub Wc dUtu0 py lJ III ueaU earnest. and if The News is not too deep- ly steeped in prejudice to follow sound argument it should be able to see our rcd- sons, and to see that they are sound ones. We sincerely believe it would be best for the Democracy, and therefore best for the country if Mir. Bryan would remain abroad until after the next Pres idential election. We say it without a particle of ill-feeling or disrespect for him, and without meaning in the least to disparage his character or his person. ality. As citizens of a common country We are gratfed at the attention he has received. We wish for him pleasurable visit-and long one.
 Why this seeming contradiction? The News will doubtless want to know. Be- cause We do not believe Mir. Bryan will change his views, and if he returns and undertakes to inject his financial views into the councils of the party, or if he undertakes to dominate the convention, to dictate the ticket or the platform, we know. and The News ought to know, that success will be impossible. MT. Bryan might do much good for Democracy. but OF the other hand he can do 1t more harm than any other man in it. Does The News believe that a ticket and plat form in harmony with those of 1S96 and 1900 could win next year? Does 1t be- lieve that MT. Bryan would work for the success of a man like MT. Cleveland on a sound money platform?
 We give 1t credit for more perspicuity than to believe anything of the kind. It is too well informed to hold such views, knowing as 1t is compelled to know, that the party is done with that kind of De- mocracy, certainly for the present. Dem ocrats all over the country are admitting that a mistake was made, or, at least, that a repetition would be a serious mis- take. That is why we say, in all kindli- ness and good feeling. that 1t will be much better for the Democracy and for the country if MT. Bryan could get his consent to remain abroad for at least an- other twelve months. Let him enjoy him. self. and let the party have relief from his interference. That way lies to vic- tory.