The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-25
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The Nashville News takes basting 50 good-naturedly that we do it the favor to republish its reply. if that Is the correct name or it, to recent editorial in The Advertiser, and here goes:
 The Montgomery. Ala. Advertiser. and often in earnest, makes a vigorous protest against the loyal Democrats of Tennessee attending to their own affairs papers protest might be termed % a high ns Kick for low COW, as 1t ls made by one with little right to speak for Democrats, and 1t is predicated on false premises. The Advertisers protest is . serio-comic affair.". in that while one sentence bulges with heavy-weight words of monosyila- bles. another carries 2 sportsye air of hating in numerous phrases and serious expressions, the Aiabama editor consults the Bard of Avon, and, without giving him credit. fires this choice bit at us:
 Upon what meat doth this Our Caesar That he is grown so greatf
 If we did not have faint suspicion that this was a quotation from Shakespeare. Dy News modern ae Caesar ro that on peculiar kind of meat that makes it great The employment of the rare ShalS- spearean sarcasm by the Alabama editor | words less expressive or less applicable, and we will not charge 1t up against our clever critic. Nor Shakespeare Is back put him out of business by saying what he wrote was all nonsense and bad English; Shakespeare said something we cannot call to mind anything he said against stealing his thunder, so if The Advertiser can get of with any of the old
 But the serious phase of The Adverti- sers criticism is the same employed by all the .bolting press It proceeds on the necessarily have the support of the little handful of Cleveland followers or the whole party will go to the bow-wows. It I tude of repudiating everything for which the party has stood and now stands, making this the price of the '.recrganiza- The Daily News maintains that so far as Tennessee is concerned. the loyal Democrats. those who stood by the Dem tho two last campaigns, viii write the the party declarations in the county and state Conventions. and send the kind of
 tS rns Ss1aats onS Tno w the liking of the majority element. Any thing more is not desired; anything less would be base betrayal
 l We do not publish this for the sake of controversy, but to let our readers see the style of argument The News uses. The only portion of the article to which we think proper to refer is con- tained in the last paragraph. We do not deny that the Democrats of Tennessee, even the loyal Democrats" whatever that may mean, have a. thorough right to control their county and State Con- ventions. If they have not recovered from their political Authorizations suffi- cientiy to see and understand that Bryan and Bryanism are out of the running it is a matter to be regretted. but we shall not throw stones at them, hoping that kindly counsel and good example may turn them from the error of their ways and lead them to the sure rock of sound Democracy. selah.
 1 But at the risk of being accused of but | ting into the affairs of a neighbor, we beg to make a few mild predictions for future reference and for serious contem- plation. We predict that those who still believe in Mir. Bryan and the Kansas City platform-and we presume these are the loyal Democrats of whom The News speaks-we predict that this con- tingent will find it exceedingly hard to control the next State Convention in Tennessee. It Is almost impossible to be- reve that majority of the Party in that State will continue to cling to the
 rotting, barnacIe-loaded craft which has twice borne the Party to defeat. We refuse to believe that Tennessee Demo- crats are so different from those of other States, so blinded by past meteoric glamour that they are unable to see the
 inevitable trend of events. and to see
 that Mir. Bryan is no longer a name to conjure with. We must be permitted to doubt if he and his influence can dictate
 terms to Tennessee Democrats in 1904.
 But. passing by what they may do in
 their local conventions, we feel at liberty
 to speak with more certainty as to what
 they can and cannot do in the National
 Convention. If Tennessee sends dele
 gation to the next convention pledged to
 Bryan or a man he may select, and to
 the principles of the last national plat
 form, that delegation Is going to feel
 m-i-g-h-t-y lonesome. The convention O.
 1904 is not going to be dominated or dic-
 tated to by any such clements. It is go-
 ing to be a Democratic convention, VIC
 beg to inform The News, and 1t is going
 to formulate a sound platform and plant
 a sound Democrat on it. He may be
 Eamed Cleveland or he may be named
 something else, but 1t will not be Bryan
 and he will not select the man. Let The
 News forsake its false gods and trim
 it's lamps to follow the lead of pure and
 unadulterated Democracy. And the can
 didate and the platform will be ito the
 liking of the majority element'
 The Advertiser knows full well that
 however much MT. Bryan may have
 overtalked the ocasion, there is yet d very laEga fnllnyyins that will hea rker