The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1903.
WARNING HIM OFF.

Referring to the report that MT. Cleve- land proposes making another. Western trip, going as far as Salt Lake City, The Kansas City Journal says:
 We can confidently assure him in ad- goes will not be lacking in hospitality and noise. He will be heard and cheered and feasted and feted. President Roose- welt is probably the Eonly other man whom. Westerners would turn out in larger numbers to see or would yell for more enthusiastically.
 After the demonstrations in St. Louis The Journal need not have qualified it's remarks by the intimation that Roose- Welt would be received with more enthu- siasm than Cleveland would, unless it would be in the most hide-bound Repub- hcan communities n the country. It is beyond dispute that the ex-President far as the enthusiastic welcome from the people proves anything. A President of the United States can receive a noisy and demonstrative reception in almost any section of the country, but much of it is because of the office he holds or because of some personal qualities, and not always because of satisfaction with his administration nor because of en- dorsement of his political course. The Journal. however. apparently feels itself called on to notify MT. Cleveland that he must retain his position as ex-Pres!dent in these words;
 But if Mir. Cleveland, after having hue 1lNv Princeton looping for Western support for his Presidential aspirations he will have rude and painful awakening. If he comes West as the man who has thrico been nominated for President and twice been elected he will be in the land of his friends; but if he comes as a can didate for a third term in the Presidency he will discover on election day. if not sooner. that IQ the West he truly has struck the "enemys country. The West for that matter will prove thc enemy's country for any candidate whom the Democrats may nominate; but Nor Mir. Cleveland especially it has an abid- ing distrust, and the repulse which the East gave Bryan will look like a glori- ous Democratic victory compared with the beating the West will give Cleveland if he has the bad fortune to be nominated a fourth time.
 It is easy to understand these warnings As the one Democrat living who would be most likely to defeat Roosevelt next year, we can easily understand why the Republicans fear him. and why they seek to discourage him, partly by fattery and partly by warning. His candidacy would put an entirely different face on the political situation and take away much of the complacent assurance now CIsplayed by the Republicans.
 As for The Journals cock-sure assertion or intimation that MT. Cleveland would get no electoral votes in the West, we may be permitted to dispute it. He car ried California, Illinois, Indiana, Wash ington and Wisconsin in 1892, with sixty five electoral votes, and we don't know that all those States are barred against him in 1904 It is true that Democratic Ratuousness lost all these States in 1900, but that is no evidence that they must remain lost. A good Democrat on a good platform would do wonders and might work a revolution. in the West as well as in the East that would surprise both sides. MT. Cleveland cannot be defeated aither for the nomination or at the polls by such arguments as The Journal uses The West Is not certainly the enemy's country.