The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-14
NOVEMBER IA, 1903.
THEY DO NOT KNOW IT ALL

THEY DO NOT KNOW IT ALL.
 The Hartford Times, referring to recent interviews with Southern Senators and Representatives. as printed in The New York World. says:
 All the Southern men In Congress admit that their States would vote for MT Cleveland if he were nominated, but
 will not say word in favor of his nom- ination. Most of them, in fact, are open ly hostile to such a nomination, and, aside from their personal hostility to the ex-President say that the feeling against a third term for any President is very strong in the minds of the people.
 It is not any new or strange thing to hear that politicians. North or South, are opposed to MT. Cleveland. They were op- posed to him in 1892. but the people want ed him and got him. Besides. it Is well known that Southern Democratic leaders have not for some years been in accord with Mir. Cleveland on the money ques- ton, and it is natural that they should still antagonize him. It may seem in consistent that many of them should show a willingness to support some other sound money Democrat, when they op- pose Cleveland, but it should be remem- bered that the latter is largely responsi- ble for the defeat of the free coinage movement and for that he has not been forgiven and will not be as long as op- position to him stands any show of suc- ceGs.
 But we put little credence in the state ment or insinuation that there is such feeling among Southern people against the third term that MT. Cleveland cannot carry those States in the National Con- vention. We doubt if that issue would cause him to lose single Southern State. If he is a candidate before the next Con- vention and fails of support from this section it will be for a different reason than that he has already held the office twice The Democrats of the South can find better reasons for their political acts than this.
 The political pendulum, like the me- chanical one, always swings back. Some years ago it swang away from Cleveland and sound Democracy, but 1t reached it's limit and is now on the return stroke. It carried with 1t the Democrats of the South who honestly thought a change was needed and believed they had found the right man and the right issue. That they were deceived in both respects is neither strange nor discreditable. It would be both if they should persist in their error and try to repeat it.
 They will do nothing of the kind. The pendulum is swinging back to the Democ- racy of former days through which the party was successful. Likewise 1t is swinging back to the man who led 1t to victory. That those who strenuously and conscientiously opposed him should now be slow about getting back to him is not strange. That they can make his nomi- nation impossible we do not believe. There will be several men mentioned as Presidential possibilities. and perhaps sev- eral names presented to the convention. but the man who inspires the most con- fidence among all classes. who can win support from the dissatisfied elements of the opposition, and who stands by far the best chance to win, Is Grover Cleve- land. When the solid Democracy of New York presents his name to the conven- tion the South will endorse it as they en- dorsed 1t on three other occasions. and Alabama will head the list. Even oul members of Congress don't know all that the future has in store.