The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-19
HE WILL NOT DOMINATE.


 The Jackson. Miss, Evening News de- clares that '.the folly. the supreme folly. and the hardihcod df tolerating any longer the dictatorship of Bryan. exceeds any thing that has ever happened in the whole history of the Democratic Party" We do not think our contemporary need worry about any further dictatorship from Nr. Bryan, for there are few now who think of longer ttolerating anything of the hnd. The little influence he How has will be beautifully less when he returns from abroad, unless he sees and hears something over there that will produce a radical change in his beliefs. He can do the Democfatic Party some harm, of course. If he undertakes further to domi- mate it, but we think there are very few of those who were most ardent in thelr support who will now claim for him the right to dictate. The best and most in- telhgent' Democrats of the South are be- Macon. tGa.) News. It was loyal fol- lower of Bryan while he was at the heisht of his power and influence, but now looks at. the matter this way:
 We regard the nomination of MT. Bryan next year as improbable, impracticabie and unwise. We believe that he is entire ly out of the question as the nominee. 1t would be suicide to nominate him. But we are weary of the constant abuse of Mr. Bryen that comes from certain Dem- ocratic quarters. He is a better SDemo- crat than are many of his detractors, and as true an American as the best of them Should the unexpected happen, and MT. Bryan be selected next year as the Dem ocratic Presidential nominee, we would earnestly support him and vote for him. as it was our pleasure and duty to do twice before. We would do the same in the case of Mir. Cleveland, should ne again become the standard bearer of tine Party We have voted for him three times, and will work and vote for him the fourth time, if necessary.
 It. may be true that MT. Bryan is a better Democrat than some of his detrac- tors. and it is just as true that many of those who criticise him are better Demo- crats than he Is, or ever was, for that matter. but let that pass. What we are now looking at Is the statement of The News that it would regard the nomination of MT. Bryan as improbable, impracti- cable and unwise," and that 1t will cor dially support and work for Mir. Cleve- land, If he should be nominated. We are free to say that we should regard the of Mir. Bryan with regret, and should look on 1t as suicidal, but would support him if the Party in National Con- vention says he is the man. We will not t., IA would be our pleasure and duty" to sup port MT. Bryan on a platform of his se- lection, for we will frankly say that there would be little pleasure in such support. It would be done as a matter of Party duty and nothing else, though, after all, there would be a good deal of pleasure in defeating Roosevelt, even with Bryan.
 We must note, in this connection, that The Macon News Is much more liberal than many of the former Bryanistic news papers are. for while most of them now admit that Bryan is both undesirable and improbable, they steadfastly refuse to say that they will support Cleveland. All their references to him are as bitter and uncompromising as ever, and they care fully refrain from saying that they will support him if he is nominated. In this they are not as liberal and loyal as are most of MT. Cleveland's friends who pledge themselves in advance to support the nominee. However. as we cam lot con ceive the possibility of Bryan's nomina- tion, we do not know that there is any occasion to worry over it. The Democrat ic Party has recovered from Its tempo rary attack of lunacy