The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-22
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT POLITICAL AND
MATTERS OF GENERAL AND LOCAL INTEREST

! German in which the distinguished demo-
cratic leader of the senate, so chosen by
the unanimous vote of his colleagues, IS
accused of being false to democratic prin-
ciples and is practically declared TO be
no democrat On the next page is TRADE
against Judge Alton B. Parker of New
York, who is supposed to be a candidate
for the democratic presidential nominal
tion. On the next page Mr.. Cleveland is
criticized and roasted, so to speak, up
and down several columns. The Detroit
Free Press and number of other demo-
cratic papers come in for liberal share
of vigorous criticism, ut being claimed all
through the paper that democrats who are
apparently not in personal favor with Mr.
Bryan are endeavoring. to get control of
the party.
The Commoner further criticizes Sena-
tor German because Mr.. ]. Pierpont Nor
gan happened to call on him when he
was recently in Washington. and uses the
expression; How can we fight the grand
larceny schemes concocted by Morgan and
his associates if he and our caucus chair
man consult together at the Capitol
[ have always been an admrer of Mr..
Bryans ability and brilfancy. but it
strikes me that he is seriously lacking in
judgment when he devotes his time
through his newspaper to pulling down
men In his own party. If he wants to
criticise, there is abundance of material
in the republican party for vigorous crit
icism. The democrats need every vote it
is possible TO muster if success is ever to
be achieved and l cannot see why Mr..
Bryan is better qualified to define demo-
cratic principles than are other demo-
Gratis like German for instance, who has
been unanimously chosen by all the DEM
oeratic representatives in the national
congress to represent the party as pollti-
cal and legislative leader
From reading after Mr.. Bryan, it APP
pears to me that he is seeking to destroy
the democratic party rather than to unite
it and build it up. 1t is impossible for all
men of any party to agree upon details
l fear that Mr.. Bryan is over-zealous in
his efforts to place himself in position to
personally name the man who shall be
the next democratic presidential nominee
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Speaking of politics, the contest of Pres
ident M. e. Ingalls, of the Big Four rail-
road for mayor of Cincinnati is unique.
ingalls, has never been anything of poll
tician heretofore. He is now running as a
democratic-fusion candidate for mayor of
Cincinnati and it is said that he figures
on being President of the United States
some of these days.
ingalls, is one of those fellows who be-
lieves in kicking at the moon whether
you can reach it or net lie started out
few years ago as president of a little
railroad running out of Cincinnati to-
wards Chicago. The story is told on
him that he went to Boston where he
had some friends Of financial ability and
borrowed $4,000 for the purpose of start
ing himself a railroad system. He took
this $4,000 to New York and began to
spend it in elaborate entertaining, there
by making friends of the Vanderbilts
who backed him and enabled him to build
up the Big Four and the Chesapeake and
Ohio systems, The Vanderbilts liked him
and made him their representative in
charge of their western lines. He Is said
to be worth something between ten and
twenty million dollars at present and is
possessed of a political bee of large pro-
portions
As a matter of fact, ingalls, is smart
and a good fellow. He has ability and a