The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-03
he Is an actual candidate for President this moment.

he is an actual candidate for President this moment.
 T do not like you. Dr. Fell;
 <. The reason why I cannot tell;
 But this alone I know full well.
 do not like you. Dr. Fell"
 Grover Cleveland appointed more Dem- ocrats to office than all the other Pres idents together. He found the South a step-daughter in the national household. and he made her a co-equal section of the country. He put Southern men. ex- rebels, in his cabinets ana on the Su- preme bench. He sent them abroad to represent the country in foreign parts. and of all the Northern men who ever lived, without exception, the South owed most gratitude to Grover Cleveland. He is man of conviction. He was elected President in 1899 because of his views on the silver question. He undertook to obey tn, party platform when he went into office. As long as the ofiiciai patron age held out he got along admirably. No sooner was the pie cut than men be- gan to bite the hand that fed them. There never was a more dissraceful and disreputable spectacle in the world. He was not only abused. but he was betray- ed. He saved the public credit and would have given the country honest and con- stitutional taxation had any heed been paid him. In all the history of politics there never was such a betrayal of a great cause as Democratic action in the United States Senate on the tariff ques- tion in the Fifty-thlrd Congress.
 Home rule. free trade, sound money and honesty and economy in public expendi- lures used to be Democratic cardinal doc trines. They are cardinal doctrines of real Democrats to-day, as they ever were, interpreting the term free trade as tarin for revenue only. No man can lay a finger on a word or deed of Grover Cleveland opposed to those doctrines, every one of which was violated by the enemies of Grover Cleveland in the Dem- ocratic party during all his second term as President. Why, I saw a man the other day who voted for the oleomarga- rine bill cussing Grover Cleveland for his betrayal of the Democratic party. The man was in earnest, too, but, he has got mighty little sense.
 There never has yet been a proposi- ton before Congress that was so antag- onistic to Jeffersonian Democfacy as that oleomargarine bill. It was made a law by Democratic votes, by the votes of men who. deny that MT. Cleveland is q Dem- ocratI Contrast that treason to Demo- cracy with Grover Cleveland's, Tt is the duty of the people to support the gov ernment. and not the duty of the govern ment to support the people," and thus get an idea of the difference between a statesman and @ falxir. That the Repub- lican party Is now, and ever was, an opportunist 1t does not pretend to deny. The Democratic party. too. has been an opportunist for forty years. It was for good money and for bad money, for greenbacks and against greenbacks, for honest taxes and for dishonest taxes, for Democracy and for Populism. Democratic platforms since 1888 have reflected all colors. You can prove anything by those platforms. Some of them were splendid Democracy. 1876 and 1892, for instance.
 But after all there is only one sort of real Democracy, and that is the sort Grover Cleveland exemplifles. All other is spurious and no account. Let me tell you something-there will never be an- other Democratic President until the Democratic platform expresses the Dem- ocracy of Grover Cleveland and the Dem- ocratic candidate is a Grover Cleveland man. There Is nothing in this world any truer than that. This Is a truth all sane Democrats have known for years, and the sooner our Democratic leaders understand 1t, the better for them and the party. Also the country.
 The future historian will look on the Bryan craze with all the wonder we look on the belief in witchcraft that ap- peared in New England and old England. For his prominence Mr. Bryan is the most shallow man who ever appeared in public life in a civilized nation. He ia mfQfnf0FFAaA G.o A.I,. on all political questions. and real Demo- cracy Is as much a mystery to him as the second birth was to Nicodemus. He found the party in delirium and led it Into the wilderness. He made more pre. dictions than any ten American states men or our history, and If the event jus. tlned single one of them never. heard or it. lie IS the most thoroughly discred- ited leader who ever spoke the English tongue, or any other tongue that I know of.
 This man will not be a hill of beans in the next national convention. He ha, lost his following at home and abroad His speeches in Ohio swelled Tom Holm. sons defeat 25.Oo0, and God knows Ton was already beaten as no Ohio Democrat was ever beaten before. wish every Democrat in America who has got enourf sense to put up panel of draw-bars would read MT. Bryans speeches in the Ohio campaign just closed. Of all ths puerile things that ever come from even him these take the cake. They were simply silly. His "arguments'' for 2-cent fares were like Tobe Griden's show, ''sc damned bad they were right good"
 We are going to have a Democratic platform and Q Democratic candidate In 1904, both of the Grover Cleveland stripe Then Colonel Roosevelt may look tC himself.
 Can't Kill Him.