The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-17
SUNDAY, JANUAR- IT, 1904.

THE LEAUER WILL BE FOUND. some of the Independent papers, as well as the Republican organs. are wont to nneer at the Democracy as ''the leader lens party." For example, The Chicago News says:
 Nothing could illustrate better the ano- 1naious condition in which the Democratic party finds itself than the fact that now, within less than six months of the quad- renniaI conventions, the question where eandidate shall be fourId is as much a mystery as it was two years ago. | We are. not sure thttt our party is to be pftied because as yet there has no man come forward to assume leadership. There is something of more importance to be attended to than finding the man who is 10 lead. The party must first be gotten into a condition to be hGd. A drove of wild cattle on the prairie. none knowing exactly the way to travel would hardly be in condition to follow one of their nunber, but when they all begin to look aIa one direction, and have one object in view, they are ready to follow leader The Democrats are as yet somewhat in
 
 cannot all look the same way or think alike They are gradually and surely be- ginning to realize that they have been following the wrong leaders and travelling an the wrong direction. They see that t1sere is nothing for them in the way they n1awe been going and they are getting xfrefr eyes open to the fact that there is i,, when that feeling becomes practically unanimous they will be in the spirit to follow a leader and he will be found The News says;
 Tho fact that Mir. olneys outspoken deciaration in favor of Grover Cleveland and his assertion that the former Pres adeut was the only man who could lead the party to victory elicited the one defin- 3fss expression from those present Is sig gstficant It. tends to revive the question whether. after all, it is possible, that the Democracy is going to turn to it's former FssaAer in spite of himself and of his ''un- mlferabIe and conclusive" determination not te consider the question
 On the same line we find The Portland Oregonian saying:
 After a month of deliberation has gone fv Mir. CleveIand's letter of declnation seems to have convinced no one of either a31s unaVailability or his impossibility who was not convinced of 1t before. It seems fe he the secret feeling of MT. Ceve- lands best and truest friends that if he were to prove by next July the only man who could unite his party and perhaps deaf ear to the practically unanimous voice of the convention.
 These extracts show that among both
 
 tors there is yet a strong suspicion that Afr. Cleveland may be the nominee On ahe part of the Republicans it is more than a susplelen-lt is a genuine fear, for they know his strength and have hereto fore felt it. But MT. Cleveland is not now the leader of the Democratic Party and it may be that he will not be- That ss for the future to decide, but it is safe fo say that the man will be very much after his sort. That much at least, we can safely predict, and yet he may be a man who has hardly been spoken of, or even thought of Nevertheless, we will have a leader in good time, and in time fo cause the Republicans some uneasy naoments. And on this subject We com mend the following from The Phiiadel- phia Record:
 rhe uncertainty apparent in. the Demo- cratic ranks as to the selection of the next candidate for the Presidency Is not ssfIfhout certain strategic advantages. Ii eaS1res to bring to the front suitable men 5,, an parts of the country and necessi- xatss a canvass of possibilities which is Ol rreat educational advantage. IL oa1llef fae campaigning expedients of the oppo' eltion. who are kept in doubt where t' egncentrate their fire. The delay IT ehOice also serves to more thoroughly rrpoga the weak points of the already ttIed Roosevelt candidacy and to fur fher develop the jealousies and antason seynr which the Republican leaders are n' longer at pains to conceal