The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-03
ATTITUDE
WILL HAVE NO MORE OF
 BRYANISM.
N. o. Tanning of The Brooklyn Eagle Finds That Democrats Are Sick of the Vagaries
 of the Nebraskan.

New York. Feb. 1.-lSpeclal.)- V. Tanning staff correspondent of The Brooklyn Eagle, who has been In the South investigating political conditions. sends his paper the following from Mo bile:
 'Alabama's attitude in the campaign of 1901. is particularly interesting when 1t is considered that this was the first or the Southern States appealed to by the silver propagandists in 1896 to break it's traditional alignment with the Democrat
 ic influence of the East, and the first to
 join forces with the Trans Mississippi en-
 emies of conservatism. Alabama oHce
 had a Farmers Alliance which made an impression on it's local State politics. It
 would have been a better State at that
 time than Florida for the Populists to
 make their small beginnings in. But the
 Populists chose Ocala instead of Mont
 gomery for the birthplace of the silver
 movement because Florida. being on the Atlantic Seaboard, was the State from which to conduct operations against the East. Now Alabama is glad that 1t can
 not be charged with responsibility for the Ocala demands. glad it did not in 1856 yield to Bryanism without fight, and glad that the Democratic Party is show ing a disposition to re-establish its old principles.
 Alabama has produced many able Dem-
 ocrats, not the least of whom are now in its high offices First among them is
 its venerable senior Senator, MT. Morgan.
 Then there are Senator Pettus, Governor
 Jelks, Representatives Clayton and Bank
 head, Editors Screws and Glass of The Montgomery Advertiser, Editor Rapier of The Mobile Register and a dozen others | who have earned distinction in the poll tics of the State and Nation. These men have weathered all the storms which | have swept the Democracy of their State since the early nineties, and, by thelr | combined influence, will control the dele gation to the St. Louis Convention this years. There will be no controversy oe- | tween the conservative and radical man. agers of the State organization. The few Bryan men are negligent and inactive. l The Cleveland men, believing Bryantsm | to be effaced In the State, are quite will | ling to let matters take their course un- | til the National Democracy re-constructs | the partys policy at St. Louis.
 All the leading Democrats of Alabama are opposed to the re-aff1rmation of the Kansas City platform, which MT. Bryan l desires to have re-affirmed. High priced
 cotton, prosperity in agriculture and man
 ufacturing, and the fine development of | it's mineral and timber resources have l pTONSu lO AldDdlnt l4ldI SlOOHiy DAS an analysis of economic and monetary conditions in 1896 was wrong and that
 the Cleveland policies were right. The | most prosperous times in Alabama's his | tory since the war are now enjoyed un- l der the gold standard and the protective | policies which were maintained in spite | of Mir. Bryan. The admirable condition | of its great industries argues against the alteration of economic system in Ala | bama. The policies which have induced | growth and prosperity and contentment | in the North and East where they have
 been originated and upheld, and in the West where they have been combatted | by Bryanism, and in the South where | they have been temporarily endangered, are now unquestionably the fixed pOlicIes l of Alabama.
 MT. Bryan's personal hold on the Ala 1 bama Democracy has been broken within a month. So long as it appeared likely
 that he would accept the inevitable at
 St. Louis and Loyalty support his party under the restored practices of cOnserV- atism, the Alabama Democrats retained their liking for him. Just as soon as it
 became apparent that he intended to pro-
 long the disorders of Democracy in order
 to preserve a status for his theories, the
 Alabama Democrats left him. There was
 time not very long ago when MT. Bryan
 might have come to Alabama, revived the faction which made Joseph F. Johnston of Birmingham, Governor, and led d | strong movement for the control of the State delegation on his own behalf or in
 the interests of Editor Hurst. Now that
 would be impossible The chances aie l rather that ex-Governor Johnstons op-
 ponent ill the first Bryan fight ex-Con- gressman Richard H. Clarke of Mobile, I will successfully re-enter politics as the l representative of the Cleveland clement, | for which he then stood. Mir. Bryan's
 status in Alabama at this time was cor
 rectly described by The Birmingham
 News the other day when it said edltu-
 rially:
 " The Democratic Party fully realizes
 the folly of permitting Mir. Bryan to rule.
 Such a policy would be playing directly into the hands of the Republicans with
 out even the prospect of a respecta ole
 opposition, And the party has been
 aroused to the fact that it cannot afford
 to be ruined by frantcally ambitiods
 man who seems to have lost all sense of