The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-09
A SPLENDID FIGHT
FOR THE PRESIDENCY THIS
 YEAR.
savoyard Secs a Sure Enough Contest Ahead For
 November.

Washington Letter to Louisville Post.
 For the first time in it's life the G. O. F. has run away from this town, and tha. is the best evidence in the world that the Democratic party has return ed to sanity and is again become for midable There promises to be a splendid fight for the Presidency this year. and the result promises to be in doubt until late in the afternoon of November s. Tho paramount issue is Theodore Roosevelt, the man. not the President. There Is a heap to admire In him and much to distrust. He is patriotic; nobody denies that; but there are 2 heap of people in this country who are beginning to fear that he Is just l-e-e-t.l-e bit too patriotic. and great deal too strenuous He has plenty of ability and more culture than most of our Presidents could show. He Is an ontimist, and has no doubts. In a great war he would be one of the best generals in the world. and in bat tie he would be one of the greatest he- roes in the world. He is Jacksonian in that he shrinks from no responsibil- ity. and it would be impossible to load him down with more of that stun than he could tote. If this man should be elected 1t may be left to him to do the glorious work of bringing the Re-
 
 ing a decent organization of it-prun- ing 1t of some of its cant and some of its depravity.
 On the democratici side of the hedge there is but one discordant voice. and that comes from William Jennings Bryan. The last time the Democratic party elected a President it was with out the aid of this man. and if the next ant fG if fo " it will be, not only without the aid. but over the protest of this agitator and hopeless Bourbon. Mir. Bryan is the enemy of wealth. He thinks 1t is criminal for anybody to be rich except himself, William R. Hearst and Moses wetmore. It Is a curious combination a plutocrat, trust-buster and a dem- agogue. We would have patience with MT. Bryan if he had some discretion. I prefer John Wilkes, who played the part of demagogue artistically, and when he tired of the role he candidly announced that he never was a Wilke- site. This man kept England in hot water for years before he subsided. wilkes and Liberty" was the cry or a great party. And there is no deny ing that the issue, in one of its phas- es. was vital, but Wilkes found his level, and liberty continued to flourish.
 
 fashion, and when he becomes a bolter he will be forever undone. His popu- larity will vanish as suddenly as it came. He will wake up. next morning and find that he is no longer "the matchless'' and 'the peerless" He will again be the boy orator." and, in- deed. that Is all he ever was
 Judeg Parker will give President 1 Roosevelt a race. He is a Judge, not | a soldier. If he were President Con- gress would be left free to make the | laws. It would not be a brilliant nor a strenuous nor a startling admins | tration. It would be just jog along es in old Monroes day. The monopoly | features of the tariff would be elimi- l mated; the cost of living would be re- duced; trusts could no longer sell | abroad cheaper than they sell at home. | The corner grocery would no longer l rob the savings bank of its regular de- | posits. Democracy would again be in power and acknowledge its respon- sibility to the people. When James A. Garfield was making a cabinet he re- marked that 1t ought to be the law that Persident-elect should make a | progress through a court of political | before he was inaugurated | It may be necessary for Judge Parker | to do that.
 President Benjamin Harrison char