The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-31
,vayura in Nashineton Post.

Savayard in Washington Post.
 The Democratic party has got to find tut one thing before old winter leaves tho lap of young spring-ls 1t Democrat or a Populist? Is tH platform to pc
 made by Johi c. Carlisle or Jerry Sifnp- son? Is the heresy of the last eight years to Dc exercised or reaffirmed! You can do both of these things You must spurn axrarianism or embrace it. Another thing ---fhe Democratic party must ind out whether it would rather lose with Pop 4 uiism than win with Democracy. There is no use going into q campaign until that is settled In 1896 and in 1900 the Dem- ocratic organization presented a candi- date who never said word or cast vote that any Populist disapproved or failed to applaud. We want candidate who never said word that any Popu- list agreed with and never cast vote that any Populist concurred Tn. Thus the question is resolved to this simply this, and only this-lS the party a Democrat or q Populist?
 .sOh, but Bryan got 6.502,9e5 votes, or million more Democratic votes than any other Democrat ever got" That IS what they say, and the Republicans love to say it, too, doubtless for the reason that it is not true. In 1892 Grover CleVeiand got 5,556,91S votes; every one Democrat. That same year James B. Weaver. Popu- list got 1041, ,02S votes some of them Dem- ocrats in Nebraska. That is what they said they were Add the vote cast for Cleveland to the vote cast for Weaver and the sum of them exceeds Bryan $ vote. Do not forget, either, that Bryan got the Silver Republican vote, and, ac- cording to his own computation when he Distributed the proceeds of his book as campaign fund, that vote was half mill lion. Now subtract the fungus Populist and Silver Republican vote from Mir. Bry- ans total and you will discover that he got fewer Democratic votes than Grover Cleveland by more than half million. Those are the votes that twice elected William Mckinley President. Those are the votes that will elect the next Presi- dent whether he be Democrat or Repub- 1can.
 Docs the Democratic party want that vote? doubt 1t. There is just one way to get it-be Democratic and nothing else. The country is ready to turn the govern ment over to the Democratic party just as soon as the Democratic party gets out of bad company, and net before. Former Senator Lindsay, intellectually the peer of any American of his generation, and , Il Democrat, who never bowed the knee to Baal, expressed the solution of the thing in happy phrase: Democrats must think together" That Is the way 10 get together. and the only way. One thing is certain-no ticket that the Popu1ist party would indorse can carry New York and thus the Democratic party mt 5t make up its mind on this question. it better to have the approval of the Populists and lose New York. or the hostility of the Populists and gain New York? In other words, does the Democratic party want to carry the election this year?
 The South will determine. The South is the party most in interest There is no political menace to any other section. The South is on a volcano Even conserva- tive Republican statesmen are debating in their own minds whether they shall reduce the representation of some of the cotton States in the National House of Representatives. large number of Re- publieans ill the two Houses of Congress