The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
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Sit Down on Him.


 Your papers of today, January 29, and yesterday. January 2s, are very interest ing indeed. You concede thing in reia- tion to politicians, not statesmen, which eral years, that is that 'the leaders (so called) of the Democratic party, have been hiding under the bed, not uttering word in condemnation of the wild ha- rangues with which the good people have been bored for years past.
 Yes. they have certainly "been hiding under the bed" What has caused the change to come over the spirit of their is evident, however, that they have dis covered the fact that the rank and file of the Democratic party. will no longer tolerate MT. Bryan's vagaries. The rank and file of the party do not mane speeches in Congress. nor upon the stump, nor publish newspapers, and hence 1t took quite while to hear from them, but for years past they have been more disgusted with MT. Bryan, and his ways, than our leaders are. now willing to concede them selves to be, and probably in one way or another, this fact has reached Washing ton, and hence the change, That many lead in the direction they discover the people desire to go has been apparent for years. If they had desired in 1896 in good truth. to lead along Democratic lines, We trouble, politically, which we are.
 MT. G. w. Taylor's utterance in re, spect to conditions, is the best published so far, and that is Gin parD, that the party should get together. and admit that the others who have spoken. have for gotten what they said and did in 1896 and 1900, and are not willing to admit the er- TOTS TOTS they have committed; but your ar the charges true" contains so many truths in respect to MT Bryan. that scarcely anything is left to be said. It point and is what every Democratic pa per in the State and country should say. If any one proposition contained Tn thR article referred to, is more noticeable than another, it Is the assertion that MT. Bry- an would like to have the party defeated, because he was defeaIed.'
 For the party to succeed during the present year, would discount him. and his platforms of 1896 and 19Oo and that would be a thing which he could never tolerate if Inc can help 1t:
 The writer of this article, although hay ing voted for MT. Bryan twice, had the he has now, was as much disg lsted with his performances at Chicago In 1896, as he Is at his performances today, but having always stood by the party. supported MT Bryan Loyalty. because he was, for the time being. the representative of the Democratic party.
 The first the writer ever heard of him he was down in Butler County. either al 
 and from that day until the present, he has been flying to and fro over the coun- try. like d quacking goose, with. to my mind, about as much in what he has said as there is in what the goose says,
 How would 1t have struck the people oi the South if the great and grand Robert k. Lee. after the fall of the Confederacy in 1865 had run over the country from place to place, speaking and haranguing the people as to conditions. and as tc their duty? Rlt General Lee should mol be mentioned. or thought of. possibly, al the same time MT. Bryan Is under consid- eration. We had submitted a great qucs- tion to the arbitrament of the sword, and 1t had been decided against us, and Gen eral Lee submitted quietly. like a great man that he was, and never said any thing other than to urge peacefulness quietude and law-abldingnesS in the coun- try. Not so with MT. Bryan, although discounted twice by the people of the United States, he still continues to ex- ploit himself and his fantasies from one section of the country to another, to the disgust of many of the decent people of the land. Nothing will relegate him. but as the boys say, ito sit down on him. and l feel it to De fully as much my duty, or more to aid in sitting d 7Un or him now, as I did to vote for him in 1896 and 1900. and I believe the people of the country feel as I do. and I am sure they ought to do it in time to prevent his wrecking the party again.
 Democrat