The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-19
THE HEARST SHOW IN MONT
 GQMEnY.

| WQMM&6x. The two political Dromios produced their Hearst comedy at the Montgomery Theatre last night.
 Montgomery people like funny shows and as this was fee one with two | stars. there was large audience. It ap- plauded the yarns and jokes literally, but only small part of it responded to the attacks on the conservative element of Democracy and to the Hearst laudations.
 Both of the stars appeared to have had | some sort of brakes on them. The vials of their wrath against The Advertiser were not fully uncorked. Tn fact. the most spleen was visited upon the inno- ] cent head of the papers stan correspond ent, whose principal sin was the minim- izing of their crowd at Tuscaloosa-an honest mistake which was corrected at his request in the editorial on wednes- day
 Mir. sta1lings was unusually digni- fled for him. and Mir. Hefin did not walk up and down the spinal column of the Editor of The Advertiser with spiked shoes as 1t had been mooted would be the case Both appeared more like they felt they were treading on egg shells. Political records are sometimes trouble- some things.
 Mir. Stallings's part last evening was that of the two-headed freak. He de- ciared himself most uneQuivocally for George B. Mcclellan for President, in d very few sentences. and then devoted the hIllk 0f h1a fa olI rtG of ton of Hearst. His Mcclellan masque was in sight only a few seconds; his Hearst face was in view nearly all the time. That Is the acme of political astuteness. It makes converts wonderfully. As man. ager of the Hearst boom, he is a wonder To see the two-headed freak is to laugh And the audience laughed.
 | MT. Hefiin, as the other Dromio, was better worth the money of the free en- | trance. Stallings pointed at him as the real clown, and the audience appreciated the fun. though Hefiin didn't. He fur nished most of the jokes, and danced tho Hearst clog with more vigor and sweat. though he did not declare himself un- equivocally. Neither did he attack Thos. c. Jones's Democratic title to the Gov ernorship. He also failed to say much about the beauty of political barrels. Somebody seems to have edited his Tus- caloosa speech: last nights performance | was a sort of expurgated edition. For in- | stance, at Tuscaloosa The Advertisers stan correspondent states that he said this:
 The Democrats of Montgomery County l have acted. They have said that no | Cleveland Democrat shall go to the State Convention. bring this good message | from the Democrats of the Capital Coun- ty to the Democrats of Tuscaloosa.
 Mir. Hefiin did not tell his Montgomery hearers that news Montgomery County Democrats have not acted, and they have not said any such thing.
 Both Mir. Stallings and Mir. Heflln | labored hard last night to create the impression that they were judicial. patriotic. unselfish advisers of Democrats as to national Democratic action. They tried to make their hearers believe that they are fighting against MT. CIeveland's nomination and against bolters as dele | gates. as a matter of principle and on a high plane. They are going around l hiring halls for that noble purpose. 1 Last Saturday night Mr. Ee. F. Ihmseh,
 well known over the country as one of
 Mir. Hearst's chief political managers,
 registered at the Exchange Hotel The
 next name on the register Is "J. F..
 Stallings." During the evening there was a council of Hearst's friends. including
 MT. Nunnelee of The Selma Times, his
 chief newspaper advocate in Alabama.
 MT. Heflln was in that conference. Next day Stallings and Hefin left for Birm-
 ingham, and on Monday they were in
 Tuscaloosa, where MT. Hefiin hired a hall in which the two delivered their invited
 speeches. Last night they spoke in the
 most expensive meeting place in Mont
 gomery. They are also booked to appear in Opelika and Selma. This sudden ex-
 pansive and expensive display of un-
 selfish patriotism on the part of these
 two lofty statesmen is unexampled.
 The people of Alabama have always | laughed at these two worthies, and they
 will keep on laughing. stallings leaving
 his law practice to boom Mcclellan!
 Hehin hiring halls to advise conservatism
 and harmony! Why, 1t is enough to | make a horse laugh.