The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
His Mistakes Compared With 9th t- er'g

CTS. Brooklyn Eagle.
 Wendell Rnillips long advocated dis ting rid of slavery. The Union was pre- served and slavery was aboIis.Ied. Be- fore that was done, Wendell Phillips walked up and down the country uea Hound of Illinois and William Ii; Se- ward as "a Quivering Mass of Trembling JeIly." Lincoln, however, through ma was universally honored. Wendell Phil lips was still under the necessity of at tractiug publicity at any cost. He aHyo- cated repudiation through the indefinite multiplication of the greenback currency: He also advocated many other Forms ot quackery. His one-felt necessity was not to lose an audience or to lapse Into sl- lenes o6scuTity or pn iNfgetdndd dad sSe sS world verdict was, He should have died sooner; he lasted too long; he talked too much' He was intoxicated with the shin of here sies. The platform was to him a neceS- sity. Publicity was to him as the breath in his nostrlls. He survived his fame. He missed his opportunities. He became a target of his enemies. He bored his coun- trymen. Nothing remained to pAliiate his errors. but the fact of captivating voice. a charming manner. an artistic nuency ces of oratoiy under the spell in which he was bound to heresies. Had he al, d earlier, he had died at the top of his fame. He survived to sink to the bottom of respect and to float, an object of pity or derision, on the froth of nonsense.
 From the fate of Phillips only William J. Bryan can save William J. Bryan. He does not want to be saved from that , fate. He would rather be heard and seen than respected. O him the one ter. or is silence. To him the one punishment would be forgetfulness. To him the one and talk In unison with the common sense men of mankind He would rather be diff ferent than right. He would rather be respectfully be regarded as a thinker. patriot and a statesman. When he cam not obtain an invitation to spe k, he hires hall and invites others to hear him. When he cannot find a party with which to act, he asks the reverend clergy to come out to listen to him. with the decla- ration that he will make an address on Morals" The address which he does make is the same reissue of repudiation us righteousness and of riot as liberty which he has made in the past. He treats the fatigue of the Democracy with him as personal grievance. He assails the indifference of his countrymen to him as the objectionable sin. He digs up from the grave of the past the buried and de- dresses them In a garmenture of words. in the endeavor to make them do living duty as actual issues. The mans vanity has simply devoured him. His egotism possesses him as thoroughly as the devil possessed the creature of old, out of whom the devil was cast. only to enter into swine, which thereupon hurled them selves violently down steep place into the sea.
 We little doubt that Bryan will keep on talking, glittering fallacy to the end. that Is so. he should be pitied rather than blamed. His kindred would be justin ed in restraining him, but. they seem to be themselves possessed by the same evil Resides there iS fiiI ganizatior which has an interest in abet- ting. infiatng and protruding Bryan. It Is the Republican, party. He is its best
 him do bugaboo duty and scare duty for 1t on these days. It can call him a Dem
 ocrat and 1t can call his motley following
 the Democracy, It could we'll afford to
 finance his appearances. It has politi-
 clans not at all above the immortality of
 financing them, The allegation that they
 are doing So Is obtaining general belief That allegation may not yet be true But
 1t is. as the French say. so antecedentiv
 possible as to be contemporaneously plausible. l The case of Bryan and the case of vvar-
 dell Phillips are somewhat aiike-and un-
 alike. The times in which Phillips rev eled were revolutionary. The culture or
 which Phillips drew and in which he was in which he figured was the lyceum sge The great subject which first engaged fSc
 thought of Phillips was manhood slavery, The great brief which he at first held wa g manhood freedom. Slavery was ine wrought into the Constitution and into
 he social and legal fabric of many StafeS
 it was easy to attack 1t, but difficult IS, law to extirpate it. It made the error U cs
 iisunlon and the claim of seoession +Se Opportunity for freedom and 1t gave to freedom the monopoly of the passion for
 nationality as its supreme advantase | Slavery went down and Liberty ana | Union, now and forever. one ana insenar- Jeh'-" -""-> s.A ~~ nAniAl Webster faTe.