The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
THE FLORIDA FIGHT
BRYAN'S VISIT TO HELP COUSIN
 IN SENATORIAL CONTEST.
For Effect on Other States-Talia- ferro Represents Conservatives. Radical Factions Headed by
 Jennings and Stockton.

From a Staff Correspondent of The
 Brooklyn Eagle.
 Tallahassee. Fla, Jan. 27.-Democ- racy's internal conflict between radical ism and conservatism will begin in this State in April, when the Democratic sen atorial primaries are to be held. The outcome will be of national significance since the principles involved are the sub- ject of acute frictions in both the great political national parties. United States Senator James P. Taliaferro. who is a candidate for reelection. and Editor George w. Wilson of the Florida Times Union and Citizen. are the leaders of the conservative forces. which are ap- parently united and strong. The radical forces are divided by le rival senator ial ambitions of Governor William Sher- man Jennings and J. N. c. Stockton, a retired banker of Jacksonville.
 Democracys chief apostle of radical ism, William Jennings Bryan of Ne braska, is coming to Florida tomorrow, January 2S, to take a hand in the fight He is a cousin of Governor Jennings. In the last gubernatorial election MT. Bry- an came to this State to aid the Jen- nings campaign He made no speeches then. because the campaign was for nom- ination in a Democratic convention, the equivalent of an election. This time he will speak. because the popular vote in the primaries will decide the contest be- tween the senatorial aSprants, as well as the fate of the new radical propaganua at this extremity of the South.
 What the Florida Leaders Represent.
 All Florida is enlisted for the struggle Senator Taliaferro has the adherence of the business element, of modernized and progressive and enterprising commercial Florida. and of part of the agrarian population which new energies from the North have brought to the State Cover nor Jennings has q highly organized ma chine, which he has built up with the in- telligence and foresight of q shrcwd politician, since he has held office. Mir. Stockton has the support of those cle- ments of the old Florida population which are separated in interest and by natural antiquities from the active. moving, expanding life of new Florida. Senator Taliaferro represents conserya- tism, as New York understands conserv- atism, in it's relations to Democracy. Gov ernor Jennings represents Bryan radi- calism. modified. toned down and sub- dued to a certain degree by the catas- tropics of 1896 and 1900. but still Bryan radicallsm. MT. Stockton represents the extreme of Democratic antagonism to- ward corporations. The candidates pre- sent a wide latitude of choice to the Florida voters.
 All three have elements of personal at tractiveness which make the contest more interesting.
 Senator Taliaferro has grown from a lumberman on Trout Creek in the sixties to his present station by hard work. He be A keen, earnest, magnetic man, who's approachability has won and kept friends from the lumber camp to the Senate. Governor Jennings is a northern man. born in Illinois. and was named for Gen eral William T. Sherman of the Union army. It Is perhaps tribute enough to his abilities as n politician to note that he has been, with these antecedents. elected Governor of State which is still ri9idly Southern in sectionalism. Mir. stockton's rise has been through finance, but in politics he has been q long time uoprilarly allied with the enemies of the FlaGler railway and financial interests of the State. The Western Invasion of the South,
 The coming Ol Mir. Bryan tomorrow,