The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
E. G. FOWLER, 10 Dexter Ave.

I in it's combined relation to the JenninR: | candidacy for the Senate and the Stock ton outbreak against the corporations s4gnaliZes the beginning of the second l organized attempt of Western radical. Ism to alienate the South from Easterr conservatism. It is a Western invasion of the South prearranged for the same purposes and timed with the same fore. sight which distinguished the Ocala movement in Populism. It is not to be doubted that the defeat of Senator Tal- iaferro in the spring primaries Is partic- ularly desired by the radical national leaders. because of It's effect on the Democratic State conventions of the South and West, in which radicalism will make its fight for the control of the national Democracy. All the issues put forward at the Ocala convention, which time and events have left to Populism. have been revived in the fight against him. The full tide of radicalism within the Democratic party has been turned on him. Some effort has been made by the radical leaders to make it appear that the issues involved are more important in their local than in their national as- poets, but the Florida Democrats gen. orally understand that the politics of the State is stirred by the same influences or radicalism, alien to Florida, which created the Populist organization at Ocala and controlled the National Demo- cratic party in 1S96 and 1900.
 At Ocala the business was done by Jerry Simpson and Mary Ellen Lease. Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa Popuiism. and Western Populism generally, ap- proved the Ocala demands at the Des Moines convention. Democracy. under the spell of MT. Bryan adopted them as national policy at the Chicago con- vention of 1896. MT. Bryan. still all- powerful with the Democratic orRani- ] zation. held it to the Ocala idea in the | Kansas City convention of 1900. There are no evidences at this time that Mir. Bryan has abandoned his faith in. or abated his fidelity to. those theories of government advanced by Mir. Simpsop l and Mrs Lease at Ocala, when he was I young congressman from Nebraska. The | conservative Democratic leaders in Flor ida are assuming that he has not. and that the only proposition of real impor- tance involved in the senatorial election is whether their State shall cling to the wreckage of Ocala, Des Moines, Chicago and Kansas City radicalism, after it has been abandoned in those States of the North and South with which Florida s commercial. political and social life is identified. or reunite itself to the con- servative Democratic interest of the East
 Eastern Alignments Natural in Florida.
 Eastern alignments are natural to Flor ida. The alliance with the West In 1896 and 1900 was an innovation in Florida pol ities. Eastern financiers re-established the credit of the State after It's destruc- ton by the war. Eastern merchants re- stored its commerce. Eastern enterprise has helped Florida in recent years to develop it's interior industries and bring population and wealth to its undevelop- ed parts. The conservative leaders of the State say that there was no adequate reason for Florida to abandon its politi- cal association with the Democracy of the East to enter into subservient rela- tions with the radical propagandists of Kansas and Nebraska. The coming of MT. Bryan has raised not only the ques- ton of Florida's future in Democratic politics, but the question of F1orida's 8 continued advancement in commercial in- oustry and agriculture. It Is the opinion of the conservatives that the question Will be decided in favor of conservatism and progress.
 Skillful Hearst Campaign in Florida
 MT Bryan's name is freely associated nere with the candidacy of Editor Will nam K. Hearst for the presidency The rleaist campaign has been carried on in rlorlda With considerable skill It has a 1oo.hoId m both the Jennings and the otocKton factions. There is no sign. how oEel' that Mir Bryan's friends arc en- Eaged in any systematic canvass to rs. .Ahe vote of the State for Mr. Hearst,