The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-02
WILLIAMS FOR HEARST.

MT. Williams is for Hearst for Presi- dent not Mir. Williams of Mississippi
 but Mir. Williams of Massachusetts. We take 1t for granted that his adhesion to
 the fortunes of a money pot will have
 no marked influence upon the result at
 the Democratic State Convention in Bos- ton. If MT. Olney and his friends can not beat Hearst and Williams in Mir ol- ney's own home. this avorite son of the old Bay State would do we'll to have his l friends cease using lis name in the Pres | idential connection. The contest will be worth watching for while MT. Olney IS undoubtedly one of the very ablest of l contemporary public men in the United ! States. he hes never produced magnetic effect upon the people generally or upon l those of his own State. George Fred | Williams, as the representative of the barrel candidate, will have unlimited
 funds. something that will be lacking
 to the supporters uf Mir. olney. who Is not A rich man. We do not mean to asperse
 the Democracy of Massachusetts in ina-
 plyine therc is a purchasable element there. We recognize the admirable quail ties that have distinguished the party there, especially since the days of the oe' voted leadership of William E, Russell. Nevertheless. as MT. duBignon of Geor- gia reminded US the other day, We are witnessing here at the South new spec tacie. an effort to buy up the Democratic voters So 1t may be in Massachusetts and George Fred using the dollars of the barrel candidate and hiring halls and the atres and securing the help of the heelers and political buns of Boston. will possibly succeed in jarring the decency and honor that is typical in Richard olney That they will carry the day there is as little likely as that they will triumph here' where extraordinary scenes are enacting' or at St. Louis
 The real significance of the announce ment bv George Fred Williams lies In his confidential relations with MT. Bryan We have here just another sign that the Nebraska man is an ally of Hearst. we regret this, but we see no reason to pima ourselves to what is highly probable. We have always considered MT Bryan clean, if cratic. man. We had never ah- .icipated he would enter into an alliance, offensive and defensive. with what shall we sav-dirt itself? The signs multiply that he and Hearst are joined together Tor good or evil in the coming campaign. What is the secret? Is MT. Bryan after all astutely planning for another stam- pede of a convention in his own behalfE It looks very much that way. It looks as if he hoped with the aid of Hearst s bar rel to go into the convention with at least a compact and determined minority which, under the stress of the two-thirds rule. can force a compromise on the ma jority. What thing more natural than that the peerless leader should be put forward as a compromise man? Does this imply vanity and foolishness on Bryan's part? Perhaps so; but 1t is wis dom supreme compared with what is de- signed in buying a nomination for Wil- liam R. Hearst, and placing him before the people of the United States as can didate for their greatest office.
 This whole movement we deplore. It Is not news that we deplore it. We thinS 1t means not onM degradation. but ruin for the Democratic Party, and whatever the enemies of The Advertiser may say. we dare to assert that We have at all times cared for and none the less now deeply care for the principles of our Party. and most earnestly desire It's sue cess These Hearst boomers are engaged upon no patriotic endeavor. Their deeds are of the might and cloaked. They are digging a grave for the Democratic Par ty. to entomb 1t there for quarter of century.