The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09
A RHINOCEROS.

~
4 n sembled that view of Madrid enjoyed after Asmo-
deus had lifted the lid off the The party needed
a respectable to for the Presidency and has
been advertising for eligible for two years. The
responses have been numerous because about all
of that class left the party 1896 and have found
low place in the fence which they can jumr
back into the reservation.
Those who have done so are all Objectionable to
Mr. Bryan, and So as one after another has answered
the ad 'Wanted-A respectable gent to for the
Presidency. No salary and must find himself Mr.
Bryan has looked them over. like the master of the
ballet does the girls who want job at butterfying
behind the footlights One he finds thin in the shanks
since 1906 another walks parenthesis acquired by
straddlng 1000; another in the Kansas City
platform, and still another be shaped up suit
even with sraighfront corset, having gorged himself
out of shape with the pIutocrats.
Mr. Hearst did not answer the ad. for obvious
reasons, and has blamed August Belmont and David B
Hill for purposely wording it shut him out
He has established newspapers several cities since
the competition began order have adequate faci-
ties for expressing himself and suspected that even
then thoughts arise in him that incapable of sufi-
cent utterance OF they about other people
His sumptuous, satisfactory and opinion OF
himself has been made familiar to the public by himself
and goes gayy on its way through the country thing
OF frls and more than earthly beauty
So for many months the inquiry has run and been
answered by gent after gent. but the meeting OF
the convention. certain of the Job Mr.
Oney has been in cold storage in Massachusetts and
has even cultivated popular manners by ordering a
toothpick with his usual lunch the club on glass
OF ice water and the New York Evening Post But he
is too remote, roosts high up the empyrean for
ordinary people gall their withers carving torches
fer him.
Judge Parker has been in lavender at Esopus hoping
that the Office would up the Hudson and make
a nd Se0af
SELF apparently with neither friends nor enemies In
addition job lot of favorte have responded from
many States. but they among the also men
toned Divided and at feud among themselves all
OF these candidates have perhaps unconsciousy fur
mshed the country with Of the most remarkable
incidents in the history of American parties When
ever Mr.. Cleveland has risen or sat down, slept or
walked hunted fshed or cut bait they have all shown
the llveiest fear of him. Mr. Bryan as the "Keeper
OF the Party has found necessary to repeat to the
country again and again his story of Cevelands crimes
in the Presidency and Mr. Hearst in his string of
papers, has told the country how bad the ex-Presdent
is. and how abhorrent to him.
Still the worShpers in the temple of Jefferson sbou,
an alarming tendency take down the new idols and
sell them for junk and dust and dress the old god
and put him in the shrine from which they all dragged
him by the heels only eight years ago The singular
part OF this situation has been that the men who wanted
Cleveland were not alb among those who have been
SteduIaSly MS friends. / he most AMONG
them mer who reioiced when his reputation was
burned in 1890 and its ashes the four winds
John K Mclean of the Cincinnati Enquirer put on
thicker paint and feathers than any other chief
that danced around Cleveands scalp when BRYAN took
IL But he anxious nominate the Princeton
sage and had the whole Ohio vote in his boot 70 he
pulled Tor that purpose He declared that Cleveland
was "a Id old rhnoceros" but even political
pachyderm was more popular than any other man in
the party or the country
Without discussing Mr.. McLean's good taste in re-
sorting to the wet side of geological garden to find
a pet name for ex-President, it must be admitted
that the situation suggestive and deserving of study
1t revealed the inherent inhrmity of the Democratic
party It's tendency to mad and not recognize the
sound OF IT'S own voice. The country wishes if MAY,
recover from its maady but will not trust it with mower
because OF the radical fluctuations in its FEELINGS as
shown by its treatment OF Mr.. Cleveland Republicans
note this with keen interest and with the intention
OF avoiding such msreadng of public opinion as ;s
making the Democracy appear like an escape from
Bedlam The people like and want Roosevelt and the
mummers and those who gnaw in whispers at the renu
taons Of strong will make no headway in mitatn
the dafy Democracy.