The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-30
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1904.
SOME SUSPICIOUS SOULS.

There are some who are unfortunately so constituted that they are suspicious of everything. Shakespeare tells us that Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind" and also that "The thief doth fear each bush an officer" But there are good men, who are not thieves, and who have not guilty minds, but who are al- ways ready to look under the bed to see if some one isn't hiding there. and who are unable to believe that man can do or say anything. especially in politics, with out a hidden motive.
 Some of our former Bryanatlc contem- poraries are of this temperament. They can see gold-buggery and Clevelandism in every move that is made by any man who issnot for Bryan and Hearst. The AlbanyslGa.) Herald is of this kind. IL sees huge monster called Cleveland be- hind every Democratic bush in the forest and seems to believe that every man, woman and child who is not disciple of Mir. Bryan is working for Cleveland. Lately there have been some large and enthusiastic Parker clubs formed in Geor- gia, and The Herald is dead sure that they are at work in the dark-"moling, as Pancks expressed it-with no other ob- ject than to advance the interests of the former ex-President. For example:
 Unfortunately for the Democratic Party, We have in Georgia contingent, including the editors of some of our prom inent daily newspapers, and all those, so far as our observation extends, who were appointed to office under President Cleve- lands administration. who seem to think that Cleveland is the only man who caa ever be or ought to be elected President by the Democrats again.
 Now. that is absurd, and worse. Of late there has been very decided and encour- aging change of sentiment apparent in Georgia. It has been but a little while since We were assured by certain ebulliens newspapers that Georgia would send a Hearst delegation to the Convention, and while We did not believe such an event was possible. We could not he sure. Now there is an earnest and apparently sim cere movement towards Parker That the men who are behind it are not men who were warm supporters of Mir. Bryan Is perfectly natural. That many of them may have been strong advocates of MT. Cleveland's nomination, or were suport- CTS of his former administration, is hke- wise natural. It shows that they are looking for a sound. conservative candi- date, and that they regard Judge Parker as that kind of man.
 That this is gall and wormwood to the Hnarst contingent and their sympathizcrs is natural and they think they can head off the Parker movement by working or the suspicious of those who do not lik, Mir Cleveland. If they can create he lief, or even a suspicion, that the Par ker movement is a Cleveland movement il disguise. they hope to discount or nullf, its influence before the people and thu possibly pave the way for their owl namboyant candidate. But it will no work The people of Georgia are gettini their eyes open to what Hearst is ant what he stands for, and they are not go ing to he driven from man like Judg Parker by the false intimaton that it i Clevelandism in disguise. That cry vii do them no good. The people are no going to be seduced or enchanted hy th jingle of Hearst dollars, and they ar not going to be frightened away from ; sound Democrat by the false cry that h is being used to hide a Cleveland plot.