The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-02

vertising. What other sufficient expla- nation can be found for the curious affair at the Madison Square Garden concert hall on Tuesday evening? MT. Bryan has been twice the candidate of his party, his behavior indicates that he considers him
 self it's, leader. By his trip abroad and
 his utterances since his return he has kept himself conspicuously before the
 public. Yet when he comes to New
 York, MT. Murphy, the local Democratic
 leader. betakes himself to Michigan. No man of the organization calls upon him or pays him any attention. No party, no as-
 sociation no committee invites him to
 speak He hires a small hall himself or 1t is hired for hin-and personally in-
 vites the clergymen of the city. to come
 and hear him talk. A good many clergy
 men accepted his invitation. The clergy
 men of New York we presume, know
 their Goethe pretty well. They remem-
 Der that when Wagner says to Faust, I
 ahve heard 1t said that a comic actor can. instruct a person., Faust replies, Yes,
 when the person himself Is a comedian
 With training and opportunity MT. Bryan
 would ~haver2adorned the comic stage.
 With more sincerity and conviction to his
 credit he Woul0;44aEe adorned the pulpit.
 Probably it Is worth the while of any!
 preacher to hear Mr. Bryan talk and ob-
 serve his method. This may have been
 the actuating motive with many of the
 gentlemen of the cloth who attended MT. Bryan'S meeting.
 MT. bTyan Salu aDSOIutelE nothing tldI
 any sensible man need hear or would care to hear from him. He discussed the use of money in politics, the tariff
 and imperialism, but thrse subjects are all the time under discussion by Democrats ableT, better informed, and more sincere than himself Then he Haunted the lat tered remnants of his 16 to 1 doctrines, at
 a time when leading Democrats all over the country, with remarkable unanimltN
 are declaring bimetal ism to be perfectly dead issue, and are induStriously tearing off the Bryan label. ----- What can it all mean? Merely that Mir Bryan, seeing that his party has dropped him. feels that he must redouble his efforts to keep himself in sight. To l be dropped is for him not merely humi- | liation, it is ruin. He has no trade Ur | profession. He denounced the theory | that government can properly be used as a mean of bringing pecuniary advantage to those who control 1t. Will 1t pay? has been substituted for "Is it right?' | Evidently MT. Bryan thinks 1t Will pay
 to hire halls and invite himseH to ad- | dress those who accept his Invitation to | hear him. He is making use of poii- | ticql career for personal advantage There l is no other explanation that fits the case 4 sincere. and burning desire to promote 1 the acceptance of the principles he advo- cates would not account for his perform ances, since the chief public effect of his pernicious activities must be to continue in power the party of the tariff and the | trust. Moreover, MT. FrNdn hdS or ldte
 shown that he is fond of money. MT. | Mitchell of the Mine Workers Union re- 1 fused the other day to accept a modest | Increase of his annual salary MT. Bry-
 an in the Bennett will fight resists by
 every means in his power the attempt to hrealxshs clutch upon a bequest that is legally disputabie and morally without Justification. His newspaper. The Com moner. Is understood to ba prosperous, but it would cease to be so if it's proprietor
 were deprived of his chief asset, publl- city"