The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-27
A-COMLN AN A-GWLNE"

low man in an intellectual way. a man incapable of logical combat D do be- lieve that he has too much sagacity to permit his friends to make a doll of him But Mir. Bryan must declare himself. If he Is candidate. of course all competition will fee from him. But he must not be dog in the manager and turn OK if he should get an abnormal appetite for hay. Some of his friends utterly unconcerned for the infamy of the proposal, declare Mir. Bryan shall not be allowed to run If there is chance of defeat, but that he shall run
 if there Is a chance of victory. No-
 body but a dominecker would suffer
 himself to be used after that fashion.
 Mir. Bryan turned the Democratic
 party into the Populist camp. A Dem-
 ocrat, the leader and the head and the
 nominee of the Democratic party. he
 accepted without shame and wore
 without apology the nomination of a
 Pop convention that insulted him and
 his party by repudiating the nomina-
 ton of Mir. Sewall, who was his guest,
 and entitled to little bit of polite
 ness from him and his party. Some
 100000 Democrats refused to vote for
 Mr. Bryan in 1896 because they saw
 no Democracy in the man. Like the
 late Senator Morgan. of Alabama, l
 never was able to find spark of De- sNy &Ae oAA AAo RA c0eAAACHN0. We have had before us the mighty question of buttermilk and cocktail The Methodist Church has sat in coun- ell on 1t and determined that 1t is the right of President of the United States to consume all the booze he cares to chamber, but that it Is the duty of a Vice President of the United States 10 keep the cup from his chiefs lips. And thereby I shall hang a tale after this fashion, viz.
 Some half a century ago there lived in Barren County, Kentucky. fine old gentleman, 6 MT. Rush, successful loved preacher of the Baptist faith and an honest man. The year 1855 was a season of fat abundance-Ceres Po- mona, and Sylvia all yielded exuberant plenty like unto Goshen. It was then that the Green River region was nrss invaded by the Norway rat, and farm CTS were in dread lest the strange new l pest. after driving out the compara- I lively respectable blue rat. should con sume their sustenance stored in barns, and they fell to work constructing new | cribs In which to garner grain and strove to make them rat-proof.
 Our excellent old friend Rush had builced new granary which the con- I tractor assured him was rat-proof. huf | out to admire 1t and found gray | squirrel established in possession, and | 1t was manifest that if the crib was I not tight enough to keep out a suuir- rel 1t could not be depended on to keer out rat In a great rage Parson Rush chased the squirrel out, and in | pursuing it and striking at 1t with his
 cane he stumbled over 8 piece of tim.
 Der, fell and skinned his shira Preach. | CT that he was, and sincere and pious
 Christian, father Rush was yet a chol.
 eric Kentuckian, and when enEared
 words poured volcanic from his throat
 and on this occasion he exclaimed
 "G-d d--n the squirreIi"
 Getting on hhis pins and turning
 round he saw his eldest born, a young
 man of 2o. domineering fellow, tn,
 real head Of the family, before whom
 father, mother. brothers, sisters ant
 slaves all stood in more or less awe, II a contrite and insinuating tone, MT