The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-21

fierce struggle as win now follow. N is any mans crown. and no aspirAnt is weighted with an unbsarabis load of modesty, not eyes cortsiyou. The party will Dc rent in twain from top to bottom. and no specious show of af- ter-conyention harmony will hide the scars and Assures os the bloody inter- nicine feud. We verily> >-Selieve there will be, more than one masterfui candi- date for the nomination who. in his heart, would prefer the election of Bryan to the victory of successful party competitor"
 l Very well put, and we only hope our contemporary 10 correct in its views. Nothing could be more satisfactory or beneficial to the Democrats than . fight to the finish between the Repub- lican aspirants, and if nothing is left of them politically but few mutt lated heads and tails it will be all ths better for our side. We can look on with profound satisfaction while they dismember each other. because the more they harry each other the less time they will have to fight our side.
 And yet we must confess that we are not extremely optimistic as to the result of such internicine strife. I. nothing depended on such fight but revenge or vaulting ambition 10 see who was strongest. there would be hope that the bitterness and i'll feeling which would grow out of fight of this kind would cause many of them to feel indifference towards the result of the Presidential contest, even if they did not actually fall to and help us. Such things have happened in the past and what has been may be again un- der proper conditions.
 But there is too much at stake now to make such a hope very prominent. | If we could be so fortunate as to l place a Democratic Hercules in the Presidential chair there would be such "a cleaning of the Augean stables and such a change of pie caters as has sell dom been witnessed in this Govern ment. and the Republican leaders know est to the lowest. Those who are in office wish to remain, while many of those who are out want to get in, and the only road to success for either lies | through the election of a RepubNcan President. That will be the tie to bind them together, in our judgment. Not that they will hate each other less but will love success more. | Nor can we belive that Roosevelt will be lacking in efforts to harmonize the discordant clements of his par ty He is cratic. bull-headed and oo- stinate. 1t Is true, but we cannot be- lieve that he will sit calmly down and see his party disorganized, if he can do anything to prevent 1t. He may not be able to wield dominating influence for any one aspirant, even if he has a favorite, but if he so wills he can do much in the way of pacihcation and we should think he would do it. He will want continuation of his own ideas and policies, and the only way to bring that about Is to have his par ty work together and elect man who will carry out his own ideals
 And so. while 1t is probable that there will be bitter fight in the Re- publican ranks. we can hardly ex- pect them to split up into factions and remain SO. If the Democrats nominate strong man, whether that man Is MT. Bryan or another. the other side will see the necessity of harmony. They may knife each other beforehand. but can hardly fail to see that if they do not work together at last they will, loss control of the Government. That Is why Democrats should unite on a good ticket and go In to win. The Republi- can leaders may finally lay aside their differences and work together, but we believe that there will be many iu ths rank and file of the party who vii, care very little who wins. The Ii; feeling among Republicans may not prove as beneficial as some hope, but | it should encourage the Democrats to strive the harder.