The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

1 Mir. Cleveland did not receds a step from his tariff measure of 1881; on the contrary. In his public utterances. he stood by every word of 1t. Tariff re- form was then understood in New York and other States. The Mckinley act | of 1890 showed the people what high | protection meant--increased cost of
 nearly every necessity of living. and no profit to anybody except the manu-
 lecturers. The tariff scare disappear l ed entirely, and although Mfr. Cleveland had been out of office for four years. and nearly all the New York politi- clans were against him. he was again | renominated.
 Harrity conducted a strictly educa-
 tional campaign. Money did not figure | in 1t to any great extent. He sent out | large quantities of documents. the pur- pose of which was to show that the | business men were fin favor of Cleve-
 land. and that he was safe and con | seryative.
 Carter. the Republican manager, tried | to get large contributions from our infant industries" but the infants" did not answer so readily as they did | In 1883. Still. Carter never complained | of lack of money. Neither Harrity
 nor Carter was weii-known in New | York. The former had managed a csmpaign in Philadelphia which result l ed in the election of Robert E. Patti l son, Democrat, as Governor of Penn l sylvania. Carter was personal friend of Harrison. and was a conspicuous figure in Montana politics. but when he appeared in New York the newspapers paid more attention tn hls whiskers than to his political ability.
 While the campaign was in progress there were numbers of labor strikes, and these were attributed to the Mc- Kinley tariff bili. which added protec- tion to the manufacturers without in- creasing wages of employees. The most notable of these strikeaN was that of Homestead. at the Carnegie works, which hindered greatly the Republican took advantage of every situation. and brought to the support of the Demo- cratic national ticket a large propor- tion of the vote of both business men and laborers. Cleveland carried the country by 2T7 electoral votes to 145 for Harrison. and in the popular vote Cleveland had 5.5ss.0o0 to 6.175. 900.
 Cleveland and Jackson are the only Presidential candidates in the history
 of the republic who made three con- secutive contests carried popular plu- rality or majority each time, and in- creased 1t at each successive contest.
 Each was defeated in one battle but received larger popular vote than the successful competitor.
 The first Bryan campaign, in fses
 did not interest New York. because 1t
 was a foregone conclusion that he
 would be defeated. He delivered his speech of acceptance at Madison Square Garden, and in that speech declared that New York was the enemy's coun- try" The chairman of his National Committee, Senator Janes K. Jones of Arkansas, established his headquarters at Chicago. There was not even . regular branch headquarters in New York A kind of 'bushw wacking" con cern was established at the Hotel Bar tholdi presided over by W. P. St. John. who had been a national bank president. and Elliot Danforth. who was supposed to look after the cam paign in New York. MT. St. John was an ardent advocate of free silver coin- age before Bryan made it the great issue of the campaign. Nobody doubt ed f,ta- sincerity He died soon after Bryan's defeat.
 Danf0rth Takes Charge.
 panforth did not care particularly for the "i6-to-1' ratio, nor for the Chicago platform, but he was always "reguiar" and cheerfully undertook the management of the campaign in this State. He was the Mark Tapiey 0f AmeIAc&h polAttOs' "p0.' S paper reporters called on him, he al- ways told them that. in his opinion. the Democratic national and State tickets were getting along finely. He never gave out figures, but he said that from his reports everything look ed bright" He had a keen sense of humor and sone day. when the report CTS called on him. he remarked that he had no news. but that he would try to think up a story for them in ten or fifteen minutes. He thought for ten minutes. and then said: You can look through my man, and use any thing you find to make up an article"
 There were about twenty letters on his table, and after going through them the reporters found that there was nothing whatever of interest. ex- cepting a few one-dolIar bills thet had