The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-04

ing is in every part Of the country No one knows so wen as he where the weak points of the enemy are and how they may be best taken advantage of And 1t Is not only his right but his duty to protect himself against the possibility Of mistake or bluuder I know of but one other man in the ccun- try with such widespread and accu-' rate political Information as to public temper and individual qualifications. strengths and weaknesses. and that Is MT. Roosevelt. Like Mir Bryan. he Is q walking cyclopedia. a human card index.
 Mir Bryan intends ta protect the party and himself against blunders He does not intend to permit any such condition of affairs to arrive as was found at Chicago in the closing hours, when the Taft management was not in position to stop a weak and harmful choice for vice-President simply be4 cause 1t had not man to put against the standpatters. the machine and the reactionaries. Mir. Bryan makes no secret of his conviction that this blum der at Chicago was a mighty nice thing for the Democracy. especially in the West. And he would be weak and foolish. indeed, If he were to let things drift along until a similar biunder might be made at Denver. At this time Mir. Bryan Is strongly inclined to prevent the possibility of blunder by advocating Judge Gray for vice-Presi- cent He Is not showing his hand He does not have to at this time. vari- ous minor candidates for second place honors are to come to see him The woods are full of them. There are, all told. about score of such aspirants. sno more popping up every day. For all of them. at this juncture. MT Bry- an has the glad hand. He will not de- clare himself till he has to, some time next week. And unless he changes his mind. and if Gray will take it, Gray t will be.
 taking no chances. He knows how sy it is to make a blunder in principle, 1t Is ia make a blunder in principle, and how much easier it Is to make a
 mistake in phrsseology. There is no one In sight Mir. Bryan is ready to trust to make his pIatform--no one hut himseif-and why hfmseif7 Is there another Democrat who understands the game as well as he? Is there another one who known 50 we'll as he the fine art of epigrammatic, biting expression [? For what is one master if not to do the most important, most vital most delicate part of the whole structure?
 90 it IS no secret that MT. Bryan is preparing the rough draft" of a plat form. mere suggestions" We all know what that means. We have heard the phrases before. Mir. Bryan goes up to the big porch, and talks with the visiting statesmen, and at night and in the early morn--ifke a true farmer, he is up at sunrise--be- fore visitors come to take his time he sits down at his desk in the basement. desk covered from one end to the other with congiomerate mass of pa- pers. desk--this is not a bid for the women suffrage vote--upon the one side of which works Mir. Bryan and up- on the other Mrs. Bryan, and there he carves and fits and joins and pares and slaves the vital blanks. The Nebras- ka platform Is the model; but there are to be certain notifications. If fs 10 be platform all can stand upon. platform adopted to the peculiar tac- tics of playing for both ends of the country. the conservative East and the radical West. And when it is all ready trimmed and smoothed to the master's satisfaction, Mayor Brown will carry 1t out to Denver. And if anyone there dares to make any important change in it. without nrst gaining the consent Of it's author, he will have the big smiling fellow on the porch to deal with for his pains.