Show WHY NOT JOE WHEELER It has bas been many a day since one of the tho great political parties of the coun country was so poverty poverty- stricken as at present in its supply of popular Presidential Presidential timber The Democracy has but two commanding com coin manding fi figures ures in the public eye Grover eye Grover Cleveland Cleve Chive Both oth impossibilities im ini land and William illiam Jennings Bryan are possibilities because they are mutual The President ex-President will have none of the apostle of free silver and the champion of sixteen- sixteen one to-one regards the Stuffed Prophet of Buzzards Buzzard's Bay Bayas as intolerable Yet each of these stron strong personalities personal personal- has Ims a following without which the others other's cause would be utterly hopeless Nevertheless Nev Xe the they will not and cannot get together They are eternally irre irre- Furthermore each represents a a dead issue and each seems to live Jive in the past In such an exigency the rank runic and file of the party particularly the younger element is casting about to rehabilitate itself with persons and principles radically new Only by rehabilitation of that character can an the tile Democracy hope to have a shadow of a chance in inthe inthe inthe the fight of oC 1901 The most hopeful and the most radical suggestion for a new departure of this kind comes in iii a hearted half way from an occasional Southern newspaper which timidly echoes the old idea of entering a for the Presidential race The Telegram is fl free to declare that at no period since the Lost rost Cause was lost has bas the time teemed so splendidly ripe for fot the nomination of a aJuan aman aman Juan man below Mason Inson and Dixons Dixon's' line to carry the standard of the party of Thomas Jefferson No o stronger and more lasting amalgam of oC sectional ual parts could coul be lie formed than such a nomination The departure lre from precedents would be le radical enough to attract the attention of the whole civilized world The line of demarcation of political North and South would be obliterated at once and forever Such a nomination too would bar Cleveland ism and as wholly irrelevant ant to t th issue and make the quarrel of those two gentlemen of non But the question at once arises Has the South t the le man for the thc honor Bryan says s yes and names the two Tennessee Senators Carmack and Bate But the popular voice is more mme likel likely to call for fot Joe Wheeler Fitzhugh Lee Sn Sayres res of f Texas Me McMillan of Tennessee Caffrey of orr Louisiana or 01 Morgan Mor Mor- gan gnu of Alabama labama Of all these l Fighting Joe is the dearest idol of the people How well the late President President dent McKinley thought of him was evidenced e b by the position he be was given in the Spanish American Spanish war How well placed was the time Presidents President's confidence was proven b by the brilliant luster the grand old fighter added adde 1 to American arms Gen Wheeler is far familiar with statecraft f as well as us with war II He HO is rich honest hon lion est fearless s intensely patriotic and amid beloved belo by hr North as well as by South Of no other othel Southerner can so much be said so 60 fully He is an ideal Demo- Demo crat Is it possible for the time party to find a candidate so available lable so 60 popular so so st strong Gen ong as Joseph |