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SEPTEMBER 29, 1911
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any one a wrong, ho is first to
acknowledge it, but ho very rarely
goes wrong.
Minden ( Neb.) Courier The
World-Herald is eager to clip articles
favorable to Harmon and derogatory
to Bryan. Monday it printed an
article from the Chicago Record
Herald which says in substance that
the Bryan influence is subsiding and
the Harmon boom increasing and
further, that the candidate will not
be of the Bryan type. The facts are,
the editors of the Record-Herald,
the World-Herald and the Courier
knows . no more about it than a
rabbit, ' but the evidences are now
that a democrat will be nominated
and elected. The "interests" may
sneak in one that has the mellow,
cooing voice of a dove and the in
stinct of a bird of prey, but it is
hardly probable while we havo a'
man on guard who can discern be
tween virtue and hypocrisy, merit
and pretense. While we have such
men as Clark, Wilson, Folk and a
score of others who are tried, true
and prominent. It is assuming too
much to suppose these men will be
turned down for .a man on whom
Suspicion rests. Jealous ones may
suggest and crafty ones dictate, but
safe and Bound democracy will nomi
nate and elect.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) News Just
now the New York World and vari
ous other democratic journals of its
type, and numerous republican
papers as well, aTe indulging, in view
of the recent Bryan-Underwood con
troversy over the wool and metal
schedules, in obituaries over the
political death- and burial of the
great Nebraskan. For the last dozen
years or so these periodical deliver
ances have been so common that
they long ceased either to surprise
or edify.
"Three times leading his pstrty to
defeat.' ,tt is decjared by both his
democratic arid r republican- critics,
that Mr. Bryan should now" recognize
thaV'he is "politically dead and
burled beyond the hope of resurrec
tion" and cease to be a stumbling
block in the way of the "safe and
sane leaders of his party, who now
seem to have a fair chance of achiev
ing success."
The News holds no brief for Mr.
Bryan but of this it is thoroughly
convinced. He is today, despite his
three defeats and, to a certain ex
tent because of them by all odds
the most influential factor in his
party and this because, to a far
greater extent than any other man
in it, he commands the confidence
and reflects the political and moral
sentiments of the rank and file of
the democracy. It is risking noth
ing to assume that no man who can
not command the confidence of the
Bryan following is at all likely to
secure the democratic nomination for
the 1912 presidency while the over
whelming defeat of any such man, if
nominated, may be counted certain.
The opposition to Governor Wilson
by the New York World, and other
democratic papers of that stripe, be
cause he is said to be "satisfactory
to Bryan," gives strength to the
Jerseyman's candidacy, while the
support of Governor Harmon by
these same journals, because Bryan
opposes him, weakens the Buckeye
statesman Instead of strengthening
him with the men who cast the votes.
MB. BRYAN'S IiARGE ORDER
Mr. Bryan's latest announcement
Is one of great interest to his party
and to the country. He is going to
inform himself thoroughly about
democratic aspirants for the presi
dency, and give the public the bene
fit of his information and deductions.
He will play no favorites. Much as
he may like this man or that, or
much as he may already havo criti
cised this man or that, ho will treat
all alike in this Investigation, and
aim for tho truth, tho whole truth,
and nothing but tho truth, with tho
boIo object of aiding his party in its
task of making tho best possible
nomination for president.
A large order, and one not likely
to be undertaken by anybody else.
The Harmon men, tho Wilson men,
tho Clark men, and tho Marshall
men, will all bo active as special
pleaders. They will offer much as
to their respective favorites, but
only praise. They havo made up
their minds, and are in no sort of
doubt as to what tho democracy
Bhould do in the selection of a can
didate. Evidently Mr. Bryan is in doubt,
and has mapped out a plan for re
moving it. Ho knows a good deal
to begin with about men, as he
puts it, "who havo hindered and
those who have helped the party"
but he will enlarge his knowledge,
and then make his recommendations
for and against in tho great conven
tion battle of next year.
Mr. Bryan's opportunities for
executing his self-imposed task are
exceptional. His acquaintance with
politicians is wide. Ho travels a
great deal is almost always ' on
wheels. As a platform Bpeaker he
is the best drawing card in the coun
try, being as popular in communi
ties that oppose his political doc
trines as in those that support them.
In the next eight or ten months ho
will meet a larger number of poli
ticians anxious to discuss politics
than any other public man in
America.
But the character of his task and
the opportunities he will enjoy
should put him on his guard
against impositions and attempted
impositions. He has issued no invi
tation to tattlors, or busy-bodies, or
malicious fakers, but many such
creatures will so appraise his an
nouncement, and seek to impress
him with inventions and scandalous
hearsays. The amount of guff that
will reach him by mail and by word
of mouth under the inspiration of
his declared purpose will be enormous.
But Mr. Bryan is at heart r. clean,
just man, who fights in the open
and on the level, and his object, we
may all be sure, is to do the square
thing in this business. He is natur
ally very much Interested in his poli
cies, and .desirous that the demo
cratic nominee for president next
year shall be friendly to them; but
nothing in his record would support
a suggestion that ho would advance
such a man's prospects by any un
fair or indirect means. Washing
ton, (D.' C.) Evening Star.
ALREADY "BRYANIZED"
Editor of the World: The World
asks today, in its leading edi
torial article, in a tone of bitter dis
appointment: "Is Woodrow Wilson
Bryanizing?" The answer to the
question is simple and it is "No."
Woodrow Wilson isn't "Bryanizing,"
ho is already "Bryanized."
It has been perfectly apparent to
most keen observers that from tho
day of his election to tho governor
ship of New Jersey Woodrow Wil
son (by reason of his inordinate am
bition to become his party's standard-bearer
in 1912) has wofully ne
glected the duties of the office to
which he was elected and has
emulated Bryan and Roosevelt in his
cheap, loose and demagogic appeals
to ignorance on his six weeks' tour
of the west and south. He absented
himself from Trenton to such an ex
tent as to bring upon himself tho
humiliation of having his 'salary
"docked" on two distinct occasions
an ignominy rarely if ever suffered
by any one of tho state's chief exe
cutives. Taking all these matters into con
sideration, It Is most odd that tho
astute Nbw York World has been
blind to Dr. Wilson's most glaring
shortcomings all theso months. But
happily your newspaper (that great
formulator of public opinion) has
taken tho doctor's measure, and it is
to bo hoped that from now on it will
pursuo him (whenevor ho plays the
rolo of dcmagoguo) as relostlcssly as
It did his two prototypes, which cru
sade was largely responsible for tholr
ultimato elimination as potent fac
tors in American politics. A. B. II.,
Lenox, Mass., July 31, In New York
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