The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-27
AS TO PROPHETS.
louisville Courier-JournalD

New \ 0rk sun, having properly re-
buked the editor OF the CourieI-Jour-
nal for venturing even tentatively 70
consider and discuss the political fu-
ture, drops thus into prophecy on its
own account:
The next Governor of the State of
New York will be a Democrat.
The next Governor of the State of
New York will be the next President
of the United States"
Can the Sun mean Hearst? Is the
Sun preparing to make cynical, semi
sardonic campaigns for Hearst in or
der to muddy the waters for Bryan,
or does it's fragrant violation of the
rule of reserve it would impose upon
others merely spell Jerome?
And here comes the World to call
the Suns bluff and with equal posi-
tivity to say;
NO Democrat will be elected Cover
nor of New York this year.
The next President of the United
States will not be a Democrat"
It is to such rubbish as this that the
most of the New York newspapers owe
their lack of influence in the immedi-
ate vicinage where they circulate and
their unimportance over the country
at large.
Nobody can be sure who will be the
next Governor of New York, OF the
next President of the United States;
but every newspaper should keen faith
with its readers. whilst holding some
thing in reserve. Only fools and chill
dren tell all they know The Sun,
which is nothing if not an Ishmaelite,
finds it to its humor to predict Dem
ocrat in each instance. But, it may
change its humor tomorrow and pre-
dict a Republican. The World, which
claims to be a Democrat, coppers the
Suns prediction and robs it's party of
the hope either of a Democratic Gov
ernor or President.
Suppose the Courier-Journal did
business in this haphazard way?
H.
Meanwhile. the Sun is quite sure
that William Jennings Bryan will not
| be. cannot be and ought not to be the
next Democratic nominee for Presi-
dent, and figures this out on historic
lines. Promising that Mr.. Bryan is
older than he was and has Travelled
farther and is presumably better ready
the Sun proceeds to show how he is
making a great mistake by coming
home so soon. We quote:
"He must know that Democrats and
their Jeffersonian predecessors who
called themselves Republicans have
never before been asked to select fol
a third term a standard bearer who
has led them to defeat on the two pre-
ceding tests of his availability. If
therefore. a Democratic national con
vention was to be persuaded to make
that unheard of and hazardous expert
Iment. Mr.. Bryan should have remained
discreetly out Of the country until thu
spring of 1908. and his name shoulC
have been kept in the background unit
the claims of his competitors hat
grown stale or widowed, when Their
would have been a possibility that hi
candidacy could be forced upon hi
Iparty with a rush and a hurrah, a
Grants came within an ace of beini
in 1880"
It is sufficient to say that Gen. Gran
did rot get there. But what has thi
to do with existing political conditions
Mr. BRYAN may or may not resembl
Mr.. Clay, whom the Sun cites as
Wing, not a Democrat precedent. A
the same. if he lives he will be name
by the Democrats in 1908 by a substar
tally united convention. That muc
ought to be plain even to the Sun spit
of the clouds of prejudice that ovel
cast its surface and obstruct its visio
: of things terrestrial.
: It would be queer, though it Nigh
be entertaining, politics to see the su
playing ts,Darkerisfor the Hearst Tsid'
show. but, as a serious proposition
and Notwithstanding the Georgian
rome does not seem quantitive theor
either for the governorship Of the En-
pire State, or the presidency OF tn
United States-just yet. Anything. {
course, may happen. Several occ'
pants of the White House make tn
impossible conjecturable. Mr.. Jerom
however, stands too much in the linn
light to be either inevitable, or impo
sible.
!. But, we digress. To come back
the Suns history We quote agail
the Suns object being to show ths
Mr.. Bryan has precipitated his boom
has he had anything to do with it?-