The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-13
The Campaign Of 1908.

Editor Of The Times Dispatch
sir,-The nc, Democratic party is running
blunderN to AVOID another. Mr. Bryans
ilrst nominations was a great (, blunder.s
Having been, once defeated his second
nomination m a. ION was greater bunder; and
greatest blunder the party ever made.
IN position in which the party now finds
Itself is about this: Mr.. Hearst has got
ten to the point where some Of the party,
nos n1taa T 81 she eot Wsh
this to Happen; and, as they see It, the
Z only way.ato: sheadssof Mr. H earst us to-
nominate Mr. Bryan. The Democrats un-,
,d a. haven good chance to elect
but they will fallftfHtfey nominate Mr..
q Hearst. or even II they nominate Mr.
Bryan, to head off Mr. Hearst. Nor is
H1rropostion. It has been suggested that
Governor yardaman. Of Mississippi, IS.
the man." This because Mr.. Vardamani
has just announced that he is a Bryan
around by this time on the negro ques-
ton, because he is very modest and
I Just the kind OF nan the nation should
take up lis also said. and truly. that
I'VE have had enough Of these Roosevelts
and Bryans. who, are comprising land
and sea to blow their own horns, Ono
Virginia paper Is. trying to force another
lOTa lDFeSlQe0If IS senator the
Lame Lion in / the United States
Senate. But none OF these men could be
expected to lead the Democratic party to
victory In the. presidential campaign OF
1905 The very best the. South can hope
place on the ticket, and the man for this
place is the Senator from Texas, the
q Hon. Joseph ". Bailey. that most bril-
few superlors either in senat oral delb-
erations or In political campaign oratory.'
Mr.. Bailey's speeches In the campaign
Of 1896 We're second to none, not except
ticket, having been thus disposed OF. now
for the first. The following paragraph.
appeared III q recent issue Of tho Wash
ington Post:
wagon Viii % uncomfontably crowded
long before Grover Cleveland is heard
This is getting "thc cart before the
crowded. s s esyf'a nos es ms
before William Jennings Bryan was
heard from; and 1t is the honest opinion
Of this scribe that with no other
ct se sao q fr ek sks the
Cleveland, the grand old man" who
has twice led his party to presidential
victory; and nottonly SO. but IL the only
House for the last half century. cleve-
land has been victorious twice. and made
as good a President as any OF his prcdo-
cessors or any OF his successors True.
he was Defeated once. but this defeat
was both preceded and followed by VIC
tories, the latter being more glorious
then the former. while Mr.. Bryan's rec
ord Is two defeats. Had some man
upon whom Democratic leaders looked
With favor doomed UP upon tho political
horizon. as Mr.. Hearst has done, Mr..
Bryan would hardly have been thought
Of as a presidential possibility In 1908.
IT would be unwise to nominate Mr..
Hearst, and y will be toe expensive to
simply to keep Mr.. Hearst back Lot the
convention of 1905 nominate Grover Cleve-
land for President and Joseph w. Bailey,
OF, Texas. for Vice; President. and they
victory without n "barl.' at Its tail, be-
cause i vii! haye on II one q tho best
In the party. and one which will thor
oughly dissolve all differences, har-
nlonlze all factions and receive such
support. In both men and means, as that
the enemy will be treated TO another
Cleveland landslide ard the government
VIII be returned to the Democrats.
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