The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-06-12
Bryan Says Roosevelt win Not
Be Candidate Again for
EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL.
II His Reforms Are Of a Substantial
Character There Ought to Be Some
Other Republican Sufficiently Iden-
titled With Them to Represent
Them as Candidate" Says Bryan
of Roosevelt.

Ol ItOOSSScNs s.
VIM. Jennings Bryan during the
course Of an interview at Baltimore,
Wednesday with a representative Of
the News in reply to question as to
what is the most important princi
pal to be applied at this time, said:
''The Jefersonian maxim--equal
rights to all, and special privileges
to none---embodies the government
principle whose application is most
needed The abuses of which the
people complain arise from the vio-
lation Of this principle.
Both Jefferson and Jackson
pointed out the evils of favoritisn
and privilege and those evils are
especially noticeble at this time
when great corporations have secur-
ed such an influence in politics.
s'Favoritism in government oper-
ates always in the interest of the
few and against the masses. The
people as a whole can obtain no spe-
cial favors from the government.
If the people tried to vote themsel-
yes subsidies they would have to pay
the increased taxes and thus take
the money out Of one pocket and put
it into the other pocket. This
would not only cost them as much
as was collected but they would have
to pay the expenses Of collection and
distribution.
1.-THE remedy lies in withdrawal
of the privileges in so far as the
evil rests upon privilege and a re-
straint on corporations insofar as
the corporations have overstepped
the law"
Referring to his attitude relative
to the licensing of so-called trusts,
MIR. Bryan said:
1t has been criticised by some
who spend more time objecting to-
remedies than they do proposing
remedies, but the license system
which I advocate was indorsed in
the Kansas City platform seven
years ago.
eve have a few Democrats whose
sympathies are with the trusts, and
some Democrats arealways alarmed
when a remedy is proposed. If the
remedy is proposed by a state such
Democrats are afraid that it in
terferes with the federal govern
ment, and if it is proposed by the
federal government they are afraid
it interferes with the state.
''The people will not take their
democracy from the employees of the
trusts who earn their salaries by
choroforming the public, while the
pockets Of the people are being pick
ed."
THE THIRD TERM.
Relative to a third term for any
occupant Of the presidential office,
Mr.. Bryan said:
when in congress / endeavored
to secure an amendment to the con-
stitution making the president lnell-
gible for a second term, and in both
Of my campaigns I announced that
if elected l would not be candi-
date for a second term. l would
hardly look favorably: therefore,
upon a third term.
81 assume that the president will
adhere to the opinion which he has
expressed on the subject and will
not be a candidate again. 1t would
be reflection upon the success of
his administration, if, coming in by
an enormous majority, he had so re-
duced the popularity of his party as
to make it impossible for any other
Republican to be elected.
IF his reforms are Of substan-
tial character there ought to be
some other Republican sufficiently
identified with them to represent
them as candidate. 1t would be
strange if the president was strong
enough to violate the anti-third term
precedent set by Washington, JET
ferson, Madison, Monroe and Jack
son, and yet was not able to develop
worthy Republican successor" "
KILLED AT A CROSSING.