The Mena weekly star., 1907-10-24

I Indians, the quacks and the igno- rant. "-The Pharmaceutical Era.
 BRYAN'S POSITION WITH THE
 PRESS.
 The prophecies of the Globe-Demo- crat and other Republican papers that Bryan is preparing to with draw from the race for the Demo- cratic nomination for the presidency is case where the wish is father to the thought. If Mir. Bryan wishes to withdraw he will do so in his own time and at his own will, and not lupon the urgent representations of hostile papers that he is unfit to lead the Democratic hosts in the next fight.
 l There is no doubt that the above paragraph from the Fort Smith Times is correct. Mir. Bryan will not be led to go out of politics through any efforts from such pa- pers as the Globe-Democrat. It is not probable that Colonel Waiter sons bitter Accommodation of Bryan and retirement from political life on account of him will cause the Ne braskan to falter. Nevertheless the fact that such papers as the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Charleston News and Courier, the New Orleans Picayune and other leading Southern papers are opposed to Bryan mus. have some effect. At least in this connection the following from the Brooklyn Eagle and New York Times. Demo- cratic but anti-Bryan papers which claim to have made an independent canvass of the Southern press is of considerable interest.
 The Eagle says:
 'The general consensus of the Southern Democratic organs is for or toward Mir. Bryan. Many of them regard him as preferable. Others deem him to be inevitable. A few outrightly object to him, but will accept him if they can not over throw him. None says he will op- pose him, though a single eccentric would have the Democracy nominate Mir. Roosevelt. ! On the whole, the expression, today secured, is tri- bute to MT. Bryan. He and his friends have reason to be proud of | it. It is compliment to his charac- ter, courage and capacity. The inevitabilty of his nomination Is more regarded by his supporters than the probability or the possi- bility of his election; but that very fact attests the strength of his personality, for under him his Southern friends would go even to preassured defeat with military glee.
 "None of those who oppose MT. Bryan's nomination will bolt him, if nominated. A cat in hot tin oven would have as much chance for ef- fective combatancy as a bolting organ within Southern Democracy.
 We do not believe that Mir. Bry- an ought to be elected. He is bril- liant, but unsteady. He is eloquent, but unwise. He is honest. but he is honest as an opportunist is, not as statesman should be. He deter mines his own political health by feeling the pulses of other people. When he was not sincere, he was most erroneous. Since prominency and fiuency have made him more politically vain and ambitious than sincere, he has experimented with issues, not to find out whether they are true, but whether they will take
 | On the other hand, the New York Times concludes from it's canvass of the South that the coun- try lis in a waiting mood" and that the turn public sentiment will take will depend very much on what may happen in the next six or eight months. The average attitude to- ward MT. Bryan. it asserts, seems to be that of regarding him as a distasteful necessity" Among the Southern Democratic papers which are outspoken in opposition to MT. Bryan's nomination are such im- portant organs as the Baltimore Sun and News, the Richmond Times Dispatch the Charleston News and l Courier, the Columbia State, the New Orleans Picayune and Times Democrat, the Chattanooga Times, the Nashville American. the Huston Chronicle, the Dallas News, and the Louisville Courier Journal.