The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-11-27
HARD TO BEAT.
That's What the New York Press
Says About Bryan.
4 REPUBLICAN view.

should Bryan Be Chosen as the
Democratic Standard in the Next
Campaign the Republican Party
Would Have to Put Forth Its
Strongest Candidate to Beat Him
Says Republican Paper.
In discussing the announcement
of Mr.. Bryan that he would accept
the Democratic nomination for Pres
ident if rendered him the New York
Press, which is Republican to the
core, says:
The Bryan announcement is re-
ceived by the leading organ OF the
Eastern Democracy--the World
withFa sneer to the effect that after
eleven years of Mr.. Bryan's leader
shin there are only two Democratic
Tinted States senators north Of Ma
son and Dixon's line" and only six
Democratic governors north Of Ohio.
M Bryan has often challenged the
Democracy of the World and he now
would deny that he has lead the
Democratic party for eleven years.
The disastrous Parker campaign
was in charge of Tom Taggart, Aug
ust Belmont and Pat McCarren, not
Of Bryan, who cursed the Democrat
ic ticket with faint praise in 1904 and
has been making war on the party
machine ever since. If he does not
get his third nomination failure will
be due to the fact that he and his
friends are unable to wrest the ma
chinery from the hands Of the men
who rode roughshod over his delega-
tes at St. Louis three years ago.
Another Eastern Democratic auth,
ority, the Evening Post, finds its
main objection to Mr.. Bryan in the
fact that the people are tired OF
hearing him and seeing him. More
over, during half generation vot.
ers have now formed the habit OF
voting against Mr.. Bryan, and such
habits are fearfully hard to break. %
Specialists in the art Of advertising,
asan offset to this, would argue that
Mr.. Bryan's name has become such
q household word. as to be a valid
able asset to the party.
Don't we all know that the aover-
tisement in the newspapers with
which we grow familiar because OF
their persistent hitting US IN the eyes
when we cannot help ourselves, even
tually drive US, by hypnotic process
Of suggestion, to purchase the arti-
Gle we have thus learned to know Of!
Does the continuous dining Of Bry-
ans name in our ears, the inetfaca-
BILE sight of it in the public prints,
have the like effect to what is known
in advertising patter as the Follow
up System?"
People VINO object to Bryan for
president because he is an old story,
and say they just cannot bear to look
on his face any longer, forget that
when he first ran for the presidency
one objection to him was thatit would
be shame to rob the nursery. The
second time the Boy Orator ran the
Wall street wing Of the party gave it
out that the nomination was given
him to get rid of him. But the pest
still buzzes around. If he is beaten
the third time there is no reason to
believe that he will then relegate
bimself to the limbo of the president
ially impossible. Maybe in order to
get rid of him it will be necessary
for the reactionaries of his party to
turn in and elect him president!
Mr.. Bryan gave the country real
leadership in the march away from
the dangers which threatened the
nation at the time when his Gross
of gold" speech startled the coun-
try into study Of it's political con-
oitions. He was the man with the
bomb, hurting it recklessly as pro-
test against a state of things which
imperiled the welfare Of the people.
It was not the right weapon he used
and ne threw it in the wrong dlrec-
ton. But it served its purpose as
protest, and it made the field ready
for the attack by the right men with
the right weapons who came after
him.
The progressive movement haseven
marched past Mr.. Bryan since he
burst into fame with few infam-
mable periods. Governor La Toilette
went further than Bryan had thought
of going. Governor Hughes is ahead
Of him with better and more drastic
measures than he discussed. But
Bryan has served his country. There
was a great outcry against his attack
on the courts; but it was his influence
which has modified government by
injunction. He was called revolu-
tionary because he wanted an income
tax. Now nearly everybody wants
an income tax. And in the present
condition Of the Democratic party,
which probably would not accept a
Hearst or Johnson, the people
would be better off with Bryan on
the Democratic ticket than one II
the snug Francis type or one li!.e
Parker or Daniel.
Much depends on who is nomina-
ted by the Democrats Mr.. BRYAN
says he does not care whom the Re-
publicans pick, and his party ought
to pay no attention to that. But it
will make difference to the other
side whether it is Bryan or some one
else that is to be beaten. We do not
share the belief Of some Democratic
authorities that Mr.. Bryan has no
strength with the voters. We are
sure he is STRONG enouCh 70 heat .