Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-18
SAYS DEMOCRATS Will WIN.
New York SUMS Representation as
to. National Politics.


Washington. March 13.--Demlo-
Gratis have been out OF power for so
long and the party has met with such
overwhelming defeat in national cleo
tions Of recent years that, ordinarily.
1t would seem extremely hazardous
to predict a Democratic victory at the
coming Presidential election. But
there are in Washington to-day many
of the best posted politicians in the
country--m who have had long ex-
perience and who have made study
of conditions-who confidently pre-.
dict the election of Mr.. Bryan next
fall over any candidate the Republi-
cans may nominate at Chicago, and
these men are not enthusiastic Bryan
ties, nor of the dfed-in-the-wool DEM
ocrats. Many of them are old line
Republicans, men who have never
voted anything but the Republican
wicket.
1t Is an easy matter to find, with
out half trying. dozens OF politicians
of both parties, who unhesitatintly
say that President Roosevelt himself
would favor MT. Bryan's election, IL
Cannon, Fairbanks or some mangof
that stripe were nominated at Chi
cago over his choice, William Howard
Taft.
And Mr.. Roosevelt's advocacy of
Taft is no more serious and deter
mined than is the opposition of 9TH
ers prominent in Republican politics.
The New York Sun, anti-at minis
tration. acknowledgements
special-interests. in it's leading edito-N
rial Of Tuesday, March 8, declared
that William Howard Taft cannot
be elected President, even If he is
nominated by the Republicans at
Chicago, which 1t doubts. This In
teresting statement is made even
more so by the further declaration
that either William j. Bryan or VII
liam R. Hearst, If nominated by the
Democrats at Denver. can carry New
York State over any candidate the
Republican party may put up.
The past Inconsistencies Of The
Sun, together with its well-known
pro-corporation, pro-capitalistic pol
icy, to say nothing of Its bitter an
taeonism of President Roosevelt and
"his policies, has tended to weaken
the, declaration, but the editorial has
just the same attracted much atten-
tion and caused widespread CON-
ment among politicians in Washing
ton.
Among other things. the editorial
says:
''lf Mr.. Taft were to secure the
Republican nomination. contin-
gepcy which has been effectively pro-
vided against, hetcould not be elect
ed. The Democratic candidate, whe-
ther Hearst or Bryan, would win.
| speaking of our own State (New
York; we record our conviction y
continues the editorial, ."that no Re-
publican candidate, and we particu-
larly include Mr.. Roosevelt himself,
can carry IL against Bryan, Hearst,
or any other Democrat that may be
placed lii nomination at Denver.
There are mighty and revolutionary
changcs operating in the political
Landscape"
The editorial offers an opportu-
nifty to discuss, briefly, the chances
of Democratic success at the next
election. Regardless of The Suns
sincerity, there are In Washington a
number OF people, supposedly well
posted, who share the belief that sue
cess will perch upon the standard of
the Democratic party at the next
election, and they all concede the
nomination Of Bryan by a"clamation
Mt Denver.
The Sun is probably the first to
come forward with the claim that
the Democrats will carry New York
and this statement Is attributed
more to dislike for Roosevelt than o
genuine conviction.
But the Republican party is In
| power. and, as young statesman
from Georgia often says. "a panic Is
upon the people," Whether thels
be panic in reality makes little diff
ference, the fact is that hundreds
| of thousands of men are out of work
particularly in the more poprlohs
States OF the East and the Middle
West 1t makes no difference whe
ther the Republican party is respon
sible for the hard times, the grea
mass of the people believe such tt