The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-03-18
BRYAN Will WIN.
New York Sun Says Democrats
Will Carry That
STATE In NOVEMBER

= May Name.-A Washington Coz
$ respondent Says Well Infor1ne
Politicians Not Only Agree Wit
This View, But Look Confdentl
> for Bryan to Be President.
Ralph Smith, the Washington COZ
respondent Of the Atlanta Journal
says Democrats have been out o
power for so long and the party ha
met with sucn overwhelming defea
in national elections of recent year
that ordinarily, it would seem ex
tremely hazardous to predict Dem
ocratic victory at the coming presi
Dental election. But there are il
Washington today many of the bes
posted politicians in the country
men who have had long experienc,
and who have made study of con
ditions-who confidently predict thu
election of Mr.. Bryan next fall ovel
any candidate the Republicans may
nominate at Chicago, and these mer
are not enthusiastic Bryanites, MOI
on the died-in-the-wool Democrats
Many of them are old line Republi
cans, men who have never voted any
thing but the Republican ticket.
The New York Sun, anti-adminis
tration, anti-anything-opposed-to-spe'
cial-interests, in it's leading editorial
Of Tuesday, March 8, declared that
William Howard Taft cannot be cleo.
ted president, even If he is nominal,
ed by the Republicans at Chicago
which it doubts. This interesting
statement is made even more so by
the further declaration that either
William J. Bryan or William R.
Hearst, if nominated by the Demo.
Gratis at Denver, can carry New York
state over any candidate the Repub-
lican party may put up.
The past inconsistencies Of The
lSun, tokether with its well-known
pro-corporation, pro-capitalistic pol
icy, to say nothing Of it's bitter an
tagonism Of President Roosevelt. and
his policies" has tended to weaken
the declaration, but the editorial has
just the same attracted much attel-
ton and caused widespread comment
among politicians in Washington.
Among other things, the editorial
says:
IF Mr.. Taft were to secure the
Republican nomination, contin-
gency which has been effectively pro-
vided against, he could not be elect
ed. The Democratic candidate, wheth-
er Hearst or Bryan, would win
Speaking Of our own state (New
York; we record our conviction,
continues the editorial, "that no Re
publican candidate, and we particu-
larly include Mr.. Roosevelt himself,
can carry it against Bryan, Hearst,
or any other Democrat that may be
placed in nomination at Denver,
There are mighty and revolutionary
changes operating in the political
Landscape"
The editorial offers an opportunity
to discuss, briefly, the chances OF
Democratic success at the next elec-
ton. Regardless of the Suns sin
cerity, 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 cleo
ton, and they all concede the noml-
nation of Bryan by acclamation al
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 tc
dislike for Mr.. Roosevelt than to
genuine conviction.
But the Republican party is II
mower. and, as a young Statesman
from Georgia often says, "a panic is
upon the people" Whether there
be a panic in reality makes little dlf
ference, the fact is that hundreds Of
thousands of men are out OF work
particularly in the more populou:
Estates of the east and the middle
west. It makes no difference Wheth
er the Republican party is response
BILE for the hard times, the great mass
of neople believe such to be the case
and there are many who have mere
tofore voted the Republican tlcke
who believe that change would az
them good and benefit the country.
No class of persons study politics
more closely than the Washington
correspondents, and it is surprising
to note the growing belief amons
these men that Bryan will be elect
ed regardless of whom the RebuDll
cans nominate. Some of the oldes
and best Informed writets in the gal
|lerv-Republicans, representinggre
Republican papers-freely confes
that the chances of Democratic sue
cess look much brighter today 1na'
do the Republican chances.
New Workers look upon the sun
, editorial declaration with Varyln
views, but they all agree that 1t
quite significant. The concldung par
agrap h, especially, has 1mpresse
them. and this paragraph predict
that New York state will go Demo
cratic.
The last sentence, There ar
mighty and revolutionary change
operating in the political landscape,
is regarded as a particularly signif
cant hint. 1.-The mighty and revolt
tionary changes are taken to mea
J a determination in certain quarter
to accept Bryan, or Hearst, If nee
$ be. in preference to either Roosf
: welt or Taft.