Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-03-19
BRYAN WILL WIN.
New York Sun Says Democrats
Will Garry That
STATE IN NOVEMBER

Over Any Candidate the Republican,
May Name.-A Washington Cor
respondent Says Well Informed
Politicians Not Only Agree Will
This View, But Look ConfidentI,
for Bryan to BE President.
Ralph Smith, the Washington cor
respondent of the Atlanta Journal
says Democrats have been out OF
power for so long and the party has
met with sucn overwhelming defeat
In national elections of recent vears
that ordinarily, 1t would seem OK.
tremely hazardous to predict a Dem.
ocratic victory at the coming presi.
uentlal election. But there are in
washington today many of the hest
posted politicians in the country-
men who have had long experience
ana VINO have made a study of con-
uitions-who confidently predict the
election of Mr.. Bryan next fall over
any candidate the Republicans NAV
nominate at Chicago, and these men
are not enthusiastic Bryanites. nor
on the died-in-the-wool Democrats
Many of them are old line Republi-
cans, men who have never voted anv-
thing but the Republican ticket.
The New York Sun, anti-adminis-
tration, acknowledgements
cial-interests, in its leading editorial
OF tuesday. March 3, declared that
William Howard Taft cannot he elec.
ted president. even if he is nominal
ed by the Republicans at Chicago
which 1t doubts. This interestinp
statement is made even more so bv
the further declaration that either
William j. Bryan or William r
Hearst. If nominated by the Derao-
Gratis at Denver, can carry New York
state over any candidate the Repub.
lican party may put M.
The past inconsistencies Of The
Sun, tokether with its well-known
pro-corporation, pro .cap,tallstic 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 atten-
ton and caused widespread commend
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 cleo
ton. Regardless of the Suns sin
cerity, there are in Washington
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 nomi-
nation of Bryan by acclamation at
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 Mr.. Roosevelt than to a
genuine conviction.
But the Republican party is in
power. and. as a young statesman
upon the people," Whether there
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 populous
states of the east and the middle
west. 1t makes no difference wheth-
er the Republican party is RESPONSE
BILE for the hard times, the great mass
of people believe such to be the case.
anu IHeTe are many WHO nave mere
tofore voted the Republican ticket
who believe that change would do
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 among
these men that Bryan will be elect
ed, regardless of whom the Rebuilt
cans nominate. Some of the Oldest
and best informed writets in the gal
ry-Republicans, representing great
Republican papers-freely confess
that the chances of Democratic sue
cess look much brighter today than
do the Republican chances.
New Workers look upon the Suns
editorial declaration with varying
views, but they all agree that it is
quite significant The concldung par
agrap h, especially, has impressed
them. and this paragraph predicts
THAT New York state will go Demo
cratic.
The last sentence, There are
mighty and revolutionary change!
operating in the political landscape,