The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-03-13
BRYAN WILL WIN.
New York Sun Says Democrats
Will Carry That
STATE I'M NOVEMBER

Over Any Candidate the Republicans
May Name.-A Washington Cor
respondent Says Well Informed
Politicians Not Only Agree With
This View, But Look Confidently
for Bryan to BE President.
Ralph Smith, the Washington corr
respondent of the Atlanta Journal,
says Democrats have been out Of
power for so long and the party has
met with such overwhelming defeat
in national elections of recent years
that ordinarily, it would seem ex-
tremely hazardous to predict DEM
ocratic victory at the coming presi-
Dental election. But there are in
Washington today many of the best
posted politicians in the country
men who have had long experiences
and who have made study of con-
ditions-who confidently predict the
election of Mr.. Bryan next fall over
any candidate the Republicans may
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 any,
thing but the Republican ticket.
The New York Sun, anti-adminis+
tration. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
cial-interests, in it's leading editorial
of Tuesday, March 8, declared that
William Howard Taft cannot be elec-
ted president, even if he is nominat-
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
Sun, tokether with its well-knoWH
pro-corporation, ro-capitallstic pol
icy, to say nothing Of its bitter an
tagonism of President Roosevelt, ana
Ibis policies" has tended to weaken
the declaration, but the editorial has
Just the same attracted much attel-
lion and caused widespread conmena
among politicians in Washington.
Among other things, the .editoriaI
says:
IF Mr.. Taft were to secure the
Republican nomination, a 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 eiec-
ton. Regardless of the Suns SIN
cerity. there are in Washington a
number of people, supposedly wen
nosted who share the belief that sue
cess will perch upon the standard OIL
the Democratic party at the next eiec-
tion. and they all concede the noml-
nation of Bryan by reclamation ao
Denver.
The Sun is probably the first 10
come forward with the claim tnat the
Democrats will carry New York ana
this statement is attributed more 10
dislike for Mr.. Roosevelt than 10 q
genuine conviction.
But the Republican party Is III
mower, and, as a young statesman
from Georgia often says, a panic 10
upon the people" Whether there
he a panic in reality makes little oll-
ference, the fact is that hunoreus VI
thousands of men are cut or WORK.
particularly in the more populous
states of the east and the mlddie
west. 1t makes no difference "heIn-
er the Republican party IS respohst.
IJa for the hard times, the great mass
Of people believe such to be the c''e'
and there are many who have mere
tofora voted the Republican tlckeI
who believe that change "ou'u Wv
them good and benefit the co""tly.
No class of persons study po''ticS
moro closely than the Washington
correspondents. and it is surprising
,o note the growing belle! among
those men that Bryan will be elect
ed regardless of whom the RehuDll-
cans nominate. Some Of the Oldest
and best Informed writets in t." GAL
represehtiilSS'ea
Republican papers-freelT c1AleSS
that the chances of Democ!a'. u
cess look much brighter today thah
do the Republican chances.
New Workers look upon the suns
editorial declaration with varying
views, but they all agree that 1t IS
quite significant. The conclduns par
agrap h, especially, has impressed
them, and this paragraph predicts
H.. Nou, yorl, state will go Demo-