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BRYAN Will WIN.
New York Sun Says Democrats
Will Carry That
STATE IN NOVEMBER

way Nnme.-A washington Col
respondent Says Well Informe,
Politicians Not Only Agree Wit
This View, But Look Confdentl
for Bryan to Be President.
Ralph Smith, the Washington cor
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 a 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 a study of con
ditions-who confidently predict tn,
election Of Mr.. Bryan next fall ovel
any candidate the Republicans ma!
nominate at Chicago, and these mer
are not enthusiastic Bryanites, mol
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, acknowledgements
cial-interests, in its 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 1t 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-known
pro-corporation, pro -Capitalistic pol
icy, to say nothing Of its 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 comment
no1if3oforc Il, Noch3po fNp
Among other things, the editorial
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 OWL state New
York; we record ouJ conviction
continues the editorial, that no Re-
publican candidate, and we particu-
larly include Mr.. Roosevelt himself,
can carry 1t 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 sim
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 reclamation a,
Denver.
The Sun is probably the first tc
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
genuine conviction.
But the Republican party is II
power, and, as a young statesman
from Georgia often says, "a panic Il
upon the people," Whether there
he a panic in reality makes little diff
ference, the fact Is that hundreds o.
thousands of men are out of work
particularly in the more populous
states of the east and the middle
west. It makes no difference Wheth
er the Republican party is RESPONSE
ble for the hard times, the great mass
of people believe such to be the case
and there are many who have here
tofore voted the Republican tickle
who believe that a 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 eDu
cans nominate. Some Of the oloes
and best informed writets in the gal
observation-disclosures, representing grea
Republican papers-freely comics
that the chances of Democratic sue
cess look much brighter today thai
do the Republican chances.
New Workers look upon the Sun
editorial declaration with varylni
views, but they all agree that 1t
quite significant. The conclduns par
agrap h, especially, has impresse'
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