Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-02
Washington Post Gives Up
Fight to Prevent Nomination
Of Nebraskan
PREDICTS DEFEAT AT POLLS
Eastern Wing of Party Ready to Ac-
cept Situation in Hope Bryan Will
Be Elm mated for All Time to Come
Republicans Not So saneune of
Success.

Washington. March 2.-Thc Wash
most rabbi anti-Bryan papers of thu
east, has given up tine fight. II con-
and predicts his Overwhelming defea
at the polls. The Post views the sit
uation phi losophically. II doesn't be-
lieve Bryan can be elected, nor. or
the other hand. does ii believe any
one of the sixteen democrats put for
ward by the New York World as more
available han Bryan for the presiden-
tial nomination could win in NoVem-
Der. 1t bases this doleful view of dem
ocratc prospects upon the assumption
that Bryan can carry no states he
failed to carry in 1900. with the eXcep-
ton of the new state of Oklahoma, and
upon the further assumption that Bry
an would not render loyal support to
amy man who might defeat him in the
convention.
The Post attributes the assurances
of Bryan's nomination to the alleged
hopelessness of the democratic situa-
ton. i, asserts that thousands OF
democrats acquiesce in Bryans candi-
dacy in the belief that a crushing de-
feat in November will forever elimin-
ate the Nebraskan as power in the
democrats, party: that by allowing him
to have the nomination this year, when
there is no chance of electing a demo-
cratic president, he will not have to be
reckoned with in the years to come.
Had it not been for the necessity of
eliminating Bryan. declares the Post,
his nomination could have been pre-
vented.
This surrender on the part Of the
Post is regarded as practically mark
ing the end of eastern opposition to
Bryan's nomination. The Post is a
democratic paper-at least it's owner.
John r. Mclean. is democrat who
has aspired to high honors in the party
and it probably voices the sentiment
of the great majority of those demo-
Gratis who have been engaged in an
endeavor to displace Bryan with some
man more to their liking. So far as
opposition to his nomination is con-
cerned. there is not likely to be heard
much more anti-Bryan talk. The Post
predicts, and its prediction amounts to
knitted at the polls.
1t is one OF the remarkable features
of the present remarkable political
situation that while democrats are con-
ceding Bryan's nomination and mourn
fully predicting his defeat there is a
large and influential element in the
party which fears Bryan
will triumph at the polls over any man
now in the race for the republican
Roosevelt. these republic
cans declare is the only man who can
defeat the Nebraska commoner.
If this doesn't present a pretty ket-
tie of political fish it would be difficult
to find one Here is a faction of the
democratic party taking it for granted
that any man whom the republicans
are likely to nominate will defeat Bry-
an. and a faction Of the republican
party taking it for granted that Bryan
will defeat any man whom the republic
cans are likely to nominate. There no
longer is any reasonable expectation
that Mr. Roosevelt will be nominated
at Chicago, so those republicans who
believe him the only man who can de-
feat Bryan are just as far down in the
dark, dank doldrums as are the anti
Bryan democrats.
There is a third element in the re.
publican party which is committed to
the belize that Rooseveh's nomination
would make Bryan's election certain.
This belief is based on the assumption
that charges that the president was not
sincere in his anti-third term declarsl-
lions couple, with sentiment against a
third term and the bitterness of Roose-
welt hospitality in some parts of the
east, would make him the weakest man
the republicans could put forward.
Some of the republicans who hold this
view would like to see Roosevelt nom
mated. for the same reason many
democrats are alleged to have ac-
quiesced in the nomination of Bryan
the belief that defeat would eliminate
him as {; factor in his party and de-
stroy his prestige with the people.
An Auto Collision
means many bad bruises, which Buck
lens Arnica Salve heals quickly as it