The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-02-25
WILLING? OF COURSE.

Col. Bryan Reiterates Statement
That He is Willing to Run
Again - An Incumbrance
Which the Democratic Party
Cannot Unload.
Charlotte Observer. 22d.
Col. Bryan said again at Den
yer, COL, Saturday, what he has
said many times since the last
election, in reference to making
a fourth race for the presidency:
Il am not IN out-and-out candi-
date, but if the people of this
country and my own party should
demand that | make the race
again, standing for my we'll
known principles and ideas. why,
| do not very we'll see how |
could refuse. " He said in the
same connection that he had
made himself "clear on this SUBJ
ject time and again, and if the
people have sense enough to un-
derstand it, why, what's the use
of explaining it over again? We
scarcely see. And here we have
it once more, except a little more
definitely, perhaps.
We do not know but what it
will be just as we'll o have it
over again-not, as some would
argue, in order to "get rid" of
him, for another experience
would be ineffective for that pur-
pose;it has been seen that defeat
is not a cure; but because he
would defeat any other candidate
and better he than a better man.
Why do we say that? Witness:
In a speech at Urbana, O., in
1904 he said: 'The Democrats
in 1892 played a confidence game
on the people and put a bunco-
steerer [Mr. Cleveland at the
head of the party" In the cam.
paign of 1904, while support.
ing" Judge Parker for President,
he said:
"A Democratic victory will
mean very little, if any, progress
on economic questions so long as
the party is under the control o1
the Wall Street element. Mr.
Parker is as thoroughly commit
ed to the side of the fianciers as
Mr.. Roosevelt. After the party
had rejoiced over the harmon!
secured by the omission of th'
money question from the plat
form and after he had securet
the nomination he injected hil
views upon the subject at a TIM
when he could not be taken from
the ticketwithout decentralization
The nomination was therefor,
secured by crooked and indefen
sible methods. x"
This is the sort of support
he gives Democratic candidates
With a great many people, enoug
to turn the scale in an election
Organism is a religion. There
fore any Democratic candidat
whom he wants beaten will b
beaten and he wants any on
beaten excepting himself. Til
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, hereto
fore one of his most loyal SUP
porters, has suffered an exhaus
ton of patience and we copy
few sentences from an interes
ing editorial in it's issue of Satul
day:
!, 'The mistake was made la
time of allowing him to assum
the part of Tt without interrul
ton or contradiction until /
had all the strings Of the stu;
ton in hand and no choice w;
left to Democrats but to suppo
him or desert their party. He
- now playing again the double 70
of oracle and organizer, and
the waiting policy should be r
peated by other leaders and
the press he will turn up in 19
with another organized army
noisy shouters, formidab
enough to scare all possible col
petitors into their holes and ca
er to do his bidding to the lettt
He must be discounted and d
credited now, at the inception
his campaign, or it will be |
late. If it is not too soon for n
Bryan to be laying his pipes a
stretching his wires for a FIRE
exemplifcation of his Kingsl
of Democracy, it is not too sc
for those who think he has
ready too long and too often
the party to defeat to take
n arms against him and inaugur
u active measures to circumv
his ambitious and impud
scheme for ruling the future
he has ruined the past Of
- party.
Selfish, self-centred, s
=. magnified, the human pack m
= be unloaded or the patient d
key will die outright. So far
that fraction of the Democr
for which this paper speaks
C concerned, there is to be Fl
~ now on fiat repudiation of Br
and Organism. His personal
The Secret of Long Life.