The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-08-16
BRYAN IS 4 POWER
WILL HAVE BIS SAY ABOUT THE
NEXT CANDIDATE.
Some Of His Enemies Says He Is
Dead, but He Is a Very Lively
Political Corpse.

Political corpse.
The Washington correspondent of
The Spartan burg Herald says every
newspaper reader is familiar with
the fact that Bryan is a dead one,"
for all the big papers say so, and the
little papers, most of them, neces-
sa:iiy get hold of lot of the same
kind of stuff, all sent out from the
Offices of the big ones 1t has been
three times and out for Bryan. He
IS now to stand aside according to
the advisers of his party, and let
someone else have chance to take
the lead end bear the party's stand
ard.
This view is pretty general-that
5ryan will never again be candi-
date ior the presidency on the Demo-
craft: ticket, and of course he will
not on any other ticket. The fact
that nc will not say so, however, as
Roosevelt cd, has never ceased to
trouble the anti-Bryanites. If he
would only put down in black and
| white over his own signature that
he would not under any circum-
stances again consent to be a candi-
date, there would be Joy IN the
camp of the anti-Bryanites.
But, according to those who know
him best, Mr.. Bryan has differ
ent view of such things from that
held by most leaders. He believes
| that candidate is his party's choice.
| In other words, he believes that if
his party should see fit to nominate
him again, even though he felt sure
of his own defeat, and even though
he knew that in accepting the nom
nation he would be doing his own
fortunes a positive injury, he would
consider it his duty to obey the will
of majority of his party delegates.
That is the kind of Democrat the
Nebraskan is.
If he should, therefore, declare
that ''under no circumstances
would he again be a candidate, and
the convention should see fit to NOM
mate him, he would have difficulty
in squaring his conduct with his pre-
vious declaration. Therefore, Mr.
Bryan will not make the much de-
sired declaration, but prefers to do
as his party commands. But the
word that Bryan is a dead one
| is gone out in all the land, and in
many instances the wish is father
to the thought. And in many IN.
stances, although there is firm be.
lief that he is dead, there is grave
yard fear that his ghost may yet
be abroad in the land.
The ridiculous part of it is, &C
cording to some Washington politi-
cal observers, that the people who
are surest Of tBryan's deadness are
the first and the loudest to protest
if the Nebraskan even expresses an
opinion. Almost any other man may
express preferences in political mat,
tiers, but it seems to be felt that Mr.
Bryan must not say word. When
he dares to speak out-this one who
has no influence now according tc
his enemies-there is a howl from
one end Of the country to the other
Leading editorials are written ir
condemnation of his efforts to "boss'
his party, when all that he has done
has been to give his personal opln'
ions. Cartoons all over the lane
express the idea that this man-Whe
is a has-been, be it remembered
| is interfering with the destlnies Of
| the party that he has thrice led tc
defeat and disaster.
"Why is it," said a strong ad
mirer of Mr.. Bryan to this cores
pondent, a man who admires Bryan
but believes that he will never again
be the Democracy's standard beare!
|-"why is it, if Bryan is so dead, sc
utterly devoid of Influence that there
should be much oposition raised
from one end of the nountry to the
other, when Mr.. Bryan has simply
expressed an opinion-somethlns
that all of us in America claim the
right to do? Why can't he say
whom he prefers for the presidency
or whom he does not prefer, without
being accused Of trying to boss
his pary?"