The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-09-13
LOCAL CONGRESSMAN REACHED
IA HOME YESTERDAY AFTER
r LONG ABSENCE.
He Talks Interestingly on National
Subjects Of Interest-says Tariff
] viii Be Cardinal Issue in the 1919
Campaign.

Congressman w. G. Brantley ar
rived in the c ty yesterday and viii be
here most of tie time until congress
meets in December Mr.. Brantley left
Washington a week or so ago, but has
been Spending scme time in North
Carolina aid III anita.
The well-known Brunswick con
gresham, in conversation with
News reporter yesterday, talked in
terestingly of the special session
which has just closed and which was
an unusually busy one, especially for
the democrats, who, for the first time
in many years, We're in control
Mr.. Brantley takes a most hopeful
view Of the situation from a democra-
tic point OF view and is sanguine that
the party win elect a chief executive
next year
The outlook for democratic sue
cess next year is bright" he said
"There is hopeful feeling among all
our leaders. The strongest point
made by the house in the extra ses-
sion was the demonstration afforde
of democratic unity. We made good
on the proposition that we could act
together and could legislate. The
country, l think, has confidence now
in our ability to carry through any
legislative program determined upon
The course of the president in We
toing our tariff bills continued Mr.
Brantley, has served to bring for
ward the tariff as the great issue in
1912. The election of democratic
house hl 1910 was a reputation Of the
Payne Aldrich tariff law, and the SEN
timent of the people against this law
has been intensified by the refusal
of the president to allow any modift-
tion of it Notwithstanding both houses
of congress agreed that it should be
modified.
1.-THE work of the session was hard
and laborious and every one was glad
to get away for a brief respite before
taking up the work of the long session
next December.
"As to presidential candidates., said
the congressman, there isn't much
new that / can say. Several estim-
able gentlemen are candidates or are
supposed to be. At the present time
it seems that Governor Harmon of
Ohio, and Governor Wilson of New
Jersey, are the two most prominent
ones. am disposed to think that as
between these two a majority of the
democrats in Washington incline to
Harmon. He is the more conservative
of the two and offers the most hope
not only of success but of preserving
the old line democracy"
When asked what he thought the
attitude of the insurgent republicans
would be, Mr. Brantley said that was
rather hard to forecast. ut looks to
me as if they have cut the bridges
behind them" he said, "and I do not
see how they can support the regular
republicans after the occurrences of
the session of congress just closed"
Mr.. Brantley was asked if he thought
William Jennings Bryan would cat
any figure in the next presidential
election. THAT man." he said, may
cut considerable figure He has never
announced that he is not a candidate
for the nomination, he is strong
among the democrats of the West
and other sections of the country;
there are thousands of voters who
will follow him, and it would not at
all surprise me to see him be a con-
spicuous figure at the next democra-
tic convention"
Mr.. Brantley has had considerable
amusement out of the report sent out
from Washington to the effect that
he had remained there after the close
of congress owing to the fact that
thieves had entered his apartments
and stolen some of his clothes. This
appears to have been joke and the
popular congressman has enjoyed it
as much as any one else.
uATI EN nEE En2 WASHINGTON