New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-19
BREAK BETWEEN BRYAN
AND WILSON PREDICTED
Many Think Single Term Issue
Will Cause New AdminlStra-
ton Much Worry.
NEBRASKAN LOOKS TO 1916
What to Do with Peerless
One" To Be Subject of Deep
Thought by Wilson
While Away.

with President-elect Wilson enjoying
vacation in the balmy air of the Ber-
mudas, free from the opportunities of
oficcseel,ers and with mind at liberty
10 dwell upon some of the big things OF
the work he is soon TO begin, the ques-
ton arises What part is William j.
Bryan going to play in the new admin
istrauon?"
The answer may be easy TO some per-
sons, but to those who know both the
President-elect and the Nebrasksn well,
there isn't the least doubt that the dis
position Of Bryan is going to be one OF
the most delicate subjects that Mr.. VIII
son win have to deal with; one to which
he will no doubt devote some very deep
thought before he again gets back TO this
country on December 16.
For while Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Bryan
may have the. same ideas on the tariff
and on progressive legislation, there is
one question on which they are apart
apparently. and that IS the question of
single term. There isn't any doubt as TO
where Mr.. Bryan stands on this ques-
ton. for ne has time and again expressed
Il with vigor, and wasn't he the one VINO
had the single term plank put in the
Democratic platform at Baltimore?
But no one has as yet heard from Pres
ident-elcct Wilson on the subject OF
single term, even If it is In the Demo
cratic platform adopted at Baltimore. He
has never discussed II in a single public
speech nor has he ever given the least
intimation Of whether he believed in 1t
or was opposed to It, although he has
discussed with frankness every other
plank adopted by his fellow Democrats
at Baltimore.
Bryan Urged the Single Term
BRYAN. on the contrary, in all MS
speeches in the campaign just closed ap-
pealed 10 the voters to support Mr. VIII
SON primarily because Of the single term
plank in the Democratic platform
81 want YOU to vote for Mr.. Wilson be-
cause he is pledged to a single term ana
consequently viii be free TO serve the
people. lie will not devote the greater
part of his administration to building up
"A machine TO bring about his renomlna-
ton" was i'm substance what the Me-
braska statesman told his audiences dur
ing his six weeks campaign through the
West and Middle West in support Of the
New Jersey Governor.
Ii is the uncertainty of the attitude OF
President-elect Wilson toward single
term and the answering attitude OF Mr..
Bryan I'm favor of II that has made many
believe that the relations between the two
Democratic leaders will become more or
less strained as time goes on. For there
isn't the least doubt I'm the minds of those
who have watched events closely that
Mr.. Bryan wants TO be the Democratic
candidate for President in 1916 and that
he is laying his plans accordingly.
Indeed, II Is not hard to find many per-
sons who believe that Mr.. Bryan had the
single term plank inserted in the Demo-
cratic platform with the purpose of being
candidate himself four years from now,
and there isn't much. doubt,that ne used
the single term argument so vigorously
in his campaign speeches for Mr.. Wilson
so that should the occasion arise he could
put forth some potent arguments as to
why Mr.. Wilson should not seek re-
nomination.
He is in position to tell President-elect
Wilson that he should not seek a re-
nomination, because by doing so he would
be doing something contrary to the
promises he Bryan made to the people
in the campaign just closed.
Was Place Offered Bryant
1t may perhaps. be unfair to Mr.. Will
son TO say that he does not approve of
the single term plank in the Democratic
platform and that he intends to seek a
denomination, but no more so than to say
that he is in favor Of 1t. for until he him
self takes the public into his confidence
and tells them his thoughts on that sub
ject there can be only surmises as to his
feelings toward a single term
The fact that Mr.. Bryan is q shrewd
politician, one who believes in taking ad-
vantage of every opportunity that pre-
SCENTS itself is what makes his disposition
by the new administration one of prime
importance. While newspaper reports had
it that Mr.. Bryan had declined the port
folio, of Secretary of State. there isn't
a person who knows Governor Wilson well