The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-17
WILL HELP MUCH
The ReesEl Jackson Dag binzar Vas a
Dsnoerasis Lsve Fesss.
BRYAN SETTLES DOUBT

| O4a2 SAAs SSd AS<Z0 DSS~&
He is Not q Candidate and EeGsd
Not Accept If Hesaiza4ed-soFI
Harnon's Absence Eurt Els Rrosa
poets, While Gov. Wilson's Waa-
ming Personality Helped Ha
The Jackson Day Dizner ~ H2sa-
Iington last Monday seems to AaYe
been a regular Democratic leve tssss.
The News and Courier correspondent
says William Jennings Bryan, 1ough
full of aggressiveless at the zeesiag
of the national committee, kept az:
pleasant personalities out st his
speech at the Jackson dinnee and
did not open the Pan6ora's tox OF
new and doubtful issues whick It vas
feared he would bring with hn ser
that occasion.
Considering the refusal OF the ma
tional committee earlier in the day
| to accede to his demand that the un-
desirable Guffey be deposed As the:
Pennsylvania member, Mr.. Bryan.
acted exceedingly well in displaying
good hunor and cheerfulress, 3a sd-.
dition to eloQuence, at the evenings
feast. And It Is to be noted that in
his remarks at that feast ne declared
that he was not only not candidate
for the Presidential nomination, hnt
would not accept it II offered.
This is the way to set doubts at
rest, and Mr.. Bryan knew It. Yhere-
fore, it must be said that Mr. BEyaa's
visit to Washington and his sitter
ances here at this significant gath
ering, which really launched the
campaign, did good by clearing the
atmosphere In his party. Much Of
the fog that was obscuring the DEM
ccratic landscape has been dissipated,
it. would seem, by the encouraging
behavior OF Mr.. Bryan In taking a
rebuff in the committee without en-
deaVcring to pull! the party strue-
ture to pieces in burst of ressnttuI
rage.
That Governor Woodrow Wilson,
Of New Jersey, was the person who
made the most distinct gains as
result Of the jackson Day gathering
is plain to any unprejudiced obsery-
er who was in Washington and In
touch with political conditions. Gov.
ernor Wilson strengthened his cause
by personal presence in Washington,
and the absence of Governor Har-
mon, OF Ohio, was by contract dam
aging te the latters prospects.
t is undeniable that Wilsoa has
a wonderfully winning personality
and genius for saying things that
seize the attetion and win the favor
OF the intelligent American audience.
His faculty for getting hold ef the
younger element is a tremendous as
set One would have to be blind not
to be impressed by it. The welcome
received by Governor Wilson ex-
ceeded many times in apparent en-
thusiasm the greeting given to any
other avowed candidate for the nom !.
ination who was in attenda nee at the
Jackson dinner, and was more pro-
longed and hearty than the great
demonstration accorded to Mr.. Bry-&
an himself.
The digging up Of old personal let
ters written by Governor Wilson,
taken with the fact that these docu-
ments proceed from sources believed
to be friendly to "the interests
which now oppose the Wilson candi-
dacy, has not had the effect expected
by the resuscitators of these writ
ings. The refusal Of Mr.. Bryan to
be angered by what Governor vii
son may have said IL the past, when
made public by me1 hostile to both
Bryan and Wilson, has accelerated
a well advanced revulsion Of feeling
against this sort Of campaigning.
Unpleasant remarks are freely
made about the sort OF men who saSe
up personal letters for years-let-
ters between friend and friend-and
publish them in the vindictiveness Of
broken friendship after the writer's
have probably forgotten that they
were ever penned. Similarly, the
ancient history about the activity OF
Governor Harmon against ar Ohio
Democratic Cube-natorial candidate
thirty-fve years ago does his cause
no harm when recalled by opponents
now.
The general outcome OF the Jack
son Day proceedings is most encour-
aging to Democrats whose chief in
terest is in the preservation Of party
harmony and in the maintenance OF
condition which make for success IN
the campaign Of 1912. On the eve Of
the great day everybody was on ten
er-hooks. The air vas rife with the
widest and most disquieting rumors
imaginable.
On the whole, the Democratic DON
key came through the ordeal Dagnifi-
Gently. Not once did his foot slip
seriously in crossing the first 'spons
asinorum" of the epochai year OF
1912. It was a fearsome journey,
but a happy delivera1ce. The result
seemed almost too good to be true.