The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-05-15
SINKING INTO THE QUAGMIRE.
Democrats in a Dilemma and Don't
Know How TO Get Out-Afraid
Bryan Will BE Dictator Over Will
son During His Administration.
The JeffersOnian !

son During His Administration.
The Jeffersonian.1
1t is extremely doubtful whether
our Lantern-Jawed Hero, Woodrow
Wilson, is as happy as he should be
In fact, all of We Democratic Big
Bugs are in what you might call a
dilemma.
How to get out, We have not yet
discovered
When General Garfield received the
Republican nomination in 1888, it
was conceded that Blaine gave it to
him TO prevent General Grant from
getting it.
Therefore, Mr.. Blaine claimed the
right to virtually control Garfieid's
administration.
To this claim Mr.. Garfield yielded.
Mr. Blaine was made the Premier
of the administration, and he was
given almost complete control of the
patronage.
The results were disastrous.
Blaine used his power to wreak
vengeance upon his enemies; Garfield
was murdered; the Republican party
torn into factions, with the natural
result that they lost control of the
Government.
Ever since the election of Wood
row Wilson, Bryan and his friends
have been claiming that Wilson owed
his nomination to Bryan, and that,
: therefore, Bryan should be the Blaine
: of this more recent Garfield.
This claim of Bryan and his friends
is being stoutly combatted by Wilson
and the WilsOnites.
These gentlemen remind the coun-
try that, during the campaign leading
up to the election of delegates, the
Peerless Bryan had exerted all of his
ability and eloquence to so divide
, the Democrats, that none of the can
= didates could be nominated.
6 He had even gone to the extreme
of urging the Dakota Democrats, who
p naturally belonged to Champ Clark
o to vote for the Republican, La Fol
O lette.
At the Baltimore Convention, Bry-
n ans first play was to do the Judas
. act, and to prevent Champ Clark from
o securing the prize which was almost
within his grasp.
. Bryan achieved his treacherous
: purpose by falsely stating thai
. Champ Clark had sold out to Wal
K Street.
E Having side-tracked Clark, Bryan:
O next move was to get the Convention
= to hunting around for a compromise
, candidate.
He mentioned Raynor, of Mary
land, knowing quite we'll that Ray
nor had no chance.
He mentioned O'Gorman, of New
l. York. knowing O'Gorman had NJ
5 chance.
i He mentioned Culberson, of Texas
e knowing CuIbersOn had no chance.
S This was the old game. which Bry
! an had played in 1904, when Hears
! was near the nomination and whel
Bryan advocated General COckrell, o
S Missouri, who was not candidate
L and who stood no possible show o
e either nomination or election.
> bryan 5 DolloI was, tudl lie "Oul'
+ get the Convention, in the hunt TO
y the compromise man, and that he
n himself, would be agreed upon as tn
l. logical candidate. So sure was Bryan
) that he could swing things his way
that he had prepared and CAREFUL.
o rehearsed the speech with which h
q was to stampede the Convention t
y himself.
: One of his daughters was impru
l. dent enough to tell a friend that tn
" celebrated Crown of Thorns and Cros
a of Gold speech was far excelled b.
, the speech which her father had pre-
: pared for the Baltimore Convention
), Now, We Democrats all know that
e The Republicans all know it.
: Woodrow Wilson knows it.
Therefore, We Democrats, that is
: We Big Bugs, don't intend to ALLOW
+ the lecturer on Jesus Christ to ruI
y our administration for US.
I We are perfectly willing for him t.
q come around occasionally and con
: verse with us.
: We can always take the bed thu
c next day and get over it.
L We are also quite willing for hin
J. to continue to coin money out of pol
itics, and out of moral lectures, bu
with him determined to run us, ant
we determined not to be run by him
, you can see that there is trouble
q ahead.
q And we groan in spirit, when We
$ think of what we promised to do t.
@ the Tariff!
: We order our sack-cloth by thu
yard when we remember that We
= promised independence to the Philip
pine Islands.
We are loaded down with promises
n to lend money to the farmers.
# The skeletons in our closets are the
o Tariff bills which we put up to Tai
d and which we abuse Taft for vetoing
- We are afraid to put those same