The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-05


came under It's undisputea control
for the frst time since the Republi-
can party was organized.
Triumphant Democracy was swept
into power by the largest proportion
Of tne total popular vote Of the
country aver polled before or since
by any Democratic presidential can
]dadate- giving that party possession
Of the Senate by A 10 SO and OF
the House by 220 to 126.
Unlike the contest Of 1912, the
struggle Of 1892 was between two
political parties. The Democratic
triumph, therefore, was over g
united, not a divided opposition.
Organism had not begun to show It's
head It was Missing in the tall
grass OF awaited opportunity
watehful waiting" is the phraee OF
today-but its determination 70
fasten its poisonous fangs on the
party of its protested faith was not
made apparent until Grover Cleve-
land forced Il into the open.
The historic hght that Cleveland
made in 1898 for the repeal of the
silver purchase clause created an Is
sue In his party which had It's ulti-
mate result in the triumph Of Bryan
at Chicago in 1896, and the DONNA
ton OF Bryan In the Democratic
party from that day to this.
To gain this mastery Bryan defed
and destroyed the greatest leader OF
his party since the war, and by his
persistent candidacy, three times
forced upon the party, kept the Dem
Iocrats in the minority In every de-
,batalble state in the Union.
TIE people would have none Of
him.
Another Democratic president,
nominated by Bryan and elected DE
cause of divided opposition, instead
Of accepting his country's coniemna-
ton OF Organism and defying the
specious pleading Of this thrlce-re-
jected candidate for office, appar-
emily yields wholly to him.
He closes the door of the White
House to men of affairs and achieve
ment. Their counselling is not de-
sired
He puts the old Bryan sheer and
contempt for business into his atti-
tude and his policies, leaving mo-
doubt in the minds of those engaged
IN enterprise in this country that the
Bryan antagonism of 1895 has found
new life and expression in the VIII
son policy Of 1914.
Instead OF taking up the strong and
broad policies with which Cleveland
endeavore1 to Identify the Demo-
cratic party the present Democratic
occupant of the White House has
turned for Guidance to the man who
embodies all that Cleveland spurned
and denounced.
Bryan-nominated, he Is Bryan
dominated.
BY what cunning, by what plot
ting, by what force aside from his
conceded strength In the Democratic
House of Congress, has Bryan sol
prevailed on the president that the
latter's attitude toward him, as i'll
appears in two letters-one written
several years before and the other
after the Baltimore convention
mystifies and discourages so many
men who felt that the sterling quail
tiles of Cleveland were at last to
be found in Democratic successor
to Cleveland?
Here are the letters:
Princeton University,
Princeton, N. ].
Presidents Room.
April 81, 1907.
"My dear Mr.. Joline:
Thank you very much for sending
me your address at Parsons, Kan,
before the board OF directors OF tie
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Company. ! have read it with relish
and entire agreement. Would that
we could do something, at once dig
nlfied and effective, to knock Mr..
Bryan once for all into a cooked hat!
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
''Mr. Adrian III. Joline.''
white House,
Washington.