Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-28
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A GLANCE AT 1916.
Political Situation AS II Begins to
Loom Up In the Near Future.

along without him. To do that he must
| conduct his campaign so as to insure
/ a pronounced Democratic victory this
year. If he can defeat Penrose in
Pennsylvania, Foraker in Ohio, if that
| gentleman shall be the Republican
nominee for senator; Gallinger in New
Hampshire, and other standpatters. and
elect Democrats in their stead, and
then so manage the thing as to give the
Democrats a majority Of thirty or more
in the house of representatives, the
Republican party will have to surren-
der to him or go out of the political
business.
"As Alexander l will reign,
And l will reign alone.
My soul did evermore disdain
A rival on my throne"
That is Roosevelt There is Whit
man, the reform district attorney of
New York. With a word, wink, a
nod, Roosevelt can secure his election
as governor of New York by an i'm
mense majority, but that might make
Whitman the Republican candidate for
president in 1916, and so Roosevelt will
have none of him as the tool Of Boss
Barnes and the other depraved stand
patters who oppose the ambition Of
the colonel.
The woods are full Of Republicans
with lightning rods up. In the senate
are LaFollette, Borah and Cummins.
Burton, Of Ohio, is worth a ten-acre
lot Of 'em, but nobody dreams of him
as the leader Of the party. In the
house of representatives is Mr.. Mann,
of Illinois, and his name is now and
again mentioned at the Republican
candidate in 1916 Occasionally we
hear suggestion that Mr.. Justice
Hughes is the man for Moses to lead
the very hungry and the very thirsty
from the wilderness of dearth to the
land of plenty.
But Roosevelt will see to it that
none of these shall be elected even if
one of them should be chosen by the
party. Whitman is in the best posi-
ton. 1t is doubtful if Roosevelt can
defeat him for governor unless he runs
himself 1t seems that the Tammany
tiger will run the Democratic end Of
the New York state election and that
means Roosevelt or Whitman.
Every New Yorker who was elected
president of the United States had
been governor of that state-Van Bu-
rem, Cleveland and Roosevelt. To these
we may add Samuel j. Tilden, who
was elected president in 1876 and gov
ernor in 1874. Therefore if Mr. Whit
man should be elected governor this
year the Republican party may take
on some courage, plain or Dutch, and
snap it's fingers at the colonel, for you
can depend on it that Whitman will
have Roosevelt to fight if nominated
for governor, and to beat him Teddy
will have to run for governor himself.
1t would be fatal to nominate LaFol-
lette. The bosses-Penrose, Foraker
Barnes, Cannon and the rest-have no
use for him, and the personal hostility
existing between him and Roosevelt is
intense. There is no city Of refuge
for LaFollette except the Democratic
party, because he is between the devil
and the sea among the vets and the
drys of Wisconsin. Borah is from one
Of the mountain rotten bOroughs way
across the continent, and while the bee
is giving him a deal Of trouble he will
never be nominated. Cummins holds
with the Progressive element, but is
too much of a Republican to leave the
association of the standpatters. He
knows that if the man elected presi-
dent in 1916 is a Republican the stand
patters will bear the heat and burden
of the day.
But what is the use of talking?
Woodrow Wilson will be reelected
president if he lives. He would beat
Roosevelt out of sight even if the reg
ular Republicans endorsed him, and
Roosevelt would be worse licked than
Horace Greeley was. The old guard of
the Democratic party absolutely refus-
ed to vote for Greeley, and the old
guard of the Republican party will
never support Teddy.
If another than Roosevelt gets the
Republican nomination there will be
the three -cornered battle Of 1912 over
again, for Roosevelt is determined to
be in the field in 1916. The only hope
e, hn, tc ,,,Nit rod
party and that is simply impossible.
How are you going to fuse Roosevelt
and Taft, LaFollette and PenrOSe, BriS-
tow and Foraker, Beveridge and Fair
banks, and the others? They are as
far apart as Lincoln and Douglas in
1858, or Grant and Seymour in 1868, or
Cleveland and Bryan in 1896, as Roose-
welt and Taft in 1912. If they are hon
est in their convictions how can they
hope to get together? They must do
as did Abraham and Lot-separate
And that is the very thing they have
done.
So the Democrats may be of good
cheer. All is we'll Woodrow Wilson's
Is the greatest administration III tHe
history of the nation. He has accom-
plished more of reform in the short
while he has been president than any
one of his predecessors in his entire
service.
Time will fight for him. AS soon as
the programme is completed-and that
devoutly to be wished consummation
will be had when the lungs Of the Re-
publican side of the senate are eX-
hausted-the business of the country
will adjust itself to the reforms he has
championed and all will be well.
And yet there are Democrats" who
seek opportunity to embarrass.-Sa Say
Oyard.
THE HORSE