The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-06-17
TO FIGHT PRESIDENT
VARDAMAN, HEARST, EFT AL, AIN
GUNS AT PARTY'S HEAD.
Mississipian Disgrunled Over Patron
age Question Has Thrown Himself
to Wilson's Enemies.

age Question Has Thrown Himself
to Wilson's Enemies.
= Unfortunate as it may be that any
man who calls himself Democrat
should act as Senator James x. Var
daman of Mississippi has done and
turn squarely against the administra-
tion because he is not in accord with
the presidents views on the canal
tolls question, the real reason is seen
in the senator's statement that such
action is taken partly to save his own
political life.
So says P. H. MCGOWAN in the State
and he continues by remarking that
in Washington there is a clique
standing ready to club the admins
tration for anything it may do. This
clique has long since stopped fighting
fairly and has adopted the sandbag
method with william R. Hearst and
a Washington morning. newspaper
doing the dirty work. There Is moth
ing that the administration does or
can do that is well done; everything
undertaken is doomed to fall and the
country, according to Hearst. and this
aforesaid Washington morning news
paper, is headed by the political junk
heap.
With his combination there are
grouped the standpat element Of the
G. o. p, some Of the Bull Moose and
a handful of disgruntled Democrats.
And just here it. might be as well to
pin. There is a small complement of
men around the country calling them
selves Democrats who are endeavor-
ing to make Champ Clark say ugly
things about the president and to do
some overt act which may be con-
strued as being directly, aimed at
Woodrow Wilson and William j;
Bryan.
This crowd took occasion a day or
two ago when Champ Clark accepted
the invitation Of the G. A. R. to speak
at Arlington to say that he had
thrown down his def to both the
president aid Secretary Bryan and
that there would be no more of Will
son or of the Democratic party here
after. This is the line they are work
ing on. They are in the sandbagging
business ready to club the admins
tration into insensibility for anything
it may do, no matter how worthy and
worth while it may be. But this
Hearst Washington morning newspa-
per combination will not work unless
it gets more force behind it than SEN
ator James K. Vardaman of Missis-
sippi:
Disgruntled because he has not
been able to secure what ne believed
to. be his share Of federal patronage;
according to what is said there, Sen
ator Vardaman would unloose the
vials of his wrath and drag down the
party which elected him to. the Sen
ate and which brought him from pri-
vate life to, public notoriety. And
what does he do the first time oppor-
tunity affords? Turns his back
squarely upon the party, lines up
with the HearstZWashington morning
newspaper combination and practical
ly says to the country: ''To save my
political life the Democratic party
may go to hades."
An earnest expression of opinion
in Washington analyzed the situation
very clearly. The remaking Of the
rency law. and the c1-bing of the
trusts has, naturally, turned things
up from bottom to top and it was to
tariff bill. the overhauling of:the cur.
be expected that such a situation
would follow the coming into power
of the Democrats after the Republi-
cans had messed things up for the
past 16 years. Had Woodrow Will
son not taken the initiative, had he
not seen with his keen foresight and
ripe judgment, that such a house
cleaning was necessary if the Demo
cratic party was to live up to its
name and follow out the lines of the
platform promulgated at the last con-
vention, he would have had some rea-
son then to foam at the mouth and
bemoan the fact that the party's
deathknell was near, but with poor
grace can they do it now.
The truth about Vardaman-and
any other Democrat who acts as he
has done-is that his political vision
is so much enshrouded in personal
selflshress that he would denounce
his party to save himself. Such per-
sons overlook the fact that it is not
what they get from but give to the