The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-07-24
Anti-WilS0n Democrats.

Evidently there is either an anti.
Wilson conspiracy forming within thu
Democratic party, or the dlssatisfac
ton throughout the cOunry with the
present administration OF affairs al
Washington is so pronounced aiDd
widespread that Democratic papers
which are addicted TO the habit OF
printing the news cannot ignore at.
= II Can readily be understood that
there Is ample material in the Demo.
cratic ranks with which TO start q
demonstration against the President.
Speaker Clark, for example. will
never recover from the setback he
received at the Baltimore convention
when, with a clear majority of the
delegates in his favor, he was CON-
PEELED to sit calmly and view the dig
cling of his grave, the work of which
was FASTENED by some of his sup
posedly warm political friends.
And then there are the last-ditch
Bryan men. still hopeful but more or
less battered just at this time, who
would not object to seeing mix-up
out of which the Peerless Leader
might emerge with the banner in his
hanAs. But the Bryan bubble has
about reached the limits of its pos
sibilities, and it is not probable THAT
the woman's suffrage declaration will
d0sdnore than call attention to the
glory that is passed.
II ds rather probable that there is
no organizeR conspiracy against the
President, but that those gentlemen
of his party who would luke to see
some one else nominated for the
are simply taking advan-
tage of the unrest throughout the
country and are utilizing 1t as a
weapon with which to destroy his in
fluence and bring about the nomina-
ton Of man more acceptable to
them. B
This past week one of the agents
of the opposition to President Will
son visited the southern States and
in the Cincinnati Enquirer of Friday
there was dispatch from Atlanta,
Georgia, which dwelt upon the dis
in the South with the
Wilson administration. In the course
Of his dispatch this correspondent
said:
The present national administra-
ton reached the high water mark Of
popular esteem in the Southeastern
States with the passage of the tariff
and currency Legislation. Since then
IN ebb has set in, and the flow Of
popular approval from the admins
tratiOn has been SO constant and SO
strong that at present there is not
much left to ebb.
THE travel tides of the Southeast
al pass through Atlanta. and these
tides for three months have been
sounding a note of dissatisfaction
with the conduct of affairs In WASH
nSton. Business men from Florida.
Alabama. South Carolina and other
States of this section who are con-
SANITY passing through Atlanta are
most pronounced in their expressions
If dissatisfaction.
cot course. this dissatisfaction Is
not finding much expression in the
newspapers. The editors as a rule
Ire standing by the administration.
hough many Of them are doing 1t
n rather Apologize manner.
while 1.-THE South seconded tariff
evision, II cannot be said that the
Underwood Simmons revision has
proved altogether satisfactory. OF
course. the cotton-mill men. the iron
md steel men and the lumber men
we're never very keen for revision.
md. as they and their employees were
IoiDg very well under the Payne
Aidrieh schedules. they dreaded the
lse of the Democratic axe on the
ates. The general public, however.
'as keen for revision. Z
IT has been tsld that il was being
obbed by the Payne-Aldrich rates;
hat these rates were responsible for
he high cost Of living, and that as
Don as Democratic revision went in-