The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-08-05
MUST QUIT CRUMBLING
DISSATISFIED DEMOCRATS ARE
OF NO USE TO WILSON.
Time Has Come for ''Sorehead Demo-
crats'' to Rally Behind President
and His Program.

1t is beginning to trickle through
the minds Of sorehcad Democrats, the
kind who have persistsntly carried a
crouch around with them ever since
the Baltimore convention because
Woodrow Wilson was nominated,
that they are just about as efficient
in Washington-in the House and
Senate--and are able to do about as
good a. days work for their consti-
tuents as a man fishing on river
bank with a pin hook and no bait,
says P. H. MCGOWAN, writing from
Washington.
1t has teen very apparent at Wash
ington recently that all the courtry's
crouch was not carried by the G. O.
P. and the Bull Moose, although the
latter, to tell the truth, have not had
much to be sore over. There is an
other element, however, which should
be ashamed of what it has done and
atone before it is too late-that is
the element Of the regular Demo
cratic party in congress which has
been knocking the administration
whatever happened And just here it
should be stated that no personal
allusion whatever is meant. The crit
icism is intended to apply in q gen
eral sense and in nc way to accuse
any particular person or carrying the
aforesaid crouch.
l. is quite natural that within the
ranks Of the G. o. P. there should
have been an army Of knockers-big,
husky, brawny fellows, with sleeves
rolled up ready to knock The very
cover off the administration every
time the ball was put over the polit-
ical plate But about the best they
have been able to do has been to hit
measly rollers and to go out at first.
They haven't made clean hit yet
and as for a homer, that isn't like
" in the political bal lot while Will
son is pitching the game.
In congress, disgusted with T. R. s
antics and being fully convinced that
as long as he remains before the
footlights he is only making votes for
the Democrats, Jim" Mann, Repub-
lican watchdog of the House, and a
half dozen stalvart G. o. P. men in
the Senate are making themselves
ridiculous by their persistent calam-
| ity howlings and dire predictions that
the country is going 20 miles a min
ute to everlasting perdition. Nc one
can blame them. They see that In
1.-THE White House there is real man,
| no matter what may be said Of his
performances in the school room.
Wilson is there and the Republicans
| Just can't put anything over on him.
So far as the Bull Moose Is con-
cerned, Chief Warden Murdoch is do
ing little more than make House
galleries smile when he rises in his
place and begins his customary at
tacks on the work of the adIninistra-
ton. No one would expect anything
more. Murdock is a good felolw and
he is but carrying out the orders from
boss T. r.
But It is time for the disgruntled
Democrats to stop grouching because
Champ Clark or Underwood or Har-
mon or some one else did not get the
Baltimore nomination. Unless they
do, they must realize that their pur-
pose in congress is ussless and that
being out Of touch with the White
! House, they must in turn be out of
touch with their constituents and that
what they receive for their time spent
in Washington is money wasted 1t
is certain that few other than Wilson
Democrats will find their way to the
capitol hereafter If the people at
home are in their proper senses.
Woodrow Wilson is neither czar
ruling with an iron hand nor fool
to distribute patronage in the hands
of persons unfriendly to the party's s
interests. The people everywhere
wish for generous distribution of
patronage as long as there is any to
be had but they will not get it by
sending to Washington anti-Wilson
members Of congress.