The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1915-07-09
Wilson will Make Good
Target For the Re-
publican Party
LITTLE WILL Be LEFT OF
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 1916
Wilson Will be Re-nominated BY
His Party--Democralic Timber
Natures Not More Than
Once in a Generation


ln spite Of the single presidential teru
plank of the Democratic platform adopt
ell at Baltimore in lols. there Is LITTLE
doubt that President Wilson will lie the
unanimous choice Of the next Democrat
lc national convention. This will come
to pass not because Wilson il ~ l-.lovsd
OF the Democratic party. but on ascount
OF the unwritten Law Of the Democratic
party. that any Democrat who -ucct<sl-
IN achieving the presidency. ought not
u le denied denomination, since Of Dem
ocratic presidents there il only here and
there traveller. DemOcratic prt~l,len
tial timber natures not more than on.,.
IN generation and must hr diligentl,
sought for and tenderly cared for when
Il Is found. While little will lie left of
the Democratic party i'm 1916, Judging hy
the rapid rate OF its shrinkagr. yet OF
that totterIng and shrivelei remnant
Wilson will he "the lamb chosen Tor tn,
daughter at the polls.
The Democratic party will not again
make Bryan its standard bearrr IN a.
presidential contest, and any new man
OF the hour" whom Bryan might fashion
and bring forth ~ he lid i'm the per-op
"i the present occupant of the Whit
House, would prove a. dolorons a failure
A. a stamped creator n has the T.eace
preaching Of the ex-Secretary Of stat.
Oi course, when the tim. comes for de-
mocracy 10 render an account of IL stew
ardship, there will he very few ts.r-ons
who ARE not referred o. i'm their conmu
mites a. mot right bright in his mind
Who will lie 80 imbued with the -acri
iieial spirit that they can muster the hard
lhood u vote the Democratic ticket AMI
suiier the martyrioom that Democrats
victory entails upon it, servants.
No Republican ought t. wish any ether
Democratic target than President Wilson.
Tor there could he no clearer bulls eye
at which u direct the missiles Of the Re-
publican party, and no person, whether
Democrat or Republican ought o. desire
the retirement Of Mr.. Wilson 10 private
iiie with the insane Relief that he could
have besn re-elected had his party ~
bominatesi him. Olf NJ. that would not
do at all, let him fully realize where he
- at and the exact estimation nm whicl,
his fellow citizens hold him after ni-
philosophic administration, ~ that when
iie returns 70 those private pursuits, which
he Ought never n have abandoned even
Tor = time, he will be free indeed. and
unaiiectsd by that malignant malad,
called 's~elle'i heal" and 'though he
may h. -adder. will, moreover. l,e 4
much wiser man.
There will be little left Of the Dem
ocrAtic party in 1916 outside Of the fe,ier
al Office holders. We can conceive of n,
twist oi iate that can rejuvenate tl,.
shrunken. emaeiated Democratic donkey
Confidence in the Democratic pary
dead and cannot, in the natural conr-.
~ events ~ rerurrccted in le-s than ,
. generation. Even should the Eurotrar
war end night speedily (but it will not
and veritable fiood-tide Of buzzing
sizzling prosperity should race arouns
the world; and though lean want -houl,
vanish utterly and fat plenty should stall
arroHanty abroad in onr land. san II
VII - A. impossible Tor the Democrat,
party - come back two times WHINE,
a. q = Tor any one n answer the lon.
standing qnery: who hnt Billy Fatier
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