Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-01-08
PRESIDENT Will
BE CANDIDATE
President Wilson Will Break
Silence and Discuss Poll
cies on Tour
W. J. BRYAN MEETS LIARS
President Propose. to Throw
Light Upon Acts He Be-
lieves Good for Country

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 6.-Re-
curing reports concerning democrats
of more or less importance, alleged
to be in a plot to overthrow Presi-
dent Wilson and seize control of the
national democratic organization,
have served only to emphasize the
fact that the president will be a can
didate to succeed himself.
For months persistent efforts have
been made to create discord and If
possible wreck the present admins
tration~ For a time these efforts
were focused on the cabinet with
Secretary of State Bryan and Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels as the spe-
cial targets.
A broadside of criticism aimed at
the two cabinet members invariably
was followed by reports from the
same sources that either the secre-
tary of state or the secretary of the
navy or both were about to resign
and the intimation was appended that
If the designations were not forth.
coming voluntarily they would be ask
ed for them.
Notwithstanding emphatic denials
from the White House as we'll as the
members of the cabinet concerned the
reports continued until Secretary
Bryan disposed of the resignation talk
so far as he is concerned with this
statement:
Bryan Won't Resign.
II have not resigned; am not 60
ing to resign in the future, but one
/, of my objections to remaining in pub
Nc life is that officially l am COM
PEELED daily to meet deliberate liars"
William R. Hearst, as Washington
views it, is determined to kill Presi-
dent Wilson politically, If possible. He
has been one of the leading expo
nents of the campaign to force a
break in the Wilson cabinet. Having
failed in this, the Hearst campaign
took weird twist when it was seri-
ously announced President Wilson
had decided to throw the influence of
the administration to Speaker Champ
Clark for the 1916 presidential NOM
ination. At the White House the re-
port was received that it was too RI
diculous to notice.
The real answer, however, came in
the information that the president as
we'll as his closest political friends
are quietly engaged in the somewhat
difficult task of selecting a new chair
man of the democratic national com
mittee
William McCombs of New York.
present chairman, is to retire. 1t Is
understood he does not desire the
post longer and in addition he is not
entirely in accord with large ele-
ment of the administration forces.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
and Postmaster General Burleson
both have been considered, but the
president, it is stated, does not be-
lieve cabinet officer should have
such an intimate connection with or
ganization politics as would be neces'
sary If at the head of the party or
ganization.
To Answer Critics.
Critics of the Wilson administration
no longer are to go unanswered.
After months of urging by his clos
est advisers, President Wilson has
decided to abandon his policy of 81
lence toward criticism of his legisla-
tive and administrative policies.
Henceforth he proposes to fight
vigorously for better public under
standing as we'll as approval of the
policies which he firmly believes are
for the best interests Of the country
The president, it was indicated,
would not content himself with a de-
fense of his own work, but would car
ry the fight to the republicans. He
will have something to say concern
ing plans of the republican old guard
to come back in 1916.
The president wants to make a
thorough discussion of his domestic
policies in his first speeches. He Is
represented to be extremely anxious
to drive home his thought on that
phase of the general situation. but 1t
is feared that If he discusses neu-
trality in the same speeches it would
submerge his other utterances.
The alternative presented is to
have the president discuss neutral
ity and its enforcement In later
speeches.
One more subject the president has
in mind 10 disclss,is the injection of
religion into politics. 1t is understood
President Wilson will devote the ma