The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-07
WILL BRYAN
OPPOSE PRES|-
DENT WILSON?
OsE-TE7m PLANK ~ BALTIMORE
PLATFORM is NOT EXPECTED
TO HAVE WEIGHT - NO VII
sOS-BRYEs BREAK.

. probably VII. wait for a personal ex
/. preston from William Jennings Bryan
On the one-teru plank Of the Balti
/ -o-e convention before believing that
. he intends to oppose the renomina-
ton Of President Wilson next year
/ A recent newspaper story. upon which
was based the assumption that M
Bryan would oppose the presidents
denomination, quoted Mr. Bryan as
Standing On th:t plank" Mr. Bryan
/ is not alleged to have said tina, he
/ would oppose Woodrow wilson. but
( his statement ls accepted a. carrying
the inference tiat he believed IN the
integrity Of the platform upon which
. Woodrow Wilson was elected. And
the same IS TIRE Of the president
himself The plank in question
I reads.
We fayo. single presidential
term and TO tina. end urge the adop-
ton Of an amendment to the const.
tuition making ,he president Of the
United States Ineligible for re-elec-
tion, and We plzdge the candidates Of
this convention TO that principle"
Wilson viii Be Renominated.
Democrats throughout the country,
as well as the party leaders, long ago
reached the conclusion that Presiden,
Wilson would be renominated and
reelected Champ Clark, who was
the closest riva OF the president at
Baltimore, wher asked whether he
would be a candidate for the presi-
dency, said that if the Wilson admin
istrat!Cn was a success, the president
would and ough; to be renominated
If 1t was not scccessful, then it would
be useless for any democrat to at
tempt the race Throughout the
country democrats have accepted this
as the program
The reactionary element of the
country, plus the element that has
never found good IN W. J. Bryan,
has been working the Bryan resigna-
tion overtime in an attempt to show
there has been a serious break be-
tween Bryan and the administration.
II has been the hope that If the
friends of the Nebraskan who have
followed him in his various campaign
could be made to believe the serious
break" story, il would occasion such
a rumpus that the party solidarity
would be destroyed and bring about
a hoped-for split in 1916. They have
had visions OF the Roosevelt move
ment on the democratic side of the
line Under existing conditions, dem
ocratic success is well-nigh a fore
gone conclusion If the conditions
can be disturbed, it would rebound
to the oppositions benefit. 1t may
be stated, and from source of au-
thority. that the relations between
the administration and Mr.. Bryan are
most cordial.
In the early days of the Wilson
as saying that he was not a candi-
date for the presidency in 1916, and
so far as the inner circle knows,
nothing has arisen to alter tha+ posi-
tion. Even Mr. Bryan's closest asso-
ciates are unable to say they ever
heard him relate his attitude upon
the oneterm plank, ether than to re-
call his utterances about platform
pledges generally. In his Harrisburg
speech in 1913 Mr. Bryan said that
the platform breaker was the same
as an ,embezzler.
Probably no leading democrat is.
closer to the former secretary OF
state than Senator John W. Kern OF
Indiana, majority leader in the SEN
ate. and Mr.. Lryan's running mate
in the 1905 cao paign. A few days
ago in Washington Senator Kern said
there would be no more enthusiastic
supporter of President Wilson for re-
nomination thar Mr.. Bryan. Mem
bers of the official family do not
view with concern the report that Mr..
Bryan intends to take any other
course.
The One.Term PLANK.
That the one-term plank stands for