The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-05
ATTACK LEADERS
BITTER TRADES UPON PRESIDENT
FAIL TO CAUSE BREAK,
CRITICS EXASPERATED

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Political Correspondents Lose Heart
When All Of Their. AIisshaped
Yarns Fail to Cause Break Be
tween Wilson and His Party As
sociates.
Apparently some of the anti-Wil-
son political writer's on Washington
and New York papers are becoming
eXasperated over the fact that they
can not get rise out OF the admin
istration by their bitter and some
what ridiculous attacks, and the re-
suit is that those attacks are getting
more wild and more absurd as the
days go by.
Naturally, as a result of this in
creased Greatness of the stuff they
put forth, the public is beginning to
suspect that the long campaign of
abuse and criticism which has been
aimed at Mr.. Wilson and certain
that is, even that small part Of the
public which has paid any attention to
the stories.
It has long been favorite stunt
, Tor newspapers which parade under
the Democratic label to offer advice
and suggestions to the party and its
leaders, while the papers in question
are at bottom rankly Republican.
They pretend to be Democratic and
to have the interests of the Demo-
cratic party at heart, when, as mat
ter of fact, they are wolves in sleeps
clothing, and are bent on bringing the
party to defeat. Until they are found
out. such journals do far more harm
! to the party than do those papers
| which openly and frankly oppose its
men and measures.
The effort to create branch be-
tween President Wilson and Secetary
! Bryan, which was a fayorite industry
among such newspapers shortly after
the Inauguration of the president, has
been allowed to subside to some ex-
tent, but has recently been renewed
by some industrious deliver into
quaint and curious volumes of for
| gotten lore. It has been brought out
that Mr.. Wilson. years ago. declared
in favor of local option on the liquor
question while Mr.. Bryan recently
| announced that he was for an anti
| liquor man as against liquor man
for national committeeman in Iowa.
In language as plain as it could be
made. Mr.. Bryan declared that he did
not believe either party would touch
on the lou question in the plat
forms of 1915, but, the hostile press
ignored that statement and went
right ahead and declared that the
secretary of state had injected the
liauor question into the campaign Of
I1916, and that Mr. Wilson was on
the other side Of the question from
that supported by Mr.. Bryan. Yet
never word has been said by Mr.
Wilson or Mr.. Bryan in rebuke OF
| this campaign of falsehood. 1t is dy-
| ing of its own weakness.
! 1t has been told in big headlines
| that Secretary Garrison and Secre-
| tary Daniels of the war and navy de-
partments, respectively, are not in
accord on ideas of defense but these
gentlemen for the most part leave
stories to fade into thin air.
Somewhat different has been the
procedure of Messrs. McCoombs,
chairman of the national committee,
and Mr. Tumulty, secretary to the
president. Each of these gentlemen
has in the past few days been the
subject of direct false statements and
each has replied in positive terms to
the reports.
It has been announced that Mr.. Nc
Coombs was going to resign as chair
man Of the committee: that he was
| going to be forced out by interests
not satisfied by his leadership: that
he was to be sued by his wife for
divorce-that his health has broken
down and for this reason he must
give up the office: that Mr.. Tumulty
is to supersede Mr.. McCombs, and
have charge of the campaign of Mr..
Wilson in 1915.
All of these statements have been
positively and emphatically denied by
the two gentlemen in question.
The latest effort to create the i'm
preston that there is dissension in
| high Democratic ranks is the "spe-
cial'' from New York to certain anti
administration newspapers, to the ef-
| feet that '3the impression is growing
that President Wilson is not to run
in 1916 and that "the question is to
be put squareiy up to him" by friends
of other possible candidates in short
\ time. 1t is laid out in this deftly
woven yarn that itching candidates
are becoming restive under the i'm
preston that~Mr. Wilson has inform
ed Mr.. Bryan tina; he will not seek
! reelection and that this gives Mr..
Bryan the ''inside track" No init
nation is given as to who will put
the question squarely up to" Mr..
| Wilson.
1t may be said with the highest
| authority that President Wilson is
not giving any real thought to the
campaign of 1916. Even the conven-
ton is more than a year away, and
| the election nearly two years: and
there have been few periods in the
| worlds history which held greater
things in prospects than the next
eighteen months.
The campaign Of nineteen-sixteen
| will be taken up by the Democratic
leaders when the proper times ar
rives until then they have more i'm
portant matters in hand.