The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-04
Colonel Watterson Is Ger
tain of Wilson's Re-
election
TALK ABOUT HUGHES
is CHATTER"
No Stock Is Placed in the
Clark Bryan
Union

Miami, Fla, Feb. 4.--President vii
sons preparedness programme will b.
defeated in Congress, thinks Colone
Henry Watterson, leading Democrats
newspaper man in the country, but Meth
er the defeat of that programme, nor any
thing else, viii prevent the president
from being renominated, thinks Mr. Wat
terson. And this talk that he will not
accept the denomination if the country
does not rally TO his national defense
plan, is all rot" says the veteran editor
He will accept that nomination without
a doubt. He is candidate and no eandi-
date ever believes in his own defeat.
And il his luck hasn't exhausted itself,
he will be reelected"
Colonel Watterson is spending the win
ter at Miami. So is William j, Bryan.
Water and oil do not mix. Neither do
Colonel Watterson and Colonel Bryan.
They never meet.
From his hotel in Miami Colonel Wat
terson keeps his finger on the pulse OF
the nation just as though he sat at his
desk in Louisville. "The president seems
over excited" he said in an authorized
interview Wednesday. THAT is because
he is candidate for reelection. But
that any complete plan OF preparedness,
whether proposed by the administration
or compiled by the committee of Con-
gress, will be adopted as a result OF agi-
tation, more or less hysterical, and, in
spite of theorizers and experts, still very
far at sea, may be doubted. 1t is an i'll
. o.
much party politics to muddle public
opinion for one thing. Too many cooks
to spoil the broth Of legislation for an
Their Over all, the presidential election
directly ahead"
Mr.. Watterson believes in an increase
in the size of both the army and navy,
but sees no immediate use for either, re
CARELESS OF the outcome of the European
war.
mir. Watterson, how about the report
that Bryan and Clark are TO join hands |
10 prevent Wilson'S denomination.
"This is as it were the story OF a |
,ock and-a bull After what happened
Il Baltimore there can be no rapproche- |
nent betwixt Clark and Bryan. Each |
would have to be made over. Bryan and |
lark will combine neither for nor against |
my man"
"Who win be the Republican standard
bearer"
mo matter who else it may be, il will /
lot be Hughes" was the answer. This
ak about Hughes is mainly chatter
t fate meant Hughes to be president,
ate would have lifted him bodily from
Albany TO Washington. Great Judges
ave always proved disappointing candi-
ates. Hughes is no small bunch of an
ICEBERG himself. The faithful, who hew
he nominating wood and haul the cam
align water, want their look in and
hey can see no promise in those cola,
teel-gray eyes of his, not to mention an
ttending conscience which has shown it
elf sing,llarly unadjustable
"As / stated some time ago, / am
rawn into the impression that Theodore
Roosevelt may be the Republican nom
zee. The suggestion should prove pre-
osterous. Yet strange things have hap
ened--and we live in a land and an era !
the paradoxicsl, No one who has con
dered the character, the antecedents
nd the methods of the ex-presdent can
Dubt that he is a candidate. His CO.
letries with Root and Hughes will GER
Iinly not deceive Hughes and Root. 9
he basis of his profession is the popu-
+ support he received in 1912: of his
1pe the chaos which envelopes the Re
lblican situation. The leaders and the
asses Of the party are all at sea-"