The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-11-10
ESHIIVCTON
MS ELECTION
70 Come and just AS Well
Get It Over at Once"
0pMENT BY DEMOCRATS
Goodwill Expressed Towards
| Harding; Cox Held to Have
Been Handicapped


waste OF time. Everyone knows the
why's and 'wheref,res" of a lanl-
laldc. The thing stands out plainly
ltS a general expression OF state of
tho public MIND and feelings. IL was
ite near non partisan expression as
ID practicable In tho United states to-
DAY. or as will ever be practicable SO
hng a. the race question Is not un-
ntistakably eliminated from the politi-
'sll question. .
There Is generally friendly comment
ia the president-elect ana vice presi-
dent-eiect among Democrats In Wash
tilaton. Senator Harding has always
been popular at the capitol building
AID In the capital city. He distinctly
inAprcsses one as being of the McKin-
Icy type. as his party has claimed.
Ptosident Mckinley was the object OF
tup(Ained attack In his campaigns for
ttlce hecause OF his alleged lack of
Nl'cisiveness and his disposition to
Avoid positive committal. Neyerthe-
11ca % President Major Mckinley won
llio heart OF the country by his tact.
hio ktndiiness and his uniform poise
nil1 ne was more popular and more
M)er1i after he had beeu In the
White House for years than he was
when he entered Il.
Prem the Democratic viewpoint. as
ezprsssed here. Il h considered good
thing that the election. as IL had to
10 the way II did, went that way 10
euch an extent that the new admins
tfAtion will Nave a strong working
majority at both ends OF the capitol
90 that the president will have fair
nold Tor all the broad policies which
ne may adopt In the task OF recon-
otructibn 10 which the country has
eominitted him and his advisers.
- In considered particularly for
tNuate. Ia view OF Senator Hardipgs a
elcellon By tremendous majority,
fhat he will have a margin In the sem
ets 90 ample that IL viii not be pos
rlble for the situation to be controlled
W two or three radical or fanatical
oenat0rs such rs Johnson. OF Califor-
MA. Borah, OF Idaho. anu La Toilette,
of Wisconsin. 49
Ifstne election had not gone so
overwhelmngiy az IL did. we should
have hecn justified In the assumption
1hat'it would have been impossible to-
sput. .the United States into any league
OF nations worthy OF the name. But
as Il IL. the prevailing sentiment heard
here n that the new administration
A likely Co go in for something that
win be at least better than nothing
an The league line, and win be able TO
obtain consent from the senate be-
cause OF a sufficient margin TO Offset
1he IrreconcIlabie element. sf"
There ts mucn speculation OF. tthe
7uture leadership OF the Democratic
party. Just ut the moment those who
arV doing most OF tho talking about
thls are themselves OF the Republican
persuasion. and their advice Is weak
ened by the manifest ignorance they
display as TO tho details or the Demo
cratic household.
Nobody acn tell at this stage OF the
game and In the confusion existing
what viii be- the situation in the
Democratic camp year from now.
Thcre will doubtless be new Issues de-
yeioped. and new leadership along
with them.
some OF the "old warehouses" are
zone beyond recall To national com
usand. One In former Speaker Champ
Clark who came so close to getting
the presidency I'm 1912. And the fa-
miliar story OF the coming return of
"P.criess Leader" Bryan TO- supreme
power In not getting much serious az
tcntion In these parts. The new lead
erahip which is To reconstruct the
Dppocratic machinery Is likely 10 bo
that OF men and women who have
stood by the party better than Mr..
Brynn has done and who have not con-
tributed TO last Tuesdays defeat.
Mr.. Bryan has Just given new
demonstration of his impractlcable
tendencies by the bizarre suggestion
that President Wilson should now re-
1gn. letting Vice President Marshall
become president. and that Mr.. Mar
shall should himself resign after ap-
pointing Senator Harding Secretary OF
state. 30 that tho senator would be
next In line for succession TO the
presidency. Thus. says Mr.. Bryan, the
peoples choice would go into the
Whato House without the otherwise
unavoidable delay until March A, 1921!
All Washington Is laughing over this
complscated exploit OF imagination. 60
In any calculations as TO Demo-
cratic reorganization, account must be
fsken OF the potentiality OF Mr.. Nc
Adoo, who came " y near being nom
mated at San Francisco in spite OF the
reaction against his father-in- law, and
who would not labor under the same
disadvantage as TO tho succession four
years hence as no did labor under at
san francisco.
The overwhelming defeat suffered
By Governor Cox In the big obstacle
90 his continued leadership Of his
n q
his position CT primacy, a. Mr. Bry-
|IEn did for so many years, he will he
wonder It is recognized that he
smpaigned at n great disadvantage
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