The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-05-13
He Means Mischief.
(Savoyard in The State.)

Our dearly beloved Republican
friends are toting heavier supply
of tribulation than is fair share for
a single political party. The cam
paign Of 1916 made it plain that the
e. o. P. can not get along without its
share of the Mississippi states
in the electoral college, and gradually
the party is awakening to the horror
that if it would shold its share of the
Mississippi it must nominate a
Progressive.
Nor is. that all. In reality there
are but two Progressive candidates
for its nomination-Hiram Johnson
and Herbert Hoover. Wood is a
standpatter and Poindexter does not
attain to the class of the "'also rams"
1t need not astonish you. therefore,
If in desperation the Republican ma
tional convention chooses Hoover as
the. one candidate equipped to head
Oft "Hell-roaring Hi.'
In its crusade against President
Wilson the party Of great moral
ideas enlisted under its banners
more sorts of politics than ever be-
fore got together. There were the
standpatters of the Penrose-Lodge
stripe, the Progressives Of the Ken
yon-Beveridge stripe, the pro-Ger-
mans Of the La Follette-Lenrott-
Norris stripe, the radicals of the May
or Thompson stripe, the I. w. w. Of
the Seattle stripe, the city slum boil
shevist of the William Randolph
Hearst stripe. and the Sim Feiners
of the Judge Cohalan stripe
Others enlisted under the Republi-
can banner in this war on Wilson
were Jim Reed. Of Missouri; Hoke
Smith, of Georgia.; Joe Bailey, Of
Texas. and Bill Bryan, Of Nebraska.
There are others of like kidney in
the squad the immaculate and altruis-
tic Henry Cabot Lodge marched
through coventry at the head Of.
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William Jennings Bryan means
mischief, and thrill of victory filled
every Republican heart when tidings
came that Republican voters of both
sexes in Nebraska had forced him on
the Democratic party as a delegate
to the San Francisco convention. AS
Grover Cleveland once so pertinently
remarked, 'this is time for plain
speaking" Will the Democratic par
ty allow William Jennings Bryan to
dump on the national convention a
cart load of reasonable discord? If
not it will be the duty of the Demo-
cratic convention to sit down on Bry-
an, even harder than the Missouri
Democrats sat on Jim Reed the other
day.
OF course, Mr.. Bryan must make a
speech. The Democratic party is a
stickler for the constitution Of the
United tSates, and has due regard
for the eighth amendment Of that
precious instrument which forbids
the infliction Of cruel and unusual
|punishments upon the citizen, and it
is notorious that to withhold from
Bryan opportunity to make speech
" ould be punishment cruel in the ex-
treme, inhuman and unspeakable.
ast
Here Is the matter for the Demo-
cratic convention to grapple with and
solve the very first thing after it
copvenes: Shall William Jennings
Bryan run the convention, shall he
boss the Democratic party? His vanity
is simply stupendous, and there never
appeared in our public life more
selfish individual and a more self
seeking politician. There is no hon
orable compromise. Either Mr.. Bry-
an must be allowed to run tho con-
vention or the convention rebuke Mr..
Bryan. He means mischief and moth
ig but mischief.
Recently I read Champ Clark's book