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"MARSE HENRY" DISCUSSES PROGRESS OF CAMPAIGb Under the caption, The Progres of the Campaign,'' Henry Watter son writes most interestingly in Th Courier-Journal concerning Bryai and democracy's chances, touchin on the New York press, the socia trend and other topics in passing His editorial follows: I. The New York Times, which se out in the campaign but just begu to' blacklist the democrats, has beei driven into something like faire: play by the wider and wiser polic of its local newspaper competitors. It think5 to recoup itself by a sys tem of half-truths, designed general ly to muddle the discussion; that is to misrepresent Bryan and to make for Taft. The Sun does this in it: own sardonic way. It is amusing but not impressive. The Times af fects the tone of the reformer, being nothing if not a mugwump, and em ploys the language of complacency The Sun is professionally sinister The Times is theoretically pompou and tricky. It concedes all that a intelligent patriotism may saa against the republican party and al that an intelligent republicanism ma3 say against Theodore Roosevelt, and having established an unanswerablE case for the democrats, proceed4 calmly to urge its readers to vote fo: Taft. The pretext for an attitude s< specious and shallow, so inconsisten and illogical, is Bryan. The demo cratic nominee arraigns the republi cans upon their monstrous tariff. ThE Jimes admits the force of all he say: and adds: "It is too bad that the tariff is not an issue in this cam paign. If it were an issue Mr. Bry an's speech would have some effect But Mr. Bryan himself is the issue and with whatever eloquence he nia3 denounce Dingleyism and protectioi the people have their eyes on hin and will not take them off.'" S< with every other arraignment of re p..blican misrule made by Mr.. Bryan "It is useless," says the Times, witl a lofty wave of the hand, all uncon scious of its absurdity; for if Taf1 be not Roosevelt, he is a fraud, but i: he is Roosevelt the Times is left t< choose between being a bigot or cheat. Argument with a spirit so pervers< is out of the question; and I take i for a text only because, having th4 accurrulated prejudices of twelv4 yeat-s to support its false assump tions, it is well aimed and timed t< mislead the - unthinking and unsus pecting. My single purpose is som< revision of the experience of thos4 twelve years. I am, as it were, missionary of truth in these easterr wilds, and, given the opportunity t< be. heard, I do not mean to go baed to God's country until I have sait my say. It may not be amiss to adi that I receive not a penny of compen sation and fhat there is no office th< acceptance of which I would s< much as consider. II. During ten years, from 1896 t< 1906, no one rejected Mr. Bryan foi a leader more resolutely than my self. If I could finally rgach hin and accept him any good democral can, It may help the yet undecide( if I relate how I did. In the ea--ly part of 1907 I pro posed a parley having for its purpos some agreement amop1g the. Bryar men and the anti-Bryan men touch ing a presidential nominee other thai Mr. Bryan. During ten months thi: encountered from the anti-Bryai men either indifference or detrac tion. I got no second to -my motion Emulating the frontier presiding of ficer, who said, "Second your motion you son of a gun,'' they would non< of it. So I went to Florida, leaving them to go to thunder, or words t< that effect, and the entire winte: passed, the nomination of Mr. Brya being either openly accepted or sil ently conceded by eveiy public mai suggested as an alternative. Finally in the early spring, two facts, suffi iently ascertained to be conclusive decided me; first, that an overwhelm ing majority of the democrats of th South and West were for-Mr. Bryar in spite of the argument I had mad against his availability as a candi date; and, second, that the belate movement to defeat his numinatio: appeared under equivocal patronag and involved the use of money whiec emanated from doubtful sourcee This latter, boding party disruptior impelled me actively to take a hand uring a refusal to remain silen while a scheme. dangerous and n wo-thy in character, pereolated be neathi the surface. The result was friendly conference with Mr. Bryu SIntelligent people will not need i be told that there is all the diffei ene' in the wo,rbl bet ween symtpatLly r a areenticii-though tentative anil o)pposition and antogonism t io igi resting upon questions only of expedieicy. There was, of course, a reverse side of the shield. Mr. Bry an had his ..ory to tell and this em braced a very strong ease. What l authorization had he to name a sue cessor in ease lie stepped aside? What power. had he. conceding the will. to transfer his following to an other? Not one. but half a dozen, aspirants would take the field im mediately on his withdrawal. If a majority of the party was for him, what had made it so? Surely neith er organization nor money, nor ofher effort of his than the constant preach ing of democratic gospeTs. If he agreed to stand down and out, desig nating an heir apparent, would he not become a. dictator, an autocrat, and what difference would there be in his naming a successor, and at tempting to foist him upon the party, and Roosevelt's naming and forcing Taft upon the' republicans He did not stand upon his rights at all; up on his claims; upon his wishes, or ambitions. He put the facts of the situation plainly, impersonally, pre cisely as they wore and are, and there was no reasonable answer to be made by any reasonable man. Then and there I laid down my hand. As a good democrat, seeing clearly, and, as the sequel has shown, seeing truly, the drift of the winds, I accepted the inevitable; but I did this in no dubious way. I make not half friendships with any man, or set of men. There had never been anything more than skin deep be tween myself and Mr .,Bryan. Noth ing even skin deep renmained, and, when the interview had in New York was concluded I went forth to fall back upon the old line of battle and take up again in the order of march where it had been interrupted in 1896. The anti-Bryan habit is self-decep tive. It is a pure delusion where not a form, often an unconscious form, of infidelity to both duty and truth. Is it not the part of wisdom and justice-and is it not time that those democrats who have con sistently opposed him should look in to the whys and wherefores with the purpose of reviewing the past, of re vising the present and of casting some kind of balance sheet upon the ledg.er of their opinions and conduct? We need not enter upon any course of crimination and recrimination. 'Whatever free silver was, or was not, as an economic issue, it is no longer here to divide us. Those who contended for it, led by Mr. Bryan right or wrong as to the fiscal pro pojtion-thought they were fighting 'for the masses against the classes, for the people against the preroga tive. and against the same old Money Devil we had all fought under the leadership of Mr. Tilden- and Mr. Cleveland. That question out of the way, what is there now to divide us? Nothing upon the face of the conten tion except the personality of Mr. Bryan. "Having been twice beaten, he can never be elected,'' says Sir Oracle. "Having been twice be'aten he can never be elected,'' shriek the republicans. "Having been twice beaten he can never be elected,'' echo unthinkinig democrats. Yet it is this twice-beaten candidate whom the rank and file of democracy cling to and whom republican leaders and newspapers most savagely abuse. In my opinion it is because there is in the people a discerning instinct Iand in Mr. Bryvan a reflecting spirit 'which make for mutual trustfulness. Mr. Bryan upon acquaintance proved different from my preconcep tion of him. I met not a visionary orator, but a man of sense, in deadly earnest, 'direct and candid. Coming to know him better, seeking him in his home. I found a man' able and > sincere, devoted and devout, having e a ch]ild-like faith in the people, in i God and truth. I changed my opin - ion altogether. I felt that I had 1 done him injustice. I would as soon trust him in the white house as - Gerge Gray or Richard Olney; and ,I believe that when he gets there - militant .democracy of the school of a Jefferson and Tilden will renew its youth and vigor leading the way to a such reforms in the national house - and senate as will restore them their I legislative functions and give the i people assurance of real and lasting good. No party was ever known to re - form itself. Republican promises to reform republican abuses make but a poor deathbed repentance. Taft t means either "four years more of - Theodore'' or a new lease for Ald -rich. Caunon & Co. Bryan means. if nothing else, the new broom that - weep'eti: eea n, upon t he fI 'rs that > are admittredly foul. The-re must be - ' an ccasional change of parties if III. It is a peculiar misfortune an an augurv of evil that the people i the east-notably the people of Xe York--et their mental sustenan chiefly throughi the organs of tl rich. In the bucolic days ")efo' tl: war" the people of the gulf Statc were fed from the same trough. The: newspapers sang only the virtues c slavery. None others were allowe to exist. In the fabulous wealth c the east piled up in a few hands some of it predatory-much of sprung from class legislation--all c it more or less corrupting-it is eas to detect a growing likeness to th patricianism of the old South. Already artificial conditions c life predoniniate. Young men ai reared to regard enthusiasm as efft minate. Young women are almost o educated in a knowledge of evil a young men. The sex line becomes le: and less visible. Moral confusio makes political abliquity. Cast distinctions press the commonalt more and more, and harder and hai der. The foolish poor either hate c emulate the foolish rich. Graft i everywhere. Money-making seems t have swamped simple patriotism an popular ideas. The newspapers ar so used to this that they grow ca] lous--they take their complexio from society, which is well please with itself and wants things to rE main as they are-a dissonant not denounced as the ignorance of a outsider, or the outcroppng of anar chism. ' It was just so in the Carc linas fifty years ago. He who di not shout for slavery was an aboli tionist. The worst of it is that the rich ar ever ready to make common caus with the predatory rich. They do no discriminate. Mr. Roosevelt ha gone much further in socialistic es tremism than Mr. Bryan ever weni Yet those who abuse the president denouncing Bryan as a socialist-d not so characterize Roosevelt; an they will vote for Taft because the; think that, Teddy Bear, stowed safe ly away in the wilds of Africa, "Bi: Bill'' and ''Sunny Jim,'' with Ald rich in the senate and Cannon in th house, will soon have the elephan where they want him; the truth be ing that, for all the chatter abou trustism and rebates, a spectacula fine, which will never be collected remains the single trophy. Two or three years ago the countr; stood aghast before the exposure precipitated by the insurance scar dals, and all good men were vowin; that they would not stop until th Augean stables should be cleaned The traction scandals followed. No a method has been altered. Not a eul prit is in jail. But the ''business o the country'' requires that ther shall be no furs .r agitation and il rder to secure peace and quiet w must elect Taft, who swears b; Roosevelt, and Sherman, who swear by Roosevelt, each of them findin; im ''a good enough Morgan till af ter the election.'' Is this anythin; ther than perfidy and dishonor, and if it should succeed, will not the con itions to be ultimately reformed b so grievous as to transcend th agencies of statesmen, and so becom the sport and prey of the mob? I not, for example, the other end c protectionism anarchy? Once upon time we had a famous governor o Kentucky, old Charles Scott, the In dian fighter, who used to say tha when things grow bad they are har to mend, but that ''when they ge damned bad they just cut loose an mend themselves.''" Mr. Bryan has suffered from ove praise as much as from over-abus' Yet never an abusive word that said of Mr. Bryan but was said C Mr. Jefferson. One need only tur back to the republican newspaper of 1876 to learn what a peril to pai riotism and property Mr. Tilden was No honest interest has any more t fear when the democratic party t< day, led by Mr. Bryan, than it ha to fear when the party was led b Mr. Tilden and by Mr. Clevelan< each of whom encountered the sam line of argufication which is no, used by republicans to defend the as sertions if .nearly fifty years, e: pressed for the most part in office and abuses. The public service afflicted with bone felon. Shall tb finger be lanced and cured, or sha: we allow the disease to continue t burrow below the surface until noti ing will save the body politie bi the amputation of the hand? This is the problem for the voter to consider. Forbidden by the 02 gns of the :riehi-,making commno cause with the predatory rich-to se he truth an dit coinsider the actual 1- ir wael dp.n III p,o1n how l ey \"(te-the utloo)k for sound opinions and just conclusions here in the east d is not encouraging. Yet New York )f lives and thrives off the west and south, while it is to the interest of all the people that the politicians at ie Washington shall not become so en ie trenched in power-so unmindful of s their origin and obligations-that ir nothing short of a revolution will be if able to remove. them. d f 500 Mile State Family Tickets $11. 25.-Good over the Atlantic Coast t Line in each State for the head or de if pendent members of a family. Limit Yed to one year from data of sale. ie 1000 Mile Interchangeable Indivi dual Ticket $20.00.-Good over the I in the Southeast aggregating 30,000 -e miles. Limited to one year from date of sale. s 2000 Mile Firm Tieket $40.00. s Good over the Atlantic Coast Line ;s and 30 other lines in the Southeast e aggregating 30,000 miles; for a man ager or head of firm and employes li lines in the Southeast aggregating 41, r mited to five, but good for only one of such persons at a time. Limited to S Atlantic Coast Line and 30 other lines d one year from date of sale. ,e 1000 Mile Southern Interchangeabla [. Individual Ticket $25.00.-Good over n the Atlantic Coast Line and 75 other d 000 miles. Limited to one year from s data .f sale. e All mileage tickets sold on and af n ter April 1st, 1908, will not be honor. ed for passage on trains, nor in checking baggage (except from non d agency stations and stations not open for the sal eof tickets) but must be presented at ticket offices and there e exchanged for continuous tickets. e 15 cents saved in passage fare by t purchasing local ticket from our a agents. Atlantic Coast Line. T. C. White, General Passenger Agent. o W. J. Craig, d Pasenger Traffic Manager, V Wilmington, N. C. O NEWBEERY UNION STATION. e Arrial and Departure of Passenger t Trans-fective 12.01 A. M. Sunday, June 7th, 1908. t Southern Railway: No. 15 for Gre'enville .. . .8.57a.m. No. 18 for Columbia .. ..1.40 p.m. Y No. 11 for Greenville .. ..3.20 p.m. s No. 16 for Columbia .... .8.47 p.m. C., N. & L. By. g *No 85 for Laurens .. ....5.19 a.m. e *No. 22 for Columbia .. . .8.47 a.m. L No. 52 for Greenville .. 12.56 p.m. t |No. 03 for Columbia .. . .3.20 p.m. - No. 21 for Laurens .. 0.7.25 p.m. f *No. 84 for Columbia .. ..8.36 p.m. e .*Does not run on Sunday a This time table shows the times at e which trains may be expected to de y part from this station, but their da s parture is not guaranteed and the g time shown is subject to change with -out notice. g =0. L. Robinson, lStation Master, e .BLUZ BIDGE SCHEDULES. e Eastbotind. e No. :8, leaves Anderson at 6.30 a. s mn., for connection at Belton with f Southern for Greenville. a No. 12, from Walhalla. leaves An f derson at 10.15 a. in., for connection Sat Belton with Southern Railway for t Columbia and Greenville. d No. 20, leaves Anderson at 2.50 t p. mn., for connections at Belton with d Southern Railway for Greenville. No. 8, daily except Sunday, from r Walhalla arrives Anderson 6.24 p. in., with connectio?is at Seneca with *Southern Railway from points south. No. 10, from Waihalla, leaves An n derson at 4.57 p. in., for connections sat Belton with Southern Railway for Greenville and Columbia. Nol Westbound. No 7, arrives at Anderson at 7.50 a. in., from Belton with connections d from Greenville. No. 9, arrives at Anderson at 12.24 p. in., from Belton with connections from Greenville and Columbia. Goes e to Walhalla. SNo. 19, arrives at Anderson at 3.40 p. mn., from Belton with connections from Greenville. ~s No. 11, arrives at Anderson at Ls 6.29 p. mn., from Belton with con e nections from Greenville and Colum Sbia. Goes to Waihalla. 0 No. 7, daily except Sunday, leaves -~ Anderson at 9.20 a. mn., for Walhalla, Lt with connections at Seneca for local po(ints so'uth. s Nos. 17.8, 19, and 20 are mixed -trains between Anderson and Belton. n Nos. 7 and 8 are local freight e trains, carrying passengers, between i- Anderson and Walhalla and between VULCAN madeJhe TRY TME VULCAN Well unWied;.Strong, Dul R1 Strengthened Mold Full Cl1 Point, Land and Standard., Point Chill, Long Snoot Chill,' Patent STRONGEST and MOST DURAI When buying a Plow, Consider Q10 FOR SALE I E. M. EVAN You Make Ni When You Purcha GOODS FR( We bought when goods I and we sell at much LO the everlasting Bargain D The nimble nickel is mo than the slow dollar. Compare quality and yo that the greatest GEN U I always to be found at O. 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