Bryan's Bid for Presidency From Our Own Correspondent.
Washington, Jan. 16.
All calculations in regard to the forthcoming presidential campaign have been upset by the dramatic re-entrance into the political arena of Mr. W. J. Bryan. The pro. minent Democrats—10 "or 12 in number, who have only been awaiting an intimation from President Wilson that it was not his wish to be nominated for term before announcing their own candidacy, are shaking in their shoes, and the entire conservative wing of the party is filled with dismay lest Mr. Bryan should once more succeed in. hypnotizing the Democratic National Convention, secure the presidential nomination for the fourth time, and by the adoption of such an out-and-out radical programme as he has already foreshadowed attract to his standard not only the hosts of labour, organized and unorganized, but all the malcontents the country, never so numerous or so aggressive as now, and just -siting a leader.
The Republicans are getting what satisfaction they can out of the prospect of* Democratic disunion and the probability that a large section of the Democratic party would decline to follow to another defeat a leader who had thrice led them to disaster. But the Republicans cannot view without apprehension the possibility of the official Democratic candidate for the presidency appealing to the country on a socialistic platform. They would rather see both parties, whatever their differences regarding other questions, present a united front to that extreme radicalism which is undoubtedly making headway in America.
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