Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1920 — BRYAN HEADS MOVE TO BEAT COX AND WETS [ARTICLE]

BRYAN HEADS MOVE TO BEAT COX AND WETS

Washington, Sept. 6.—Not only will William Jennings Byan, three times Democratic candidate for Presidential Democratic nominee, oppose Jas. Cox, Democratic nominee, but he will head a nationwide movement to elect two-thirds majorities in both Senate and House that will be able to defeat any measure a “wet President” might devise. This became known following a conference here by the Nebraskan with Wayne B. Wheeler and other national dry leaders. Mr. Bryan is known to regard Governor Cox as a Wet candidate. Wires Appeal To Paper. Mr. Bryan’s paper, the Commoner, will be the official organ of the new “nonpartisan two-thirds dry Congress movement.” His first official act occured today when he .wired an appeal, to the drys for publication in the Commoner. It reads something like this: “As the wets are pledging themselves to support wet candidates Without regard to party affiliations, the drys should disregard party lines and secure a Congress two-thirds dry in both houses so that necessary dry laws and appropriations can be passed over the vote of a wet President, and so that a wet President may be impeached and removed from office if by failure to enforce the law he violates his oath of office.” , •. When Mr. Bryan was asked how he 'reconciled his stand with his reply that he “was still a Democrat” when Hie Prohibition party offered him the presidential nomination, he said : .... “I regard it entirely within my right as a member of the party. Since I have been active in politic* I have known one Democratic President to help elect a Republican President and yet remain a Democrat (in this he referred to the attitude of Grover Cleveland during Mr. Bryan’s first campaign for the presidency.)