Show advocating DEWEY FOR there seems to be a slight taming turning away from bryan eves evem among bia his is anedest ta supporters of two years ago ARO the democracy has discovered that dewey ia is a democrat and the erstwhile devotees of william J bryan are now discussing the availability of the thep hero her 0 of manila to lead them to victory in 1900 the anaconda standard is the latest acquisition to the dewey campaign it bays that for the chief magistracy of the united states the army has furnished candidates and actual incumbents plenty of them but the navy has not been thus honored the army started off with washington then fol aswed civilians adams jefferson and eo so on antil jackson became a presidential possibility ae as the result of military achievement at B farat jackson was brought into rivalry with the younger adams and andl in n the v first contest he received more votes than badame polled the electoral college by dividing between jac jackson akson Or brawford raw tord and adams failed to mako make choice of a president at all an and d tb the e representatives voting by at states ate at chobe the man from Massae busettE fiat bat andrew jackson waa was twice a elected president at immediately succeeding oU aLl elections later on william henry harrison arrison ll an indian injian fia fighter later defeated a civilian martin van buren A A career in the mexican war elected taylor but pierce defeated winfield scott who bad had a record for distinguished service both in the war ot of 1812 andin and in the mexican war and so through the list including grant hayes garneld garfield and harrison it seems to be taken for granted that dewey is a democrat several republican politicians have resisted sis ted this claim in intraub Intra truth tb as is the case with most or of the gool men in the navy p island and present dewey dozen appear to be troubled with partisanship for that matter the same is true of some of the men whom the army ba has a furnished tarnished for the presidency it very well known in 1840 whether william henry harrison was a whig or a democrat ho he was popular and the whigs were the first to propose his nomination grant was goodenough good enough republican lican material in war days but hie his own memoirs eay say that tie be voted for bachanan buchanan in 1856 1956 11 we bellevo believe that were ilia democracy of the nation convinced that dewey would become their standard bearer in 1000 1900 they would aek ask no question bat but boom him through for the highest ollice office in the ritt gift of the people without asking the naval fighter whether he ia is for free sliver silver or gold cold protection or tree free trade only seeking the assurance that the fruits of victory fall into the handa hands of the office hungry multitude ol 01 democracy |