BRYAN SAYS PRESIDENT COULD NOT GET ALONG WITH REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) On November 4, 1920, William Jennings Bryan* issued a statement calling on President Woodrow Wilson to resign. Mr. Bryan wrote...
"Mr. Wilson should resign at once."
Bryan believed that the resignation was justified by the results of the Election of 1920.
He recommended President-elect Warren G. Harding be appointed Secretary of State and then assume the presidency with the resignation of Vice President Marshall.
Bryan also wrote...
"The President attempted to drive out of public life every Democrat who dared to differ from him (and) he alienated all Republican support and invited partisan opposition just before the election of 1918. He refused to deal with the Senate as a co-ordinate branch of government."
*William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was born in Salem, IL & was 1st in his class at Illinois College & earned his law degree at Union Law College (Northwestern) in Chicago. WJB, a renowned orator, served in the US House of Representatives 1891-1895.
He was the Democratic nominee for POTUS in 1896, 1900 & 1908. WJB was Secretary of State under Wilson 1913-1915. He joined in the prosecution of John Scopes in the Tennessee evolution trial in 1925.
SOURCE
"Bryan Demands Wilson Resign at Once," The Washington Times, November 4, 1920, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
