The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-19
Urges the Boy Orator Not to
Make Any Promises in
the Campaign.
Is WILLING TO MAKE SPEECHES
On the Whole, the Colorado Better
PretendS to BE Pleased With
the Silver Candidate.

LINCOLN, NEBR., July 1S.-Mr. and
Mrs. Bryan settled down into the quiet OF
their home life again after the excitement
of the past ten days and expect to get a
week or two of rest before the real business
of the campaign begins. Both slept late
to-day, for the long journey OF yesterday
and the ordeal of last night had been very
severe. After breakfast they sat down at
the big desk in their little library and be-
gan an attack on the 5000 letters and tele-
grams that had been received by the
Democratic candidate since his nomina-
ton.
These epistles were nearly all congratu-
latory in character. Among them was
the following letter from Senator Teller:
DENVER, Colo, July Is, 1896.
Hon. ". j. Bryan, Lincoln, Nebr.- DEAR SIR:
l congratulate you on your nomination at
Chicago. l think the country is to be con-
graduated also. I need not assure you that
your nomination was more than satisfactory
to me. think we shall be able to consolidate
ali the friends of free coinage in your support,
and if we do this believe you will be elected,
although / do not overlook the tremendous
power that will be arrayed against US in this
| campaign. All the power of money and organ
lied wealth, corpora atoms and monopolies of
all kinds Will be against us. Justice is on our
side and this is the cause of the people. 1t is q
contest for Industrial Independence and for
freedom from the domination OF foreign
powers and foreign capital, and it does not
seem possible that in such contest before
the American people that justice should fail
and wrong prevail. do not believe that we
shall fail. I think can promise you the cor:
dial support of the Western silver men who
have heretofore acted with the Republican
party, and IL you get that think all OF the
Western, coast and inter-mountain States will
be with you.
will not offer any suggestion to you save
to advise you that you were nominated
without pledges of favor or privilege to any
one that you maintain that position and make
INTO the great Office of President of the United
States without the embarrassment that fol-
lows pledges and promises, even if they are
glch as may be properly carried out
1t will afford me pleasure to place myself at
the disposition of the national Committee TO
make speeches in your behalf as my health
will permit, where and when they think win
H. NJ. TELLER.
Downtown headquarters have been Sc
cured for Mr. Bryan at the Lincoln Hotel
and here he will receive visiting delega-
| tons and conduct most of the business re-
latiDg to his campaign. The rooms are on
| the second floor OF the hostelry, and were
of Mr.. Bryan without his knowledge.
| Much of the work of answering cor
| respondence will be attended TO, however
at his home on D street. where he will
! have the assistance of Mrs. Bryan.
! Mr.. Bryan had a numb Der of callers to-
day, principally old Lincoln friends, who
had not had the opportunity of seeing
him last night. His most important visit
ors were T. NJ. Patterson, editor of the
| Rocky Mountain News, of Denver, and G,
| M. Hitchcock, editor of the World Herald
of Omaha, Mr.. Bryan's own paper. Mr.
| Patterson will be one of the Bryan work
ers at the Populist Convention in St
Louis. He is a delegate-at-large to thai
convention from Colorado, and stopped
over at Lincoln en- route 20 st. Louis. Mr..
Patterson assured Mr.. Bryan that be
| would get so per cent of all the votes cas-
| in Colorado in the Presidential contest
The Democrats, he said, were a unit fol
Bryan, and he would receive majority O.
| the Populist and large number of The
Republican votes.
Senator Teller of Nebraska, who will di
| rect the effort to secure the Endorsement
of Mr.. Bryan's candidacy by the Populis:t
at st. Louis, is expected TO call on tbs
| nominee to-day or tomorrow. One of tn,
callers to-day was G. f. Washburn of Bos
ton, men Der of the National Committe,
| of the Populist party from Massaehu
setts. This afternoon Mr.. Bryan received
the following telegram from Forsyth
| Mont:
Four States bimetallic and Populist delega
lions on board the train, all favorable TO you
E. HoFE, Delegate from Oregon.