The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-05


Understandings to disf 3 Mr. Bryan !
and his future? Will remain prom-
nently in evidence on ! gstump and lee !
ture platform during II the next three
years? And if so, what the effect be on !
his fortunes in 1900? |
WHAT HE EXPECTS.
The concensus Of opinion in silver cir
cles is that Mr.. Bryan expects to be and |
should be the candidate of his party again !
for the Presidency. He is practically de-
voting his whole time to the silver cause. |
He is in easy circumstances financially |
His book is selling well, and his adj
dresses, when his subject is silver, are
remunerative. He is generous with his
earnings, giving to the campaign funds of
his party a liberal share He travels
a good deal, and is in receipt of many
invitations to speak. He is regarded
indeed. as the Wendell Phillips of the
silver crusade, and, like Phillips. prefers
always to talk on the subject nearest his
heart. The abolition agitator, when in
vited to speak or lecture, would name ra-
Their stiff terms for anything in literary
line, but would respond for nothing, if
permitted to discuss slavery. So with
Mr.. Bryan. He is always ready to talk
silver, and without price if the cause can
be advanced. But his income from both
| his speaking and pen is said to be large,
and this enables him to give over the
| law and everything else upon which at
| one time he depended for living.
| THE CAMPAIGNS NEXT FALL
| Next fall Mr.. Bryan will probably APP
pear in some of the State campaigns.
| The programme has not yet been ar
ranged. There may be some difficulty
! about arranging it. for as strong draw
ing card as Mr.. Bryan is, there are GER
| tain localities where his presence
might work injury to his party.
He will be likely to go to Ken
| lucky and help Mr.. Blackburn, but his
presence in Maryland, New York or Ohio
would stir up last years fires. and that
would mean Democratic disaster. 1t
is agreed that Mr.. German will not try
| to carry Maryland with a shout for free
| silver, nor could any Roadway be made
| either in New York or Ohio by employing
| such tactics. Mr.. German in Maryland,
Mr.. Murphy in New York and Mr.. Nc
Lean in Ohio, each wants to make the
home campaign on the force of his own
personality. But the introduction of Mr..
| Bryan there would upset these calcu-
| will free silver be also.
| A PROPOSED FOREIGN TOUR.
Some very interesting gossip relates to
foreign tour which Mr.. Bryan is said to
| have mapped out for himself. AS the
story goes, he will visit Mexico next win
ter. and later go to Europe and spend
| some time there. This will enable him to
study at first hand and contrast the condi-
tons of the people in a silver standard
| country and in gold standard countries
and to equip himself for n more thorough
discussion of public questions in 1900
than he was prepared to enter into last
| year. He is not a travelled man, and,
it is said, feels that the work he has cut
| out for himself calls for as thorough in
vestigation of all subjects, financial and
economic, as travel as well as books may
| empower.
| Moreover, according to report, Mr. Bry-
| an and his friends believe that great
| changes are on the cards for the near
| future in other countries besides the
United States, and all IN the line of the
| agitation he leads and hence his desire
! to inspect the foreign situation in what
| he conceives to be the preliminary stages
of those changes.