The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-23
MR.. BRYAN'S FUTURE.
Gossip Of Politicians copcerning the
Democratic Leader.

Democratic Leader.
The neutrality-suspicious. the sill
yer leaders continue TO discuss Mr.
Bryan and his future. says the Wash
inSton Star. VIII he remain prominent-
~ in evidence on the stump and lecture
platform during the next three years?
And If so, what will the effect be on his
fortunes in 1900?
The concensus of opinion in silver
circles is that Mr.. Bryan expects 10 be
and should be the candidate OF his
party again for the presidency. He is
practically devOting his whole time to
the silver cause. He is in easy cir
cumstances financially His book is
selling well, and his addresses. when
his subject is silver. are remunerative.
he is generous with mis- earnings, Civ
ing 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, prefers always to
talk on the subject nearest his heart.
The abolition agitator. when invited to
speak or lecture, would name rather
stiff terms for ANYTHING in a literary
line. but would respond for nothing if
permitted 10 discuss slavery. So with
Mr.. Bryan. He is always ready 10 talk
silver, and without price if the cause
can be advanced. But his income from
both his tongue and pen IS said TO be
large, and this enables him 10 give over
the law and everything else upon which
at one time he depended for a living.
Next fall Mr.. Bryan viii probably
appear in some or the state campaigns.
The programme has not yet been ar
ranged. There may be some difficulty
about arranging IT. for as strong a
drawing card as Mr.. Bryan is. there
are certain localities where his presence
might work injury to his party. He
will likely go to Kentucky 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. It is agreed
that Mr.. German Will not try 10 larry
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..
Mclean in Ohio each wants 10 make
the home campaign on the force of his
own personality. But the Introduction
of Mr. Bryan into the fight there would
upset these calculations. for wherever
Mr.. Bryan is there viii be free silver
also.
Some very interesting gossip relates
TO a foreign tour which Mr.. BRYAN is
said to have mapped out for himself.
AS the story goes, he will visit Mexico
next winter. and later go to Europe
and spend some time there. This VIII
enable him TO study at first hand and
contrast the conditions of the people IN
a silver standard country and in the
gold standard countries. and to equip
himself for e 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 him
self calls for thorough investigation
of ali subjects. financial and economic,
as travel as we'll as books may en-
power.
Moreover. according to report. Mr..
BRYAN 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 pre-
liminary stages of those changes