The San Francisco call., 1898-04-16
MR. BRYAN APPEARS.

M K. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN ap- \ peared Tn Washington on Thursday to advo- cate raising the European blockade of Span wiich mas been created by the Presidents policy. Heera Lee has advised that the blockade stand that thele De no recognition of the unta and no demand TOT the dismemberment of Spain, her refusal to be the cause ot declaration of against her.
 Lee mas been mentioned the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency He has stood, with bravery ana patence Tn position of supreme diff cuty and has assisted the administration in preserv
 ing the isolation of Spain. He is popular. His re- ception m this country testihes to that Mr. Bryan has filed caveat on the next Democratic nomination
 He sees in Lee possible competitor who will carry away New York and the Southern delegations
 Therefore he must make politics against Lee in his own party and against the President in the country
 To do this he repairs to Washington to advise recog- niton of the Junta which Lee says should not be done MT. Bryans reason is stated to be that it will be the proper political step to take it will be popular"
 Reading the expressions from Continental Europe uttered at the very time Mr. Bryan was making per- sonal and party politics out of the prospective slaughter of men in war; plainly the result that will follow the acceptance of his advice. France ancient ally stands with Spain on the issue of dis iHShioSiHiSHl AuStTld StdnQS with france. From Germany comes no expression except of aversion and hatred for the United States Russia just estab-
 fishing herself at the end of march of two centuries
 Tn search of unfrozen harbor as the possessor of extraterritoral domain, has vital interests against the theory of right to demand dismemberment So
 from Biscay to the Baltic lies the possibility and ex- treme probability of Continental alliance with Spain MT. Bryan's good politics prevail in Con- gress.
 This nation is formidable It has 10000 900 fighting men, and what credit Mr. Bryan's conspiracy against its financial soundness leaves it. It can make war against Spain for the destruction of batteship and the murder of her crew, 1t intervene in Cuba, following long chapter of precedents established by all the European powers, and Spain can make this the cause of declaration of war. As the necessary result of either course Cuba will be liberated and our loss of life and treasure will be reduced to minimum The people of Cuba will then form government to suit themselves regardless or regard ful of the Junta, as they choose.
 MT. Bryan, however, does not want this plan fol- lowed. He wants issue to in his business of getting an office. Therefore he desires action by Congress that will be, in its final analysis, ,eclara- ton of against Continenta. Europe His selfish personal interests, he them require that the United States assume right not claimed by any em- plre, pr1nc1pallty or power from Babylon to these days He wants to demand the dismemberment of Spain, and to fight her if she refuse He wants to change the issue and shift the ground of contro- versy He wants to destroy the Monroe doctrine to abandon the traditional policy of this Government and to take position which dssolves every existing rule of international right and responsibility He is the ambitious youth scratching match to light a coniagration that will extend no man knows where and be quenched knows when
 Can credit Mr. Bryan with knowing enough to know what he is doing? On him is no official re- sponsibility That with the man who beat him Is his of propriety so bankrupt so drowned ill the great gulf of his consuming vanity as to cause the belief that he is the leader of the people, that he is the dictator of policy that he holds the issue of peace or war; of life or death?
 If so, he Is the of an awakening that will be instructive. Congress IS not composed entirely of elseeking politicians does the country wish to water MT. Bryarfs wheel with blood If it is to be shed the red stream will run that honor may live not that MT. Bryan may get office He has his analogue in Spain He is the American pretender the Nebraska Don Carlos, the political Bourbon who learns nothing and who forgets nothing His Span ish counterpart threatens domestic revolution if the Spanish Government go against his ideas while Mr. Bryan threatens to make issue at the polls if the man who beat him refuse to accept his leadership