Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-10

AR, SATURDAY, JUNE
ton of earryinssNeg York weeks before
some of the pivotal swestern states were
| for him. 1t was always my belief that
| Bryan expected tp carry Illinois. Any one
| familiar with ths state could not fail to
Major Mekinleysshnt there was enough on
| the surface to delute a candidate One
day during BrSan's. stay in Chicago 1
pubican com h e m nne there Pr ehe we're
| local politicians WHO. knew the city thor
oughly. They Yeret state of panic.
They told me o oha5 i Bryan stayed tn the
! they had formed add would win back
great many Thousand votes. 1 thought
| their fears were exaggerated, but gave
| them the reassurfng news that Bryan had
no intention of staying till the end of the
campaign. as he was fitting away that
night for Wisconsin. He came nearer suffer-
| ing a physical collapse during this Chicago
stay than at any other period of his re-
| markable canvass.
Thought He Would Carry Iowa.
When we were making the last of sew
eral journeys across Iowa the week imme-
diately preceding the election Mr.. Bryan
began to figure little on electoral votes.
Chairman Mark Hanna was giving out
some pretty convincing figures about the
states which were certain to go for Nc
Kinley It behooved Mr.. Bryan to present
a counter table for publication in the news
papers In looking 1t over I remarked with
some surprise that he rcluded Iowa in his
own certain column. Noticing my surprise
he asked If, in view Of the meetings he
was holding, the crowds which were pour
ing out to receive him, there could be any
doubt about the result In Iowa. In my own
| mind there was none, because / knew the
hawkeye state and felt that the certain
effect of the campaign Mr.. Bryan had
made would be to stir UP the republicans
and bring them to the polls in their old
time strength. This proved to be the case.
but in his calculations Mr.. Bryan was
eliminating the opposition and thinking
only of his own supporters.
It was the belief of those who travelled
with him that Mr. Bryan did not expect
to lose a single southern state. He was
even sanguine of Maryland He made cam
paign speeches through Tennessee and
North Carolina, as well as Kentucky and
the border southern states, but these were
chiefly for the purpose of strengthening his
followers in gaining control of the party
machinery. Kentucky probably the
greatest surprise that was given Bryan
While he knew the strength of the gold
democrats there, he did not believe that
they would desert the Chicago ticket in
large numbers. Since then 1 have noticed
that Mr.. Bryan pays a good deal of at
tention to Kentucky.
Has Become ResentfuI.
One of Mr.. Bryau's friends recently said
to me that he has become more resentful
than formerly. Though he said mean
things about the democrats who refused to
support him in 90, with two or three excep-
tons he showed little personal feeling. He
even talked philosophicaTly about J. Ster-
ling Merton and told stories of the way he
had beaten Morton in Nebraska politics.
Now l am given to understand that Mr..
Bryan is aggressive in the determination
nat 10 n ha
recognition. They are not to be welcomed
back as prodgals, ''and if they have front
seats at all 1t will be on the mourners'
bench, with labels designating them
mourners. who must serve the probation
airy term before being received into full
fellowship. That is Mr.. Bryan's fat and
it may be good politics. At any rate, his
friends are aasrdssively pushing their con-
troll of the democratic organization in the
eastern states, which gave him merely
nominal support in 1905. l have also been
told that they are fairly successful, and
that amount of manipulation will en-
able his opponents TO secure New Jersey
and the majority Of the New England
states. 1t part of Bryan's idea in
1895, when he proclaimed his descent upon
the enemy's country9 that If he failed to
convert the enemy az once he would gain
possession of the territory at later period.
How far this Is true events of a few months
may determine. Mr. Bryan himself, l have
been assured. Is not at all concerned over
the movement In behalf of former Senator
Arthur +. 'lE
Concerned About Newspaper support.
have, heard it whispered that Mr. Bryan
is more concerned now about newspaper
press to support his candidacy than about
other matters. Thoughall the big newspapers
and most of the smaller ones were against
him in 1896, they gave the greatest publici-
ty to his movements and to his speeches.
Next year there may not be so much novel
ty about Mr.. Bryan presidential candi-
date, and the opposition papers may give
him less attention. That Will be hurtful to
his candidacy. Three years ago he pro-
fessed to be satisfied so long as his speeches
We're reported. and this was done up to the
end of the campaign.
Bryan had one advantage over the news
papers. He talked to their audience of
readers and also to the audience which
within sound of his voice, Newspapers
could not always appreciate this circum-
stance. While Bryan was very skiHfui in
taking advantage of local. surroundings,
and in making local illustrations, he never
lost sight of the main point, winch was TO
reach the wider circle of newspaper read
ers He did not mind the criticisms much,
50 long as the papers kept discussing his
speeches. After listening to several hun
dred of these speeches. or to the same
speech with variations delivered several
times, they became pretty WeariSome to
those of US whose calling made it necessary
to hear them and to watch the effect on
the crowds to which they were delivered.
But in spite Of this WEAKNESS, L never found
any one who did not agree that Bryan was
an unexcelled campaigner in adapting him
self to circumstances He could make a
three-minutes speech at o'clock in the
morning, half hours speech after break
fast, an hours speech at midday, and two
hours speech at night, and in each of them
contrtve to present adroitly the points
which he was most Interested in getting be-
fore the public. II marvellous facul-
ty and one possessed by very few public
men. Nevertheless I question whether Mr..
Bryan would have equal success If he at
tempts a repetition of his canvass of 1896
Though his vocabulary is big as the
latest dictionaries. even he may talk him
self out. CHARLES NJ. PEPPER.
PHILADELPHIA AT HONOLULU.
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