The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-07
FATE Of THE PROPHET
Bids Fair at Last to Over
wheIm Bryan.
AMONG HIS OWN KIN
Honor in Which He is Held
Takes a Slump.
Especial Correspondence lof the Eagle,

Nopeclal correspondence of the Eagle.)
Washington, Jan. 6.-There is beauti-
full fight brewing in Nebraska which may
result in seriously handicapping Mr..
{ Bryan, even in his presidential aspira-
tons. Word has reached here of a direct
slap which the silver champion has re-
eeived by the swell Democratic organi-
cation Of Omaha, the Jacksonian club.
Every year, on January s, it is the Gus
tom Of this club to hold big banquet
at which the greatest western silver lead
ers and bourbons are present. This year
Mr.. Bryan was given an opportunity. to
be present and address the assembled
Brethren Of the Democratic and silver
ranks. So, also. were Mr.. Overmeyer of
kansas, Governor Poynter and other no.
. Gables. Still another invited guest was
, George NJ. Hitchcock, editor of the Oma-
ha World-Herald, and the man whom
Governor Poynter turned down for SEN
ator at the instigation of Mr.. Bryan when
Senator Hayward recently diAd and there
was vacancy to fiji. Mr. Hitchcock was
a leading candidate for the senatorship.
He was a Democratic candidate. Year
in and year out he had advocated the tri-
umph of Mr.. Bryan and had worked indie
fatigably for him. When the senatorship
was in sight, Mr.. Hitchcock thought it
time for him and the Democrats to be
rewarded. But Mr.. Bryan thought other
wise. He had had a little trouble with
the Populists of Nebraska and thought
to conciliate them by the support of For
mer Senator William Vincent Allen. He
wired Poynter from Texas The next
morning Allen was named by the COVER
nor. Hitchcock issued a manifesto stat
ing how he thought he and his friends
had been used, and promised several diff
J Weren't kinds of trouble to the boy orator
The latter is now getting this on the in
stallment plan. Mr.. Hitchcock was asked
by the Omaha Jacksonian club not only
TO be present at the blowout, but to act
as POSTMASTER. This function is gener-
ally performed by the president of the
club, and there is no mistaking the sen
timent of the organization when it de-
parts from its usual custom and asks the
man whom Bryan has snubbed and turn
ed down, and who is now criticising Bry-
an, to occupy the most conspicuous place
in the celebration. When Bryan heard
of the invitation to Hitchcock he set
about to fix things so TIT the prominent
position would not fall to the Lincoln
editor He put his men on to the thing.
but they all fell down in the fixing bust
ness. So Mr.. Bryan is not sure whether
or not he will attend the blowout, and
Nebraska Democrats are happy.
Senator Aliens appointment IS said TO
have been secured as a shrewd political
play on the part Of Mr. Bryan but it
does not seem TO be working out just
right. Mr. Allen was here from 1893 to
1889. when he was succeeded by Senator
Hayward, the man whom he succeeds in |
turn. Mr. Allen is known chiefly be-
cause Of the fact that once upon time
he made an 1S-hour speech in the senate
on a finance bill. Allen was prominently
mentioned for the Populist presidential
nomination in 1896, and was chairman Of |
that party's national convention at. st.
Louis that year. He fell in line in the
Bryan procession. however, but did rot
give up his presidential aspirations for
good He is said TO have been turning
the proposition over and over again in
his mind whether he would not be a can
Ciiiatc in 1900 and is further said tc have
s-Iggo 81 &c this very thing to Bryan wnen
the senatorial vacancy came uc Mr.. |
Bryan mon fixed the senatorial affair.
Sr6 ai<ing of Bryan, Sc g -ur Stew1-t |
the other day made this statement about |
Bryan. which shows that the silver-hair- |
ed and bearded and equally silver-minded |
Nevada senator oes not believe implicit |
ly in the boy orator: II gave Bryan some |
good advice once, but probably he /
thought lightly about it; any way he !
didn't follow 1T out. I told him to go !
abroad, TO travel over many lands, write
descriptive articles of his journeyings |
avoiding American politics, and later 60
back to Lincoln and enter upon the prac-
tice of his profession. I toresaw that
even as great man as he Is ca1 be too !
much on exhibition without weakening |
himself He will see this some day In
the meantime, if the stampede does not
rnaterialize we shall have heard the last
of the presidential aspirations of W. ].
Bryan
Senator Stewart is also an expansionist,
as the following clearly shows: My poll
CIV Is TO take all the land we can get,
and treat the people who come with ii as
our children We cannot afford to treat
some of them as step-children. When we
begin that we may have discord in the
family circle I believe in expansion. as
alreav stated. and believe that it was
to the good OF the country. \
country which doesn't grow. like a tree
which has attained its fun growth, be-
gins to decay"
The open-door is assured. The six
great powers of Europe have responded
favorsbly TO the correspondence Of the
of state. The proposals Of this
country not only secure protection Cor the
commerce of this country. but tend 70
liscourage disagreements- between any
.wo Of the foreign countries with respect
u trade with China and makes the inter
ISIS of one party to the agreement the
of all. These negotiations have
80, FASTENED because they have been
r-,a1 on direct with the powers through
,,,r conservatives at the courts. What
he United States secures is that the
.,,hts This country already has in China
,Eau he uninpaired II is stipulated that
80 shall be no discriminative rates on
.oase butlt in China by foreign powers.
,,,aricans shall be free 20 make con-
- With Chinese authorities; the
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