The sun., 1900-07-14
MR.BRYAN'SH DQUARTERS
JOHN JAY LENTz WANTS COLUMBUS
NAMED INSTEAD or CHICAGO.


PredictdrThst II Ohio Gets the Hesdq sarters the
Election Of the Free silver Nominee will BE
Just as Easy" ss n He Carried New York
Political Figures Through LentH Glasses.
LINCOLN, Neb, July is-Chicsso is not to
have 1t all her own way in the matter OF ma
tionsl headquarters. Columbus. Ohio. has
already appeared as rival, and to-day dele
cation from that city, headed by the redoubt-
able Congressman John J Ientz, arrived and
endeavored to enlist Mr.. Bryan in active sup
port OF the plan. Mr.. Lentz AVID his associates
took dinner as Mr.. Bryan's guests along with
National Committeeman Tarpy Of California.
Mr.. Lentz was very much in earnest. and very
insistent in his belief that the locating OF his
headquarters at Columbus would be factor In
the election OF Mr.. Bryan. He told the Presi-
Dental nominee that he thought the Demo-
Gratis had an excellent opportunity to win In
Ohio this fail. He said
The one thing we have TO do and 1t IL not
such very difficult task. is to organize the
opposition to the Republican party. so that Il
may work harmoniously. Nash was elected
Governor on the Republican ticket last fall
with a minority vote Of 5000 Had the vote
cast for Jones and Mclean been united on one
man. he would have been elected with an over
these two elements cannot be brought together
this fall. There i nothing SO conducive to
eiYe tive work as enthusiasm. and The location
of national headquarters at columbus. the
political centre of the State. will lend en-
couragement 20 our men. The national organi-
zation will be in touch with every sub-oreaniza-
ton in the State, and the enthusiasm this
would lend would be invaluable to the Demo-
cratic ticket in the State.
THE enthusiasm in Ohio occasioned by the
location OF national headquarters there will be
communicated to neighboring States and they
are the ones on which you must depend for
election. With the right kind OF management
you can carry Ohio, Indiana Kentucky. West
virginia and Maryland. To carry all OF them
you would have to overcome less than In either
Illinois or Wisconsin. and but little more than
in either Michigan or Minnesota. Taking the
vote of 1896 YOU will have to overcome but
5000 in Ohio, 5000 in Indiana. l?.OOo in West
Virginia and $50 in Kentucky. All of them have
shown Democratic symptoms since that time.
while Illinois. Michigan, Minnesota and Wis
consn have not With these States. in addition
to the ones carried IL 1895. you can be- elected
with i8 votes TO spare in the Electoral College
Along these lines Mr.. lentz hombarded Mr..
BRYAN for the two hours they sat In the candi-
dat favorite nook on the porch: MIR; Bryan
had received teegraphic notice OF Mr.. Lentzs
coming. and had met him at the depot MIR
Bryan questioned and talked but he did not
give Mr. Ienizs plan his sanction, Upon hiS
advice Mr. Lentz hurriei away this afternoon
to Chicago whore he has an engagement with
Chairman Jones tomorrow to talk over the
same matter
To IHE SvN correspondent Mr. LentZ scoffed
at the idea advanced BY Senator Lodge in his
notification speech yesterday. that the money
question could he forced to the front ana made
the paramount issue of the campaign,
Its, not only going 10 be Imperialism. he
said but 1t IL imperialism, IL is not what
LoCge says, nor whnt | say that makes any
question The paramount 'ssue II II what the
people say; and on the street corners. cars,
everywhers you go, the one subject Is imperial
Ism I consider Mr. Bryan chance for cleo
ton much better this fall than four years ago.
elected without the aid OF New York ! don't
consider New YORK possibility. nor do think
II VII. TO spend much energy in states mat gave
n big Republican vote In 1903 and have not
changed materially since. Bv locating the
headquarters at Columbus and making That a
centre from which 10 radate announcement
and enthusiasm 10 the debatabe territory. |
have pointed out, the Democratic ticket vii! be
There is much dissatisfaction with the Re-
publican party IN Ohio While Mckinley and
Hanna have made few friends by their ap-
pointments, they have made more enemies be-
cause o the greater number OF those who ap-
piled for positions and failed to get them. In
not another State has the national committee
man Of the party resigned As did Os George Cox
the position by Mark Hanna at Philadelphia.
Judge Bealte another prominent and tnnuen-
tial figure In the party IN years gone by, has
In which he says that the action of the Plia-
depha convention 40 far as the head Of the
ticket IA concerned was civil fraud ana the
nomination for second place military FRAUD,
These are elements that 30 10 show the dis
sension in the opposition and the possibility for
us If We take advantage Of the situation"