The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-10

Don't Like ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
the newspaper men who accompanied Mr..
Bryan on his recent tour Of West Vir-
ginia and suffered with him the physical
discomforts of that trip had been with
the Rough Rider on his first Western cam
paign-the one he made through Kansas
and Oklahoma while the Kansas City Con-
ventfon was in session These newsUa-
per men are among the best known and
most experienced members of their craft
in the country When they learned that
Bryan and Roosevelt would be touring the
country at the same time and realizing
that their managing editors would expect
them to go with one or the other candi-
date they asked to be assigned to Mr..
Bryan's party. They did this in the full
knowledge that Roosevelts train would be
a spIendidly equipped travelling palace and
that Bryan's in all probability would be
the reverse In this latter expectation
they were not disappointed. for never be-
fore did Presidential candidate travel in
such modest style. The newspaper men
referred to explained that they chose the
Bryan assignment because of the personal
dislike they incurred for Roosevelt on
his Oklahoma tour. They say that he is
one of the most uncOmpanionabie and
.'erouchy" men they have ever been forced
to meet. and that in this respect he IS no
more like Mr.. Bryan or Mr.. Mckinley
than a wild boar is like a fawn. He
treated them they declare, with a super
ciliousness that they would look for only
from a pampered British lord or a weak
minded member of the New York Four
Hundred. and would admit them TO his
private car only when they received i'm
perative orders from their home Offices
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and even then they were not asked IL sit
down while they were compelled 10 talk
10 him On trips OF this kind there are
few more communicable men than Mr.
Bryan or Nj Mckinley. Each is at all
times accessible to the newspaper men in
his party; because both know that the
newspaper men are not inspired by any
silly or idle curiosity when they seek the
company of candidates for ofiice-eyen for
such high office as that of President
Roosevelt on the contrary is described
by those who have been out with him as
a 1nar who seems actually to regard him
self as n kind OF superior human animal
a great deal too good to talk like ordi-
nary mortals to newspaper men until he
wants to use them for purposes of self
eXpIoitation. and then his vanity is so
insufferable as to be disgusting. This, at
any rate. is the way he is talked about
by high-CldSS newspaper men VINO nave
had to travel with him.
Tint Dawes CommissiOn.-A gentle
man who has been in the Indian Territory
for several months and has had occasion
to be brought much in contact with :he
Dawes Commission brings to Washington
n strange story concerning the character
and conduct of that body. He relates in
the first place that the Chairman of The
Commission. the venerable ex-senator
Dawes of Massachusetts. has not been in
the Indian Territory since 1896. though
he regularly draws his salary OF $1,000
year in monthly installments. In the
absence of Mr.. Dawes Vice Chairman
Tlms Bixby, Chairman of the Republican
State Committee OF Minnesota. prosides
at the meetings Of the Commission. The
other two members are the Hon. Tom
Needles, of Illinois. and the Hon. Clifton
K. Breckenridge, of Arkansas. 1t is claim
ed by The Times informant that though
the Commission deals almost wholly with
delicate legal propositions, yet none of