Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-27
4 DEEP-LAID PLOT,
Features of the Bryan Democrats
Mass Meeting Last Night.


The mass meeting called last night for
Bryan democrats. with the announcement
that none but real Chicago platform 16 to 1
Bryanites need apply. was held in the rear
hall on the third floor of the Oppenheimer
building. No. o14 9th street. About hun
bred enthusiastic men climbed the stairs,
and among them were William Holmead.
Edward l.. Jordan and George Killeen, who
of 1896; Edwin a. Newman, editor of the
Silver Waterman; p. O'Sullivan. Herman
Schulteis, w. A. Ryan of Rochester. who
once ran for Congress in that district !;
Charles G. Slater and others. Capt. J. III.
Collins, a fine picture of the southern gen.
tleman, with white hair mustache and i'm
perial. presided. and Mr.. II. H. Ramage.
secretary of the Antitrust League kept
minutes of the proceedings.
A Dark Plot Depicted.
The meeting opened with an animated dis
course by Mr.. w: A. Ryan, who possesses
no mean qualifications as a spellbinder on
the stump. He proceeded to acauaint the
gathering with the deep-laid plot within the
democratic. party which has for its purpose
the overthrow of Mr.. Bryan, 16 to l and
all the rest of the Chicago platform, and
the complete ignoring of antitrust, anti
Imperialism and anti-everything at present
vital to the democratic cause. He declared
that this deep scheme was connected by
democrats of the Whitney. Cleveland, Hill,
German and Croker type. all deep-dyed
trust champions, at the famous $40 dinner
in New YORK; but was delayed by the en-
thusiasm the populace showed at the dollar
dinner in Crystal Palace. which followed
There were five thousand men there
shouted Mr. Ryan, land two thousand wo-
men,.
Then the Tammany Society, which, he ex-
planned. is a patriotic organization within
Tammany Hail. had a Fourth of July din
ner, at which an unknown bird of the Will
lett family from Alabama was down to
launch boom for Augustus s. Van Wyck
1t happened. however that Representative
James ID. Richardson, the democratic lead
er of the House. who was billed to be pres
ent, was unable to come at the eleventh
hour.
Somebody said there was a Hogg, not
by nature, but by name, at the Waldorf
Astoria" said Mr.. Ryan. with genial pleas
antry, Governor Hogg of Texas and to
send for him to take Richardson's place.
and they did, and he made speech ex-
tolling Bryan to the skies, and when those
present heard the yells and cheers of ap-
proval from the Tammany rank and file
they grew pale, gentlemen, pale as ashes"
Mr.. Ryan then described Bryan's recep-
ton by the Democratic Club in New York
and in New Jersey and Connecticut. and
said the plotters grew paler still as they
held their ears to the ground and heard the
sound of the legions marching toward
Bryan.
Still Plotting, However,
AT last the great compromiser Of Mary
land, German. came out for Bryan and
Dick Croker came out the same way, and
then sailed for England. But all th.se
statements. gentlemen, were bluffs. The
pletters are still plotting. 1t will REQUIRE
two-thirds of the delegates to Kansas City
to nominate the presidential candidate.
Their plan Is now to secure over one-third
of those delegates. Suppose the District of
Columbia sends an unpiedged delegation of
1t would bs an example to all the states
and territories and would be used every
where to force similar action. See to 1t
that no man is sent to Kansas City who is
not pledged for William Jennings Bryan.
first. last and all the time"
There was uproariQus appiause and CON