Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-03
A THIRD CONVENTION
The Probability Of Mr. Bryan's Re-
nomination.
4 PAST PREDICTION FULFILLED
The Alleged Effort to Retire Him
and the Denals.
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II PREDICTION FULFILLED
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During the summer before the volley
firing of the political infantry began in the
campaign a prediction concerning Mr. Bryan
was made In The Star which has already
been verified in the strong undercurrent of
feeling denied in some quarters, but never
theless existent, that Mr.. Bryan must be
retired controlling factor in the deter
mination of the question to the next
democratic candidate and the future poll
Gle, of the party. and II would not be amiss
10 call it up now" said a well-konwn re-
Publican to a Star reporter today.
AT that time, while Mr.. McKinley's cleo
ton expected 1t was far from being an
assured fact. The republican leaders were
experiencing bad attack Of political ague,
and had sounded the slogan that If the rank
and file. headed by their state leaders, did
not get out and overthrow general apathy
Bryan might slip in. 1t had the desired
effect as all know. but the then existing
conditions must not be lost sight Of
The Prediction FULFILLED.
The prediction, in effect was this.
Bryan will be beaten by a victory more
decisive than in 1896. and he will lost the
west. But 50 great is the mans pertinacity
of purpose powerful his self-confidence,
buoyaut his spirits. vigorous his
health and so unconquering his desire and
determination to be President that he will
not acknowledge defeat. He will begin al
most from the very day after McKinleys
election to scheme for nomination for the
third time. will keep his name before the
public by writing. lecturing and other
methods peculiar to him that he may not
pass from the public's immediate view, as
is usually the case with defeated candi-
dates for the presidency, and the democrats
Will have desperate struggle to rid them
selves of their old man of the sea-
This fits present conditions like a glove
Mr.. Bryan never acknowledged defeat. but
bowed only to the temporary Will of the
people This could be read between the
lines of his first utterances after election.
which were nothing more or less than yelled
notifications that he would be a candidate
again IL he lived while now he says in his
Lincoln speech, in effect that he is still in
the ring; and that the future events which
are to guide his movements Will be directed
and manipulated, If he can control them, to
the end of his securing the nomination,
none can deny who has the least knowl-
fdgc of the man. He continued to fill the
columns Of his party's press, as before cleo
zion almost at once Then came his an
nouncement Of the establishing of his news
PAPER to keep alive his views and his cam
diGacy for a third time and now that GER
tair of the democratic leaders have awak-
eied. ways and means will be devised to
unwind his arms from their strangling hold
democracy. Reorganization is to be in
sisted upon. which means, In other words.
like the war of the roses. II Is to be for or
against Bryan's retirement.
What Bryan May Do.
:. REORGANIZATION of course. is impossi-
BILE until Bryan and Organism are utterly,
absolutely and thoroughly eliminated from
the democratic party. That's what 'reor-
gani1ation' means. Otherwise the party