The age-herald., 1901-07-28
BRYAN IS STILL
 \ GREAT FIGURE. Difficult Task to Supplant Him in Democratic Party HILL. ANXIOUS FOR PLACE 1t Is Argued That Hill Would Not Be Popular at the Head of the
 Democrats-Who Will
 Be the Man?
BY W. r. MANNING.

Washington, July 24.-With the retire. ment of William J. Bryan by the Ohio
 State convention and the chorus of com
 mendation which has followed the action
 of that body, the way Is open for the
 entry of new leader, young, able, bril-
 liant. sound on all the questions of the present time. and progressive and saga cious enough to discern and define the is-
 sues of the future So, at least, thought
 full old Democrats here, who in their day
 bore the brunt and heat of the battle,
 are not slow to declare. David B. Hill is
 one of the first to enteavor to vault into
 the vacant saddle. In the opinion of
 these political veterans, Hill won't do.
 They argue that with Bryan out of the
 way every prominent man that fought
 him and whom be fought, should also
 step aside They predict that in no other
 way can the party be reunited and put in fighting trim for 1904 Bryan Is still
 the great figure among the masses, and
 he cannot be easily displaced or de-
 throned by any one of the gold Demo-
 crats who repudiated platforms, bolted
 conventions, set up rival candidates
 against him, or voted the Republican
 tickets in two great campaigns. The
 memory of this party treachery cannot
 be forgotten in year or two. True, Hill
 supported Bryan in 1900, but he notified
 the candidate that he could not be elect ed, and that before the adjournment of the Kansas City convention. If Hill ever gets nomination for the Presidency, Bryan will get his gun. and it won't be the Nebraskian that will be hurt. Will liam C. Whitney was at one time a bril- liant possibility, but that day Is gone. Cleveland and every member of his cab inet are out of the question. This, let
 me repeat is Washington opinion, not mine. Many think that Tom Johnson would fill the bill, but some of these the ories are as repulsive to the gold Dem- ocratic class as were the opinion of Bryan himself. But Tom has entered himself for the race and thinks that he will be in the running. Perhaps he will Some Sunday Seances.
 Reports of the Sunday seances between Hill and Dan Lamont are read here with much amusement. Hill and Lamont were both young lieutenants of Samuel J. Til | den. and, according to Cleveiand's pri- vate secretary and war secretary, the meetings at Millbrook Lamont's summer home, are merely for the purpose of ''swapping stories'' about their old chief l What a tribute to the Sage of Grammer- | cy Park!' More than quarter of a cen l tury has rolled away since Tilden ran for
 the Presidency and here we have today | those poetic souls Dave Hill and Dan
 Lamont, spending Sunday after Sunday | in this sweHering weather exchanging
 "reminiscences of their old leader. Dan l says that Dave Is a good talker. Not | a doubt about It. When Hill gets started l he talks and talks (about himself) so that l no one else can get in a word except | edgewise. His conversation is a stumI
 speech even when he has only one for ar audience Fortunately Lamont is a good l listener so that the two men get along but I would venture to make a small bel | that if swapping stories" about Tilder | is the game they are at, Hill has told | twenty to Lamont's two. But the Tilder | fairy tale is all nonsense in the opinion o1 | all who know the two men. Neither one
 of them is wasting his time at this stage 1 of the game over the remains of Sammy IT. Hill wants to be President and La
 mont wants to be Governor of the State of New York as the successor of the best l and most fearless governor the Empire State, or any other one, has ever had, B B. Odell, Jr.. and the two, to use the late | John Sherman's expression are erecting
 their political fences. That is the buSi
 ness in hand between the two wire-pull 1 CTS. not "reminiscences of Sammy" La.
 mont is a millionaireis a millionaire sev
 eral times over. All his money has beer | made in corporate Wall street, and ht | has become the president of a great rail | road. Were the Democracy of New Yorl | to put up a man of that record for tn,
 governorship, against candidate lik'