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to consent to call national con-
vention now to enunciate a new
creed, if the majority in the party
has abandoned the old one, than
he would consent to treachefous
still hunt of the German sort to
elect Congressman out of sympa-
thy with the party doctrine as it
now stands. However, the Senior
Tennessee Senator has passed the
limit set by the psaImist, and the
practical politicians, as the limit
of Presidential availability, and
doubtless he is named in this con-
nection by Mr., Bryan more as a
strong man of the South with
greater party claims than Mr..
German than with any expectation
that Senator Bate would allow
himself to be considered a candi-
date for nomination.
Mr.. Bryan's mention of Gov.
McMillin, in addition to the two
Senator's, can be understood, as
the Governor of Tennessee is q
man of large stature mentally and
wide influence politically. But
the mention of Fiddler Bob lay
Tor and Mayor Head, of Nashville,
although these are both estimable
gentlemen, is apt to be regarded
as a joke. If it was no more than
that, the victims might forgive
the joker, but the chief signif-
canoe of the appearance of their
names in the roll of honor is to be
seen in the fact that the name of
Hon. j. d. Richardson, of Muir
freesboro, does not appear there.
Mr.. Richardson has been twice
chosen as the Democratic candi-
date for Speaker of the House,
and by virtue of that selection he
has been for three years the titular
and, in fact, the actual leader of
the minority of that body. He is
national figure in party and par
liamentary politics, and is known
to entertain Presidential ambitions.
Leaving him out of a list of "fa-
vorite sons of Tennessee" which
includes 'FiddIer Bob" and the
Mayor of Nashville, is a studied
atfront and it is interesting to
know what has moved the mild
and amiable Bryan to offer it.
The story is a short one. Rich
ardson has been, putt no it short
Iy, a German lieutenant. In his
capacity as the defeated candidate
for Speaker he has been consulted
as to the makeup of the minority
on the House Committees. He
has used this power almost uni
formIy against those friends of
Organism whose friendship has,
been of the stalwart kind, not
easily shaken. Such opportuni-
ties as his position of leadership,
on the floor Of the House has given
him have been abused, as far as
Mr.. Richardson has dared to abuse
them without endangering his own
safety in the district, for the reor-
ganizers in the city. And when,
at the beginning of the present
session of the House, after it was
known that Mr.. German was to
return to the Senate, and that there
was to be a ''reorganized" cam
paign for the control of the Lower
House, Richardson, hoping to be
the German candidate for Speak
Ell in the event of success of the
German campaign, lent himself to
the scheme more undisguisedly
than was his wont. He was an
active party to the original scheme
of eliminating Organism" from
all the working part of the CAM
paign. Now that German is re-
ceding somewhat from the attitude
of open hostility, Nj. Richardson
is likely to recede with him. But
SO entirely has he lost, if not for
feited, the confidence of Mr.. Bry-
an that Mr.. Bryan has taken
very original method Of repudiat-
ing him, which, while it is un-
doubtedly hard on the Murfrees
boro Congressman, is hardly less
so on the fiddler and the Mayor,
when the real animus of the meth
DDS by which their names are made
to "fill the speaking trump Of
fame" is once understood. NASH
vile Banner.