Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-01
BRYAN'S EYES ARE OPENED
Face 10 Fscs with New Problem in Party
Management
PERSONAL EQUATION ALMOST ELIMINATED
Political Opponents Of the NebrAskan
Make such Headway rs to
Upset His Campaign
Plans.

A Chicago correspondent Of the ST. Louis
Globe Democrat sizes up William Jennings
Bryan's present political condition as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Bryan has begun, since his return to
Nebraska ffom Washington, a campaign
which he was urged to begin more than a
undermine the Nebraskan, which was
made in the national committee between
1891 and 1899, and which forced a ~reorgani.
cation of the subcommittee in the national
committee, hat Mr.. Bryan first showed
signs Of trying to make a treaty with the
abandonment Of his original position on the
Spanish treaty for the purpose OF mollify-
go into the campaign of 1900 with a re-
Affirmation of the Chicago platform and no
Tor is to /, which he was finally compelled
to voice in advance of the Kansas city
convention, was made imperative upon him
by democrats, who insisted that 1t was no
time for compromises. This counsel had
long been offered him, but IL was not until
after the Missouri state convention Of that
year. which set the pace for other states,
that he began to heed II. Even when the
national convention met he became a party
to the paramount issue" business, which
lost the party half a million votes. And
since that disastrous experiment, save for
goidbug bolter as mayor of st. louis, he
has been quiescent as to the schemes for
reorganization of the national m OF
the party and the state committees In
many states.
His Illusion Has Passed.
Mr.. Bryan is a splendid egotist. With all
the multiplying evidences Of energy and
intelligence in the work of his factional
arce that the personal equation would.
when the time came, bring all their
schemes to naught; He returned from
man. He passed through Chicago on his
way westward, and had much talk here
with his friends over the new situation, as
no "a He'd II forced nv the effort of the re-
organizers to get control of the congress
SIGNAL committee for the campaign of this
uation, and appears new to Mr.. Bryan only
because he has had his eyes opened. He
heard here much opposition to the placing
OF Ben. Cable In charge of the campaign
work of the congressional committee, for
Cable, in state politics and as a member
of the democratic state committee, is OPP
posed to the Bryan faction in Illinois and
favors the new Tildenism'' of the ele-
ment. led by John p, Hopkins, the. state
little impression upon practical politicians
in Illinois of any faction. He was lucky
the national ~sTbc;ommfttee, with headauar
tiers here. to take charge Of the democratic
campaign in the northwestern states. That
was the. year In which both Illinois and
Wisconsin went for Cleveland solely be-
cause the republican voters, dis9ffected by
compulsory education laws, voted the DEM
ocratic ticket straight from top to bottom.
This issue had been shaped, and forced,
and intensified, by the adroit work of Wis.
COISll anu 1llllOlS pOllllCldlS before MI,
Gable appeared on the scene, but he was on
the spot when the victory came, and he
has not been backward since in allowing
himself to be introduced In New York par
lors as the man who did 1t all. There are
democrats down east who are mid
that II Cable can be the chairman of the
national in the next national
campaign both Illinois and Wisconsin car
be carried again for the party.
Mistake Already Made.
Mr.. Bryan said while here that a mis-
take had been made in allowing the reor.
ga~nil-tio movement to gain Roadway, anC
Cable. he thought, If the results of thu
| congressional campaign of this year SHOULD
be successful, would be selected probably
as the next chairman of the national com
mittee. II the reorganizers control In max
ing up that body Under the rule adopteC
in 1900 Gable would first have TO be elected
a member of the national committee. Thi
could not easily be done, even II the Hop
kins faction wins, as Hopkins is crediteC
with a desire to get on the national com
mittee and manage the next national dem
ocratic campaign himself, and, II this wert
not true, his dependence upon Gahan, tn
present national committeeman. would no
leave him in a position to support Cabl
If Gahan wants to continue In the office
Tom Taggart of Indiana still has the cal
in well-informed circles as the man VIII
will be put at the head of the committe,
when reorganization comes. How soon /
will come Is to depend very largely upoI
the result of the senatorial contest In Ar
kansas. If Jones Is reelected senator, 1
will be almost impossible to remove hin
before the close of his committee term
The interests which are now contributing
heavily to his reelection, and with which
he aftiliates in all his senatorial work
reelected, the humiliation of his remova
before the expiration OF his term. Advice
reaching here are to the effect that thes