The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-19
BRYAN ON THE W ANE.
His Name No Longer One to Conjure
With in Kansas and Colorado
Tho Missouri Is Loyal.
Western Democrats Seem Just Now
to Be Turning to German as
the Best Nominee.
rom a star Correspondent.

rom q bLaHs CORRESPONDENCE
Denver, Sept 15.-IaYing conceded the
nomination Of Roosevelt by the repub-
licans next year, the politicians of the
great west are trying to figure out the
democratic situation What is true in
Missouri regarding Bryan is not true in
Kansas or in Colorado The Missouri
democracy has abiding faith In Bryan as
a leader. 1t doesn't care for him again
as a candidate for the presidency, for it
believes 1t can make stronger. showing
with a. new man, but it likes him and
trusts him. Senator Stone will hold the
Missouri delegation in the democratic ma
tional convention in the hollow Of his
hand, and vote it in the interest of a
Bryan platform and a Bryan candidate.
In Kansas the democracy is more inde-
pendent of the Bryan influence. It reflects
that Bryan has tried and lost, and be-
lieves that after two failures he should
step aside in favor Of new issues and
new man. Just who that new man
will be Kansas doesn't yet know. The
state is open to conviction. It is watch
ing and studying. In Colorado Bryan is
stronger than in Kansas, but not so strong
as In Missouri. Silver is no longer an
issue, and the great west believes in i'm
perialism. It believes, also, in Roose-
Welt, and many democrats in Missouri.
Kansas and Colorado will vote for him
in the event of the nomination by their
party next. year Of a man Of the Cleve-
land type. The strength which Bryan ha 8
IN Colorado Is: largely sentimental It is
not as great as surface indications sug-
gest, and can be overcome at the proper
time. In Missouri the Bryan strength is
a very tangible thing, for it is part Of
the great political machine which Senator
Stone has built up and which it will be
his policy to perpetuate and to strength
en-. Just at present Stone believes that
his own purposes are better served by a
close alliance with Bryan.
No Show for Cleveland.
The solid democracy Of the three states
just mentioned seems to be true to Bryan
to the extent of being opposed to the
nomination next year of anybody who
was not true to the party in 1896 and
again in 1900. The issues Of those years
are now dead, and it is freely admitted
that perhaps mistakes were made in their
selection; still, the man who didn't stand
pat then has no claims on the party now,
according to the western idea. This: elm
mates Cleveland. Anybody who makes
trip over the states where the Bryan
tide was highest in 1885,. and this in
cludes Missouri, may easily understand
that the talk of Cleveland last spring as
a democratic possibility for next year
was without authority and did not re-
fleet western democratic sentiment.
Cleveland was pleasantly entertained at
st. Louis in April, but there was moth
ing in that entertainment beyond what
was proper from host to a distinguished
guest. Anybody in the east who figured
out Of the ST. Louis incident any revival
of Clevelandism made a great mistake
and would better try again. All this is
very plainly discernible to the news
paper men from Washington now MAX
| ing tour Of the irrigation district be-
tween Missouri and Utah and from Colo
RADIO to Montana. Mr.. Cleveland has al
most no political friends in this great
district, and his nomination, or that Of
any man tainted with his views, would
increase the Roosevelt vote there many
| thousands.
German in Favor.
It is too early to undertake to get a
presidential sentiment in the west, for i
| has not yet developed sufficiently to max,
any summing up of the situation reliable
Party leaders are doing a great deal O
thinking and some talking; the time TO-
action is still far in the future. So IA
/ as any sentiment has developed it Seems
to incline towards Senator German. It il
claimed in some quarters that he is thu
man whom Bryan will ultimately favor
Those who advocate his nomination d.
| SO because they think he is about the onl.
! available compromise man. They thinl
that he would be able to unite the Bryan
and the Cleveland wings of the party, ant
| so insure a harmonious and enthusiastic
campaign. German was officially TO-
| Bryan in the two last campaigns and We
at heart he is well known to have beef
|against him and his policies. So far as h
4 said or did anything in those campaigns
| however, he was for the ticket. He cal
thus lay claim to being regular" AM
will fit into Bryan's requirements on tina
! score. He is perfectly acceptable to tn
old line gold democracy Of the east, an,
presumably to Cleveland personally. o.
the theory that some compromise MAJ
must be nominated, therefore, If the part
many followers in the former free silve
thus the first to assume anything resem
bling national character. It may or
may not continue to develop; only the fu
4 ture can determine this.
i The western democracy does not believ
that German can be elected next yeal
but those who believe in him think tina
he can hold the party together, carry
safely over the crisis which is now threat
ening it's very existence, and put it i
condition to make what they hope wi
be a winning fight in 1908.
SKUNK SWARM
The Odoriferous Beasts Invade Tow
In Great Mum.