The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-10
NOT FOR CLEVELAND
BRYAN SAYS, is THE DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION.
CLEVELAND'S OWN FRIENDS
WOULD NOT RISK HIM AS A CAN
DIDATE.

in for a Bit of Discuss1on-Demo-
cratic Newspapers Named ms Be-
ing Really MOnOpOlistic That
Roosevelt Is Not Wall Streets Can
didate Is Wall Street News.
Newark, N. j.. May 9.-The News
Neb., correspondent:
William j. Bryan received the News
correspondent very cordially to-day at
his country residence, four miles from
this city. A typewriting machine was
clicking busily in the upstairs room,
and the farm hands were at work IN
the adjoining fields. Mr.. Bryan's red
brick house is more modern and more
pretentious than the somewhat old
fashioned home of Grover Cleveland at
Princeton.
Mr.. Bryan would not submit to an
interview unless the questions were
written, and the answers recorded YER
batim as he spoke them.
us it possible for Grover Cleveland
to receive the Democratic nomination
next year. Mr.. Bryan?"
There is not the remotest POSSIBLE
ity of Mr.. Cleveland becoming the
nominee. Even his staunchest friends
would not risk him as a candidate"
said Mr.. Bryan.
But, Mr. Cleveland has apparently
come out of retirement, and many sup
pose he is seeking denomination" re-
marked the News correspondent.
His View of Cleveland.
at am not in Mr.. Cleveland's con-
fdence," said Mr.. Bryan, land, there
fore, cannot give an inside explana-
ton, but as an outsider I venture to
say that his purpose is to positively
refuse to be a candidate after a
while, and then allow his friends to
say that he would have been nominal
ed and elected had he not refused to
run.
This might afford Mr.. Cleveland
some satisfaction as salve for the
bruises which he has nursed since
1896. There is a tail of the Democratic
party which was very nearly pulled
out seven years ago that is just as
Republican party is. There are also a
number of newspapers, calling them
selves Democratic, as monopolistic as
any Republican newspapers, and I
will name a few of them: The Chicago
Chronicle. Nashville American, Louis
willie Courier-Journal, Boston Herald,
Philadelphia Ledger, New York Times,
Brooklyn Eagle, and some others.
That Cleveland Denomination.
This class of newspapers can be re-
lied upon to support any Republican
policies the financiers of the country
are interested in. They keep up an at
tack on minor things and sometimes
attack Individual Republicans, but
they are so closely allied to organized
wealth that they simply deceive the
people. If there were a law compelling
these newspapers to carry the names
of the men who dictate their policies
at the top of the editorial pages, the
people would know that the supposed
editors had little or no voice. These
so-called Democratic newspapers can
be depended upon to defend any DEM
ocrat who betrays his party and his
constituents and abuse any Democrat
who cannot be corrupted.
"This class of newspapers represent
as public sentiment that which they
desire the people to think is public
sentim emit.
Mr.. Bryan said this in a way which
made ii plain that he thought this is
i1IG Xx-ha y
comments on the ovation given Mr.
Cleveland at st. Louis on Dedication
day.
Mr.. Bryan also made it plain that
he did not consider the reception given
Mr.. Cleveland as being connected, so
far as the people who made the noise
were concerned, in the least with a
presidential boom for the Sage of
Princeton.
who is to be the saviour of the De-
mocracy in 1904, and from what section
of the country must he Gomez" Mr..
Bryan was asked.
Il cannot discuss any available in
dividual for the nomina tion," he said.
1.-The geographical position of the can
didate will not figure in the advantage.
1t matters not what state he is from.
He must have the qualities if we are to
win. He must be in sympathy with the
masses of the people and possess the
moral courage to defend their rights
and integrity to resist temptation"
ION what issues will the Democratic
party base it's hopes for success next
year,"
"A party platform cannot be outlined
so far ahead. Conditions are constant
ly changing, and something is liable to
arise to place an entirely new phase
on the situation from what 1t appears
to-day"
Roosevelt and wall street.
What do you think of the idea in
some quarters that the powerful Wall
street interests are oppose to Presi-
dent Roosevelt as the Republican nom
inee?"
There is no evidence of 1t out of
the news that is controlled by Wall
street The Bureau of Commerce, and
the EIkins bill, which is said to have
been drafted by the president of the
Pennsylvania Railway, are an insignifi-
cant response for antitrust legisia-
ton"
What do you think of President
Roosevelt's efforts toward settlement
by arbitration Of the coal striker"
II think they were laudable. l have
always believed strikes should be set
tied in that way"
How do YOU feel about the merger
decision in the Northern Securities
case?
1T was a righteous decision. and I
hope Il will be sustained by the su-
preme Court But the merger decision
scarcely touches the frllnf nuaaffon