The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-12

Newark, \. J.. May 9.-The News has
the following from it's Lincoln. Neb.,
correspondent:
William Jennings Bryan received The
News correspondent very cordially to-
day ut his country residence. four miles
from this city.
\ typewriting machine was clicking
busily in an 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 old home of
Grover Cleveland at Princeton.
Mr.. Bryan would not submit to an in
terview unless the questions We're writ
ten and the answers recorded verbatim
as he spoke them.
Have you met Grover Cleveland in
recent years. Mr. Bryan?'' was the first
question.
Not since l was a member of con-
gress.' he replied.
You were invited to the dedication
exercises of the St. Louis worlds fair,
were you not?'
81 went to ST. Louis but l went to
attend the Good Roads convention and
left there one day before the dedication
ceremonies began"
1.-The seat assigned you for the dedi-
cation was not on the grandstand with
President Roosevelt and former Presi-
dent Cleveland. but on the annex to
the grandstand?"
mo. it was not on the grandstand. 1t
was on the annext. But I looked at
that kind of an invitation as one to
be accepted or declined without any
particular Importance being attached to
it. I simply declined the invitation
''Is 1t possible for Grover Cleveland
to receive the democratic nomination
next year. Mr.. Bryan?"
''There is not the remoteSt possibility
Of Mr.. Cleveland's becoming the nomi-
nee. 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 man.
Il am not in Mr. Cleveland's conf
dflnece," said Mr.. Bryan. land. there
fore, cannot give an inside explanation,
but as an outsider venture to say that
his purpose is TO positively refuse to be
z candidate after 4 while and then al
low his friends to say that he would
have been nominated and elected had
he not refused to run. This might af-
ford Mr. Cleveland some satisfaction as
n salve for the bruises which he has
nursed since 1896. There is a tail of the
democratic party which was very near
ly pulled out seven years ago. that's
just as monopolistic in it's tendencies as
the republican party is. There are also
q 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
vile Courier j Journal, Boston Herald,
Philadelphia Ledger. New York Times.
Brooklyn Eagle. and some others. This
class of newspapers can be relied upon
to support any republican policies the
fnanciers of the country are interested
In. They keep up an attack on minor
things and sometimes attack individual
republicans but they are so closely al
lied to organized wealth that they sim
ply deceive the people If there were a
law compelling those newspapers to
carry the names of the men who die
| tate their policies at the top Of the edi-
torial pages, the people would know
that the supposed editors had little or
no voice These so-called democratic
| newspapers can be depended upon tC
! defend any democrat who bertays his
party and his constituents and abuse
anv democrat who cannot be corrupted
| This class OF newspapers represent any
public sentiment which they de-
| sire the people to think IS public senti-
| ment.''
Mr.. Bryan said this in a way which
| made it plain that he thought this Is
| lust what was done in the extensive
! 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 giver
| Mr.. Cleveland as being connected. sc
| far as the people who made the noise
| were concerned, in the least with
| presidential book for the sage OF
| Princeton.
| WHO is to be the savior of the
| democracy in 1904. and from what sec
| ton of the country must he Gomez
| Mr.. Bryan was asked.
| Il cannot discuss any available IN
| diVidual for the nomination." he said
The geographical position of the can
| didate will not figure in the advant
| ages. 1t matters not what state he L
| from. He must have the qualities i
| we are to win. He must be in sym
| pathy with the masses of the people
| and possess the moral courage to de
| fend their rights and the integrity t
| resist temptation.
| "On what sues VIII the democratic
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