The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-21
MAKES DENIAL.
Omaha World-Herald Pronounces
Boiling Story Absurd.

6oltlnS story Absurd
Omaha, May 21-In explanation of
its recent article on the political sit
uation which has attracted so much at
tention. the World Herald prints the
following:
In its Sunday issue the World Herald
presented what was intended and an
nounced as a fairly non-partisan re-
view Of one of the most interesting sit
uations with which the American peo-
pie have been confronted"
In this review it was stated that, al
though the general impression today is
that Theodore Roosevelt's nomination
III 1904 is assured, there are many rea-
sons for believing that the trust mag
mates have concluded that Mr.. Roose-
welt could not be trusted with an election
to the office of president. The opinion
was expressed that the representatives
of the trusts had concluded that, if
elected. Mr.. Roosevelt might become an
extremely strenuous president with re-
spect to the trust question Many
facts were presented by the World
Herald in the effort to show that the
same ingenious methods that had been
employed in the unsuccessful effort to
defeat Mr.. Harrison for denomination
in 1892 are now being employed in the
hope of breaking the Roosevelt strength
in the Republican national convention
of 1904.
In the presentation of this review,
the World Herald had no other purpose
than the desire to give its readers an
accurate understanding of the situa-
ton.
That the representatives of the trusts
ara anxious to prevent MI RooseVeIt
nomination, and have not yet lost hope
of accomplishing that result. is very
evident to this newspaper. The ob1ec-
ton of these people to Mr. RooSeYelt
is not so much because of what he has
done as the fear of what ne may 90
once he has been elected to the position
The Lincoln Cleb9 Journal has IN
dertaken to place a false construction
upon the World-Herald's non-partlssas'
review. reproducing this review, the
Journal editorially interprets the same
I to be definite notice upon the Demo-
cratic party that in case the reorgan-
izers are allowed to control the national
convention next year, the Bryan wing
of the party will be found working for
the reelection of President Roosevelt
The Journals erroneous constructors
was telegraphed to various newspapers
throughout the country and 1t was
made to appear that the World
HeraId's review was Inspired by MT
Bryan. In the first place, 1t may De
said that Mr.. Bryan expresses himself
very clearly through the Commoner ana
no one is authorized to speak for him
It may be that Me-. Bryan does not
share in the World-Herald's opinion
that the trust magnates nave any Sc
rious intention of preventing Mr. Roose-
velt's nomination For definite infor-
nation on this subject. however, ref
erenee must be made to Mr.. Bryan 5
own paDer.
The World Herald speaks for itself:
and the fact that it expects to oppose
Mr.. Roosevelt in the event of his nOTnt-
nation in 1904 does not prevent the
readers the truth. as this newspaper
sees the truth, with respect to tle
gauntlet which Mr.. Roosevelt must run
before he wins the nomina ton.
.1-fr hof he ld-ET o
review was "a threat that the so-caled
Byran Democrats would support Roose-
Wet in the event of Cleveland's nomina-
ton is altogether absurd. Although
the World Herald recognizes the seri-
business of the managers of Mr.. CleVe-
lands boomlet, this newspaper has new
er had the slightest fear that these gen.
tlemen would succeed in their unholy
purpose. Consequently. it is the height
OF absurdity to say that the Bryan
men'-by which term those who bOlted
the national ticket during two presi-
dnetial campaigns prefer to designate
plain, everyday American Democrats
would threaten to give their support to
high pTOtectOnist, an ultra imperial
1 list, and an ardent exponent of the
! theory of centralized power. And all
/ this in order to obtain the rejection of
! the new born aspirations of man who.
during his second administration as
4 president. well nigh wrecked the Demo-
] cratic party and who, during two preSi-
Dental campaigns, contributed to that
party's defeat at the very time when it
was being called to account for his own
political sins!
An open letter addressed to Norman
E Mack editor Of the Buffalo Times,
and signed by the editor of the World
I Herald, appeared in yesterdays issue of
this newspap per. This letter has been
widely published in the newspapers of
I the country and it has been announced
as Mr.. Rryan's ultimatum." Whether
Mr.. Bryan approves of or condemns the
letter to Mr.. Mack is a question that
may be answered only by the dis
tinguished Nebraskan himself He is
not at all responsible for that letter.
In the effort to establish in the Demo-
cratic party a harmony that viii pre-
vail at the polls, every Democrat, how
ever humble he may be has a right to
participate according to his light, pro-
/ vided his purpose be to do his part to-
ward unity that viii at once preserve
Democratic principles and contribute to
! the welfare of a people acutely suffering
under the afliction of too much Re-
! r111o1iaar T1a