The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-30

| w nat snail we Go 10 De saved from
Bryan?"
Such was the query propounded by a
prominent Indiana Democrat TO a group OF
his fellow-partisans last evening in the
Lobby of the Grand Hotel, and echo only
answered. What" With a faint effort
at Ievity one of the group suggested that
by some means. just what he was not pre-
pared TO say. Bryan might be persuaded
that he could perform tremendous sery-
| ice to the world by going abroad again
| and undertaking the settlement Of the
Eastern question" by preventing war be-
tween Russia and Japan, but the others
were not in a mood for humor and did not
respond to the jest.
The man who asked the first question
stands in the forefront of the leaders of
Indiana Democracy who are for reorganiza-
| ton, which means TO them the elimination
of Bryan and Organism from their party,
and he voiced the perplexity and despair Of
his associates when he put the query.
| II confess 1 don't know what were going
to do he continued. Il do know that
we've got to get rid of Bryan and Hearst
before we can hope to do anything ia this
campaign, or in any campaign TO come, but
1 can't see how we're to set about it. If
could easily take care of Hearst. for with
out Bryan Hurst could do nothing to bother
| US. But as long as Bryan goes about the
| country hammering away at reorganization
| and reorganizers, and aggraVating the fac
tional differences in the party we may as
| Well abandon all hope Bryan says repeat
| edly that the party is greater than any lndl-
| vidual, yet with his next breath he sets
| himself up the dictator of the party 5
| policies and the one who shall set the
| standard by which all Democratic candl-
| dates must be measured. If there ever was
| dog in the manger he's il. He'll rule or
ruin, and if he rules the party's ruined
| anyhow, so there we are. L wish to heaven
Hearst had kept Bryan in Europe twelve
why, did Hearst send Bryan to Eu-
rope?" interrupted one Of the group.
| 'Of course, he did. Hearst paid all the
expenses Of the trip and I'll venture Bryan
got a good, fat fee for making the trip.
| Bryan didn't write all those letters for
Hearsts papers for nothing. He doesn't
do anything for nothing. He's out for the
money all the time, although L don't mean
to hint that he would attempt to make
money except by legitimate methods. If
Hearst had kept him over there a few
months longer, though, We might have
done something in this campaign. When
he landed in New York and made his first
speeches in Indiana, L had some hope that
Bryan would be all right and that he would
fall in with the procession, but when he
| got TO st. Louis and then back to Lincoln
| he broke out just bad as ever and he 5
been getting worse every speech he's made
and every interview he's given out ever
since.
What can we do in Indiana as long as
ne Keeps his followers stirred up this way
There are thousands of Bryan Democrats
| in Indiana, but every one of them would be
| Tor reorganization and more conservative
party policy If Bryan would only agree TO
new order of things, or at least keep
silent. But when Bryan takes snuff they
all sneeze, and that's all there is to it.
Ihere is just bare chance that Bryan
will not have sufficient strength in the
| natlonal convention 10 control things. If
he is voted down and a man like German.
or Olney, or Gray, is nominated on a con-
servative platform, then it would be up to
Bryan to lead a bolt abide by the will
| OF the majority. / declare L don't know
whether to think he'll bolt, but I'm afraid
| he would"
Indiana Democratic leaders are undoubt-
: edly wasting vast amount OF gray matter
on Bryan these days. There are a few
/ a very few-of those entitled to recognition
as leaders who are with Bryan heart and
SOUL Conspicuous among them are John
w. Kern, of this city, and Ben +. Shively,
OF South Bend, and then there are such
lesser lights as Senator Cyrus Z. Davis, of
Bloomfield, L. S. Jackson, of Greenfield,
etc. But an overwhelming majority of the
) men who do things in Indiana Democracy
such men as Thomas Taggart and Joseph
I. Tanning, of this city; State Chairman
w. II. O'Brien, John L. Lamb, of Terre
Haute, Major G. V. Menzies of Mt Yer
E non, John b. Stcll. of South Bend. and
I numerous others-are with Bryan if he will
be good, but, as the only good Indian is
dead Indian, so they believe that Bryan
/ dead, politically, and they recognize with
intense grief his unmistakable vigor and
, | vitality.
There is just one thing to weaken Bryan's
hold on his followers in Indiana, and thai
III II
. is daily becoming more and more apparent
{ Few Indiana Democrats, even the mos
: rabid of the Bryanites, can stomach
! Hearst. and the idea that Bryan is seeking
to perpetuate his domination of the party
by nominating Hearst for President thi.
year is exceedingly repugnant to the
masses of the Indiana "trooly loil." Her,
and there over the State may be found
: Democrat who is for Hearst, but such ar,
[ | few and far between, ana with but one oil
| two exceptions there is not a Democrat,
. newspaper in the State that can find any
o peril" One of the notable exceptions /.
y the Rockville Tribune, edited by Isaac r
| Strouse.
Strouse is for Hearst and is giving pub
licity to Hearst propaganda in every issu
| of his paper. This week he devotes a col
umn and a half to a communication from
| Washington, evidently written by one o
s Hearst's bright young men" who com
prise his press bureau, which is built upol
the hypothesis that Hearst has attained en-
viable prominence a presidential candi
date, and that, in fact, his is the only can
S didacy already organized and growing il
4 | strength. Hearsts candidacy, says tn
writer, derived its initiation, impetus an,
y present growth largely, If not chiefly from
:, | organized labor. Then the writer start
G in to defend Hearst's yellow Journalism
: and to tell of the great things his chief ha
Il accomplished. He gives Hearst credit 70
It setting in train series of events culminat
: ing I'm the Republic of Cuba, for doing mucl
| To hrir vic n A mo "a In III
n Spanish war, for establishing newspaper
: in New York, Chicago. San Francisco an
Los Angeles to fight for union labor 70
knocking out the water monopoly and ic
S trust in New York, for bringing about tn
n prosecution of the coal trust and. in fact
: he gives Hearst credit for almost every
y thing benehcent save good weather an
II good crops. In conclusion he says: 9Th
s Democrats of the United States will go ia
. before they find a presidential candidat
u who, in his sterling Americanism, in hi