The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-07-06
BRYAN AFTER
CLEVELAND
THE NEBRAsKAN LEADER FINDS
HIS INFLUENCE ON THE wANE
EVERYWHERE.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 18.-There
Is significance in w. j. Bryan
moving his camping ground from Ne
braska to New York. Those who know
him and think they know something of
his purposes at the st. Louis convention
of his purposes at the st. Louis conven-
ton, are not surprised that he should
go to New York to make an anti~Par-
ker address. 1t is what he called the
enemy's country in 1896 He still looks
on it as hostile territory Hi idea al
ways is to fret the enemy in its own
stronghold.
Mr.. Bryan's shafts aimed at Judge
Parker's non-committal candidacy may
hit or miss the mark, but those who
are familiar with his methods cannot
be convinced that he is not trying to
hit somebody else. That somebody else.
is Grover Cleveland.
l heard the other day from one Of
Mr.. Bryan's former intimate associates
that for several weeks past he has look
ed upon the whole reorganization move
ment as a Cleveland play and that he
has determined to sr1oke out Cleveland
as a candidate before the national con-
vention meets. Then there may be
chance to unity the old antagonism to
Cleveland which was especially strong
in the south and southwest. This in
fOrmant, who is no longer a Bryan man
also called my attention to what he
said was the necessity of the free sill
yer apostle moving into the enemy's
country. He declared that there no
longer was a friendly Bryan country,
and gave some facts which are more
or less known to those who have UNI
derstood something of Mr. ,BrypnIa
former campaigns.
The worst disappointment to the Ne
blaskan has been Kentucky. In the
campaign of 1896 he gave much time to
that state and was excessively bitter to-
ward the gold democrats. Afterward
he identified himself with the Goebel
wing of the party and never has failed
to answer the call to mix in the local
struggles. He seems to have misjudged
his man in Governor Beckham.
At one time the Bryanites thought
Governor Beckham was in full sym
pathy with them and he had their aid.
He may have been in sympathy when
he needed them. But when the chance
came for the Kentucky governor to do
up the senatorial combination by
friendly arrangement with the Parker
people Bryan's influence was not strong
enough to prevent the deal. Probably
the Blue Grass state is the sorest of all
the disappointments which have come
upon Bryan in the movement of the De-
mocratic party to get away from his
leadership. He always believed he
could hold Kentucky.
In
not need to visit Texas during his pre-
sidential contest, but he lectured there
and Travelled there and helped to punish
a lot of enemies. Notwithstanding that
Roger @. Mills and he were twin BROTH
ers on the subject of the tariff he never
forgave Mills for deserving him on the
cause of free silver. Former United
States Senator John H. Reagan was
more beloved by Mr., Bryan than any OF
the other Texas democrats. Their views
on the corporation and on popullsh
were in full harmony. When a rev
weeks ago Judge Reagan came out III
a fatherly letter advising that free
silver be dropped and the democratic
party get together and capture the Of
fees Mr.. Bryan, 1 have heard was
more hurt than by any other detection
of his old allies. But he came up with
n vigorous pronunciamenta reiterating
his belief that the party could better
lose with a principle than win without
one. Anybody who has followed the
democratic tendencies for the last SIX
months and has noted how keen the
appetite has become for taste of the
patronage once more would know that
this appeal would be unheeded.
While many democrats are sincere in
wanting their party to represent some
thing once more, that has not taken the
ground from under Bryan In every
local and every state convention the
strongest continent has been that by
having a u tied party once more they
may move on the republican intrench-
ments and capture the baggage or the
Offices Mr.. Bryan never underestl-
mated this appetite, for one of his pro-
misses was that in case of his own sue
ces civil service should be set back and
more places be opened up for the win
ming party.
But he has not fully perceived how
the party, after wandering in the Wild
erness for eight years, has become so
hungry that it would rather have hair
the offices without principle than get
none of them while sticking by his
principle of free silver.
Ohio is another state in which Mr..
Bryan no longer consider himelf in
friendly territory. He went into the
state contests there and mixed in local
factional troubles just as he had done
in Kentucky and elsewhere. For
time his people had their way to the
great discomfort of Mr.. John r. Nc
Lean. Now no one from Ohio sees any
chance for Bryan influencing the buck
eye delegation at st. Louis. Mayor
Tom johnson, even if so inclined, can
not help him, and John r. Mclean has
so many old scores to settle with Bryan
that he won't be. blamed for some show
of i'll feeling if he should take a notion
to be ugly
COUNTY ACT COMMISSION.