Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-25
ANGUISH FOR HEARST
HAS BEEN TRYING TO CARRY
WATER ON BOTH SHOULDERS.
Eastern and Southern Men Are Going
Ahead, Leaving the Nebraskan
Out Of Calculation.

Democrats at the Capitol are discussing
in the cloak rooms and lobbies the an
nouncement which Mr.. Bryan is making In
the east. They are casting about In their
minds for an explanation Of his course but
thus far no one is able to advance a satis-
factory reason. Some say that Mr. Bryan
is getting ready to go out into the lecture
field. and Is In q very forehanded way OBJ
tanning some notoriety and advertising
worth dollars per. Others say that Mr..
Bryan. in behalf Of the 100000 voters who
stuck to him four years ago, II endeavoring
to retain HIS hold on the democratic party.
and that his pronouncements In the east are
only in the line of serving notice upon the
reorganizers that he will have to be ac-
counted for at st. Louis next July.
1t is said that Mr.. Bryan is causing Mr..
Hearst keen anguish by his declaration In
favor of reaffirma ton of the discredited
Kansas City platform. Southern and east
ern democrats in common are engaged in
picking planks out Of that platform at
rate which demonstrates plainly that they
will have none of 1t at st. Louis. Mr..
Hearst's boom has up to this time been In
a measure linked with Mr.. Bryan's name
Indeed the Hearst superstructure is said to
have its foundation upon the element that
Mr.. Bryan is supposed to most directly rep
resent.
To Garry Water on Both Shoulders.
Mr.. Hearst has been careful. however,
not to run amuck against the reorgan-
izers. He has been trying to carry water
on both shoulders. AS friend of labor
he has promised to look out for the work.
ingman. AS a capitalist himself and an
employer of labor he has promised that
the plutocrats shall come to no harm.
His efforts to cater to the capitalistio
classes and to gain their support are
badly handicapped. 1t Is said. by his as
sociation with Mr. Bryan and Mr.. Bryan's
complete Endorsement of the populistio
platform of 1900. 1t is true Mr.. Hearst
his boomers have not been talking about
Ii much and they have not yet suggested
that it should be reaffirmed.
The trouble which confronts the Hearst
boom, democrats say, is that he can't let
go of Bryan in the west. and If he sticks
to Bryan in the east he cannot hope to
get any of the support of the eonserva-
tive democracy.
Leaving Bryan Out Of Calculation.
Mr.. Bryan's statement that no man who
bolted the regular ticket in 1900 can be
nominated at st. Louis does not create any
CONSERVATION among conservative demo-
Gratis. The southern and eastern reorganlz-
ers are going right ahead leaving Mr. Bryan
out Of their calculation. They intend to
control the democratic convention and think
they can do it. The man they nominate
may be bolted by the radical Brynaites or
not, but they are not letting that thought
worry them at all. Neither have they many
fears that Bryan will be able to work his
will in the convention. He might have
with the aid of the Hearst delegates picked
up here and there a following which would
represent in gross one-third of the con-
vention, but they will be split up, 1t is said,
among the states and as the unit rule will
prevail their total strength cannot be COM
bined to prevent the two-thirds from hav-
ing its own way.