The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-28
BRYANISM IS REPUD.ATED Poll of Democratic Members of Congress Over whelmingly Against ''Sixteen to One"
Poll on Bryanisn.

e>~~~~~~~~~~~~>>>< Poll on Bryanism.
 One hundred and one Democrats in Con
 s,ess were asked by The New York Her.
 Ma Ma whether they opposed or supported and Kausas City platforms should be re
 emrmed and that gold Democrats are trat-
 fors with the following result:
 Number opposed to Mr. Bryan. ........ q
 Nnm per supporting MT. Bryan. .11
 The four Dsmoerats in Congress who F; shafroth of Colorado, Gi.sert N.
 hitchcqck of Nebraska, Charles F. Coch- ran Of Missouri and Oscar W. Gillespie of Wsshingtcn Special to The New York Free silvcr Is dead. So is William J.
 5r, 55syan, as an important factor in the next
 Siosed today when The Herald caused tle Democratic members of Congress to be in i teIiewed on Mir. Bryan.
 +ha anSy were especially questioned about
 recent intsryiews and speeches that the Snicago and Kansas City platforms must De reaffirmed at St. Louis and that the at the rear because, ca s f having boited the the ticket when he was the candidate. they are not to be considered, as Democrats. Democrats from all over the Union de-
 Mr. Bryan's leadership. They are looking ter live issues. and not dead ones. and sney say sixteen to one' is as dead as a
 Easssrn They Is ed sSd shfS ss con en sideration, and will receive it. They also noId out the hope that the party Is going
 70 try something in the way of q plat
 form which has not been so recently re- pudiated as the platform which Mir. Bry-
 an is seeking to revive.
 These views are expressed, not only by Democrats of the East, but by Represen-
 tatives and Senators who sincerely be. ueve9 Tn Mr. Bryan and Loyalty supported ntm in his two ul-starred campaigns. The
 South Is very generally against MT.
 Texas is against Mfr. Bryan's plan to
 exclude the "reorganizers' and force six teen to one Into the platform again. It is a@ainst him almost to man. The cry chance to win" Alabama. Georgia, North and South Carolina all swing into line for
 rational and wiser things. Repr asenta.
 tives. say. 1t Is time for MT. Bryan to pass. The veteran Senator Morgan of Alabama, declares that Bryan Is a dead politician. and has no license to tell Dem- ocrats who were ID harness before ne & vot-
 ern members used the words: Free sil- yer is dead"
 Silver States Balk.
 The West tells the same story. Even
 the silver States abandon 16 to l. Senator Newlands, who was member Of the Plat
 form Committee in l9OO and whose vote kept in the Kansas City platform the re-
 affirmation of the Chicago platform, now Dubois of Idaho does like wise. Other sil-
 yer States give him no encouragement, Senator Tel;ar of Colorado who gave up
 more to the cause Of free silver than MT.
 party, of which he had been a disdn- gnished member, now refraIns from say | Ing a word to advance Mir. eBryan's policy of retrogression. All his old mountain
 has assumed. In the Middle West those representatives who would be quoted are | opposed to the injection of the medicine
 that failed in the last two campaigns into the veins of Democracy once more. Illinois has broken away from the doc | tor of two unsuccessful campaigns. Mis- souri will follow the lead of Senator Cockrell, who has been saying for thr e years that the money question was set tied and that it ought not to be ought into the party platform again. Senator Stone of Missouri, wnle not
 wil.ing to be quoted, is against MT. Bryan
 on his new propaganda. There are tnir. ty.three Democrats In the Senate and l76 | Tn the House of Representatives: The
 sixty-four declared against MT. Bryan's were for doing what MT. Bryan is a ivis-
 ing; thirty-nine declined to express an i opinion.
 The large number who would not talk is
 not significant of concealed B.yan
 strength in Congress, but Of the fear that
 Mir. bryan may be able 10 make such trouble in the party that Representative
 who declared against him at this time
 might have difhculty in getting renomi- nation and a reelection. Many or those who preserved silence in the poll private t., fhaV W0aYld OnnnSa tlo In1 5Cs
 ton of the Chicago and Kansas Elsy plat forms into the platform of 19O4. others or the silent thirty-three are known to be opposed to MT. Bryan's leadership. They are simply afraid to say so.
 Some Afraid of Bryan. This reveals a remarkable condition. It shows that while the Democrats In Con gress are not afraid of Mir. Bryan In the Inf the polls. Some of these men frankly said that so long as MT. Bryan was ig-
 nored he would be a constant menace,
 and they are fearful that he may bolt
 St. Louis and may swing enojg jgh voters to insure the de1eat of the Democracy. This is noticeahly the case in Indiana
 and Kentucky. A glance at The Heral1's on the part of the Representatives from
 these States. Not Democrat from eithe. of them would say a word against MT.
 Bryan. and the reason is that he Is popu- lowing. Yet the Democrats to win must carry both Indiana and Kentucky. Among those inte viewed by The Herald
 corr spondent were the following Alabam-
 fans:
 Senator John T. Morganz-I have ceased
 to consider what MT. Bryan says or does
 He belongs to the past He has perfect right to his views, but he must not ex- pect the Democrats who were Democ4 a 8
 long before he was thought of to be in- | fiuenced by his ind. vidual notions; have other subjects to think about which are
 far more important than MT Bryan. Senator Edmund w. Pettus-I am in | favor of ignoring all the quarrels of the
 nineties, including the money question. We must have a platform upon which every Democrat can stand and one which will sweep the country.
 Representative Arlosto A. Wiley of Sixteen to one is dead
 issue. The campaign should be fought | out on the tarin and the trust questions
 and the candidate should come from the | East.
 Representatives Henry D. Clayton of
 Eufaula, member Democratic National
 Committee-Mr. Bryan should be willing | to concede that the party is bigger than | he. He should be more modest and be
 content to suggest what he may think
 the party ought to do, not dictate wN t
 1t must do. What the party must do is die | tated by the Convention. not bv any in-
 dividual. and all loyal Democrats will fol- low the policy fixed at St. Louis. I have | not the remotest idea that the sixteen to form to be adopted at St. Louis. The | money question Is not now an issue. and | the issues upon which We go to the peorla
 must be made up of living questions t
 those which have been for the time being | at Ie7st. settled.
 l Representative John H. Bankhead os ' F ye te-If we drop the issues aye
 dead the party will recrg nize se f T c