The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
BRYAN PLANS A BOLT
SCHEME SEEN IN ACTION IN
 SOUTH DAKOTA.
Nebraskan and Hearst Plot to Rule CT Ruin Party--Refuse to Allow Delegates to Be Pledged
 to Nominee.

Washington Special to Chicago Telegram
 The action of the Democratic State Convention of South Dakota in refusing to pass a resolution pledging the Democ- racy of the State to support the candida tt nominated for President by the St. Louis Convention Is believed to have been in. spired by Bryan and Hearst. That has been Bryan's program Tor months past past Democrats everywhere, with view tc coercing the National Convention inta adopting a Bryan platform and nominat. ing Bryan candidate. The fact that South Dakota is accepted as conclusive evidence of the existence of a working combination between Hearst and Bryan.
 Mir. Bryan has never denied that he was supporting Hearst for the Presidency. He has protested feebly on one or two occasions that he was extending the same consideration to MT. Hearst that he might extend to any other available candidate.
 Hearst's domination of the South Da- kota convention was so complete. for req sons that have been obvious in all parta of the country where his hired men have been at work, that his personal respons'- hility for the conventicn's action must be accepted.
 Hope to Disrupt the Party.
 Democrats in Congress artachsa great deal of significance to the South Dakota convention. They believe that it fore shadows a purpose on the part of Bryan
 
 party if they can. Neither has anything to lose by doing this. and Mir. Bryan, at least, has great deal to gain. He has made his alleged Democracy financial a rate that is dazziiDg to man of his previous means. He is making more mon ey at the present time than he ever made in his life before, and he appreciates that If he Is unsuccessful in carrying out his scheme of Reorganization hs income will dwindle to nothing.
 So far as Heart is concerned, he prob ably possesses only a vague knowledge of his hired men and is acquiescing in their work m.rely because they tell him 1t s all rght;:
 Some idea of the methods pursued by Hearst's Hessians can be gained by a sur They have refused to fight fair. Instead, wherever they have encountered a Dem- crat with disposition to refuse to accept MT. Hearts candidacy, they have bent ali cal standing. Theirs has been campaign of terrorism, a sort of political Mafia.
 Because Judge Wade, the only Demo- crat who has been elected from an Iowa in ten years. declined to yield to Hearst. a gang of Hessians has been set upon him in the principal counties of his district. They are threatening not alone to attempt tO prevent ms IeuOIulnduOu, Uut, II ue lS renominated. to fight him at the polls.
 It Is hardly to be wondered at that. with the employment of methods such as these, hundreds of self-respecting Demo- crats in States like Iowa, whose influence would ordinarily serve to turn the bal ance against Hearst, are hesitating to use that influence.
 Bound by Money Ties.
 When the enormous cash resources of Hearst are taken into account It can readily be understod why he is successful in building up the most dangerous politi- cal Mafia that has ever existed in the North. Men who join his ranks become bound to him by ties which they do not care to sever so long as he is willing to pay out the money.
 His managers are very confident that they have won the State of Iowa, but their confidence is likely to prove with out foundation. It Is true that the State at the present time Is in an unsettled and unsatisfactory condition, but forces are at work in all the congressional districts which in the end will probably prevail.
 One of the unfortunate phases of the fight that has recently been organized against, the Hearst movement Is the dis position of such leaders as Senator Cor man to temporize with the idea that too strenuous and violent opposition might ef- feet the divorcement of the labor vote from the Democratic candidate.
 Has No Hold on Labor Vote.
 This amounts to, an acknowledgement