The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-10
BRYAN MAY
 NAME HEARST Alliance Believed to Have
 Been Made. DEMOCRATS DISGUSTED Reported That Nebraskan Win Nominate New Yorker. Washington Star Has Information From a Man svsry Close to
 Hearst, Hinssslfv lfv--Pro-
 pogands is Busy.
 

Washington. March s.--(speciai .,--Tne Washington Evening Star has story to- day of an alliance between Hearst and
 Bryan that has been talked of here for many days. When MT. Bryan was here a few days ago, he was talked to with extreme slrY- cerity and severity by number of prominent Democrats who Aad been loyal
 10 him and who gave him to understand
 they had no earthly stomach for the Hearst proposition. To every man who approached him the Nebrasixan compress ed his lips and said not Q word. That very conduct of Bryan theh put into question and stiil involves hi& own good name for sincerity even amona the most
 hcartwhole Bryauftes who were ever m Congress. This is The StarH article:
 "An alliance between William ]. Bry m and William R. Hearst with d view of dictating the Democratic presidantiai nomination is said to be carkailsty In
 fact, 1t Is asserted By a man very close to dr. Hearst himself, that Ehe present arrangement ss that Mir Bryan wIli pre-
 sent Mir. Hearst's name to the st Louis Convention.s
 Among visitors a& the Whiae House who gossip about the probable action of the Democratic Convention. tns nAxae of | AACaASt Ab ACalU Ho elLGn as Etif4lfF H of any other Democrat, vii slble exception of Cleveland.
 gressive campaign being ma
 structed delegates by Hearst ed the interest alike of Reruf .I Democrats So vigorous, 1hdee tss
 come the Hearst propaaAnda eI. chief of the Washington btif leading New York newspsper p . |. remark day or, two ego thl newspaper did not nentiAn the ~ Mir. Hearst very soon "A would s- printing Che news.
 Here in Washington D'r Hee3
 motion bnreau 's ,iEas IT. 7sNa se some aNki6ulafiy sssS fN1AM
 and out of Congress hkr. 17eM ,'-. self while directing the work a
 1iding the means for the conduct
 preliminary campaign, is keeping
 in the background as much as p
 The actual work is being done by
 ed lieutenants. From their chiefs
 in this city orders are being SC
 to every State in the Union by
 lieutenants aud each day the news
 of the country contain evidence
 work being accomplished. Delegat
 the St. Louis Convention are being,
 ed up here and there. Hearst campaign clubs are being organized and in every State the work is going on apace,
 Tn the opinion of the best informed pol tticians 1t Is now a certainty that MT. Hearst. backed by Mfr. Bryan, may be in a position to give the leaders opposed to him a lot of trouble. He may not have majority of the delegates to the St. Louis convention. indeed. he probably will not but he will, 1t Is anticipated, have enough strength to cut an import ant figure. and will be factor that will have to he reckoned with. Ills friends even now are pointing to his regularity as a strong feature of his campaign.
 Both fin the campaign of 1896 and 1900 he gave W. J. Bryan vigorous support. The Bryan train went around no curve sharp enough to throw him of. He stood for every Jot and title of both the Chicago and the Kansas City plat forms. Naturally, such support enlisted the friendship for Mir. Hearst of Mir. Bryan and the latter. with his powerful personal following. is now giving the New York editor a Quid pro quo.
 ''Mr. Hearst. recognizing the antago- nism of the Tammany organization in New York has declared that both fhe nomination and the election of PresI- dent will be determined by the Western and Southern States. Realizing the prac- tical impossibility of breaking through the Tammany line in New York MT.  Hearst Is paying but little heed to that part of the game, but is devoting his time and energy and money to outside States.
 'rhe Tammany leaders do not approve of him. but in that respect they have no advantage of him. for his thoughts about them would make picturesque reading. They turned him down at the harmony banquet but he proposed to even up that snub at, the St. Louis convention next July.
 When Hearst started his campaign hall to rolling. he figured on obtaining the backing of the organized labor ele- ment of the country. For months he de- voted practically his entire attention to that factor in the political problem. Hav- ing secured fairly good basic organlza- ton, he branched out Into the oren and now Is in the field contesting for dele gates in every Congressional District. He has an advantage in being frank and avowed candidate for the nomination"