The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-03-15
TUESDAY, MARCH is 1904.
BRYAN AND HEARST.


The Evening Post, Of Charleston, 8.
O., acknowledges the receipt. with the
compliments OF h Bryan Club,
of that city. OF a lot of Hearst cam
paign documents. There is irrebut-
table evidence Of a combination be-
tween Aessrs. Bryan and Hearst. They
are determined that no man who does
not bow to their will and subscribe
to their political tenets shall receive
the democratic nomination Mr.. Bry-
an at least can hardly think they
can secure two-thirdS Of the votes
of the convention for Mt. Hearst or
for himself Mr.. Hearst though may
be green enough or so conceited and
pulled up with vanity as to think
he can secure the nomination
because he was able to be elected
to congress from a district in New
York city. which is so strangely dem
aeratic that it was said by some one
in commenting on Mr.. Hearsts cleo
hon tina q "yaller dOrg" could be
elected there owe any man the re-
publicans might put up.
Mr.. Bryan seems to be champion
ing Mr.. Hearst's candidacy. He has
been stumping the country in advoca-
oy of reafirmation Of the Kansas City
platform. He and Mr.. Hearst have
formed a oo-partnership for the pur-
pose of controlling Tle democratic
convention in the interest Of Mr..
IL - NJ pF como nthar man nf their
selection. Mr.. Bryan is doing the
speaking for the firm and Mr.. Hearst
is furnishing the money. If they
should be successful in securing more
than a third of the delegates to the
convention. they will be in a position
to say to the democratic party:
Nominate our man or no one at ALL
Mr.. Bryan has time and again declar-
ed that there could be no comprO-
mise; that there must be an absolute
surrender OF the party to his wishes,
and he will carry out this determina-
ton if he succeeds in securing the
one-third of the delegates
Mr.. Bryan has said time and again
that he was not and would not be a
candidate. Now. we are told that on
being urged by friends to change his
mind he has gone so far us TO admit
that conditions have changed since
he declared he would not be a candi-
date, and while he has not yielded to
the requests OF these friends. he has
not met their solicitations with a re-
fusaI. All these facts and circum-
stances point to the conclusion that
MI. Bryan still has the presidential
bee buZzing in his bonnet, and the
public should not be greatly surpriS-
ed, after the members of the above
mentioned firm had expended, the one
much wind and the other many dol
lars in forwarding the firms measures
in the interest of the junior member,
that the senior partner should be
forced against his will and through
urgent demands of party friends" to
become the candidate in place Of the
man who now thinks that Mr.. Bryan
is doing all he can to secure the NOM
ination for him.
We do not believe Mr.. Bryan Is a
disinterested advocate of Mr.. Hearst's
nomination He can make better use
of him and his money than Of any
other man in the United States in the
forwarding of his own designs. Mr..
Hearst has been fooled into the idea
that with Mr.. Bryan as his champion
he can he nominated for president by
the democratic party and he is spend
ing his money freely in furtherance
of the design. but when Mr.. Hearst
has spent thousands of dollars in his
campaign and when the time is ripe
for the final stroke by the BryaniteS,
it will be discovered by them that not
Mr.. Hearst. but Mr.. Bryan. is the
man ''the people" demand for their
standard bearer and the yellow jour
nalist will be thrown overheard for
the gentleman who has won the dis
tinction of being the only presiden-
tia candidate in the history of our
country who has twice led his party
to defeat-has on two occasions had
his party to refuse to support him and
his political principles and still thinks
himself that party's leader and cham
pion.
OF purse our government will sus-