The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-14

time? That is not such an improb-
able thing.
While in England, Mr.. Bryan declar-
cd that he did not want to announce
himself as presidential candidate
now because 1t would require him to
sit on a stool and look pretty for too
long time. And yet he allowed
democrats to tender to him national
welcome on the occasion of his
home which was taken by
this country as nothing more or less
than a presidential boom. Sound
political sense told Mr.. Bryan that
II was too far ahead of the preslden.
tial convention, and yet he allowed
II to be done.
Nebraska this year elects a United
States senator, An effort Is being
started now to carry the state for
Bryan's sake, in order that 1t may
give him backing in the presidential
convention. But If he carries Ne.
braska this year, there will be a
democratic legislature. And, If there
is democratic legislature, what more
likely than that Mr.. Bryan should sue
cumb to tie demand of his friends,
and accept the toga? With that, 1t
would be all the easier to pave the
way to the white house, provided he
walked i'm silence.
The only other explanation of this
frenzied boom for the peerless leader
is to be found in Roger Sulivan's let.
ter when he says that Mr.. Bryan Is in
politics for advertising. knowing that
he can not be elected president, and
that he will get into some other form
of advertising just as soon as some
him bigger receipts at the box office.
Mr.. Sullivan's letter to Mr.. Bryan,
by the way, is about the hardest jolt
the Nebraskan has received, and he
is still groggy from its effects. THAT
kind of reply could be expected
from that kind of people," says Mr..
Bryan, but he has not yet had time
to gather his thoughts together in an
answer to the charges of Sullivan.
Sullivan says that Mr.. Bryan would
be dictator of the democratic party,
and that such a thing is undemocratic.
He says that he will submit his posi-
ton as national committeeman to a
vote of the convention which elected
him and will resign If the votes are
against him now, provided Mr.. Bryan
Sullivan is sustained. Mr.. Sullivan
points out the fact that Bryan has
twice carried his party to defeat,
showing that the public confidence in
Bryans sincerity is not such valu-
able asset, after all. Mr.. Sullivan
says that Mr.. Bryan is merely in the
game for the purpose of getting rich,
declares he is now rich and that he
has never made a dollar outside of
politics.
Mr. Sullivan is a prominent and
powerful democrat in Illinois. Mr.
Bryan's attack upon Sullivan can
hardly be accounted for except as a
play for the limelight. His personal
attack on Sullivan at the Chicago
banquet, right in the face of the man
and while the democrats of that state
who are friends of Sullivan, were din
ing the peerless leader, was hardly less
than rude.
Since he has endangered his presi
dental chances by springing the
boom too soon for practical use, by
throwing a government ownership
hombshell into his party's camp, and
by attempting to read out of his party
prominent democrats, may it not be
presumed that the aim of the Lincoln
democratic car is the United States
senatorship from Nebraska this com
| ing winter?