The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-08-31
BRYAN SPEECH TONIGHT
ToNloHT's RECEPTION NOT TO BE
ONE SWEET SONG.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP IDEA
u Has Leaked Out That Bryan Will
Tonight Come Out in Favor Of Gov.
ernment Ownership of Railroads,
and Southern Democrats Resent it.

ernment Ownership Of Railroads,
and Southern Democrats Resent it.
New York, Aug. 30-The reception
OF Mr.. Bryan in Madison Square gar
den tonight may not develop into one
grand, sweet song. Trouble is brew
ing.
A tip has gone out from some Off
cial or semi.ofiicial source that the
"commoner," in his speech is to cor 4
out into the open in favor of fede.
ownership and operation of all the
railroads in the country. Southern
democratic leaders are opposed to this
proposition. 1t would do away with
their system of providing separate
cars for whites and negroes.
Senators Bailey and Culberson of
Texas, former Governor Benton Nc
MILAN of Tennessee and many other
prominent southern democrats, are in
the city and others are expected
They are going to try to obtain an au-
dience with Mr.. Bryan before he
makes his Madison Square garden
speech, and will urge him not to come
out in favor of government ownership
Have Dire Threat.
Prominent southern democrats said
today that if Mr.. Bryan did, in his
nj
icy, it would be extremely doubtful if
any southern delegate to the demo
cratic national convention of 1908
would vote for his nomination for
President.
Another fly dropped into the Bryan
reception ointment. Thomas Taggart
of French Lick Springs and Indianap-
oils, chairman of the democratic ma
tional committee, is here. The Bryan
reception has brought to the city a
majority of members of the national
committee, and a persistent report is
in circulation that Taggart will call a
meeting of the committee in order to
eXpel or discipline Roger Sullivan of
Illinois.
Mr.. Bryan, in various letters and
cablegrams, urged that Sullivan be put
off the committee and put down and
out as democratic boss of Illinois.
Goltra, the former school friend
who greeted Bryan and took the Ne
braskan in his yacht, the Illini, is a
trust magnate.
New York, Aug. 30.-Under gray
skies, but in eXuberant spirits. and
bronzed by the suns OF many clmes
during year of travel completely
around the world, William Jennings
Bryan Of Nebraska, twice the nominee
of the Democratic party for president
Of the United States and already in
dorsed as the candidate of 1908,
steamed up New York bay on the
Princess Irene and received an ova-
ton from large welcoming parties,
which went down to Quarantine to
meet and cheer the incoming vessel
and its distinguished passenger.
Mr.. Bryan did not enjoy his usual
health during the voyage, but he was
much better and said that he felt sure
he would be able to carry out the
plans which have been made for him
during the next few days. He was
very much fatigued when he boarded
the steamer and during the entire
voyage suffered from indigestion and
severe headache. His illness was not
serious enough to interfere with his
work, however, and lie devoted large
portion of the nine days at sea in pre-.
pairing his speeches and in keeping up
his correspondence.
Mr.. Bryan will not land in New
York city proper until this afternoon.
when he will be received at the Bat
terry by delegations of prominent Dem
ocrats from all parts of the country
and escorted to the hotel, where he
will make his headquarters while here.
He was taken off the Princess Irene
by special permission of President
Roosevelt shortly after the vessel had
anchored in Quarantine. First he went
aboard two tugs, which had been char
tered by "Bryan'S Nebraska Home
Folks" where he was eXultantly
greeted and hailed as the next presi'
dent. He then went aboard the
yacht "Illini," owned by his longtime
friend and schoolmate Edward f. Col
ira of st. Louis. and where such well
known Democrats as Norman E. Mack
national committeeman for New York.
and Daniel j. Campau, national COM
mitteeman for Michigan, were await
ing him. In the "lllini'' Mr.. Bryan was
taken to the landing of the Ocean
Yacht club, at Stapleton, where he
landed and was whirled away in an
automobile to the home of Lewis
Nixon, on the heights of Tompkins'
Vile, and overlooking the harbor.
Holds Conference With Friends.
Here Mr. Bryan spent the night the
evening being devoted to serious
conference with intimate personal
friends and men of prominence in his