Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-04
WANT ID kMCW ABOUT BRYAN
 BOOM
Shying Away From the Man ner in Which Eastern Demo- crats Are Lining Up for the Nebraska Man So Soon.
For This Reason Democrats Are Inclined to Be Non-Com- initial When Questioned on the Subject of Nomination.


 WASHINGTON, July 3.-(Special)
 An attempt tins week to canvass
 inc presidential sentiment of Demo cratic Senators and Representative was not productive of results. In common with Democrats all over the country. their representatives in Con
 eIess are up in the air" as to the next presidential nomination. The re-
 cent Bryan boom has brushed aside
 all previous calulaticns, and has rem
 dered substitute calculations well-nigh
 impossible.
 One of those paradoxical things so frequently to be observed in politics is that Republicans, much more gen
 erally than Democrats, have acceptel
 it as almost assured that MT. Bryan
 will be the next Democratic candidate. This is not because of an unfriendli-
 ness toward Bryan on the part of the average Democrat in Congress, but they appear, especially those who
 have remained steadfast to Bryan rhrouea s.ll h:s adversities, to be bCwildered by the situation which has
 developed.
 Many of these men had hoped that events might so shape themselves as to make Bryan the logical candidate
 in 1908, but they had hardly had the 1emerity to give voice to this hope.
 Now that the boom has been sprung by the Democrats whom they regard
 cd as the natural enemies of the Ne b;aska man. they simply don't know
 V hat Q make of it.
 For this reason Democrats are in- cired to be noa-committal when
 questioned on the subject of the 1908
 nomination. As one of them expressed il, they are waiting to see how Bryan's boom wears in the East and to dis cover. if they can, whether there is
 anything back of it that ought not to be there. If Eastern Democrats are actuated in their enthusiasm for
 Bryan by sincere desire to wrest e Ltrol of the government from the Republicans, then the Bryan Demo crats are with them heart and soul But the Bryan Democrats do not pro pose to become party to any premedi- tated slaughter.
 Now that Benjamin F. Barnes has been confirmed by the Senate as post master of Washington, and the Mrs. Minor Morris" incident is thus of ficially closed, it perhaps is not amiss t1 say something to the credit of this young man, who has been the target for so much condemnation and abuse.
 No attempt is made here to explain away the election from the White House of Mrs. Morris. That affair is shrouded in a peculiar and impen- etrable mystery and no man outside the sacred confines has been able to get at the why's and wherefores of it. It is not possible, though, for any one who knows MT. Barnes to believe that | he ordered, deliberately and in celd | blood, any outrage on Mrs. Morris or | on any other woman. It is -luch l easier to believe that for a moment | he lost his head, or that acting on | orders from higher up,' force vas | used where it was repugnanL to his inclinations.
 However that may be, for half a | dozen years or more Mir. Barres has | enjoyed the reputation of being one | cf the kindliest and most obliging of Ilcials who had any connection with | the White House. He received his | White House tutelage from George B. 1 Ccrtelyou, and had much of MT. Cor teiyou's charming courtesy ard rngag- Ing frankness. When MT, CorJeiyou left the White House. Mir. Barnes fell | heir to much of the formers popular ty. Mir. Loeb, who succeeded Mir. Sortelyou as secretary to the Presi- | 1eBI, has not heen popular, especially | with newspaper men, and visitors to I the White House, whenever 1t was | possible, have preferred to transact | Heir business with MT. Barnes.  The United States Treasury Depart l nent is certainly the field of the | young mans possibilities. More young men are placed in positions of large l there than in any other | department of the federal government. 1 has this been true in the 1 matter of Assistant Secretaries. This V eek J. H. Edwards, native of Ohio [ and formerly private secretary to NIT. | Shaw, assumed his duties as Assist 1 ant Secretary of the Treasury. MT. | Edwards is just thirty-one years of age and is the youngest of number of l young men who have preceded him | in that position.
 Mr. Edwards, when little more Iian | a boy. was assistant secretary to Con gIessman Weaver, of Springfield, I Ohio, and later was appointed pri- vate secretary to the late Postmaster ! General Payne. When a chance came | for Mir. Shaw 10 secure his services ! the opportunity was seized, and now 1 MT. Edwards is holding down ss.500 year job, with the prospect | before him of some lucrative rlace | in the world of finance, when he re- tires from his present office.