Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-08
THE BOOM FOR BRYAN
Principal Topic Among Demo-
Gratis in Congress.
STATES DECLARING FOR HIM
Several Already Out in the Middle
West.
HENRY WATTERS0N ENDORSES
To Be Given a Reception in New York
and Invited to Speak at
Iowa Convention. ~.
HENRY wATTERS0N IND0RSES

The amazing demonstration in favor of
William Jennings Bryan throughout the
western states Is the principal topic of con-
versation among democrats in Congress,
who are looking forward to the next presi-
Dental campaign. The subject has an Inn
mediate interest for them in the possibility
that this apparent reunion of the democ-
racy may help to soiidify the party In the
approaching congressional elections.
A number Of normally democratic congress
sional districts in the middle and far west
were swept into the republican column in
the" last election by the Roosevelt enthu-
siasm. Democrats in Congress are now
hoping that they may be brought back again
by the Bryan enthusiasm.
There Is no discounting the extent and
spontaneity of the Bryan outburst. The
sentiment approving his nomination for the
presidency is sweeping through the west
like prairie fire. Thus far 1t has reached
only one southern state-Arkansas-but the
south will probably be the last to swing into
line, as the industrial south Is now con-
servative region. Mr.. Bryan's friends among
southerners are claiming that this is a new
Bryan and a conservative Bryan, fit for the
support of conservatives.
Nuts for Tammany.
Tammany Is expected to show signs in a
few days of sitting up and taking notice of
things. This Bryan outburst Is said to be
nuts for Tammany because 1t must grind
William r. Hearst so hard Bryan is to
have q reception when he returns from Eu-
rope and 1t may be set down as certain
that Tammany will observe with some In
terest the proceedings upon that occasion.
The remarkable feature Of the Bryan out
burst is the fact that two years in ad-
a do
clardng for a candidate. Indiana, Arkansas,
South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio and Iowa
are already in the Bryan column by d.
rect expression or reasonably safe indica-
ton.
Mr.. Henry Watterson. editor OF the Louis
Vile COurier-JOurnal came out In this
mornings edition of the paper, according
to dispatch from Louisville, unreservedly
fndorsing Bfyan's candidacy,
Mr.. Watterson's Tribute.
Mr. Watterson says, in part: He has
survived the crudities and hysteria of the
iil-starred campaign Of 1895, and though he
went to dwinding instead of rising vote
In 1900, he held his organization and follow
Ing intact. The end of the campaign Of
1904 saw him the one king pin erect and
standing; since then 1t must be conceded
that he has carried himself with prudence
and aplomb. indicating to thoughtful OBJ
servers the growing rather than the waning
man.
Mr.. Bryan has served his probation and
earned hix reward. He can be trusted to
take the helm and to steer us away from
the breakers of graft and graft politics,
having Its headquarters In the republican
steering committee of the Senate and In
the republican Speaker and his rules COM
mittee of the House.
THE Courfer-Journal accepts the situa-
ton heartily. 1t is democrat pure and
simple 1t nurses neither sores nor scores,
Nothing has ever entered the head of 1t
about Mr.. Bryan which it did not long ago
kick out at the heel, and 1t proposes to
labor earnestly and increasingly to make
his election an accomplished fact enter
tanning the while the very liyeliest and
Other Endorsements.
Another dispatch says that canvass
made yesterday of the democratic mem
bers of the Illinois Press Association, in
session in Chicago, showed them to be
unanimous in favor Of Bryan Mr. Carter
Harrison came out in an interview en-
Enthusiastically supporting Bryan.
Iowa has invited Bryan to address the
democratic state convention, which meets
at Waterloo August 7. The invitation was
sent by II. c. Evans, president of the Iowa
Democratic Association. after comforting
with the members OF the state central COM
mittee
Mr. David r. Francis of Missouri, head
of the ultra-conservative wing of the west
ern democracy, and himself frequently
mentioned as presidential timber, came out
In an interview expressing his opinion that
the great mass of the conservative demo-
Gratis will be found in line for Bryan's NOM
ination and election.