The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-06-06
FOR 1903
BRYAN, HEARST AND BAILEY
LOOM UP IN RACE.
These are the Only Three Names Now
Under Consideration for the Dem.
eeratle Neutrality-suspicious.
Gratis Are in Good Shape.

Washington. June 5..-As all roads
used to lead to Rome. so do all po-
litiCal discussions in the United
States lead to the presidency. The ap.
preaching congressional campaign Is
concededly fraught with unusual IN.
pcitance to every available presiden.
tial candidate in both parties.
Republican leaders are about agreed
that the result Of the struggle next
November for control Of the house OF
the sixteth congress will determine
whether their leader in 1905 shall be
representative Of what for lack OF
an apter term is called Roosevelt radi-
calism or whether he shall represen,
that conservatism that actually or
nomiaally IS opposed % The existing
state Of things in the white house.
la an important sense the demo.
cracy is gs deeply concerned over the
.cutcome of the contest between these
opposing forces in the opposition
party as repUblica1ism itself. for the
democracy viii De governed almost
as largely in 1905 as it was in 1904 by
the action of the republicans in choos.
ing between these two extremes OF
political tnoush' To the sNtsat that
the democrats az this juncture are nc,
so GcGtely threatened with dangerous
internal disorders as are the republi.
cans. they have q decided advantage
IN the task ahead Of selecting a stand
ard bearer for the next great fight.
Then. again, their position is more ad.
yautageous from another viewpoint.
There is no tremendous economic or
fiscal issue Ike that Of the tariff g.
distract their councils aad confus
their judgments.
Now that free silver is dead the
democracy Is united once more on all
the great questions that divide the
electorate into two parties, and its
rank and fle can be more easily re
conciled 20 the party leadership com
missioned by It's chosen representa-
tlves in convention thaa can that OF
the republicans
From still another point Of view the
democrats seem in better shape at the
present moment for the big fight two
years hence than do the republicans
and that Is that thus early In the pre-
liminary skirmish no movements Of
mystery as 10 the selection OF the
leader are going on. Only three names
are at this time being seriously con
sldered by the masses and the leaders
Of the party They are William Jen
nings Bryan, William Randolph Heais q
and Joseph Weldon Bailey. Nh,
Bryan's candidacy, OF course, has be
come as fixed a thing in the politics
Of this day as was that Of Henry Clay
among the wings. more than half q
century ago, and OF James G.. Blaine
among the republicans. twenty years
ago. The Nebraskan has written q
leater from the iungles OF Indian C
a friend in 81. Louis, saying that he
would be governed by circumstance
In the matter Of again asking for his
partys nomination. The only othel
thing he could have said was thG
| Ia no circumstances would he ac
cept a third nomination. Hence, Mr
Byran may be considered in the race
for his party's leadership.
I Dr. Lancey N!coll OF New YORK, VIII,
was in Washington last week, declar
ed that he was for Bryan against al
comers, and intimated that whatever
influence may be controlled By AltoT
b. Parker will be eXerted for th'