The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-20
Democrats Hope That He'll
Lift the Party.
REGARD HIM AS THE MOSES
Party Leaders Await the Com ing From
Europe of the Man From
Nebraska.
Especial to The Free Press.l

Washington, July IA. Chairman
Gri&gs, of the democratic congressional
committee, is entertaining large hopes
of what may be accomplished by the
speeches of William j. Bryan in close
districts throughout the country. He
expects to be able to prevail upon Mr..
Bryan to enter actively into the cam
paign to elect democratic house and
to keep him busy from middle Septem-
Der until election day
1t is intended to use the home COM
ing speech Mr.. Bryan will make in New
York as a democratic campaign docu-
ment and in other ways advantage will
be taken of the wave of Bryan popular
ity. A coincidence that has attracted
attention is that the republicans are
counting very largely on Secretary Taft
to furnish keynotes for republican ora
tors, and Mr.. Taft will be booked for as
many campaign speeches as his official
duties will permit Much will be made
of his speech to North Carolina repub-
leans at Greensboro, especially in south
ern states. Some people profess to see
in this coincidence foreshadowing of
what may be expected in 1906 and there
is an ever growing conviction that the
rival candidates for president two years
hence will be Bryan and Taft.
If it be true, as suspected by some
democrats, that the eastern boom for
Bryan lacked the element of sincerity.
there can be no longer doubt that it
has taken hold on the country From
every quarter come reports of Bryan en-
thusiasm among the democrats. If the
thing keeps up his nomination will be
by acclamation, not only the acclama-
ton of the convention, but of the entire
democratic party.
In the pending congressional election
the work of the recent session of CON
gress is going to be made the issue of
both parties. Republicans will point with
pride to the rate bill, the pure food bill
and other remedial legislation. These
measures, they will contend, were con-
ceived by republican president and
enacted at his behest by republican
congress. Mr.. Roosevelt's popularity
will be played as strong card.
The tariff is thing that is causing no
little uneasiness to those charged with
responsibility for the republican con-
gressional campaign. The people are
talking tariff to an extent not at all
reassuring, and there is deeply ground
ed fear that the matter may prove
troublesome when the democratic SPELL
binders open up in earnest. A consider
able number of republican members who
represent close districts are especially
unhappy over the tariff. Their people
are in favor of tariff revision and they
themselves have gone on record in adj
vocacy of readjustment of the sched-
ules. They are going to find it embar-
RAISING to explain why nothing was done
to afford relief. Their lot would have
been little more enviable had any
promise of tariff revision been held out
by the republican leaders in congress,
but the bold stand pat position assumed
by Speaker Cannon and the other rul-
ing powers leaves them with little to
offer when the voters demand the why's
and wherefores.