Bisbee daily review., 1906-10-27
rHE pY REEW BsBEE ARIZONA

been indorsed by a good many states. I have told them in advance that would not bring a breach-of-promise suit against any of them if they went back on their promises and supported some one else. that would not show the letters I have been receiving from them.
 '.But l am here. my friends. in the interest of those who are candidates. and the election this year is just now of much more importance than the election two years from now. for this year we hope to lay the foundation for a success two years hence that will be in sympathy with reform"
 This is the most definite statementi yet made by the democratic leader in connection with the problem of 1908. and this statement is definite only to those who have carefully followed Bryan's political career. The state ment may be taken to mean almost as much as if the leader had said that he would not be a candidate unless he can stand on a platform where the candidate and the party's pledges will not be at variance.
 This snouid not be taken to mean that Bryan will try to force dead is- sues into artificial life, nor does it mean that the leader proposes to make new issues for the purpose Of creating trouble. Bryan will not try to compel the party to take an ad- vlnced stand on railroad ownership, either by the national government or by the several states. He will, how ever, make the fight of his life for a platform that will declare in the sim plest and most direct way for better anu more thoroughly representative government, with especial reference to trusts and plutocracy.
 If Bryan finds in 1908 that the de- mocracy has a man who will more nearly suit the vigorous phrasing of the platform as he wants to see it l written than Bryan himself will fit it. Bryan will come forth for that man and acquit his friends in every one of the many states that have in dorsed him, of any obligation to vote for him in the convention of 1908. Bryan has accepted the national democratic pary's almost unanimous implied declaration that he is its | leader. Every speech he makes is delivered with the command and con fjence of leader, touched somewhat | with the spirit of the doctrinal preach
 CT. Bryan commands an adherence
 to party principle in its basic essen- tials. but he breaches the necessity
 for new applications of these prin- ciples to new conditions as they from time to time arise in our changing civ ilization.
 But this leadership is all that MT, | Bryan has accepted. He has not
 asked third candidacy, and. while he
 would not for a moment assume to
 decline something not yet offered to
 him. much less the great honor oi
 this nomination. he is particularly de-
 sirous to make his position absolutely
 clear. l Bryan wants to be president. of course but he does not want to risk
 carrying himself and party down to
 defeat by standing on a platform with
 which he will not be in perfect accord
 before the people. It may be said
 with as much emphasis as black type
 will convey, that Bryan will work
 harder for a strong platform and some
 other man than he will work for him.
 self, platform not considered.
 The leader does not agree with the
 eminent southern gentleman who said
 in Mississippi last month that the peo-
 pie want Bryan. platform or no plat
 fern, Bryan or TO Bryan.