The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-17
Ready for Summer.
BRYAN BOOM WILL HEAD OFF HEARST

Washington, June 16-The forecast made in this letter some three weeks ago that there would be a Bryan move- ment started to head off the Hearst boom has come true, and the movement has assumed proportions far beyond formation of its coming. Perhaps not in the history of the polotics of this country has there been such another spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm for any man for the Presidency so far ahead of the assembling of the nomi- hating conventions as there has been for MT. Bryan, and certainly not for a man who has twice gone down to de- feat at the polls at the hands of practt- cally the same electorate that both times pronounced against him and his policies in such an unmistakable way. But despite those two overwhelming defeats the party leaders in Congress seem to be confident that a third try will result in victory It Is staying within the bounds of truth to say that more than a majority of the Democrats in the Senate and House have express ed themselves either publicly or pri- lieviug that he can win In 1908.
 The Bryan movement mas certainly served its main purpose. that of head bsfyeen Hearst and any other man ex- cept Bryan there were dozens o1 Con gressmen who would have voted for Hearst But since the Bryan movement
 
 single Democratic Representative who ia for Hearst over Bryan. It IS sald that Hearst believes that Bryan IS the only. man who can defeat him for the Hearst Fires His wad.
 The policy of Hearst toward MT. Bryan Is shown by an S,nS editoriai ba saPs aPs that he has always stood by MT. Bryan. but that if he takes up with the Bel nr ont crowd. Tom TagFart and the rest. lx1 ty New York during the last Presidential campaign and was told bS men who knew that 1t took the hardest sort or work on the part of the National con stantly exposing his 5ore toe nc got at the National Convention at St. Louis
 Throughout the whole compaign he was either morosely silent or Was as. tactics again. He is publishing dis patches from French Lick springs pur- is principal owner If a big gambling hail there. He tried the same thing two years ago but the statement was discredited. This. is the fayorite s,yie He resorted to 1t when Representative Sullivan of Massachusetts, said In the House what he thought of Hearst. der and then raking up an old case at Harvard agains. him, in which Sullivan had accidently killed man while try ing to put him out of bar room. The courts had compleatey exhonerated sul- livan, but the islander was none the less repeated in the House and the exhon- eration of the court never referred to by Hearst, though he knew of 1t.
 Bryan in Indiana.
 The great enthusiasm of the people who hear Mir. Bryan speak IS past accounting for. During the closing days of the Presidential campaign of 1904 I was in Indiana and attended some of the big meetings addressed by Bryan and others by Fairbanks. Tn some instances they spoke to prac- tically the same crowds. and in these instances I am safe in saving that without exception. the enthusiasm that greeted MT. Bryan was far greater than that with which MT. Fairbanks was greeted. though he was a favor ite son of Indiana. and a candidate on the Republican ticket And yet when the returns came in there was no heav- fer Democratic vote where Bryan spoke than where he did not. and 1t was distressingly small everywhere.