Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-06-30
Money interests DiStFuSt
Him Much as Ever
They Did
TWENTY LEADERS ARE SEEN
hi Show the street FavOFIng
Neither Roosevelt
Nor Bryan

NeW York. June l1- Wall street isl
Tor William Jennings Bryan TOT
= Dent While the strange changes
IN political tides have induced O. feel
.ne In tho financial district that
iryau in not aH dangerous as he|
luce seemed 90 be-. money interests
tll dlstmst him.
These statemeuta aru based upon "a
borough oanvasE Of the street and ln.
oryluWH with a score of los most in.
utniial leaders.
Casting aside all partisan foollng
tnd ulBing your opinion entirely upon
our financial interest, DO you con.
idcr that W. J. Bryan would be q
conservative candidate for the demo.
|atlc nomination IN 1882"
Ihis question was put tO twenty
uanciors. Several republicans, not.
'ibly Frank A. Vandt rs'ip. vice presi.
ieni Of tho Standard on cOmpany's
National City bank refused 90 reply 20
he question.
Tho opinion Of others was summed
up in TIE statement OF Lewis g..
uuuF of the hanking and brokerage
lrm of A. o. Brown 4 Co. who de
sinred
A leopard cannot change his spots
+ Roosevelt has made serious mistakes,
malnly against property rights but
believe hc ls sincere and honest IN
: hia intentions Wall street realizes
~fhat tImos have changed and that
AZ osoyDh'a actions have made hryun
seem more conservative and less OF
"a menace uut Bryan VIII not be Wal
sireetb selection
Ibo ios ling against Roosevelt ls IN
icuac in many, many quarters ui ih,
district The head of tho house o
Chas Head a GO. expressed che opin
Ion that. OF the "two evils. Bryan
would De- thc lesser Roosevelt ha,
run at random through the rights o
vested interests" Hc hoped for th'
Ise un tho political horizon of a 'rca
C1ngcnauye.'
soron0 s. Pratt. editor of the Wal
street Journal uud one ot DE buH
= INFORMED men la the financial district
haid
"A predict the nomination oi Brynl
in 1905. and there is no doubt that h
Us q much stronger aud broader maj
.han he was in 9G Free silver j
~ minated
rho country has grown moro rnd
D., while Bryan has grown NOR
cuualry ryatiYc. n is question Wit
nie whether anyone who represented
or appeared go represent. the financin
interests, the high tariff and the grea
corporations, would be able 90 doten
bryan standing On a platform ut col
pufaiiou and tariff reform. u ia POI
sihle that Roosevelt rs che only ma
Boa his party who might meet hfya
on his own ground and hc popula
enough tn defeat him
samuel untermyer one OF the hes
known corporation lawyers " th
country. the man who prObed the l
IS shlnbuildlng scandal, who has bee
in the hght Tor Insurance reform, an
has just organized the inirrnaiioni
Policy Holders Protective AHocla
lion. made the following statement
% DO not bolieye tnat there is an
genuine sentiment for nv Bryan
Wall street There never Wus nor Wi
hp. Ito Is FOO progressive too puhll
sririted 20 uugnggable, for the se
IN special interests that are siandin
Doe ne way OF progress, 90 SUIT the
fancy Thoy are trying to use him 70
lhe moment ln ihc effort to hh tn
birds with the same STONE Bryan I
having II appear that they favor hii
aud Hearst. by using Bryan aHain
him. The gam, ls too transparent