Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-06-27
$ Money Interests DiStrust
Him Much as Ever
They Did
TWENTY LEADERS ARE SEEN
All Show The Street favOrin9
Neither Roosevelt
Nor Bryan

New York, June 27.-Wall street is
not for William Jennings Bryan for
president. While the strange changes
Of political tides have induced feel
ing in the financial district that
Bryan is not as dangerous" as he
once seemed to be, money interests
still dstrust him.
These statements are based upon a
thorough canvass of the street and in
terviews with score of its most in
tluential leaders.
Casting aside all partisan feeling
and basing your opinion entirely upon
your financial interest. do you con.
slider that w. j. Bryan would be a
conservative candidate for the demo
cratic nomination in 190S?'
This question was put to twenty
financiers. Several republicans not
ably Frank A. Vanderslp, vice presi
dent of the Standard Oil company
National City bank, refused TO reply tC
the question.
The opinion of others was summed
up in the statement of Lewis G.
Young of the banking and brokerage
nrm of A. o. Brown & Co., who de
Clared
a ttupdlu NdluOl NllduSC HIS NpOlS
Roosevelt has made serious mistakes
mainly against property rights, but
believe he is sincere and honest il
mis- intentions. Wall street realizes
That times have changed and tha
RGOsevelt's actions have made Bryai
seem more conservative and less o
menace, but Bryan will not be Wal
streets selection"
The feeling against Roosevelt is in
tense in many, many quarters OF tn,
district. The head of the house o
Chas. Head & Co. expressed the opin
ion that, of the two evils, Bryal
would be the lesser. Roosevelt ha
run at random through the rights Q
vested interests" He hoped for tn
rise on the political horizon of a ''rea
conservative"
Serene s.. Pratt, editor of the WA
Street Journal, and one of the bes
informed men in the financial district
said:
Il predict the nomination of Brya
in 1908, and there is no doubt that b
is a much stronger and broader ma
than he was in 90. Free silver
eliminated.
The country has grown more raj
ioal, while Bryan has grown nor
conservative. 1t is a question wit
me whether anyone who represented
or appeared to represent the financii
interests, the high tariff and the grea
corporations, would be able to defea
Bryan standing on platform of co
poration and tariff reform. 1t is po
sible that Roosevelt is the only ma
in his party who might meet Brya
on his own ground and be popula
enough to defeat him"
Samuel Untermyer, one of the bes
known corporation lawyers in tn
country, the man who probed the [
S. shipbuilding scandal, who las bee
in the fight for insurance reform, an
has just organized the Internationf
Policy Holders Protective ASsocla
tion made the following statement
Il do not believe that there is an
genuine sentiment for Mr. Bryan i
Wall street. There never was nor WI
be, He is too progressive, too publ
spirited, to 'ungaggable,' for the Sc
fish special interests that are standin
in the way of progress, to suit thei
fancy. They are trying to use him to
the moment in the effort 10 kill tw
birds with the same stone-Bryan b
having it appear that they favor hin
and Hearst, by using Bryan agains
him. The game is too transparent