The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-06

that State expressed by an overwhelming
majority it's confidence in National Com
mitteemAn ROdER c. SULLIVAN and
proceeded To indorse az heartily MIR.
BRYAN's candidacy for the Presidency.
Nevertheless. speaking on Tuesday In
Chicago, Mr.. BRYAN scored his fellow
Democrats Of Illinois for not needing
the philippe Illuminated by him from
London against Mr.. SULLIVAN, and
went on to repudiate the Endorsement
OF men who presumed TO select for them
selves their local leaders. II this 10 what
Mr.. BRYAN does in the green tree, what
is he likely to do in the dry? II when
only a candidate he chastisss the man Of
Illinois with whips. Is it not certain that
II President he would chastise them with
scorpions2
Even II Mr.. BRYAN should be able for
the next twenty months to maintain,
from motives OF policy, a strict reti-
cence concerning his latest hobby, Fede-
raj ownership of trunk railways, could
Southern Democrats safely and consist
emily trust a man Of the NebraskRn's
stubborn temperament TO make a sin
cere and earnest effort to apply that
Federal regulation Of railways to which
they are committed, with a close ap-
proach to unanimity and efficiency?
Could Mr.. BRYAN be relied upon to exc
cute the railway rate act, which received
the votes OF all Southern Representatives
and Of all Southern Senators except two,
but which he has publicly denounced
as bearing on its face the stamp Of
either fraud or folly? OF what avail
will Tuesdays approval of Mr.. BRYAN's
candidacy by the Minnesota Demo-
cratic convention prove twenty months
hence against the ineradicable distrust
and resentment planted In the heart Of
Southern Democrats by his averment
that their support Of the railway rate
bill Is an imputation on their intel
lect or on their honestly Such clear
sighted men as Senator BAILEY and
Representative WILLIAMS must resent
as an insult to their intelligence Mr..
BRYAN's attempt to befog the relation
Of his Federal ownership scheme TO the
IhClhA Abbuot WulCH b VI ouCH Iuuud-
mental Importance in their section.
By protesting that he only wants TO
see the trunk or interstate lines owned
by the Federal Government, and would
all lines within the territory of a
State to be owned or controlled
by the Government thereof, the Ne
braskan evidently hopes to hide from
the Southern people the effect which his
proposal, ii adopted, would inevitably
have on their legislative efforts to avert
the physical propinquity Of white and
railway passengers. Yet he
must know that IL Federal ownership
we're once established on lines running
from Georgia to Alabama, or from Mis-
to Texas, nothing but the lack
Of the price Of a ticket could prevent a
male negro from buying a berth in a
car directly under one occupied
by a white woman. Moreover, that
state lines could long be held back from
by the trunk lines, OF which
hey are feeders, is obviously a delusion.
has shown that a trunk line
s absolute master Of it's feeders, because
I can stsrve any one of them by debar-
ing il from access TO the main channel
II intercommunication. Even II con-
interests would permit all the
ocal lines in a given State to combine
coerce q trunk line the attempt would
" futile. It would be as II half a dozen
ivers OF ~rivulets should try to coerce
he ocean, which by throwing up sand
at their mouths could transfer
hem into landlocked swamps.