Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-21
MR.. ". JENNINGS BRYAN
HE Is IN WASHINGTON. To-
DAY,
Talks Briefly With q Star Man, But
Promises to Say More
Next Tuesday.

Mr.. William Jennings Bryan arrived
in town this morning at Z o'clock. and
is the guest of his time friend, Mr.
Cotter T. Bride. at his residence on
Capitol Hill. Mr.. Bryan attended the
wedding of Mr.. Brides daughter at
noon today. Tomorrow night he viii
speak at Alexandria. Sunday afternoon
at Baltimore and Sunday night at VIII
mington, Del. He will make q long
and important speech at the banquet
to be given him at the Hotel Raleigh.
In this city the evening of November
20. :
MI. Bryan spent busy forenoonrre-
ceiving callers in Mr.. Brides parlor
and holding conferences with a number
OF, o. persons who called upon him. He
Was cioseted for some time with Mr..
willis J. Abbott, one of Mr.. Bryan's
closest friends and confidants in the
east. About noon he started down
Town to keep an important engage
iitical friends. He Travelled democrat
icaIiy' In a street car, and the Journey
was marked by an impromptu recep-
ton all down the line as people pressed
forward to shake his hand and receive
a cordial greeting and. a smile.
Despite his multitudinous engage.
ments and a busy day Mr.. Bryan found
tlme to talk to q Star man for pAbH-
cation.
Mr.. Bryan's Talk.
Mr.. Bryan, what do you regard as
the essential difference between your
policies and those Of President Roose-
velt," The Star man asked.
Mr.. Bryans face lighted up with
quizzical smile. Quick as a flash he
came back with the answer:
MY policies? 1 have no policies of
my own. If you refer to the differ
ence between the policies of the demo-
cratic party and President Roosevelts
policfes-well, I expect to take occa-
sion in the speech to be delivered here
next week to call attention to the diff
ference.
And there Is a marked difference.
for, while President Roosevelt has in-
dorsed some democratic views, he has
not Endorsed them fully, and he has
ocratic. 1 may add that the republican
leaders, while seemingly willing to in
dorse everything he says which is I'M
democratic, are not willing to help him
when he adopts ideas that are demo-
cratic.
There is a difference between Presi-
dent Rooseveit's position and the demo-
cratic party's position upon the trust
and their regulation and prosecution and
upon railway rate regulation. I will try
to make that difference plain in my ad-
dress next Tuesday night
Mr.. Bryan was asked If he had read
the remarks of Mr.. Justice Brewer in New
York last night upon the tenure of presi-
Dental Office. He replied that he had read
them with interest. Mr.. Bryan added:
Four Years Long Enough.
II think that four years in Office is
long enough for a good President and
too long for a bad one. I am in favor Of
making a President ineligible for re-elec-
ton without extending his term. If a
man serves four years, there can only be
five or six Presidents in a generation
and we will, indeed, be in a deplorable
fix when we cannot find enough available
men in a generation to fill this office
with four-year term.
Whenever the country gets in po-
sition where there Is only one man in
the country fit to be President the coun-
try will not be worth saving. The same
may be said of a political party. How
ever men may differ in availability, we
must always recognize the possibility of
finding candidates, for If only one man
is fit to be President or fit to be candi-
date what would happen II he should
die?'
Mr.. Bryan was asked to express an
opinion upon the financial situation, but
declined to discuss it at length. He re-
marked that he had abundant faith in the
solvency of the country and the banks.
The one thing needful in financial legisla-
ton was to give the depositors in the
banks such security, in fact, as to induce
to their firm belief in the strength of the
financial system. Pending the practical
effect of, the administrations latest finan-
cial relief measures he would not discuss