Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-11-29
POLITICAL.

Many freak statesman is anti
raili AIDED into office these days" OBJ
serves the watchful Washington
Herald
The Court of Appeals of New York
has declared unconstitutional the act
permitting Hearst to have recount of
the votes in his contest with Mayor
Mcclellan.
Sixty members of the House and sew
enteen members of the Senate, chosen
at the late election, are liable to lose
their certificates for failure to file state
ments of expenses in the election.
They have to be fled thirty days after
election.
There has been a regular love-feast
IN washington of late. Bryan called on
Roosevelt, and was entertained whole
half-an-hour. In the afternoon Mr..
Bryan was escorted to the stand and
introduced at the Y. NJ. G. A. Conven-
ton by Secretary Cortelyou, both re-
ceiving rounds of applause.
The Populist National Chairman is
beginning to claim everything that is,
both Bryan and Roosevelt. Saws the
aforesaid p. N. c.: 1--WE feel individu-
ally as friendly to either the Indepen-
dence League or the Prohibitionists as
we do to Bryan or Roosevelt. We are
pleased that they are going our way,
and would be more pleased. if they would
GO further"
Republican members of Congress
admit that the Democrats will be in
position at the coming session to adj
minister some hard blows to their OPP
ponents, owing to the policy pursued
by the President and Secretary of the
Treasury in issuing $50, 900, 600 of bonds
and 800. 200 of Treasury certif-
Gates in time of peace to relieve
the money market. The chairman
of almost the leading committee
of the House of Representatives says:
"All the Democrats will have to do
this winter will be to go through the
Congressional Record, and get the
speeches made by Republicans in 1893,
attacking Cleveland, and hurl them at
US. They will have US on the hip from
start to finish"
After reading the following, one must
be convinced that some local politicians
got on to" the anti-Roosevelt tactics
and applied them here. 1t is asserted
In Washington that the clique of anti
Roosevelt politicians who were denounc-
ed from the White House few months
ago, for plotting to defeat the Roose-
welt policies and prevent the nomination
of Roosevelt candidate, is following a
concerted plan by which there will be
selected all over the country delegates
who will shout loudly for Roosevelt.
They will talk so loudly of their allie
glance to the President, that they will
lull the latter's friends into a sense of
fancied security. But in reality these
men will be picked by the anti-Roose-
welt bosses, and at the critical moment
will be voted for so-called reaction
ary."
The Times-Dispatch Washington cor
respondent is authority for the follow
ing: Senator Daniel and William J..
Bryan had passage-at-arms in the
lobby of the New Willard this af-
ternoon. The two distinguished Dem
ocrats met and the greeting and hand
shake were not marked by excessive
cordiaiity. The conversation proceeded
along somewhat conventional lines. an.
parently, for moment or two, but
by-standers heard enough of the con-
versation then to show that politics had
been preached. Senator Daniel made
some allusion to the course of Mr..
Bryan AZ the st. Louis convention in
1903, in which it was alleged the Ne
braska statesman had tried to force his
ideas into the platform. Mr.. Bryan re-
marked that the platform Dug hit to have
been satisfactory, since the Senator
was the chairman of the committee on
resolutions which drew it. Senator
Daniel replied that Mr.. Bryan had
forced certain things into it and kept
others out of it, threatening that he
would not support the ticket if certain
things We're not done. ''You must learn
to stick to your party, SIR said the
Senator. The reply of Mr.. Bryan was
not Ineligible, and then the Senator
responded, ''You must cease to take
your ideas from the independence
league" 80, well," replied Mr..
Bryan, eff we are to discuss the source
of my ideas the conversation had better
cease. :" And the two statesmen sep
arated. Although Senator Daniel was
one of the foremost supporters of Mr..
Bryan when the latter made his first
campaign for the presidency in 1896, the
two have not been able to chit it off,
well of recent years. They were
antagonist in the resolutions COM
mittee at the st. Louis convention in
1904, and at one of the sessions Senator
Daniel talked to the Nebraska states
man in manner notable for its direct
ness and plainness. Senator Daniel
was the first Democrat of national i'm
portance to come out in opposition to
the idea of government ownership of
railways suggested by Mr.. Bryan.
lSenator Daniel has since denied that
the conversation was more than pleasant
badinage,]