The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-28
POLITICS AT
THE CAPITAL
THE 5RYAN-HEARsT FuED.-
ROOSEVELT ONLY HALF IN
EARNEST ABOUT PUNISH
MENT or TRUSTS.
Union Soldiers And Negroes Oppose
Candidacy OF Taft.

Special Correspondence to the Herald
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June "a
This week has been prolific of semi
official statements. Beverage hal
been 70 Oyster Bay, and presumably
with authority, announces that We
are not standing SO awfully pat as
some folks suppose. The statement
Beverage writes for the World" is
not as specific as the curious desire
but it announces that natural causes
! should be reasonable and avoid pro
ducing panic, just because it is found
necessary to revise some scandalously
oppressive schedules. The whole sig
nificance of this semi-Official statement
is that revision is accepted at oyster
Bay as an inevitable issue.
Then comes Bourke Cochran home
from Nebraska, where he has seen
Mr.. Bryan. He repeats what so many
who have seen Mr.. Bryan lately know
to be true; that is, that he is in doubt
as to whether he will be a candidate
or not. He thinks it is too soon to
decide. These two great orators, ac-
cording to the newspapers, spent their
time in talking about the platform.
Finally, Norman E. Mack returns
from abroad to report of fields and in.
dividuals beyond the pale of candi-
dacy, and says that Richard Croker
return to the States, but ONLY to
vote. The hope expressed by Mr.. |
Mack that Mr.. Hearst and Mr.. Bryan |
will. for the party good, make up their
has brought out the first
explicit statement concerning the
basis of the feud between these two
gentlemen. None of Hearst's friends
whom the New York newspapers
sought would speak for publication,
tut it was learned that there is still
very pronounced ill-feeling on the
,art of the Hearst people against Mr..
Bryan, and the reason is given thus:
Mr.. Hearst, in 1896 and 1900, per.
onally through his newspapers, sup.
orted Mr.. Bryan for the Presidency.
n 1904 Mr.. Bryan was not a candidate
Or the Presidency, while Mr.. Hearst
yas, and Mr.. Hearst felt that he
hould have Mr.. Bryan's support. In :
tead of requitting the political loyalty
Mr.. Hearst, Mr.. Bryan upon the
latform and seconded the nomination |,
[ former United States Senator Cock.
I being nominated. Some of the
earst people who were seen declared ).
lat Mr.. Hearst's friends would do
possible to defeat Mr. Bry-
/ FOR the nomination next year, and :,
at if they accomplished their pur-
use, Mr.. Hearst would not run for Z
resident as the candidate of the Ma
onal Independence League.
Peculiar significance is lent by
csc statements, which are admitted
inspired from Hearst's sources, to
r. Bryans recent utterances con-
rning the Hearst Independent
'ague, to the effect that from So
ALISTIC standpoint, there will be
ason enough for third party; but 8,
at from a Democratic standpoint, a in
rd party will be unnecessary" p,
Bonaparte's Surprise. w
One June 2 Mr.. Bonaparte, head of tn
, Department of Justice, under the mi
,dding of incisive articles in the Dt
W York World and other newspa- liza
IS that he was slow and behind the ph
les as a trust buster, said: lei
In some cases where continuous RAJ
lations of the law involve a large pa
nber of illegal acts, each one of sts
m criminal, the total fines which tor
be imposed have proved a suf-
ent deterrent. But in other cases
s the opinion of most prosecuting =,
GERS that the law can be much
re clearly and effectively enforced
Dugh the Imprisonment of individ-
defendants" Z
hat indicated that the Attorney tbo
Ieral intended to try his hand at \
ting some of the bad trust and edy
magnates, including such l1o'
undesirable citizen as Mr.. Harri- VI I
behind the bars" If he could saw
vince a jury he was as black as n
tied by President Roosevelt and par
RS
ut on June President Roosevelt, and
Cabinet concurring, took the wind For
of the Attorney-General's sails by zen
ding that Mr.. Hartman, although eve