The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
BRYAN WOULD WITHDRAW
WILLING TO MAKE SACRIFICE
FOR PARTY's SAKE.
HE WOULD FAVOR II. SMITH
Personal Friends Of William J. Bryan
Are Said to Believe That He Would
be Willing to Give Up Personal End
For Sake Of Democracy.

Washington, May 29--Fearing an.
other disastrous split in the democrat
ic party like that of 1896, w. j. Bryan,
according to close personal friends
here, will not press for third nomi-
nation for the presidency.
The open activity of the antl-Bryan
wing of the party, which is being man.
Tested all over the country, and espe.
cially down south, is having a depres-
sing effect on the Nebraskan and his
followers.
They have become greatly discour-
aged at the outlook, and rather than
face another factional contest within
the party, Bryan, it is believed, will
espouse the cause of some other as
pirant-a southern man.
Won't Accept Reactionary.
This view of Bryan's probable
course is held by his closest personal
friends, who have been associated
with him in his two former campaigns.
They also hold to the belief that Bry-
an will quit only on one stipulation
that the democracy of the nation shall
agree on a candidate whom all ele-
ments of the party can accept and
support Loyalty and with vigor
Bryan will not accept Judge Gray
of Delaware or Daniel of Virginia, or
any "reactionary" of their kind. Per
sonal friends who have talked with
Bryan recently assert that he has Civ
en- them plain intimation that he does
not wish another nomination under eX-
listing circumstances. He believes
that the party could select a candidate
in whose nomination all past acrimony
could be buried and whose campaign
for election could be waged with hope
and confidence.
Hoke Smith His Choice.
Bryan has mentioned as his favorite
candidate Hoke Smith, governor of
Georgia. If he could induce his adj
herents as well as those of the con-
scryauye element in the north and
east to accept Governor Smith, Bryan,
it is said, would be content and would
even make a declaration in favor of
this southern nomination in his own
state.
Hoke Smith, although originally
known as a Cleveland democrat, was
one of only two members Of the CIeve-
land cabinet who supported Bryan 10y
ally in 1896. He was popular in the
Cleveland camp, but recently became
an exponent of government regulation
of the railroads. On that issue he en-
tered the democratic primaries in
Georgia against popular rivals like
Clark Howell and won a signal vic
tory, overwhelming his opponents.
johnson Not on List.
While Bryan prefers Hole Smith,
believing him best fitted to cement the
various elements of the democracy and
gain popular support in the north and
east as well as the solid south, he has
two or three other southern men up
his sleeve, it is said, if his propaganda
for Governor Smith should miscarry.
Two governors of southern states,
recently elected are in his list, Gov
ernor Conner of Alabama and Govern
or Campbell of Texas, as well as Sen
ator Culberson of the lone star state.
Governor Smith of Georgia, however,
is decidedly his first choice. William
l.. Douglas of Massachusetts and Gov
ernor Johnson of Minnesota have been
mentioned as being in the Bryan list
also, but this is denied by those who
claim to have the right to speak for
the Nebraskan.
Two Sides to Game.
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part of the conservative wing of the
party to foist a candidate like Judge
Gray or Alton B. Parker on the con-
vention, Bryan, it is said would then
enter the fight and demand his own
nomination, even in the face of an
other factional contest with respective
defeat at the polls.
There are two sides, apparently,
therefore, to the game of trotting out
favored sons" candidates in the dem
ocratic side. One effort evidently is
being engineered by the anti-Bryan
men, while Bryan and his friends on
the other hand, intend to play SINH
lar game, with Hoke Smith as their
first string.
No Alliance With Hearst.
1t is regarded as significant that
Bryan does not favor William r.
Hearst, nor IL it believed that the Ne
braskan's friends can be induced to
withdraw for Hearst. The GOODNESS
between them appears to be growing
more, rather than less, frigid, despite
the efforts of Bryans foes to hitch up
the Ne6raskan and the New Yorker
in political alliance.
Bryan is represented as believing
that should Secretary Taft be nomi-
mated by the republicans under Presi-
dent Roosevelt's direction, the demo
Gratis would have an excellent oppor-
tunity, which 1t should take advantage
of, with the best man to weld the party
together as the national standard
bearer.
Why Bryan prefers a southern dem.