The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-05-03
poL1TIcALs
Bryan Would Purge Party.

" that he had not made up his mind
whether be would be a candidate or
not, but that in the neal future he
would his position; then III
the course of his speech he came out
squarely for the initiative and referen-
dunn as the coming Democratic doc
trine, holding that however it might
be retarded by some Of the eastern
Democrats they could never defeat it.
At this point, speaking in impassioned
manner, he said:
themselves is the fundamental Demo
cratic doctrine. We may differ about
other questions, but if there Is a man
calling himself a Democrat who does
not believe in the right of the people
to govern themselves l shall drive him
out of the Democratic party If 1 can,
and I may add that if the Democratic
party does not believe in the right Of
the people to govern themselves 1t will
have no difficulty in driving me out
Of the party"
This was incorrectly reported in some
papers as being Mr.. Bryan's declara-
ton that he would drive some partic-
ular man out of the party, and it was
said that he had reference to Thomas
r. Ryan.
In answering the question how much
money a man could have and remain a
Democrat he said that if a man makes
his money honestly there is no limit,
provided he is the master of his mon.
ey, but when his money becomes his
master he ceases to be a Democrat. AS
to railroad rate legislation, the Demo.
cratic leader said that all past at
tempts at regulation were worthless
because no one had taken the pains to
find out how much the railroads. were
worth.
Speaking at another meeting called
in the interests Of the national public
ity bill. MI. Bryan advocated that al
campaign contributions he published
before the day of election, with the
names Of the sivers. and requiring that
nothing be received later than ten
days before the voting. and after elec
ton he would have n statement pub
lisled of how much money was speut.
Taft to Take the Stump.
To the WASHINGTON correspondent;
the president confided the definite
statement that he would favor secre
tary Taft for the next presidential
nomination and that he would so ar
range affairs that Taft might take the
stump in Ohio this summer.
Anti Roosevelt "conspirators."
Two men who have made utterances
unfriendly to the administration have
been spoken Of at the White House as
confirming the charge of a rich mems
conspiracy. One is II. II. Rogers, mate
of the oil trust crew, who in a publish
ed interview said that 1.-The sentiment
of the country will have so c%rystallizeC
within Il few months that there will be
a united demand for the strongest con
s%ervatism in the conduct of the govern
ment." The other alleged conspiratol
is Colonel George Harvey, editor Of
Harper's Weekly. who delivered a phil
lipic against Ro%oseveltism at the New
York dinner of the National Democrat
ic club on Jefferson's birthday. Papers
friendly to the president have not hest
tated to call Harvey the mouthpiece OF
1.-THE Wall street anarchists" calling at
tention to. the fact that his weekly as
we'll as the North American Review
which he also edits, were financed by
j. P. Morgan.
What Colonel Harvey said, however
was full of spice. He included Bryan
in his attack, comparing him alons
with Roosevelt %unfavorably to "tht
Hills and Morgans, who have opened
the great west to civilization and VOL
for our country the commercial su
premacy of the world" He character
lied the presidents declaration for hi!
successor as an arrogant and unprece
denied insult to a free people, and hi:
cry Of conspiracy as "the raging of thu
revolutionary instincts of a lawles:
mind" adding that the people were de
luded by 1.-THE marvellous spectacle O
blatant probity yawping from the pinna
Gle of self appreciation" In sadness HI
said he foresaw abandonment Of prin
ciple in a national campaign led b.
two false prophets striving only to de
tPflllnC WHICH may Ed1Se q OoAie
most attractive to the multitude" FL
referred to the presidents cataract!
Of twaddle'' and his 'lava streams o
%invective turned on to wash away OBJ
noxious evidences Of double dealing,
referring to the Hartman episode. HI
appealed for one final attempt to joil
hands with the conservative south" II
blaze the way for the entrance Of trutl
and sincerity.
Florida Against Negro Vote.
BY a vote OF % to 5 the Florida sen
ate adopted a resolution declaring tn
fourteenth and fifteenth amendment
to the national constitution void and t
d%isfranchise the negro in that state.
was certain that the house would fol
low suit and that the whole matte
would come before the supreme court.
Calls President Fakir.
James w. Wadsworth, former Re
publican congressman from New York
WHO as chairman of the house commit
tee on agriculture clashed with Presi
dent Roosevelt on the meat inspection