Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-06-20
WASHINGTON LErTE R.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

William Jennings Bryan was in
Washington this week and gave
an interview tending to correct
some inaccuracies that he said
,crept into the talk he made in New
York. He says that he did not
say as attributed to him that
there were more important issues
than the tariff before the people.
What he said was that there were
three issues before the people, the
trusts, the railroads and t h .
tariff and that they were OF equal
Importance. There were o t h e r
issues, he said, but these three
were paramount. He said he did
not think it necessary to give su-
preme Importance to any one OF
the three issues named. The Demo
cratic party, he said was deter
mined on all Of them-Through
revision of the tariff, examina-
ton of the trusts and strict regu-
lations of the railroads. He did
not say it will be noted, govern
ment ownership of the railroads.
Col. Bryan has come to the con-
clusion that he is too nearly o.
lone in his government owner
ship theory to attempt to make
it a part of the creed of the Demo
cratic party, but he knows that
strict supervision and control OF
the railroads is a thing on which
all members OF the party agree.
As to the possibility OF Presi-
dent Roosevelt nominating his
successor in Office, Mr.. Bryan
said that it was hardly a neccesa
ry or laudable proceeding. He
said a candidate with a cl a T
record needed no sponsor. ~,
Speaking OF candidates, there
is a good deal of quiet amuse.
ment among the politicians in
Washington and there are a good
many OF them still here, over the
solemnly modest way in which
Senator Knox received the en-
dorsement of the Pennsylvania
convention on the launching Of
his presidential boom. Senator
Knox is a good man in a great
many ways and is personally vel
liked in Washington. But it is
thoroughly understood among
practical politicians that his
boom. is being worked up by
corporate interests as a stalking
horse in the fight that the mana
gers Of the Republican party are
afraid to make openly against
any man for President Roose
velt's choice. Senator Knox was
the successor OF Mat Quay, prob
ably the most brazenly machine
made politician of machine-rid-
den Pennsylvania. Boiet Penros'
had the practical APPOINTMENT o
a man to succeed Quay and wal
hesitating between several pos
.sible candidates when Fl. c. Fricl
and President Cassat of the Pa.
Railroad walked into his offic'
Land said that they wanted kno1
appointed. There was n o t
moments hesitation. Knox wa
given the place and rumor has i
that the place cost somebob,
$250,000, that went where i
would do the most good. Nov
lif Knox should ever be electe'
President and have a trust figh
on his hauds, it is hardly likel.
that the trust would get tn
worst of it.
The little furry over the hold
/. ing up of two or three diplomat
. lin automobiles near Washington
on the Conduit road for exceed
ling the speed laws has grown I'll
it is becoming quite a respecta-
BILE sized issue. The holdups rt
ferred to was the work of th
mayor and the sheriff of Gle
Echo, a little hamlet on the out
g skirts of Washington. The tow
} is just outside the District lin
) Fand is 80 small that one woul
J, hardly know.Sit was there if
were notfor the sheriff with h