The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-06
SHOUT FOR HEARST
TURN DOWN BRYAN
NEBRASKAN'S FOLLOWERS FAIL
TO WORK UP ANY ENTHUSIASM
in NEW YORK.

committee III JnlS CITY just aIJer MT.
Bryans return from Europe last year,
to boom him for a third presidential
nomination, are reported to be a great
deal discouraged by the outlook. The
propaganda is inactive in this section
of the country. The committee con-
tinues to keep up a correspondence
with Bryanites all over the country,
but it has not succeeded in getting any
new blood into the movement, despite
the great enthusiasm with which the
campaign was started.
Two aspects of the situation have
given the committee much trouble.
About half of the old-time Bryan en-
thusiasts are now shouting for w. K.
Hearst. OF the remainder, not a few
have decided that Bryans third NOM
ination would be inadvisable.
That famous Madison Square Garden
speech, in which Bryan declared in
favor of government ownership of the
railroads, did not have the anticipated
effect of detaching the paternalistic
radicals from Hearst When Bryan
made this speech he was laboring I'M
der the necessity of defending his ra.
dical leadership. Hearst occupied the
center of the stage. The effort was a
line one, in Mr.. Bryan's happiest vein
but, in spite of all the fire the Nebras-
kan put into it, he was unable to rival
the sensationalism of Hearst's speech
es in his campaign for the governor
ship of New York.
Small as the Bryan following in the
East has always been, it is now reduc-
ed to an inconsiderable remnant. which
amounts to nothing, either as a con-
vention force or as voting strength.
The Bryan campaign committee has
discovered that more interest attach
es to the Hearst independence League
proposition than to the projected re-
suscitation of it's candidate.
growth of conservative sentiment
is the other horn of the dilemma con-
fronting the Bryanites Early in 1906
Bryan recognized the strength of con.
servatism in the most populous states
of the North and attuned his oratory
so well to that condition that there
was even talk of such men as Belmont
Bryan, Sheehan, Raynor, Douglas,
Guffey and Harmon giving him their
support.
Confronted by the first exigency,
however, Bryan took an advanced step
in radicalism in his advocacy of gov
eminent ownership. That course sep
arated him at once from his new con-
sentative friends.
Consequently his committee of boom
ers has found that there is no hope of
strengthening his hands with the con-
sentative leaders, nor of impressing
upon the conservative rank and file of
Democrats lenient views of his avail
ability as a candidate.
1t appears also that the South is be-
ginning to think seriously of the idea
of presenting a candidate of its own.
The situation in that section is very
we'll described by correspondent who
writes from Montgomery, Ala, to a
New York newspaper, saying:
Meanwhile the enlightened and the
thoughtful are already taking kindly
to the idea of a Southern candidate. 1t
appeals to their pride, to their sent
ment, and especially to the suddenly
awakened conviction that the SCUM
has too long accepted the humiliating
part of the poor relation in the Demo-
cratic family. They realize the sig
nificance of the fact that the South
furnishes all the party votes in Tie
electoral college, nine-tenths of the
votes in congress, and ninety-nine-
hundredths of the substance, the char
acter and force of the organization at
large.
"The Southern candidate idea would
be attractive enough in itself. 1t
needed only a suggestion to set it in
motion and intelligent thought to
equip it with an increasing impetus.
The more they consider the matter,
the more the Southern Democrats like
it,"
Jesse r. Grant, who has been tour
ing the South for a couple of weeks,
writes to New York friend that he is
more than gratified with his reception
in the states he has visited, and he is
convinced that Southern Democratic
leaders are going to take considerable
interest in framing up the situation
which will relieve the national Demo-
cracy of some of its embarrassment.
According to Mr.. Grants friends, he
is himself going to cut something of a
figure in next years convention. II is
said for him that he already has as
surances of seven Western states. and
that he is likely to be the second choice
of several of the Southern, middle
West and Eastern States. Those who
know the son of the great general well