The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-24
PAST WEEK WAS PROLIFIC OF
SEMLoFFlclAL STATEMENTS.
NOT STANDING AWFUllY PAT
Is What Beveridge Announces After
Visit to the Strenuous one at
Oyster ssy-Hoped That
oyster Bay-Hoped Hearst and
Bryan viii Make Up.
Special Cornspondence.


Washington, -. c.. June 24.-The F.
past week has been prolific OF SENT.
official statements. Beveridge has
been to Oyster Bay and presumably
with authority announces that we"
are not standing so awfully pat as
some folks suppose The statemet u
Beveridge writes for the World Is
not as srccific as the curious desire.
but it announces that natural
causes" should be reasonable and
avoid producing paic, pjust because it
Is found necessary to revise some
scartalously oppressive s,aetuics
Thc whole signt icance Of this semi.
Official statement is that revision
is accepted at oyster Bay as an iney.
table issue
Then comes Bourke Cochran home
from Nebraska, where he has seen
Mr.. DIsan. ie .,p,ats what so many
who have seen Mr.. Bryan lately know
to be true; that is that hc is in doubt
as TO whether he will be a candidate
or not. lie thinks it is too soon to de-
eide. These two great orators, accord
ing to the newspapers, spent there
time in talking about the platform
Finally Norman L. Mack returns
from abroad to report of fields and
individuals beyond the pale Of candi-
dacy. and says that Richard Croker
will reutrn 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 differences, 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 newspa-
pers sought would speak for publca
tion, but it was learned that there is
still very pronounced ill-feeling
on the part OF the Hearst people
against Mr.. Bryan. and the reason is
given thus:
Mr. Hearst, In 1896 and 1900, per
sonally thrplgh his newspapers, sup
ported Mr. Bryan for the presidency.
In 1904 Mr.. Bryan was not a candi-
date for the presidency, while Mr.
! Hearst was, and Mr.. Hearst felt that
| he should have Mr.. Bryan's support
Instead OF requiting the political 10y
atty OF Mr.. Hearst, Mr.. Bryan went
upon the platform and seconded the
nomination OF normer United States
| Senator Cockrell of Missouri, who
had no chance OF being nominated.
Some of the Hearst people who were
seen declared that Mr. Hearst S
friends would do everything possible
to defeat Mr.. Bryan for the nomina-
tion next year and that If they accom-
plished their purpose, Mr.. Hearst
would not run FOR president as the
candidate of the National lndepend.
ence League.
p, lar significance is lent by
these statements, which are admitted
" inspired from Hearst sources, to
Mr.. Bryan's recent utterance concern
ing the Hearst Independent League
TO the effect thlt from SOcialistic
stan Ipoint there viii be reason
enough for a third party; but that
from a Democratic standpoint, third
party will be unnecessary
Neither the broad and charitable
statesmanship which enlightening
travel is supposed to produce, nor the
chastenlng effects Of defeat and repu'
diatlon, are apparent in this disclos'
: ure. and thoughtful Democrats are
justified in wondering whether the
promising party outlook Is TO be
clouded by a personal rivalry petty
enough to do credit to a town meeting
and involving personal ambitions ana
no principles.
: Some of the ignoble results OF TINS
quarrel between the candidates may
he seen in the recent exposure tf Mr
Bryan's undignified method OF hang
ing around box offices and personally
collecting and bestownig in bag car
!. ried for that purpose the actual casi
|. for his work as a lecturer, instead
,, OF having a clerk or secretary to dc
r IL.
' While this and other small items o.
purely personal interest may be en-
tertaining to groundlings and profes
sors OF department, they cannot con
tribute to a healthy public discussion
about matters of principle.