Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-28
THE BEvERIDGE TRIP.
Big Guns in Both Parties Talk
 About the Outlook.

W JuLt HIS "Nth
 has been prolific of semi-official
 statements. Beveridge has been to
 Oyster Bay, and presumably with au- thority, announces that We" are not
 standing so awfully pat as some folks
 suppose. The statement Beyeridge writes for the World is not as speci-
 fic as the curious desire, but 1t an-
 nounces that natural causes" should be reasonable and avoid producing panic, just because it is round neces- sary to revise some scandalously op-
 pressive schedules. The whole signi- ficance of this semi-official statement is that revision is accepted at Oyster Bay as an inevitable issue.
 Then comes Bourke Cochran home
 from Nebraska, where he has seen Mir
 Bryan. He repeats what so many who
 have seen Mir Bryan lately know to be
 true: that Is, that he is in doubt as
 to whether he will be candidate or
 not. He thinks it is too soon to de-
 eide. These two great orators, ac-
 cording to the newspapers, spent their
 time in talking about the platform.
 Finally, Norman E. Mack returns from abroad to report of fields and individuals beyond the pale of can- didacy, and says that Richard Crok- CT will return to the states, but only to vote. The hope expressed by Mir Mack that Mir Hearst and Mir Bryan will, for the 8arty 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'3 friends whom the New York news papers sought would speak for pub lication but it was learned that there is still a very pronounced ill-feeling on the part of the Hearst people against MT Bryan and the reason is given thus:
 MT Hearst in 1896 and 1900 per- sonally through his newspapers sup ported Mir Bryan for the presidency In 1904 MT Bryan was not a candi- date for the presidency. while Mir Hearst was. and Mir Hearst felt that he should have Mir Bryan's support. Instead of requiting the political Toy. alty of MT Hearst, Mir Bryan went upon the platform and seconded the nomination of former United States Senator Cockrell of Missouri. who had no chance of being nominated. Some of the Hearst people who were seen declared that Mir Hearst'f friends would do everything possible to defeat Mir Bryan for the nomina- ton next year, and that if they ac- eomplish their purpose. Mir Hearst would not run for president as the of the National Independ- ence league.
 Peculiar significance Is lent by these statements. which are admittedly iu- spired from Hearst sources. to Mir Bryan's recent utterance concern ing the Hearst Independent league. to the effect that from q socialistic standpoint. there will be reason enough for a third party, but that from democratic standpoint. a third party will be unnecessary
 Neither the broad and charitable l statesmanship which enIizhteuiny I travel is supposed to produce. nor the t chasteninz effects of defeat and re- ] pudiation. are apparent in this dis | closure. and thoughtful democrats are justified In wondering whether the I promising party outlook is to ba j clouded by personal rivalry petty 1. enough to do credit to a town meet | Ing. and involving personal ambitions I and no principles.
 Some of the Ign0bIe results of this f quarrel between the candidates may l he seen in the recent exposure of Mr 1. Bryan's undfznifed method of hang Ing around box offices and personally | collecting and besfoving in a bag he