The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-03-02

Senator NeWlan0S arranged
| a dinner for Monday night, and invited as many OF the consplratorsl
as his dining room would hold. Wine flowed freely in the hope
that some one would imbibe enough courage to put the ultimatum
up to BRYAN. Many a man started to say it, but when he looked att
Bryan's turned down glass and his placdly smiling face, he realized
Newlands is a far-sighted man and had seen the possibility of
failure the first night, and so he had issued invitations for a dinner
Tuesday night, to meet Mr. Bryan. Same result "Nobody said
nothing"
"Why," said MI. Bryan, "Wednesday, to a bunch of newspaper
men. 81 haven't thought Of retiring I haven't been asked to do So
He's right The Senatorial and Congressional bunch was blufed
Secretary Taft knows that Bryan will be nominated, and expects
that he will give the Republican nominee the closest race OF the last
four elections. 1t is the opinion of President Roosevelt that he
the PRESIDENT or Taft can beat Bryan in IN exciting finish, but that
no other man now mentioned for Republican nominee can win over
the Nebraskan. They do not believe that the Republican party is
weaker than it has been, but that MI. Bryan is stronger. Bryan
was painted d in 1896 as IN anarchist. In 1900 he had been modified
lin the minds of conservatives" to a socialist Now from a shadow
of disaster, he has grown tob be a man of ubstance-pleasing substance
1.-THE old scare about Roosevelt will not go with the people
again" said a close friend Of Mr.. Taft to me. 1.-THE people know
him now. We Republicans do not agree with him, and, besides, we
are out to win for our party. But the fight this time will be on
strictly party lines. Bryan then was a poor man and was regarded
as an adventurer. To-day he is more than a millionaire. He's not
putting any dynamite On the track now. He's riding in a Pullman
car, with a pilot engine out in front. Those so-called gold Demo-
Gratis know human nature. They know that a man with a million
dollars is not going to blow up the Government
at will be a beautiful fight. I expect Taft to win, but I've
been looking around for a good, comfortable commercial berth on
which to get an option"
mr. bryan ulmSeH Is tdhAhS IO olVua0rOH LII d uoIo N0h
when he will discuss it at all. AT the Gridiron dinner he was intro
duced in a song that asked what he would do if nominated a third
time and for a third time defeated.
He replied that it reminded him of a prominent citizen who
appeared at a dance in an intoxicated condition. The mans friends
put him out gently and urged him to go home. He reappeared in
the ball room at once. He was put out again, in a forcible manner
He again appeared. This time his exasperated friends threw him
down stairs When he had picked himself up at the bottom, he re-
marked to interested bystanders:
"They can't fool me any longer. They don't want me in there"
"But," Mr. Bryan continued, sit is not at all certain that | shall
be defeated. A man on his S5th birthday said that he felt COM
lparatyely safe. He had been studying the obituary columns and
found that very few of those who died were over 50 years of age
I have been studying history, and have found that very few men
who ran for the Presidency three times have been defeated.
Besides" said Mr. Bryan, another point gives me hope, if I
am a candidate up to the age of Uncle Joe Cannon, I have six more
cadidacies coming to me. That added to the two times | have run,
makes eight. 1t is a well known law Of averages that one cannot
lose eight times"