Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-26
D. v. STEVENS IS DEAD|BRYAN REACHES TOWN
Oriental Diplomat Succumbs viii Confer With the Demo-
to Assassin's Bullet. cratic Leaders Here. 4
END IN SAN FRANCISCO The OUTLOOK FOR DENVER
Wound More Serious Than Doctors Over Third Delegates
Had Believed. pose the Nebraskan
TURN FOR WORSE SUDDEN QUESTIONS BE DISCUSSED
Satsfed-Wn Be Indicted Relative
Soon
THE OUTLOOK FOR DENVER
Over a Third Of Delegates May op.
pose the Nebraskan.
QUESTIONS TO BE DISCUSSED
Visiting Leader Denies Statement
Relative to Supreme Court Deci-
sions Attributed to Him.

William Jennings Bryan reached
Washington at noon today for a few
hours visit. He was met at the Union
station by George Killeen. Cotter r.
Bride and Willis J. Abbott. and con-
Quoted over the waste of the plaza to
the Metropolitan Hotel. where he sur
rendered gracefully to the interviewers
who were lying in wait for him.
The colonel had nothing TO say about
the latest presidential message; moth
ing to say about the attempted freeze
out of Senator Daniel for delegate-at-
large from Virginia to the democratic
national convention. and nothing to saw
about the report that he is no longer
cocksure of a big bunch of delegates
at that convention
These were the most important things
that Mr.. Bryan did not say What he
did say was that he was extremely
troubled over report from Richmond
which appeared as dispatch in a morn
ing newspaper of this city and he wanted
IT denied as fatty and as soon as pos
sible.
The words which the dispatch put in his
mouth are these:
Take the corporation out of politics
and there is not a state I'm the Union
where there would be much difference Of
opinion. We had the decision OF the Su-
preme Court yesterday i'm the railroad
cases The court sustained the decisions
rendered IN Minnesota and North Carolina
by circuit judges. The question was
whether the railroads could go into states
and control their courts.
The decisions will have a salltary in
huence and reinstate confidence in prop
erty owners. which means that vested in
nuenceS have been rescued from peril. The
issue was whether the corporation should
hH ,-t<~
man. and whether railroads could suspend
laws by going into the federal courts.
This decision gives confidence and rescues
vested interests"
Dictates His Exact Position.
As~sUon as he had reached his room IN
the hotel the orator from the west took
his stand in front OF a big chair which
stretched out pleading arms 10 him in
vain. and began to dictate a statement.
pausing now and then for a tagging PEN
ell to catch up With the winged words.
There is an item i'm one Of the morning
papers of this city" said Col. Bryan. nam
ing the paper. which, think. needs con-
tradtctiOn. as II twists my language as
badly as it ever was twisted in my life:
The dispatch purports TO give what l said
at Richmond In regard to the Supreme
Court decision on the railways. but It
quotes me as using language which I at
tributed to the newspapers which are sup
porting predatory wealth. / said that
these papers regarded the decision
making property more secure and rescuing
vested interests from peril. as IL the states
were less interested than the federal gov
ernment in the protection OF property and
vested interests.
II then proceeded to assert that prop
erty rights are just secure under state
as under national legislation. and just as
secure under state under national
being obscured by these papers and that
they were raising a false issue: that the
question was not whether property right
be protected but whether corporations
should be given rights superior to the
rights of the natural man.
'At present a corporation organized in
the state Of New Jersey can 80 into any
other state. secure the right of eminent
domain and build railroad relying upon
state courts to protect its property from
trespass and its operatives from violence.
But. after ii has used the state courts as
far as it desires 1t can drag its litigation
into the federal courts and even resort
to those courts to suspend state laws.
even before those laws have been declared
unconstitutional.
Commends Williams Attitude.
Il commend the position taken by the
democrats in the House. as stated by Mr.
Williams, that they will oppose unan-
imous consent until the House gives time
for consideration Of the Clayton or some
other similar bill to withdraw from the
circuit and district courts Of the United
States the power to suspend state laws.
thus leaving the corporations to prose-
cute their cases in the state courts with
the right of appeal from the highest state
court to the United States Supreme Court
Il am glad to be able to make this cor
rection. because / am afraid that the dis
patch. as appearing In the morning paper.
might be sent out by wire as statement
of my views. to which it is entirely OPP
posite
While Mr.. Bryan was speaking Mr. XIII
ieen approached him to take leave. and
pinned a golden horseshoe. with a dia-
lapel of the Jeffersonian frock coat. This
mystic ceremony was accomplished with
great solemnty.
When The Star reporter asked if ths
symbol had anything to do with book
making at the Benning track Mr.. killeen
gravely assured him that he was not
7 horseman. but Col. Bryan laughed and i'm
piled that IL was a different sort OF race
he was interested In.
Mr.. Bryan will leave Washington this
evening.
Conferences With Leaders.
Mr. Bryan's visit to this city will fur
nish occasion for a number Of confer
snces with influential democratic polti
clans upon the subject OF the coming
democratic campaign and Mr.. Bryan's
| candidacy for the nomination. Mr.. Bry-
| ans friends are not seriously alarmed.
| although they are concerned, over the
efforts now being made to prevent his
| nomination at Denver. They do not fail
| to take notice of the fact that within tie
| past three weeks there has been nota-
| bic revival of the efforts to defeat his
| nomination and that a systematic. sus-
| tanned and well-planned campaign to that
| end is now in progress
| Some of the practical politicians In the
Bryan camp are not oblivious to the pos
! siblity of his opponents being able to pre-
| vent his nomination on the first ballot. 1t
would require only 34S votes to accom-
| plish that purpose. and they see the pos
| sibility that the anti-Bryan democrats
| may succeed in assembling hostile dele
| cations to the aggregate number sumcient
| to prevent two-thirds vote on the hrst
| ballot
But that fact does not discourage Mr..
Bryans friends. 1t was said today that
from present prospects 36O anti-Bryan
votes would probably be the maximum
number which could be assembled. IL all
of the plans Of the anti-Bryan men should
work out. They do not admit that such