The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-05
TEXAS SENATOR WOULD
 CONTROL MANY VOTES
Stories About Bryan Again Being a Candidate Are Laughed at and
 Democrats Are Planning
 Ahead to Win in 1912.
By WATTERsoN sTEALEY.


 Washington, December 4.-(special. )-All the leading democratic congressman have arrived in Washington for the session commencing Monday. It is a rather blue crowd-these democrats. They have about recovered from the effects of the cleo tion, but it will be some time before they forget about it. However, both Senator Culberson of Texas and Representative Champ Clark of Missouri, the joint con gressional minority leaders, are at least hopeful that republican luck will have break four years hence, perhaps, two. and the Texan and the Missourian mako 1t plain that they are not going to miss any tricks in the meantime Each will put up the best fight he knows how, and at any rate the next congressional elee- tion will not go by default.
 Bryan Will Not Run Again.
 There is not a democratic congressman in Washington who has the remotest idea that MT. Bryan has any desire to again be his party's candidate. The agitation in republican newspapers and those news papers which have always been anti Bryan, in attempting to make 1t appear that MT. Bryan is candidate, is set down by them as not only unworthy of discussion but actually a species of Bryan batting in which only Mir. Bryan's enemies indulge themselves MT Bryan's most intimate friends, such men as Renresen- tattve James of Kentucky, for instance. cannot conceive of a political condition which would make the Nebraskan tho fourth time candidate of his party and they dismiss the subject with gesture of impatlence.
 As to who will be the party's standard bearer four years hence they acknowledge the. are absolutely at sea and spe.suIaf;on useless. Many of thein believe it will be a man now practically unknown 4 few here favor Judson Harmon of Ohio. an ot.- casional Johnson man Is found, and Mar shall of Indiana is spoken of but there is nothing tangible about 1t. 'Tts too early" they all say. Just wait a year or so."
 Chance for Southern Man.
 It is, however. interesting to note what a majority of the democratic con- gressmen are thinking about. The story of southern man for Pres ident has grown to be an old one during the past IF years. Someone is always sure to begin to talk about an unpleasant ness that happened nearly a century ago Not until the last survivor of tile civil war HIS passed away lS groaned. Be that as it may there is Culberson presi- deutial boom just now that cannot be ignored as factor In the problem. The leaders of the party are mainly southern men and there is a very forceful expres- sion of the opinion that it is high time for the south to be something more than the tail to the democratic kite.
 Recent suggestions to the effect that the southern delegates hold aloof and throw thsir strength to that party which can of far the most are pronounced utterly vis- ionary by southern congressman. Thay say they will enter the national conven- ton as usual, and will use their best ef- forts four years hence to frame a dem ocratlc platform. The democratic con- gressmen are unanimously of the opinion that the principal cause underlying the defeat of Mir. Bryan was the unwarrant- ed lack of business confidence in the Ne braskan not on the part of the trust magnates particularly, but the represen- tative business man from one end of the country to the other
 CuIberson's Strength.
 In regard to Senator Culberson, those who are thinking of him for the presiden- tial nomination declare he possesses ex- ceptional strength in business circles, and that the several months he spent in New York during the past campaign convinced some of the most influential of eastern democrats that the panic hue and cry which defeated MT. Bryan could not be used against the Texas senator. There is a belief here that the New York organ ization has Senator Culberson more in mind at this period than Harmon, John son. Marshall or any other man whose name has been used in connection with the nomination.
 Another interesting feature of the sit- uation rests in the attitude of MT. Bryan. Senator Culberson, it Is argued, could not be objectionable to him. No man in the party worked more increasingly in the Nebra skan's interest than the Texan. He was one of his most trusted advisors and while the votes were wanting on elec- ton day 1t is nevertheless true that Sem ator Culberson rendered a conspicuous service in bringing together the dis cordant clements of the party and de- servedly gained the gratitude of MT. Bryan therefor.
 Thus there are not few southern con gressmen in Washington tonight who be- ueve they will see Nebraska and New York go Texasward and choose a candi- date who represents brand of dernoc- racy broad enough for both New York and Nebraska to have much in conn