Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-01

Pledged to Bryan.
With the declaration that the nomina-
| ton of william Jennings Bryan for the
presidency by the democratic party seems
to be a foregoae conclusion, several speak
ers lauded the Nebraskan last evening at
| a meeting Of the District of Columbia
Democratic Association. Representative
David De Almond of Missouri said ''Bry-
| an Is the strongest man before the public
| today" Edwin A. Newman, president of
/ the association, presented figures to show
| that the nomination will go to Bryan at
the Denver convention.
Other speakers were Representative
| william Hughes OF New Jersey and w. j.
Ryan Of New York city.
Opening Address.
In his opening address Mr.. Newman
said:
LAS we are gathered here to advance the
interests of Mr.. Bryan. wish to tell you
what his present status is before the
democratic convention. There are instruct
| ed for him 225 delegates. There are in
| structed for Judge Gray, six delegates,
| and no other man known as a candidate
! for the presidential nomination has sim
1
are uninstructed delegates chosen from
New York. New Jersey and Connecticut.
| The Connecticut delegates are known to
| be for Mr.. Bryan. The mere fact that
they are not instructed will notLaffect
their position at the convention. OF the
New York delegates, after the manner in
which the convention was managed, per-
haps the least said is the better. Yet it
is altogether probable that their votes
will be cast for Mr.. Bryan. Pennsylvania
has not yet held its convention. but am
assured that a majority of the District
delegates already chosen are Bryan men,"
Mr.. Newman declared the District DEM
| oerats should use their political influence
Ito affect the national situation by not
merely electins Bryan delegation. but
instructing it to vote for Mr.. Bryan
Seconds the Motion.
Mr.. Ryan, the next speaker, said, in
part:
Your chairman has just said that the
residents of the District of Columbia are
[not entitled to vote, but that you are
entitled to send delega tes. He has also
| expressed the wish that you would send
a delegation from this District instructed
for Mr.. Bryan. Well. gentlemen, 1 trust
that you will do that. l recall in 1900
| that there was a question as to the dele
cation that went from this District
| whether 1t would be instructed or not in
| structed. The result was that at that
convention at Kansas City half of the
| vote was given to one side and half of
| the vote was given to the other side. "A
house divided against itself cannot stand
| This time. however. / think there is not
| any disposition to have division of the
| six votes. but rather that they are unani-
nous and in favor of Mr.. Bryan.
In the New York state convention the
question as to the delegates to be sent to
st. Louis was considered. The resolution
for the Endorsement OF Mr.. Bryan never
/ no fD0
assure you, as a New Yorker, who has
run for Congress in that state, who ran
| for the assembly of the state, that the
majority Of the delegates of: the state
are for Mr.. Bryan.
Roosevelt Unable to Carry New York
IF the gentleman who is in the White
House now. with certain spots on him.
| is q democrat, as Mr.. Bryan says-for all
| the good policies that he has stood for
and carried out during his administration
have been what we have advocated for
years-if he is nominated he cannot carry
| the state of New York, where he was
| born. That he can not do; nor can he
carry New Jersey, nor can he carry Cali
| fornia. For the CalifOrnians have not
| forgotten the japanese question and how
get down on their knees and lick the dirt.
believe Mr.. Bryan will beat any man
IN America today" ;t.a. IN
Bryan the Strongest Man.
Representative De Almond said in part:
| '1f there IS any place In the entire
Union where the population ought to
know what is going on in a political way
that place, suppose, is the city Of Wash
ington. because we are as full OF politics
here as an egg is full Of meat. The stu
| alton in the city itself, of course, ia pecu-
| liar. and nobody understands II better
| than the people who dwell here. You
| are a monarchy in the heart Of a repub-
lie. You are part of a republic and yet
do not govern yourselves. but are gov
erned by others.
"A large majority never likes to be
ruled by small minority; large ma
torfty never likes to give UP its opinion
| for the opinion of the minority: and ii by
some means. chance, hook or crook the
minority were to have its way, and you
have the tail wag the dog. you will find
more Or less dog that won't be willing to
be wagged by. the tail.
My belief is that Bryan Is the strong
| est man that the democratic party can
put forward. Nominate him, and you
have at once the great hulk and majority
| of the party-the vast portion of it-who
| 40 not need any care; do not need atten-
! ton, do not need and rounding up, brac-
Ing up. or stiffening of any kind
| Joy in Defeat Under Conditions.
| Representative Hughes in the course of
his speech said:
Il want to say this: have been defeat
| ed for Congress, and have gone down to
defeat with Mr.. Bryan on two historic oc-
casions. but want to say to you that
would rather suffer defeat under the lead
| ership of Mr.. Bryan than win with
man who did not have my confidence and
In whom l did not believe. suppose 1t is
because I am somewhat young and per-
/ haps / will get out of these notions
after while, but l really believe that
| there Is JOY in defeat following the
| standard OF man t.iat you honor and re-
| spect and love, and the morning after you
| can look into your own conscience and
think with satisfaction that you have
done your duty; that you have struck a
blow for the right. 1 am for Mr.. Bryan
because / think he is right.
| Now, let us look at II from the stand
point Of the politician. am for Mr.
Bryan for another reason, and that Is this:
| While he may not carry the state of New
| Jersey or the state of New York-and /
do not say that he could not carry those
states-whether he is going to carry them
or whether he Is not, 1t is my firm belief
| that he Is going to get more votes in
| those states than any other candidate that
! can be named by the democratic party
| ut has been eight years since Mr.
Bryan has come before the people; 1t is
eight years since anybody Ina IL had an CD.