Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
HOLDS BRYAN'S
ELECTION SURE
NOTED REPUBLICAN ADMITS
HIS VICTORY
CONDITIONS HAVE CHANGED IN
LAST FOUR YEARS
Parker Was Joke and Roosevelt z
Tower Of Strength, but candldates'
Positions Are Now Abso-
Iutely Reversed

Bryan will be the next president"
said Edward Shields to a Herald repre-
sentative, and Doc" as Shields is ia
miliarly called, ought to know. He has
been at Republican national headquar-
ters during four campaigns, and was
not only inside man in the speakers
bureau but was also one of the three
highest salaried spellbinders in the
field.
Through Shields knowledge of the
Philippines he was placed on Bryan's
trail in the east during the last two
campaigns, and is thoroughly acquaint-
ed with the great commoner's ability
as q campaigner and his draught as a
statesman,
There are many plausible reasons
to be advanced why Bryan will be the
next president" continued Shields in
the green room of the Orpheum, where
ne Is managing one of the star acts on
the circuit. Roosevelt has substan-
tally proved that man can rise above
his party, and, were he the nominee,
Bryan would not have look in. But
the Republicans have nominated a
mountain only in avoirdubois. Taft
personally is fine fellow, but he lacks
the universal charm of Mckinley or
the sterling aggressiveness of Roose-
welt, and back of him stands a medi-
OGRE organization.
Mark Hanna did more to defeat
Bryan in his two previous campaigns
than any man living. He was the
greatest political organizer that ever
lived, and he was willing to share hon.
ors with Henry Payne, Graeme Stew
art and Harry S. New in the manage
ment of those whirlwind campaigns.
Hanna raised $6,0O0,OOO in 1896 and over
$5,000,000 in 1900 In the speakers bu-
reau alone we had $250,000 in each OF
those campaigns.
Great Managers Conc
-Four years ago vt was different. OF
that great quartet, Hanna, Payne and
Stewart had passed over the Great
Divide and New was the only one left
Cortelyou took Hanna's place and
Frank o. Louden, son-in-law of the
late Phil Armour, trio TO fiji Stewart {
shoes. The result was that where Han
ma had business men in the different
bureaus, the new regime placed politi-
cal shysters and government paupers
I'm 1904 less than $3,000,000 was
raised. Boilermaker Jim Tawney OF
Minnesota was at the head of the
speakers bureau in Chicago, and o.
lerized Senator Scott of West Virginia
at the New York end. There was q
deficit at the Close of the campaign
and / for one received a slap in the
neck for $500 balance of salary due
Tawney secured only 100000 Harry
New was the one man who stood sun
crowned above the political fog thai
surrounded him, and now he has beer
obliterated from the national commit
tee because of his aversion to Fair
banks, Hanly and other political para
sites of his home state of Indiana.
| frank Hitchcock Is not of sufhcien
| C1lihar fn MANAGE a. GamnaiRn. al
though he was the one redeeming fea
| ture around New York headquarter
| four years ago. I understand that al
moneys raised are to be handled from
| the New York office. The headquarters
are handy to Wall street, but the king
of that thoroughfare are not going Il
come across unless Taft recedes from
the Roosevelt doctrine, and, If the Re-
publicans raise more than S2,500,000 the
major nortion will have to come from
the rich relatives of the former wal
secretary and from the receipts of the
Chicago National baseball club, which
is owned by Charley Taft.
"It will certainly take some money to
beat the Nebraskan this time. Parker
was joke four years ago, and Roose-
welt was q tower of strength. Bryan
Is no joke, and Taft Is not a tower OF
strength.
Bryan a Political Wonder
"Bryan stands today as the political
wonder of the age. The utter weakness
of Parker crowned Bryan the undis-
puted leader of his party, and did more
for the Fairview farmer than anything
William Jennings Bryan ever did him
self. l have heard Bryan make over
a hundred speeches, and some of them
in days gone by were weird and Woe
full, but he has toned down wonderfully
in the last few years, and, with the ex-
cellent platform created at Denver as
a text, he will surprise the nation.
> ssKern will give strength to the tick
ct. The fact that he was twice defeat
ed for governor of Indiana does not
denote lack of strength. Governors are
elected there on presidential years.
Roosevelt carried Hanly through the
last time, and Hanly has proved the
most disliked chief executive the Hoos-
Ter State has ever had. Kern has the
undivided Democratic party of his state
back of him, and that is more than can
be said of Fairbanks. Indiana VIII go
Democratic this fall"
When asked about Hearst's Indepen-
dence party Shields laughed and said:
why, he will be one of Bryan's best
assets. In every one of Hearst's New
York campaigns he has drawn more
from the Republicans than from the
Democrats.
"Taft appeals to the independent vote
a simon pure politician-Roosevel $
hired man. Bryan appeals as cham
pion of the people. Neither the Repub-
iicans nor Democrats have ever elected
q president without the aid OF the in
dependents. Their votes will be found