The sun., 1908-03-26
BRYAN IS NOT 50 COCKSURE
realms TOREILiZE THAT THERE
n REiL OPPOSITION TO HIM.

SENATOR Daniel Has Turned Virginia
sentiment From Hlm-SOme Comments.
RrC HNoNp, Va. March 2S. William j.
Rryan s not At all confident that he Is to
10 victorious in the Democratic national
.,oycntion At Denver Two months ago
no vss all smiles and dimples when his
,bri nomination for the Presidency was
,n,sen Of In his presence. He was then
,be psrsonifcation Of serenity and CON
ddence
since that time the Democratic political
perspective has changed. The indications
point 10 a still greater change in the i'm
ns1iele future. He continues to attract
the an'agonisms OF Democrats who were
IN the firing line when he was in swaddling
clothes His political doctrine, thou shall
have no other candidate but me-" is not
sccep,sble to the Democrats who want to
win and who do not believe Bryan to be
The strongest candidate
BRYAN has met with discontinue, notably
IN Minnesota, where he confidently be-
neyel he had a Walkover Opposition to
HIM has sprung up in a dozen other States,
and il was learned here to-day that he is in
,or PECK Of trouble in Maryland. The
great majority Of the Southern States do
no, want him. They do not believe he can
un They want to try il with either John
son Of Minnesota or Gray Of Delaware or
Harmon Of Ohio or some Democrat Of
national repute not yet in the limelight,
all AagT Ia
,he guest Of Gov. Swanson and held re-
cepron for the Legislature. When spoken
10 concerning his candidacy Bryan said
No was hopeful That was the best you
got from him. In December he believed
he had all the national delegates, thousand
and odd, sewed up in his capacious waist
coat pockets.
Asked for his views Of the platform 10
he adopted at Denver, Bryan replied:
When get there there will be time enough
10 show them where stand
Bryan spoke tonight on non-political
subjects in the auditorium. He was asked
today 10 disavow the attack on Senator
.Iohn W. Daniel and to call on the BTyanite
movement to defeat Senator Daniel as one
RI the delegates at large for Virginia TO the
ppnver convention. He declined TO do 80,
savIng that he did not deal in personalities.
atsr. though, he decided to make the fol.
lrEing evasive statement:
Major Daniel and | have been friends
f,r great many years. In 1895. when he
introduced me here in Richmond. he paid
me- the highest compliment that was paid
during the campaign when, paraphrasing
A sentence from Holy Writ he said Of me:
Re has rolled away the stone from the
sspulohre in which Democracy lay buried ,
Senator Daniel has visited me in Nebraska
and have met him in Washington and at
other places and always with pleasure.
While we differed as TO some matters at st.
Louis our difference did not interfere with
car personal relations, We may not agree
ur on all public questions, but differences
fmong Democrats are TO be expected. for
democrats believe that each man should
think for himself and that the opinion Of
the majority should control in all matters
of government and ofparty policy. Neither
enemies nor friends shall be permitted TO
disturb the cordial relations existing be-
{ veen Senator Daniel and myself.
The last time Bryan and Daniel met the
relations between them were not ecstat-
ioaly cordial. The Bryan movement 10
punish Senator Daniel for expressing his
personal views TO Bryan in Washington
short time ago continues with unabated
yigor. II has aroused the ire Of the Demo-
Gratis Of the entire State. II has been heated
10 such pitch that Senator Daniel has been
urged 10 declare himself a candidate for
the support Of the Presidential delegates OF
his State. The Senator'S friends said
to-day that they did not believe he would
20 as far as that. The Democrats OF the
State declare, though, unreservedly that
they will not permit Bryan or Bryan's
friends TO defeat Daniel as one Of the dele
gates at large to the national convention.
The Democratic newspapers OF the State,
rejecting the views Of their readers that
Daniel shall not be Inundated by Bryan or
bryans followers, are emphatic With ih-
dignant expressions Of disappoval. The
ysus. Leader tonight, under the head
Shall Daniel Go Down. says:
NO other chapter Of history strs the
blood Of people Of British descent more than
the story as told by Macaulay Of the trial Of
the seven Bishops under James II. All
who have read this will recall the note in
which II Ia told that the miners OF Cornwall
sent humming through the kingdom from
their deep and hairy chests tho refrain that
they sang al they piled their picks in gangs
together. keeping time with their strokes to
the cadence.
And shall Trelawny DIE
And must Trelawny die'
Then twenty thousand Cornish men
WIN know the reason why
And twenty thousand under ground
VIII know the reason why
This proposition apparently coming from
the BRYAN Representatives and leaders in
Virginia 10 humiliate and ignore John ".
Daniel. United States Senator from Vir-
Qinia, soldier Of Virginia and more than
'hiny years leader among Virginia people,
wll arouse In the breasts OF Virginians a
feeling like that which stirred the sturdy
Cornishmen when Trelawny stood trial
tor his hfe.'
Former Stale Senator Thomas, one Of the
Rrvan representatives who lie engineering
The cTort 10 huniliate Senator Daniel, has
said that sentiment should have no part In
his matter, and the AeI~ lie DIR, referring
In that Utterance, declares:
Mr.. Thomas OF Lynchburg announces
His decision that sentiment should have no
pIsce in our politics To begin with, we
would like very much 20 know THAT founda-
',on there is for Mr.. Byan's strength eS-
topt sentiment. Certainly the citizen who
as led the party to two crushing defeats
and Identified Il with policies which II has
lpen compelled to abandon and repudiste
cannot appeal to our practical sense and