The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-18
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of the Gold Democrats there to vote
for Bryan if he is nominated again as
they fully expect he will be.
OF course that is a very important
factor, for New York is very essential
to Democratic victory and then these
are the class of Democrats who are
able to contribute enough to make an
effective management of the campaign
possible. There are commercial inter-
ests that may be willing to support
Bryan, rather than the Republican
ticket. They would prefer some other
Democratic candidate and in that is
found the reason for the tremendous
clamor for the nomination of Gov. John
A Johnson of Minnesota. These COM
mercial interests are easily able to
voice their preferences in newspaper
columns and much of the great cam
paign against Bryan's nomination has
originated with them.
Here in Washington one hears the
argument that Bryan is certainly as
near the people as President Roose-
welt is and that it is Roosevelt's cham
pionship of the peoples cause that has
made him so popular. To this is
coupled the argument that Bryan
would certainly be quite as safe a
President as Roosevelt has been.
Bourke Cockran's speech in the
House of Representatives the other
day is taken as very significant of the
attitude of the Gold Democrats of the
country for he was one of the foremost
of Gold Democrats, and went upon the
stump, eloquently advocating the de-
feat of Bryan for the Presidency. 1t
is said here that in the course of a
few months a good many of the Gold
Democratic contingent will put them
selves on record in some fashion. The
times have changed materially in
twelve years, even in eight years, and
the country has advanced to the issues
about corporations and about the man
agement of the government, which
Bryan then advocated.
It is claimed. too, that Mr.. Bryan
will be assured of the support Of a
great moral element. For two or three
years he has been lecturing before re-
ligious organizations and invariably
has captfvated these audiences. He
intimated that he had strong hope
of great support from that quarter in
day over in Brooklyn.
vi COURSE 1t WOuIu TAKE d UIS polAt4~
cal revolution, regarded from the
standpoint of the presidential vote of
1904, to elect Mr.. Bryan to the presi-
dency But the history of the country
has been that a big swing of the po-
litical pendulum one way is usually
followed by a big swing the other way.
The conditions seem to be ripe for a
great political change, in spite of the
talk that the country will never accept
Mr.. Bryan for President. The margin
between the normal strength of the
two political parties in the country is
not very large and at the present time
the chances are not so favorable for
the Republicans as their leaders would
wish.
So while the cutlery against Bryan is
being kept up in some quarters the
Republicans are watching him with
more anxiety than ever before since
September, 1896, when the late Mark
Hanna feared the Nebraskan was go
ing to sweep the country and there
fore inaugurated the powerful opera
tions that resulted in the election of
Mckinley.
ERNEST G.. WALKER.