Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-01
BRYAN
 HOPEFUL
Believes He Will, if Nomi-
 hated, Beat Taft
HIS PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.

All Democratic Party Has to Do, He
 Declares, Is to Go Straight Along the
 Way It Has Been Going-Best Part
 of Roosevelt Policies Is Demoeratie
 Doctrine Borrowed by President, He
 Says-Busly at Work on Important
 Pianks of Platform to Be Adopted
 Tn Denver.
 Lincoln, Neb., July 1.-Believing him. self assured of the nomination at Den- yer, Mir. Bryan believes he can beat MT. Taft at the polls. Frankly and yet modestly, speaking more for his party and his cause than himself as a man. he discussed with friends the basis of the faith that is in him.
 .The Republican party is balanced on the top of the Allegheny mountains" said Mr. Bryan. East of that dividing line the people are opposed to the poll cies of President Roosevelt and fear the presidents successor is too much committed to the Roosevelt ideas. West of that line the people look upon MT. Taft as conservative, almost as reactionary, and from his admins tration if he should be elected they do not look for continuation of the work Roosevelt began
 And the Democratic plan of cam paigny' asked caller
 Tt is very plain and simple. All the best part of the Roosevelt policies is Democratic doctrine borrowed by the president He took our ideas, but has not worked them out. All we have to do is to go straight along the way we have been going, stand for things we have always stood for, and we have the enemy on the defensive. East of the Alleghenies the people will by con- trast look upon our principles as con- servative. and west of the Alleghenies they will look to us as the only party pledged and able to carry out progress l i've work
 And from which section, east or west, of the mountains you speak of |do you expect to make the greatest gains in the election?"
 Expects to Make Gains Everywhere.
 From both sections" replied MT. Bryan, with a smile.
 No one will charge that Mir. Bryan is not a man of sincerity and courage in advocacy of the things he believes in. And yet he is a practical politician. He wants to win. He wants to take advantage of every opening to strength en his position in every way possible. And he is clever. Just now he is en- gagged. night and day, in preparing the Important blanks of his platform to fit his ideas of what is proper.
 He will not admit that he will tour the country. He talks sometimes of sitting down on the veranda of his beautiful farmhouse near this town and waiting for the delegations to come to him. But his friends know him bet. ter than he knows himself They know that he can't sit still. Not enough peo- pie will pay railroad fares and come to him. He will go to them. He will abandon the dignifed veranda for the tail end of railway train. Almost every state in the north i'll hear his voice.
 That the Nebraska delegation of six teen is for a New York man for vice president if the factions from that state can get together and, failing that, for Judge Gray of Delaware was as- serted by Democrat high in the coun- cils of his party in Nebraska. This an- nouncement is regarded here as almost equivalent to an expression from W. J. Bryan himself
 Boons Mitchell For Second Place.
 W. H. Everroad of Columbus. Ind. a delegate from the Fourth Indiana dis trict, was here and earnestly argued that John Mitchell is the most deslra- ble person for the vice presidential nomination.
 "Mitchell's nomination" declared Mir. Eyerroad. would put Illinois. Indiana and Ohio in the Democratic column this fall and be a clinching evidence that the Democratic party Is with the iaboring man. We want a good strong anti-iniunetion plank. and the selec- ton of the former leader of the miners would bespeak our deep sincerity in the matter"
 Mir. Bryan's response to this was the same as he always gives when ques- tions of the kind come before him.
 IL gave no inference as to his prefer ence for a running mate. If the Ne braskan has a particular leaning to- ward anybody. it is asserted by the leaders closest friends here that Mr. Bryan is keeping it very closely to him self.
 When a correspondent mentioned the movement in favor of Francis Burton Harrison for vice president he gave no intimation of his attitude. saying. with q smile. T hear of these 'booms' sooner or later if they get very loud