Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-14
IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP
Bryan Reaches the Hostile
City of Baltimore.
C0NFERS WITH LEADERS
Has Not Promised Cabinet Office to
Schley.
GEES DOWN TO ANNAPOLIS
Reports From Throughout the City
Encouraging to the Demo-
cratic Candidate.
|cES DOWN TO ANNAPOLIS
Special From staff Correspondent.

Special From a staff Correspondent.
BALTIMORE, Md. September Ito
day Mr.. Bryan is in the camp of the
enemy. If one were inclined to ignore
the facts. then the hustle and hustle. the
confabs and conferences and the gen.
eral hurrah in the vicinity of the peer
less leader this bright September morn
ing would almost make one imagine that
Baltimore is a Bryan town.
But It isn't; indeed, 1t is just the oppo-
site. There is probably no city in the
country in which there is so much demo-
cratic bitterness against the party s
presidential candidate, and no one knows
1t better than the astute candidate him
self
And while he and his managers despair
of converting any material number of the
irreconcila bles yet they know that this
year the organization is with them and
will stay with them till the wind-up.
But even the organization is not crazy
over Mr.. Bryan. 1t is simply a case of
plain, ordinary must If the organiza-
ton does not demonstrate its efficiency
by turning 'em out for Bryan in Novem-
ber, then it might as we'll kiss itself
goodnight and retire for long, unin-
terrupted political nap.
Organization on Trial.
The leaders over here realize this to
the limit and shudder from toes to crown
every time they think of what would
happen should they fall down in Novem-
ber. For there is an off-year election
next year. without a single office of any
great lifting power to be voted for, ano
1t is as plain as print that should the
Bryan democrats get a notion in their
noodles that the organization had been
even a bit lukewarm in the national cam
paign this fall they naturally might DC
expected to play havoc with the organl-
zation's slate next year, and they coulo
do it, too. without any trouble, if they
set out with that idea. This taken IL
connection with the coming Rayner-Gor'
man senatorial contest, and the not tot
remote possibility of losing the legisla
ture in the shuffie-well, it is easy TO see
that the organization intends to eat ou
of the P. LIS palm right along So al
the folks that met Mr.. Bryan at th'
Mount Royal station this morning were
organized and enthusiastic.
There were Mayor Mahool, Murra!
vandiver, former Gov. Brown, Repre-
sentatives Wolf and Gill. sonny Ma
hon, S. S. Field, John S. Biddison
Charles P. Coady, Isaac l.. StrauS, Al
bert S. ]. Owens, W. A. Wheatley, w. Z
Ryan, Max Ways, Harry d. Hurst. DAME
J. Loden, James w. Lewis. James Bond
]. McKenny White. ]. F. Williams anc
many others of the same ilk, including
Eddie Hirsch, president of the local labor
federation who sounds to the casualis'
like one of the most enthusiastic Bryan
ties of the whole bunch. This whole
crowd invaded the Olivette at the Camden
station and caught the P. l.. attacking
well-intrenched sirloin. and there was sc
much anxiety to get him out and tell him
things that he never did get very far with
his breakfast.
Baltimore Antagonistic.
1,-i-
dere Hotel. where Mr.. Bryan spent the
morning comforting with National Com
mitteeman Talbot, ex-Gov. Brown ano
some others of the elect who think they
know which way the wind is blowing and
how far the reeds will bend. The reports
made to the peerless concerning conditions
outside of Baltimore city were encourag
ing and optimistic, and the general Mary
land situation would look pretty good tC
him and to the party leaders If only d
little more comfort could be scared uI
within the city limits.
But there doesn't seem to be any lying
around loose. The independents and tht
business men of Baltimore are dead SET
against the candidate, and it looks as il
it would take an earthquake to move
them. l was told This morning by frank
and somewhat discouraged democrat that
out of four hundred members of the
Maryland Club. pretty much all of them
democrats. only thirty-one or two had eX-
pressed an intention of voting for Bryan
The others had expressed themselves
most decidedly the other way. And L an
informed that this is not lone and isO-
| lated case. but simply reflection of the
feeling which prevails among the same
class of democrats throughout the city
Outside there's different tale to tell
There doesn't seem to be any opposition
of this sort to the peerless out in the
counties, and indeed down on the eastern
shore and in some other spots there are
a lot OF folks who are for Bryan first and
for the democratic party second.
Conference With Smith.
Up to the time Mr.. Bryan left for An
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