Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-18
RETURNS TO NEW YORK
Bryan Will Speak in Carnegie
Hall Tonight.
CAMPAIGN is WARMING UP
Democratic Managers Pleased With
Controversy Over Steel Trust.
REPLY TO SHELDON ISSUED
Democratic Nominee Will Endeavor
to Lead His Opponents Ere
quently Into Debate.
Special From Staff Correspondent.

| Special From a Stan Correspondent.
| NEW YORK, September 1S-Certainly
| there is no one who can now deny that
the national campaign is warming up
sufficiently to please the most aggressive
partisan that ever stepped in shoe leather.
| The charges and denials that are flying
| back and forth between candidates and
| leaders would seem to furnish the best
evidence in the world that for the next
month and a half relays Of political
| stokers will keep the fires hot under the
| party boilers.
| The democratic managers view this
latest "you did, and Il didn't" contro-
versy with reference to the matrimonial
| bonds alleged to exist between the re-
publican party and the United States
Steel Corporation with unmixed delight.
| Mr.. Bryan read, during the trip from
Wilmington to New York, the statement
| Of Treasurer Sheldon of the republican
| national committee. published this morn
| ing. In that statement Mr.. Sheldon who
| was responding to charges made by Mr..
Bryan in his speech at Harrington, Del.
yesterday, asked If member of the ex
ecutive committee or an official of the
| United States Steel Corporation did not
have the same right as any other repub-
lican to contribute to the campaign fund
of the party.
This morning Mr.. Bryan. coming over
on the ferry from Jersey City, called the
newspaper men around him and dictated
short statement ampifying the charges
| made by him at Harrington, and saying
that SheldonS reply constituted a pract-
cal admission of the truth of those
charges. He says ii is well known that
hall SS fo1 ,fo <,r
the constituent companies of the Steel
Corporation, and thinks that this fact,
among other things. goes long way to-
ward demonstrating the truth Of his as
sertion concerning the heart-to-heart re-
lations of the trust and the party.
After his arrival at the Hoffman House
this morning such lot of pressure was
brought to bear on Mr.. Bryan and so
many questions were asked him by the
flock of newspaper men who had gathered
there to await his arrival that he sue
cumbed to their entreaties and dictated
long formal statement. While interesting
as an academic discussion of various we'll
defined issues it is not particularly ca
lOric.
Mr.. Bryan's Aim.
But from now Mr.. Bryan intends to
take every possible opportunity of lead
ing his opponent and his opponents party
into debate on just such questions as this
| one concerning the relations of the steel
trust and the republican party.
He would be tickled to death too to
discover that the republican party was a
grass widow and had a divorced husband
in the shape Of another healthy trust
walking around the land somewhere.
OF course, it is easy to understand why
the democrats invest this alleged relation
ship with SO much Importance
They are making the claim that this
relationship, together with the fact that
officials of the steel trust are heavy con-
tributors to the republican campaign fund
manner. the proposition of an old-time
| and now illegal net trust contribution,
| make it impossible for the republican
party to publish the names Of contribu-
| tors to it's 1908 fund
The names of democratic contributors
will be published October ID. From that
| time on every democratic spellbinder will
open his throat and utter loud harsh
| cry Of triumph.
See ours" they'll say Where's
yourn? You dassen't publish it. You
| just dassent."
That at least is the play. Having what
| the democratic managers consider an eN-
ceptionaly strong issue in the PROPOSE
| tion for the guarantee by the government
| of bank deposits, it only needs another
| SUCH they think, to bring them close in
/ deed to the goal success. They insist
| that the names of trust officials are down
\ on t0e treasurer = DOCKS OF tHe TepuDlltdI
national committee as heavy contributors,
] and that. therefore. the names of con-
| tributors will not by any chance be pub
| lished. That gives them something to
| talk about If the names become known
| that will give them something more. So,
| from the democratic viewpoint. the repub-
| lican party at present is between the
| devil and the salty old ocean.
How Democrats Regard Outlook.
1 chatted for little while this morning
with democrat who does not let his
| of the future.
I'm my honest opinion said he "the
republican party is on the run, and if to-
morrow were election day we. under the
standard of the peerless. would win in a
walk. But'-and he paused for a mo-
ment al. shook his head-"but the repub-
| lican party has such blamed wonderful
| powers of recuperation that there's no
telling what will happen between now and
November. Our only hope, now that we
have the republican party on the run. is
| to keep on chasing. We must not quit
| for minute. for if we do the republican
| elephant will turn around and step on US"
| That is what Mr.. Bryan's managers are
| telling him. and l understand he has about
given up hope OF any rest at all from
now TO election day. A swing clear
| through to the coast Is being considered
other day. from some folks out there who.
| the democratic managers think. should
know what they are talking about. have
| it that Bryan can have the state IL he'll
| only go out and get 1t. So it would not
at all surprise me If Mr.. Bryan's cam
! paigning tour OF this year would finally
| turn out TO be a record-breaker for con-
| tinuous and concentrated strepuosity.
Democratic Harmony.
The spectacle of sweet and honeyed har-
mony never was more faithfully portray
| ed than yesterday when Judge Gray and
Mr. Bryan clutched, dined and mineral
watered and finally said Good night;
sweet dreams" or words to that effect. as
| they separated TO sleep under the hos
| pitable Gray roof tree. TherelI be Il
! couple more of these howl -I-love-thee"
| parties Sunday. when Mr.. Bryan will exile
| himself for few hours at N. g!adsome
village of Esopus, which Judge Alton b.
! Parker illumines with his residence in the
| summer time. and later will journey to
| Wolferts ROost to cfasp the pleasantly
| chilly right fiipper of the Honorable
| David Is. Hill.
Harmony had been the word used to ~e-
| scribe the state of the democratic party
! by its managers for some time now, and