Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-06-29

only less nunic,ous IMAM they are Ill
Pennsylvania the state would be
swung as readily rs if he were on the
national ticket. If that course should
be adopted 1t would be possible to
get the Mitchell strength in one state
and put a candidate on the national
ticket who might swing another state
The work that is being done for Rep
resentative Francis Burton Harrison is
being conducted something along this
line. Mr.. Harrison is able and de-
servedly popular. His family is one
Of the best known in the south, his
father having been secretary to Jeffer-
son Davis and having been arrested
when the deposed president of the
''lost cause" was captured. Mr.. Harri-
son Is well known on the Pacific coast.
Tho Fight For Congress.
Chairman Lloyd of the national Dem
ocratic congressional committee has
opened headquarters in the Union
Trust company building in Washing
ton and Is prepared to send out docu-
ments to all Democrats or others de-
string information on the issues Of the
coming congressional campaign. Mr..
Lloyd has begun his work with a vigor
that argues we'll for it's outcome. In
deed. the situation politically is such
as to encourage a sturdy Democrat
to fight for the next house. There ar.
almost forty congressional districts III
each one of which change of very
few hundred votes would substitute a
Democrat for the sitting Republican,
and Lloyd proposes to make that
change. The chairman Is stanch
friend Of Mr.. Bryan and was elected
to his present position by the united
vote of the militant Bryan men in the
house Of representatives. With the
chances for Democratic president so
good as they are now every effort
should be made to keep in congress
men who are known to be in accord
with the principles of the probable
Democratic presidential nominee. For
example, there is Henry Il. Rainey in
the Twentieth district of Illinois. At
member In congress from that state.
He has fought we'll and ably for tariff
revision against the wood pulp and
print paper tariff and for free raw ma
terial to be used in shipbuiding.
select the case Of Mr.. Rainey as an
illustration simply because l have
some reason to believe that the pro-
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un-Democratic Democrats within the
party are likely to make a fight upon
him. There are doubtless other in
stances Of the same sort. 1t behooves
Democrats who hope for a Democratic
| administration backed by Democrat
ic congress, to fight for the return to
the house and to the senate of the men
who in the days of adversely which,
| we believe. are now passing have stood
for the party and for the cause.
Bryan and Ryan.
The malignant effort Of a New York
paper to make 1t appear that in 1904
Mr.. Bryan received $4,000 from
Thomas f. Ryan as the price Of his
support for Judge Parker has fallen
exceedingly fat. The charge was eX-
plicit at the outset and the assertion
was made that the money was handed
to Mr.. Bryan's brother-in-law by W. f.
Sheehan, chairman Of the executive
committee Of the Democratic national
committee. Now, Mr.. Sheehan is not
and never has been a political friend
of Mr.. Bryan, yet he met this situa-
ton as any man Of honor and self re-
spect would. He wrote to Mr.. Bryan
letter, which he gave to the press,
stating that the $4,000 sent to the
state committee Of Nebraska for use
In that.state was taken from the gen.
eral fund of the Democratic national
| committee, to which there were many
contributors. He did not say whether
Mr.. Pulitzer was contributor, but
Mr.. Pulitzers contributions to Demo
cratic politics have been chiefly con-
fined to attacking Democratic candi-
dates. There was no more reason to
believe, according to Mr.. Sheehan, that
this was $4,000 from Thomas F. Ryan
than that it was $4,000 from thirty to
forty different contributors, and finally
the chairman Of the executive commit
tee concluded his letter by declaring
that he knew we'll that Mr.. Ryan had
no knowledge Of the contribution or to
the purposes to which It had been put
AS for the story that the money was
paid as the price of Bryan's support OF
! Parker I can speak with some personal
knowledge. Before he left St. Louis
after that most disastrous and not
wholly creditable- convention he per-