The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1908-02-08
Washington
News Items
M. J. Bryan is Gaining
In Popularity
president ROOseyelt's Message Re-
ceived With Much Applause
by the Democrats

NY UlS ISAAoSkeAtS
In spite Of the talk that William
Jennings Bryan should be asked to
step aside in favor of some other
candidate for the nomination for
fhe Presidency, Mr.. Bryan is to-
lay easily the most popular man
ia the Democratic party with a
vast and idolized personal follow
inc whose vote can be transferred
\ To no other. If the Republican
managers think it is going to be a
holiday task to beat him, they are
living in a FOOLS paradise
Among the many other attri-
butes of this remarkable man, he
has clearly demonstrated that he
possesses the ability to forgive
and forget in his unqualified re-
cognition of Representative Will
lam Bourke Cochran asa Democrat
before the House Committee on
Elections this week, although there
was no man who more bitterly op-
posed him in the campaign of 1896.
Washington extended hospital
ity this week to three Democrats
Of national prominence. William
Jennings Bryan appeared at the
Capitol to advocate a publicity
bill, and delivered a lecture before
the students of Georgetown Uni
versity Law School on Citizen
ship" Alton B. Parker spent one
day here hearing testimony before
an examiner in chancery in the in
junction proceedings brought by
the Buck Stove and Range Com
pany against the Federation to
permanently enjoin threatened
boycott. Hoke Smith, governor of
Georgia and mentioned frequently
as a Vice-P Presidential candidate,
appeared before the House Com
mittee on Agriculture to advocate
the passage of the bill creating the
Appalachian forest reserve. 1t was
noticeable that Judge Parker and
Governor Smith declined to dis
cuss politics, but allowed Mr..
Bryan to monopolize that topic.
The Democratic senator from
Oklahoma, Mr.. Gore, introduced,
this week, somewhat remarkable
anti-iniunction bill in the Sen
4 ate. 1t forbids the issuance of any
4 Injunction or restraining order
! in labor disputes, except upon the
! proof that it is necessary to pre-
serve property rights and declares
4 that cor rferences between labor
leaders and persons employed,
and those seeking employment
shall not constitute a conspiracy.
Governor Mogoon is in Washing
ton, summoned here from Havana
for conference with President
4 Roosevelt and Secretary Taft rela-
4 tive to conditions in Cuba. He de-
clares that Cuba affairs are pro-
crossing favorably and that there
is nothing in the situation to cause
uneasiness al the present time.
\ It's declared in Washin gton that
the suggestion that Co. Watterson
should be Secretary OF the Treas
Jury if the next President is a DEM
ocrat was doubtless based on the
,olonel's Well-knoWn fondness for
fthe mint.
The reading Of the Presidents
message, in which he urges imme-
zdiate legislation anongl important
lines and discusses the financial
cond.tions of the country, was
&greeted with wild applause from
& the Democrats in the House of
h Representatives, and the general
opinion around that end of the
1Capitol seemed to be that this is
1.-THE Warmest document that has
come from the White House up to
#date. The Presidents vigorous de-
#nunciation of Wrongdoers was
greeted with loud applause, as was
his defense of federal judges who
punish offenders for violations OF
the law. AT the Senate wing, Mr..
Tlllman seemed especially pleased
with the document, and Senator's
ICulberson, Teller, Davis, Bank
head and Overman, among the
Democrats, were particularly at
tentive to its reading. Senator
Davis OF Arkansas declared 1T is
the best Democratic doctrine that