The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-17
BRYAN NOT TO RUN
BUT HE WILL DICTATE THE N0Mr.
 NATION.
Friend Declsres Commoaer wHl Keep = Hts Hand in Confroi Of The
 Party For His Own Choiee.
The New York sun Aaye

The New York Sun says:
 have not seen any account of the ent position, his view of the election and the ideas he and his friends have
 of hia future. said personal friend of William J. Bryan yesterday, one
 years Democratic national campaign. So here Is the situation on all these matters, It is the result of, careful inquiry, correspondence, travel, per- sonal meetings, and as near as possi-
 bIe represents the most accurate views
 of himself and his near friends at the
 present time.
 MT. Bryan" said his friend. twin
 not be candidate for the Presidential
 nomination again. but he is determined
 that the Democratic nominee in 1912
 shall be man who was loyal to him
 it,. ,ast Novempsr and who is known to
 and progressive Democratic views
 During the next four years new
 men and issues are expected to make
 their appearances and an entirely new
 within the Democratic party. At pres
 ent Mir. Bryan does not look with favor on the Presidential aspirations Ilesota. or Governor Harmon, of Ohio
 although reduced to a choice of the last two. the Nebraskan prefrs the Ohio
 exec sSssusaxs; BEySn regards Senator
 lain, of Oregon, Governor John Burke
 and Reproductive Champ Clark. of
 Missouri. who Is to be Democratic lead
 Washington after MArch {. The
 friends of Bryan do not yet regard Governor Shallenberger, of Nebraska. or Governor Marshall, of Indiana, as that their work will receive the ap- proval of Bryan and that their names may be added to his favored class. newspaper and lecture constantly for four years. The demand for him as 6 speaker Is widespread and he not able to accept more than a. fraction of the eeivss ssHas ASoSt oelhSf on of his eet
 ings are given free of charge and he makes it rule to make no charge for his appearance at any dinner or politi- from Sr aSso sso,Soo to iSo.oOo GO year. enffs Hs was badly broken up and bitterly dis appointed over his defeat. for which result he was quite unprepared. And harder than any previous reverse in politics. To friends he has revealed his belief that the chief cause of the heavy vote for Taft in large cities was his friends among that percussion are trying to argue him out of that notion and are bluntly telling him that the Essl cause ys wss laSE pf e0nnaence in
 "Bryan has studied the election re- turns and has garnered some couso1a- tion that no other Democrat could have
 He increased the Democratic vote over 1904 by nearly a million and a half, while the Republican vote re- mained stationary. He believes that Governors and several United States Senators and increased the representa- ton of his party in Congress. He says that his supporters almost to 2 man many voters whom his campaign and principles brought Into the party, whereas many Democrats who voted against him voted their state ana local ticket, the result being combination of radical and conservative Democrats at the ballot box carrying State after State and district after district, al- This result Is contrasted with the vote of Judge Parker in lSO4. when no DemocratIc- candidate for Governor in the North was elected.
 the South than is generally supposed. He lost some in the Southern states along the Atlantic seaboard and in the border States but he offset those the SGississippi Valley. And he cer- tainly made wonderful gains over 1904 fin the States west of the Mississippi River and in Indiana and Ohio:
 
 gained 1,400,O00 votes in the last named territory. But he proved to be much weaker than Judge Parker in the New ab ssS n ststes Nsw 4GEe Me SaTrea snd Denver. where his convention was held; Omaha and Guthrie, the three | places where most of the ideas of the achieyed the most gratifying local vic- tory of his career since he ran for | Congress in 1892. The city of Lincoln | Is the strongest Republican city in the Northwest, the county of Lancaster l the strongest Republican county, and | the precinct of Normal, near Lincoln. | where Bryan lives, had never been car | ried by a Democrat Sryan ..,a carried ed ! large majority. and is thus prophet | not without honor in his own coun- try. Bryan's victory in Nebr1ska car elected three Congressmsn. and q change of a few votes would have sent ] solid Democratic delegation to Wash ngt0n from Nebraska-
 ~The vote In Oklahoma was a dis .inct disappointment. We attribute Inc resuft fo three causes: The Social sts polling 22.000 votes. or per cent # all. The heavy fight in Oklahoma made by Roosevelt and Hearst against Bryan and Governor Haskell. whom .hsy droYe out of his position as treas Irer of the national Democratic com nittee. okiah Indian Terri Standard oil Company is not exactly popular there. and e lot of people were | actually convinced that Bryan wac a StandaYd oil Company candidate ,hrouEh the alleged Haslcell disclos- ires and the undue prominence of Gov Srnor Haskell at the Denver conven-
 "Pryan received only 1i,S4s plurality m Oklahoma, whereas the Legtsiatare | which recently re-elected blind Senator Thomas P. Gore to the United States 5enate contains 139 Democrats and | ,nly twenty-three Republicans The lvht on national Issues missed it's ef- |