The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-28
BRYAN READY TO RUN
TURNS HIS FACE TO
 SOUTH.
Tells an Audience in Ills Home State That He Will be c Candidate
 If it is Demanded.

Oinaha, NeD.s Speciai 10 The World
 shortly after delivering an address at the banquet given at tho Omaha Commercial Club late Saturday night present and the members were the guests of the City of Omaha William J. Bryan turned his face toward the South, leaving Democracy up in the afr year.
 MT. Bryan will be absent eight months and perhaps longer. From here her, he. he went to Arizona. where he son.. Then he will gc to Texas and look after his property Interests along the Gulf coast. and then take a famiiiarlze himself with the S work done upon the canal. Next he will cross to the Pacific and sail down
 the tns,Sses west coast oas. of South America cities touched by steamers. He will cross the continent to the Atlantic and sail up that coast for some dis towns. Having completed the tour. he will go to New York ana thence to | Edinburgh. Scotland, where he has an
 engagement to, speak next June. After
 R e abraska, .aat but Mr thansy Ssyan is nothing absolutely Icertain. as he says
 his plans for that long ahead have not been worked out. Bryan saws Wood. ! For several weeks Nebraska Demo-
 crats who have been nursing Senato- | rial boomlets have been seeking to | have Mir. Bryan declare himself, but
 when he has been approached upon the subject, he has been nen-committai as to what he. proposes to do. The result of this is that all of the as- plrants are up. in the air, so to speak. | If Mir. Bryan is to unbosom and seek 1 a Senatorial .toga--and he is suspected
 of secretly longing. for it--there is
 oUt' oUt Pn fin the he es open and and cross cross political | swords with him. If he is not to be
 candidate half a dozen of them are willing to build their fences and take l their chances in the arena.
 In the event that he should decide to enter the race and the decision should | be made before his return the the States the information will undoubtedly be 1 Lincoln, or by Richard L. Metcalfe, editor of the Bryan newspaper. Met cafe Is a man that the Democrats
 is is close to Bryan and several times
 during the past few months 1t has
 been announced, but not with auth
 ority that Metcalfe would like to wear pair of Senatorial shoes. and that l Bryan would be perfectly willing to | help nt them to his feet. He stands | well with the rank and file of the
 party and belongs to the liberal fas 1 he is within hailing distance of the
 Prohibition party.
 A few days ago. when. it was an- nounced that Bryan would make hts
 South American and European trip, | letters commenced to pour in upon | him from all quarters asking whether
 or not he intended to beTSme ,1 candi- came from the party leaders as well
 Such men as G. N. Hitchcock of Omaha. editor of The World Herald. wanted to know. Edgar Howard of Columbus sought to learn the truth, | w. H. Thompson of Grand Island. who
 Is in control of the forces north or l Gov. Shallenberger, Mayor Dahlman of Omaha and dozens of the lesser lights all clamored for the word. but 1t was
 Ali that any of them could get in.
 the way of Bryan's intention was the statement from him:
 Keeps Them on the Tagged Edge | make the Nrace. I will not refuse to
 accept the nomination.
 It Is this statement that unhorses | Democrats who want the office. They 1 all fear that is the event they should go into the campaign next summer
 and work up their respective booms
 along would come MT. Bryan and from | the COW countries he would hear a | popular clamor for him to become | candidate. Then some of his friends l would file his name and he would be squarely Tn The race Anat is WnaI is l causing grief among the ambitious | candidates and in the mean time MT.
 Bryan sits back and smiles at their | antics.
 Just before Bryan left for the South he called Howard and Dablman into | conference, and there many questions
 were discussed. say the two conferrees
 but they insist that no line of action was determined upon One thing is
 certain and that is that Bryan in- formed the two gentlemen and gave them to understand that he will write
 the next platform for the Democratic
 much. and If Bryan Is not here in person at the time when 1t should come before the people he will see
 that the mails bring 1t.