The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-12-01
Bryan's Polper is Seen
in Party's Rally Plan,
- Can Not be Ignored

Washington, Nov. 3O.-No end Of
talk has been stirred up in political
quarters by the preliminary meeting
In Baltimore the other day for the
purpose of arranging a Democratic
harmony conference.
The especial phase that is stirring
politicians to talk and ponder is the
decision to invite William jennings
Bryan.
This has happened just at a time
when there has been much talk
about Bryan being dead politically,
although some are recalling in con-
nectioa with the reputed political
death Of Bryan that he is far from
defunct in his own State. He sup
ported Gilbert M. Hitchcock and
Hitchcock will be the next senator
from Nebraska. He fought Jim
Dahlman, Democratic nominee for
governor, and Mailman will not be
governor. He supported Aldrich
Republican nominee for governor,
and ~Aldrich was elected.
In any event, there has been no
end Of talk here in Washington
Iabout ignoring Bryan in the confer
ence. Recently Mr.. Bryan came out
IN the COmmoner, pointed out that
the conference was suggested in the
first place by a paper that two years
tago supported Mr. Taft, and voiced
his objections to the proposed meet
ing. He said the whole tendency or
the times was to get away from the
! bosses and back to the people.
Mr.. Bryan will not be ignored, but
Will speak at the Jackson Day meet
ing, which will be arranged. 1t is
|looked on as well-nigh certain here
that this will not tend to\promote
the harmony which it is the object
OF those who are arranging the con-
ference to bring about.
| Many Indications are given that
the Democrats, now that they are in
control Of the House and we'll on
the road to control or the Senate,
are not going to go far until they
split as badly as the Republicans are
divided. 1t is clear that the breach
In the Democratic party which be-
came so evident in 1896, and which
drove many conservatives either into
the Republican camp or to support
OF. third ticket, is far from healed.
1t is already becoming evident in
the discussion Of the question of a
committee on committees for the
House, that no harmony is going to
be possible on this question. There
are numerous House Democrats who
are as infiexibly for having the
Speaker name the committees as, Mr.:
/ cannon ever was, and there are 9TH
Ter Democrats who are so opposed to
having the Speaker name the COM
mittees that they are likely to refuse
to bind themselves to support tina,
proposition or have themselves bound
in caucus.
Mr.. Bryan is making it clear that
he is not going to support anything
in congress which he deems reaction.
airy, and that he is not going to SUD-
port any man for the nomination for
President whom he looks on as affil-
lated with what he calls 1.-The Wall
lStreet Democracy" He wants his
party in congress to go ahead on a
progressive program. He stands for
about the same things that the Re-
publican insurgents In congress do.
But IT he comes out for these thing;
and against a conservative candidat
FOR President at the jackson DAY
meeting at Baltimore, he will stir
Iup all his old enemies, and harmony
will take to the woods.
The Democratic leaders who ar
anxious for Democratic peace and
harmony conference did not want to
have Bryan present, yet feared to
ignore him, knowing that despite
any talk Of his being dead he still
| has a powerful following that can
not be overlooked.
| mat Champ Clark is largely re-
3ponsiblc for the course taken BY The
meeting at Baltimore Saturday is as
serted here. Mr.. Clark is a Bryan
supporter and is credited with assist
ing that there should not be a con-
ference in the sense originally in
tended to map out policies. Bryan
men here look on the outcome as, in
reality, Bryan victory.
Governor Crothers, is an interview
says no time will be lost getting out
the invitations for the celebration.
He says the gathering will be the
biggest political festival ever held in
this country. The number Of invita-