The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-05-16
BRYAN|SM USED
AGAINST ri ARK
n9sufvOt O-SuUt
EndeavOrIns to Show That Champ
Clark is Too Close to Nehraskan
to Suit Party.

Washington. D. c.. May 1e-Repub-
lican influences are cooperating with
small coterie Of democrats here in
Washington and elsewhere to make
sBryanism" an issue. The republicans
seek to arouse bitterness and to handi-
cap democrats. both in the coming
campaign and in the preparation for
the greater struggle in 1912. The sit
uation is delicate one. which the
democratic leaders are discussing
freely in private. although they with
hold their views when it comes to
putting them in quotation marks.
Eastern democrats and not, few
southerners are SO sensitive about
the question of Mr.. Bryan's influence
and the extent to which he shall DOM
mate democratic affairs in the future
that they cite Organism" as a reason
for opposing Champ Clark for speaker
of the house, in case the democrats
are given a majority of that body at
the November election.
An eastern member whose name has
been used as among those who are
leading the opposition to Clark. said
tonight:
Il have the highest regard for Mr..
Clark personally and believe his rec
ord in many ways entities him to the
first claim upon the speakership. At
the same time Mr.. Clarks associa-
tions in democratic affairs and his per-
sonal sympathies have been such as
to place him in very close relation
with Mr.. Bryan.
There are some of US who think
Mr.. Clark, If he were speaker, would
reflect and represent the Bryan wing
of democracy and would not give
fair deal to those democratic members
who hold other views not so thorough
ly in accordance with the views of Mr..
Bryan.
1T first develops on new speaker
to name a floor leader, who shall be
the spokesman of the majority party
on the floor of the house. Should
Mr., Clark select so extreme a Bryan
man as Ollie James Of Kentucky, for
instance, to fill this position? This
fills the minds of quite number of
democratic congressman at this
time"
1t is said thirty-five OF the demo-
cratic membership of the house have
agreed to oppose Clark. The probable
fact is the number is not nearly so
great, and the probable outcome is
that Mr.. Clark will be easily elected
the speaker of a democratic house. No
other man openly seeks the honor,
| and undoubtedly very large majority
of the democrats now in the house are
pledged to him. There will be a flock
| ing to him when the crisis comes.
The significance of the situation, in
the best opinion of Washington, lies
not in the effect upon Mr.. Clark, but
in the question raised by the oppon-
ents of the Missourian. II is feared
that here is rock upon which the
democrats may split, unless skillful
tactics are displayed by the leaders
of both factions
Meantime, as has been suggested
the republicans are alive to this fact
and are endeavoring to create all the
trouble they can by magnifying and
emphasizing this difference of opinion
among the democrats. The PROPOSE
ton figures in discussions and in plans
in so far as any have been made at
this early date. for 1912.
Promoters of individual presidential
booms among the democrats already
have been busy. Former Representa-
tive w. D. Vandiver was here ten DAYS
t6C CPSBaA OAttt Will tHt SOit aOCIeCJ
Of pushing along the movement begun
in Missouri to nominate Joseph w.
Folk, Tom" Hennings of st. Louis
passed through here yesterday, freely
proclaiming the same mission. He had
been in Baltimore interviewing Mary
land politicians and was bound for New
York to interview whomever crosses
his path there.
In similarly quiet manner advance
lgents Of Governor Harmon of Ohio
and Governor MashalI OF Indiana have
been in Washington Each of these
early bird boomers" have endeayored
to get some encouragement from Mr..
Bryan for their principals. Since his
return to the United States, Mr.. Bryan
has experienced a number Of such in
terviews.
Reports coincide on the point that
Mr.. Bryan is thus far nonoommittal
regarding the several candidates sug-