The Washington times., 1912-01-07
NEBRASKAN PLANS
TOFORCE FIGHT ON
PRIMARY, IS REPORT
Raleigh Speech Indicates His
Attitude Will Be I'm
compromising.
(ContInued from First page,

NSohuhucu from f1r9t PaRe.)
shindy. and the Missouri electoral vote
is conceded to be menaced in proper
ton as the temperature rises.
Tammany Crowd.
The Tammany crowd from New York
Is due tonight. and then there will be
conferences Of the tory leaders and
counter-conferences Of the progressive
crowd. all looking to the management
of details In the committee meeting to-
morrow. Bryan must make Wilson's
fight. whether he likes II or not, In be-
half Of primaries: but the anti-wilson,
anu-bryan people are organising to
make 1t Just as difficult as possible for
Bryan and Wilson to work together.
have adopted.
Talk about the candidates and. the
bosses! There is only one big. dominat-
Ing individuality In sight. and that Is
Bryan. OF course, II isn't true that all
the other speakers who were to have
appeared at the jackson banquet to-
incipient pneumonia, iaryngeal paraly-
sis, or loss Of voice. Most Of them will
be- on hand. despite reports to the con-
trary; even to Governor Folk, whose
first emission of invitations caused a
In Missouri.
But as to Bryan, the situation reminds
actly four years ago now. The Demo
cratic leaders in Congress had con-
versed for weeks. and finally decided on
plan. They would have a big dinner
squareiy up against the mahogany they
would tell him. kindly but firmly, that.
while they entertained the kindliest SEN
timents for him. they could never, never
be more ret than ssters to him Really he
nation. He would have TO sacrifice any
ambitions of that sort to the party In
terest.
Well. we all remember that double
Beverage called It. Bryan came to
town, and the dinner was divided into a
two-session affair at the home OF Sena-
tor Newlands. The thing was going to
deed. The real conservators OF party
interest would just naturally serve the
never again. notice on him.
Courage Flies.
They talked uncommon bold while
Bryan was 1000 miles away. Courage
ooZed after II was reported that Bryan
had started for Washington; when he
was three days away. It was impossible
to get anybody to discuss the ultimatum
dinner; at two days. folks began to
have pneumonia and other difficulties
making 1t inadvisable for them to 60
out o'nights The day before he got to
town, you couldn't And a man Jack OF
them all who wasn't telling how per-
sistently loyal to Bryan he had always
been; and when the double-ended dinner
actually came off. II was a love feast
instead Of a palace revolution!
Nobody even mentioned the unpleas-
ant subject supposed to have bean in
spiration for the event: Bryan did all
the talking he wanted to do. everybody
was delighted to see him: not an ulti-
matum was produced from a single hip
pocket; and at the end, II was quietly
conceded that the party just naturally
couldn't shake or the Bryay yoke be-
cause there wasn't man In II with
nerve enough to mention the matter IN
Bryan's presence.
This year it's not SO very different.
Bryan IL the one to whom all eyes turn.
VIII he be for or against this candi-
date or that? Does he want this OF
that in the platform? How hard will
he fight for primaries? Everything Is
referred to Bryan; everything seems to
depend more on his attitude than on
anything else.