Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-08-23
BRYAN HANDlN CAMPAIGN
Claims The West for Wilson.

SEA GRIT, N. j., Aug. 2o.-Wll-
liam Jennings Bryan took hand IN
the conduct of the Democratic nation
al campaign long enough to send
message of warning to Joseph Daniels,
chairman of the Democratic campaign
committees publicity bureau. The
warning was against the issuance OF
any statements concerning such West
ern States as Nebraska, Colorado and
Utah to the Republicans.
Mr.. Daniels could not at first make
out what the warning was all about,
but he found that dispatches had been
sent out from Sea Girt to newspapers
declaring that he had brought to the
Little White House" the results OF a
canvas conducted by members OF the
national committee which showed III
States against Woodrow Wilson.
1t doesn't sound like you to be eon-
ceding anything to the enemy, let
alone my own State of Nebraska.
wrote Mr.. Bryan from West Virginia,
where he is busy on the Chautauqua
Circuit.
Mr.. Bryan went on to declare that
if the national committee had any in-
formation that Colorado and Utah
were against Woodrow Wilson, the
information was all wrong. He said
that wherever he had appeared ON the
lecture platform and mentioDen Gov.
Wilson there had been instant and
prolonged applause and that the signs
seemed most hopeful.
From the Far West, he said, all of
his letters were enthusiastic 10 prom
ises of support and indicated that
Wilson sentiment predominated. AS
to Nebraska, he said he was certain
the Republicans had no chance to win.
Mr.. Bryan was not the only Demo-
erat who took Mr.. Daniels to task be-
cause of his alleged interview. Mayor
James Dahlman, OF Omaha, who is
an anti Bryan man, wrote in tone
FULLY as confident as that Bryan had
used. declaring Nebraska ~ss for
Wilson and objected to it being given
over 10 the enemy.
From Utah came this telegram:
what the blankety -blankety- blank
do you mean ? Utah is for Wilson.
We object to being conceded away"
DANIELS DISAvoWS INTERVIEW.
Mr.. Daniels, over the telephone,
dictated a statement tonight declaring
that the message from the West and
Mr.. Bcyan's message OF warning had
all originated because of a totally
spurious interview
81 never conceded any State to the
Republicans, he said.
OF the issues Colonel Roosevelt has
threatened to drive home to Governor
Wilson in manner to ''smoke him
out" and force him to become speciEc
on the evils that beset the Common.
wealth, Governor Wilson took up
another one today in . speech deliver
ed at the Interstate Fair Grounds,
at Trenton, before 1000 members of
the Mercer County Democratic
League.
The Governor gave his views of
what the main issue before the people
was and what he thought of q man
who tried TO "sit on the fence" in the
presence of this specific issue, takin
no firm position upon it. The issue,
stated in slightly different terms from
the favorite phrases of Colo mel
Roosevelt, was exactly the Roosevelt
issue, of "Shall the people ruler"
And of the men afraid to meet the
issue, Governor Wilson remarked:
"They sre not needed, these men
who sit on the fence.
Tomorrow afternoon Governor
Wilson will 60 to Asbury Park to
review . baby parade. He Is con-
sidering IN Invitation to visit Chicago
for Labor Day. but had not yet made
up his mind whether or not to acce pit.