New-York tribune., 1912-12-22
President. Elect and Nebraskan
Discuss Party Policies and
Makeup of Cabinet for
More than 3 Hours.
"COMM0NER" NOT ON SLATE
Place Not offered, According to
Governor, and Peerless Lead.
er" Says He Would Not Con-
tradict Jersey Man-"Best
Way to Get g Job.
fBy Telegraph to Tho Tribune, ]

Bryan had heart-to-heart talk to-day
with Governor wilsc over the policies
Of the Democratic party and the make
up of the President-elect's Cabinet,
during which the names Of many pro-
spective Cabinet officers were discussed.
When 1t was all over, some three and a
half hours after the "Commoner" had
entered the private office Of the New
Jersey Governor. the President-elect
assured the newspaper men that Mr..
Bryan's name had not come up during
, the conference, and that his mind so
far as Cabinet appointments were con-
cerned was Just as open as it was last
night.
When Mr.. Bryan was asked II It were
true he had called on Governor Wilson
not as a candidate for office-in fact,
with the intention OF rejecting any
such offer II It were rendered to him.
but simply as a Democratic leader-he
replied: 'T will not discuss my con-
ference with the President more
than to say that came here to confer
with him.
Mr.. Bryan's meeting with the Presi-
dent-elect was the first since october
9 last, when Mr.. Wilson was the Com
moner's" guest at his home In Lincoln,
Neb., and although the door of Gov
ernor Wilson's private Office was wide
open no one would have suspected that
conference was in progress. not the
least sound coming from within.
~ Am So Glad to Sec You"
Mr.. Bryan, acc o1mpanied by Joseph
r. Tumulty, Governor Wilson's secre-
tary, walked into the executive Office,
where Governor Wilson was busy dc
tating letters, at $50 o'clock.
"Why, Mr.. Bryan am so glad to see
you," was the President-elect's greet
ing.
Hello, Governor" Mr.. Bryan re-
sponded. I'm so glad to see you look
ing so we'll"
And from then until o'clock the
President-elect and Mr.. Bryan sat and
talked in a corner OF the Governors
office, removed from the eyes and ears
of any one who might happen to vent
ure too close to the doorway. A call
for luncheon brought Governor Wilson
10 the door.
In replying to the newspaper mems
questions the Presldent-elect said he
had a very delightful conference with
MIR. Bryan, but had come to no con-
clusion. I'VE talked about the policies
OF the party he said, 'the various
planks in the platform, and we talked.
OF course, about the various Cabinet
plans"
The President-elect said all Of the
Cabinet plans had not been discussed.
but that names suggested had come up
in a general way.
"Did you discuss names suggested by
Mr.. Bryan" he was asked. ..
IT do not know whether they were
suggested by Mr.. Bryan or myself" he
replied.
was Mr. Bryan's name considered
in connection with Cabinet port
folio?" was the next question put to
the President-elect
"Tt was not" said Mr. Wilson, with
much positiveness.
"You gentlemen must learn sooner or
later that you must take me at my
word. l have told you repeatedly that
! have reached no decisions, and / OBJ
ject very much to questions which put
my word in doubt. Another thing 1
have learned, and that is that appar-
emily one OF the things which 1 will
have to overcome will be to succeed.
despite the men who write the head
lines in the newspapers. They try to
make everything say sensational, and
Il is seldom that the headlines corre-
spond with the body OF the story
Special Session Not Discussed.
They had not discussed the special
session of Congress, Governor Wilson
said. In fact, the Governor asserted
they had talked over so many things
that he could not pick out any one
without going over the entire CONVEX
satlon.
Mr.. Bryan did not appear in the best
of humor when he came out Of the Gov
ernor's Office. His answers to the news
paper men were short and evasive, and
he would parry each interrogation with
a short and not very definite answer,
followed by "Well, what's the next
question:"
1t was apparent from Mr.. Bryan's
manner that II he had come to confer
with the President-elect with the ex-
pectation of having Cabinet place Of
fered to him he had been disappointed.
In answer to questions az to the make
UP of the Cabinet he replied facetiously
that he did not want to contradict
! the Governor"
Mr.. Bryan said It was customary to
allow the President to make Cabinet
announcements, adding a moment later,
you don't doubt the GoverSors vera
city, do your"
When some one mentioned an attack
on some currency ideas of THE COM
| moner," he replied tartiy that he did
| not remember advocating anything