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 friends of Colonel Bryan who immed- lately, upon their return from this Bryan birthday dinner to their native States, announced that they were for the Honorable Champ Clark for the Presidency. Whether or not those two intimate friends had a silent whis- per from their erstwhile chief and Democratic leader in this country, Colonel William J. Bryan, dependent sayeth not, but if you will take the tip of an old fashioned newspaper cores pOndent, who has been in contact with politicians all his life, they will come to the conclusion (and he has), that MT. Bryan's choice for President is the Honorable Champ Clark.
 For a man who has been absolutely opposed to nearly everything that Theodore Roosevelt has ever done or said in the past fifteen years, for the simple reason that I knew him at close quarters and sized him up for what he really is, it is rather remarkable that at this late day, I am in abso- lute accord with the former President of the United States. Since his ln- nouncement of his candidacy for the Presidency and his statement that all Of the common people were for him, as if he expected everybody to get I'D and kotow to him and say my dear MT. Roosevelt, here is the nomination on silver platter, and since absolute ly the contrary has confronted this warrior in buckram, he has \ been bowling mad and hurling his anathe- mas at everything in sight. He is mad clean through and is calling ey- erybody all the names that the news papers will print and the Lord knows how many names he called them that they won't print. As I said before I absolutely agree with hfm in his esti- mate of the Republican politicians and their methods He says he has been swindled and robbed in all the prim- aries that he has nos carried. He says the Republican politicians are robbers and thugs and thieves and high bind CTS and every known adjective that can be applied to undesirable citi- zens he has given to the militant Re publican politicians and therefore, absolutely agree with Mr. Roosevelt and he is absolutely correct in every particular appertaining to those afore- said politicians. I do not mean that every man who is a Republican, nee essarily comes in contact with the de- finition of MT. Roosevelt, but I mean
 TO is correct when he says that the aforesaid Republican politicians
 
 he imputes to them. They have been treating the Democratic party that way ever since I can remember any thing about politics, and although they elevated him to very high position, to which he was never entitled, yet at this late day he has discovered his error in believing them whitestoled saints and dotted on them because they were giving him what he wanted Now that he finds out he is not getting what he wants, he is mad clean through and willing to use his stren- uous propenSitieS for tearing down things and playing the iconclast in ripping the whole Republican party up the back, simply because he fol- and disappointed politicians in the Republican party, and he finds him. self in a condition that never con fronted any other public man in the United States in all of it's history. He has thrown a scare into his Republi- can friends in this city who are mem bers of the Senate and the House of Representatives and other high offic- ials as big as an Iowa barn. They ali feel and know that he not only is do ing incalculable harm to the Republi- can party, but that he also is elimin- ating them from public life, and get ting them out of their jobs. They see the handwriting on the wall and there is a great big committee forming in Washington to go to see Roosevelt when he returns from his Western trip and tell him m plain language that he is not only playing the devil and Thomas Walker, Esq, with the prospects of the Republican party, but that he is killing himself and all Of his good friends. and that he woull better put on the soft pedal and sub- side.
 Seriously speaking, the whole truth is that the ablest politicians and statesmen in the United States, who congregate in this National Capital, have come to the conclusion that Roos evelt has been misled by coterie Of parasites and his incredible thirst for applause and power, and that he has now overriden all the decencies of friendship and honor and stands sprawling in the mire shaking his fist and bowling his rage, a spectacle to all mankind. These para sites and soreheads have not only led Roosevelt to betray friend, but have led him to be betrayed to a public scorn, which leaves this superhuman like a clown and cursing like a very drab with nothing but laughter instead of applause to follow his every action.
 CHAS. A. EDWARDS,