The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-04-12
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Especial Correspondence to the Citizen.l
Washington, April 8. 1912.

States who love VIM. / Bryan and have
the highest regard for him politically and
! personally. There is also no denying
the fact that he Is entitled to the friend.
ship of all these citizens of the United
States. His opinion goes very far with
them, because they believe honestly, and
have reason for their belief, that he is an
unselish patriot who has labored con-
sistently for the good of the people of
this country. There are thousands and
hundreds of thousands of men in this
country who are unSelfish Democrats,
who have been listening for some sug-
geStion from Colonel Bryan as to whom
he tavors as the next nominee for the
Democratic party for President He has
never announced himself in so many
words. and thousands are sul hungering
10 hear from him. because they believe
in his sagacity and his Democracy and
they are ready to follow him TO any eX-
tent to nominate the man that he favorS.
While Colonel Bryan has not vet come
out in so many words and announced his
choice of the man who should be nom
mated for the Presidency at the National
Convention, which is to be held in Bal
timore on the 25th, OF next Iune,
llCNClluClCSS, lG IldS llOlNdlGd very
clearly where he stands Every Demo
Crat in this country knows that Colonel
Bryan is progressive Democrat, and
the vast majority of Democrats and citi-
zens OF this country agree with that pro-
gressive idea o; his. 1t is a significant
fact that ever since the dinner that was
given to Mr.. Bryan iii his home city Of
Lincoln, Nebraska, on the occasion of
his fifty second birthday, that two of his
most intimate friends. men who have
stood by him to the utter exclusion of
all other men, should go home to their
native States and Immediately announce
the fact that they were for the Honor
able Champ Clark for the nomination
for the Presidency.
All Democrats i'll this country will rea-
lie how significant is this fact when
mention the names of Senator Elect
Ollie NJ. James, of Kentucky, and Geo.
Frederick Williams, of Massachusetts,
as the two meu who are very intimate
friends of Colonel Bryan, who immedi-
ately upon their return from this Bryan
birthday dinner to their native States,
announced that they were for the Hon.
Champ Clark for the Presidency.
Whether or not these two intimate
friends had a silent whisper from their
ertswhile chief and Democratic leader IN
this country, Colonel William Jennings
Bryan, dependent, sayeth not, bat it GER
tainly looks very significant, and If the
readers OF this poor correspondence will
take the tip from an old newspaper cor
respondent, who has been in close con-
tact with politicians all of his life, they
will come to the conclusion, as he has,
that Mr.. Bryan's choice for President is
the Hon. Champ Clark.
For a man who has been absolutely
opposed to nearly everything that Theo-
dore Roosevelt has ever done or said
in the past fifteen years, for the simple
reason that | knew him at close quarters
and sized him up for what he really is,
it is rather remarkable that at this late
day, | am in absolute accord with the
former President of the United States.
Since his announcement of his candidacy
for the Presidency and his statement
that all OF the common people were for
him, as if he expected every body to
kow tow to him and say to him: my
dear, Mr. Roosevelt, here is the nomina-
ton on a silver platter" and since abso-
lutely the contrary has confronted this
warrior in buckram, he has been bowling
mad and has been hurling his anathemas
at everything in sight. He is mad clean
through and is calling everybody all of
the names that the newspapers will print,
and the Lord knows how many names
he has called them that they won't print.
AS | said before. absolutely agree with
him in his estimate of the Republican
politicians and their methods. He says
that he has been swindled and robbed in
all of the primaries that have been held
up to the present time. He says that
the Republican politicians are robbers
and thugs and thieves, and highbinders,
and every known adjective that can be
applied to the undesirable citizens, he
has given to the militant Republican
politicians, and, therefore, absolutely
agree with Mr.. Roosevelt and he abso-
lutely correct in every particular apper-
tanning to those aforesaid politicians do
not mean that every man who is a Re-
publican, necessarily comes in contact
with the definition of Mr. Roosevelt, but
| mean that he is correct when he says
that the aforesaid Republican politicians
are absolutely guilty of all of the crimes
that he imputes to them. They have
been treating the Democratic party in
that same way ever since | can remem-
Der ANYTHING about politics, and although
they elevated him to very high position
to which he was never entitled, vet at
this late day he has discovered his error
in believing them white-souled saints and
dotted on them because thev were giving
him what he wanted. Now that he
finds out that he is not getting what he
wants, he is mad through and through,
and is willing to use all of his strenuous
propenslties for tearing down things and
playing the iconoclast in ripping the
whole Republican party up the back, and
this simply because he followed the adj
vice of a few sore heads and disap4
pointed politicians in the Republican
party, and he finds himself in condition
that has never confronted any other pub
lie man in the United States in all of its
history. He has thrown scare into his
Republican friends in this CITY, who are
members of the Senate and the House
OF Representatives and other high Of
hcial positions as big as an Iowa barn.
They all feel and know that he not only
is doing ncalculable harm to the Repub.
lican party, but that he is also eliminat.
ing them from public life, and getting
them out of their Jobs. They see the
handwriting on the wall and there is a
great big committee forming in Wash
ington TO 60 to see Roosevelt when he
returns from his Western trip and tell
him in plain language that he not only
is playing the devil and Thomas
! Walker, Esquire, with the prospects OF
/ the Republican party, but that he is