Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-27
BRYAN DELEGATED
TO FOLLOW It. R"
DURING CAMP |GN
The Nebraskan's Part In Battle
to Harass "BuII Moose"
TO CONFER WITH WILSON
SOON AND LAY PLANS

! TO CONFER WITH WILSON
SOON AND LAY PLANS
Taft Not Regarded As In the Race
and Little Attention viii Be Paid
to Him--5ryan viii Trail the Col
onel Through All DebatsbIe States
LA Toilette VIII Help Goad Roose-
! welt.
Sea Girt, N. j., July 25.--The lead.
1 ing question TO what is to become
of William Jennings Bryan in the Dem
ocratic national campaign has been
seemingly answered when close politi-
cal advisers of Governor Wilson let
1t be known that Bryan's assignment
for the campaign will be to worry and
harass the Bull Moose" candidate
and to follow him with goading bevy
of question marks into every debat-
able State.
The assignment of Bryan to take
care of Colonel Roosevelt Is regarded
here as happy one in which the Me-
braskan will take great joy. 1t is
known that Bryan has always regard
ed Roosevelt as trespasser upon
Democratic preserves, and the Wilson
forces expect him to make a brave
showing as defender of his party's
right to carry out in Office the things
for which Bryan stood long before
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too, would take them up.
In order to prepare Mr.. Bryan for
his excursion along the Bull Moose"
trail, Governor Wilson will hold con-
ference with him at Sea Girt shortly
after the speech of acceptance is de-
been invited to come here compared
to remain for two or three days. So
far no political visitor has been asked
to stay over night at the Little White
House" and Bryans visit In this re-
spect will be unique.
Bryan viii Prod st. r."
Bryan will urge, according to the
present plan of campaign sketched
out for him, that Colonel Roosevelt
tell just why George w. Perkins is
contributing SO largely to his cam
paign just why the Colonel did so
little with the tariff in his seven years
in office; just how the Tennessee Coal
and Iron deal came about, and how it
came that the Steel Trust maintained
so persistently its status as a good
trust" sr ia
He will urge that every item in the
Bull Moose" party's program has
long been Democratic doctrine, with
the exception of the woman suffrage
idea and the judicial recall.
Word was received here from a Wis;
itor to the Outlook Office that the
speech Colonel Roosevelt is to deliver
in accepting the nomination at Chi
cago. contains at this time 10000
words, while more are being added
every hour. Some fear was express
ed that the Colonel was planning to
speak clear up to the day of election
1t was learned that the Roosevelt plan
of campaign calls for him to be in the
field necessarily from the day OF the
Chicago Bull Moose" convention UNI
til November.
Governor Wilson's part in the pro-
gram making it Mr. Bryan's chief duty
to care for the Bull Moose" party
calls for his coming into direct clash
es with Roosevelt as little as possible
Governor Wilson wishes to make only
few set speeches during the cam
paign and to rest his case upon his
views of public questions, rather than
on personalities
oddly enough. the Democratic lead
ers counting upon the services of La
Toilette to be of great importance to
they. They do not expect La gillette
to decalre an open allegiance to the
Wilson cause. The word brought by
National Committeeman Davies from
Wisconsin is that La Toilette prefers
to stay regular in the Republican par
ty and fight out the issues from with
in.
Believes la Toilette viii Help.
But in some informal manner 1t has
been understood here that La Toilette
will camp close upon the Bull Moose"
trail and will take the field as often
as Colonel Roosevelt takes the field
He will not fight Roosevelt as Will
son adherent, but as a Regular NIL
son adherent, but as Republican Pro-
gressive who has no faith in the
Roosevelt brand of progressivism. La
Toilette, almost as much as Bryan, is
being relied on to carry the fight to
the Bull Moose" and teach him as
Senator Gore expressed it. how much
better a weapon the scimitar is than