The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-04
lone HAS BRYAN,
| OTHER ROOSEVELT
Two Colonies Causing Their
Respective Parties Much
PerplcHity.
NEBRASkAN A Mel ACE
Leaders Realize That He Will Be
Power in Campaign OF
Democracy.
NEBRAskAN A MENACE

| Washington. January 3.-It the Ra-
| publican national party has Colonel
Roosevelt on it's hands. the Democratic
national party is similarly afflicted or
| blessed. Just as the reader chooses to
View ii, in Colonel Bryan. The Roose-
Welt folks at tho recent meeting OF the
! Republican National Committee in this
city, We're defeated. Arc Colonel Bryan
| ana his friends in the Democratic Ma
| tlonnl Committee TO DC defeated In the
meeting to be held here on Monday
next?
| 1t was learned on indubitablc au-
thority that Colonel Bryan. fresh from
his trip to Jamaica. is to come mere
| and TO precipitate in the meeting %
the Democratic National Committee Il
fight TO compel the committee to pass
Il resolution calling for presidential
preference primaries in all the States.
AT present six States--New Jersey Ne
braska, North Dakota, Oregan. Texas
and WyominE--havc adopted the pres
identiai primary. In each of these Il
voter mas the right to declare at the
polls his preference for candidate.
| and the action of the majority binds
the delegates from the State
Democratic nutional committeeman
mere In the confidence of Colonel Bryan
point out that in the presidential pref
erencc primary to be held in Nebraska
! - : S-'i > v" "a Stute, Bryan VIII UNI
Goubtsdly have the delegates TO the
national convention. 4 year ago Bryan
was In bad repute In his own State
with the Democratic organization for
nolting the Democratic candidate for
Governor his old friend and constant
champion. Mayo James c. Dahlman
Of Omaha Bryan did not like Dahl
mans attitude on the liquor question,
and his bolt led to Dahlman's defeat
ell
nave returned TO their first love, and
bryan Is said to DC as popular at the
moment in his own State as In pre-
vious years.
Quite number of Democratic ma
tional committeeman have declared for
a universal presidential preference pri-
mary III the country, with certain con-
ditions affixed Among those commit
teenen are Urey Woodson, OF Ken
lucky; William =. Sapp, OF Kansas:
+. 4. Lynch, of Minnesota; NJ ]. Wade
Ut Iowa, and Thomas ~ Brown, of
Vermont. E. L. Jones. OF Maine, Is
opposed 10 direct primaries for any
office, adding that II is rich mans
game. National Committeeman NJ a.
Miller. Of Oregon; Josephus Daniels,
OF North Carolina Robert 8 Huds-
peth, of New Jersey; Frank A Nabek-
or, of Utah: Alvah Adams. of Colorado
and y. /. Hall. OF Nebraska. favor di-
rect primaries all down the line, from
the highest to the lowest office in the
country w. II. Dunphy. OF Washing
ton, Is not so outspoken. and neither
is Edwin ~ Newman, OF the District
of Columbia.
Nevertheless. Bryan Is to make his
night before the national committee at
Its meeting here on Monday next. He
is TO enter the committee as the proxy
Tor his Old friend. DR.. Hall, of Nebraska
The Missouri Democrats friendly to
Speaker Clark for President have given
up all thought OF up residential p:ef-
erence primary in that State in the
spring. The State. through q State
convention. has declared for Ex-Gover-
nor Folk for President. Speaker Clark
presided at this convention, and Sena-
tor Reed and other Missouri Democrats
believe Mr.. Clark should accept the YER
dict fthat convention. Another point
OF objection Is that presidential pref,
erence primary would cost the Demo-
cratic organization OF the State some
thing like $4,000. The heads of that
organization say that they have no
such money to eNpend for such a pur-
pose.
Colonel Bryan is to be comba ted
stoutly In his fight In the COMMITTEES
meeting. Many OF the Democratic ma
! tlohal committeeman object TO presiden-
tial preference primaries, principally
because OF the vast expense involved.
Should Bryan win his fight he Is to in
troauce another contest or similar ma e.
nitudc In the committee on resolutions
! OF the Democratic National Convention.
| II is to be ap lank calling for national
prohibition.
Colonel Bryans opponents to thts
measure do not feel that the LIQUOR
I question should be made q national is
cue, believing 1t to be one to be de-
termined by States or local comrnuni-
/ ties Colonel Bryan was not marked
in his advocacy of national prohibition
until Immediately after the result of
/ the presidential campaign OF 1908.
| when Bryan's friends insisted that the
I antaGonistic attitude OF tho brewers
of Indiana and Missouri especially,
contributed to his defeat They recall
In previous years several personal
conversations of Colonel Bryan all 70
the effect that "a Democrat cannot be
prohibitionist." There are Democra
TIC national committeeman here VIVA
insist that Bryan is not really in fay-
or OF plank calling for national nro-
Eib!tion. but that should he Introduce
one in the committee on resolution,
or the national convention, N would
J be entirely for the purpose of creating
mischief,
These Democrats have thought Bryar
would quit his activities after IN. cam
: paign OF 1908. He then had got n