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| washington Correspondence of the
Boston Transcript
Mr.. Bryans political speaking tour
has caused a wagging of heads, if not
shivers of apprehension, in the Demo-
cratic ranks. Not that Washington is
worrying over the absence of the Sec
rotary of State, for the business of the
department is being administered ad-
| mirably by man named Wilson, but
because the Secretary's Endorsements
run counter to the leanings of his
chief. In permitting Mr.. Bryan to
speak for Glynn and Gerard in New
York, for the Taggart machine ticket
in Indiana and the liquor ticket
in Ohio the President has surprised
and grieved many of his warmest ad-
mirers throughout the country, who
had hoped that he would stand pat on
his determination to do nothing to aid
in the election of men he believes to
| be unfit to represent the Democratic
party.
Bryan in New York.
1t was an open secret in Washington
that President Wilson viewed coldly
the denomination of Governor Glynn
and the ambition of Ambassador Ger
ard to be a United States senator
Both stood for Tammany, and while
the President would not go so far as
to attack the nominees of his own par
ty in New York, it became evident that
he had no sympathy with any candi
date in the Empire State who failed to
make reputation of Tammany a part
of his campaign platform. Mr.. Bryan
has spoken in behalf of both Glynn
and Gerard. Glynn was a Bryan man
in 1896. as was Charles F. Murphy,
and stood for everything that Wood
row Wilson did not Glynn and
Murphy always have stood for Bryan,
whose relations with Tammany have
been hundred times closer than those
of Champ Clark with the Ryan Bel
mont combination which Bryan de-
nounced so effectively at Baltimore. If
Mr.. Bryan represents Wilson III his
speech making in New York he has
hurt the President in the estimation of
men whose good opinion is worth hav-
ing. If he does not represent the Pres
ident he can do the Democratic party
no good.
Endorses the Taeeart Machine Also.
Mr., Wilson carefully avoided an
Endorsement of the Taggart State ma
chine ticket in Indiana when he wrote
a letter to Senator John w Kern
warmly advocating the election of
Senator Shively and the Democratic
congressman from Indiana His omis-
sion of any words of praise for the
State ticket was intentional and ev-
erybody in Indiana knew it, So strong
is the feeling against this ticket, so
fearful are the Wilson Democrats of
the political danger of doing or saying
anything to help ii in the direction that
the Democratic congressman from In
diana have been praying that Con-
gress would not adjourn Now that adj
journment is at hand they say TO their
friends that they shall not go home
for the campaign, for fear that they
will be dragged into an unwilling sup
port of the Taggart nominees. Mr..
Bryan has gone into Indiana and in
dorsed the whole Democratic outfit.
Liquor Man Favored in Ohio.
Ohio is having the fight of her life
ever the liquor question The Pro-
gressives have pledged their man to
state prohibition. The Republican can
has come out for prohibition also. The
Democrats. as usual, are for the liquor
traffic and Governor Cox has the ac-
tive support of the brewers and the
distillers. In fact, the Democratic plat
form contains a unique plank piedg-
ing the party if successful to enact no
legislation restrictive of the liquor
traffic. Mr.. Bryan, a no-liquor man
inf Of fa iaic ha
into Ohio and indorsed Governor Cox.
| Roger Sullivan Too Much.
The Roger Sullivan case in Illinois,
where Bryans ancient enemy is the
Democratic nominee for United States
senator. has been too much for the
SecretarSs of State. While indorsing his
friend Glynn in New York, the Taggart
machine men in Indiana and the rum
candidate in Ohio, he draws the line
on Sullivan and is opposing him. He
and Sullivan always have fought each
other and the regularity which appeals
to Mr.. Bryan in the three other States
cuts no figure in Illinois.
But Mr.. Sullivan is not wholly de-
serted by the forces of the Admins
tration. Postmaster General Burleson
will go out into Illinois to speak for
him on the 2Sth instant. 1t is unoer-
stood that other high Government Of
ficials will join Mr.. Bryan in the cam
paign against him little later. That
is to say, the White House is not sup
porting Sullivan, but the President
permits his Cabinet officers to help him
II they choose to do so. Thus the Illi-
nois campaign will present the unpre-
cedented spectacle of two orators from
the Wilson Cabinet, one urging the
election of Sullivan and the other
shouting for his defeat. According to
Burleson, Mr.. Sullivan is needed in the
United States Senate as a supporter