The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-02-28
CLARK WOULD HAVE
BEEN HEARST'S CATSPAW

The following from tSavoyard, :"
one of the leading writer's and best
posted men in the country-a man
whose daily letters appear in the big
gest papers of the United States,
gives a description of relations of
Wilson and Bryan and the incidents
that led up to their present posi-
tons that is more accurate and in
teresting than anything that has
been printed on that line lately.
No Parallel
Il have been Fostering my erudi-
ton to find parallel for the rela-
ton existing between Woodrow Will
son and William J. Bryan. | have
drawn on my knowledge of ancient
and modern history and all without
avail. Sometimes | have found cir
cumstances that appeared similar,
but no one of them precisely fits the
case. Here is Bryan, three times
commander of. the democratic squad,
serving as subordinate to a man who
never supported him.
4Mr. Bryan is a great big man. |
did not realize it until January
1912. At the Shoreham hotel in this
town January of that year the
members OF the democratic national
committee met to select a place and
a time for the national convention.
All the daughters of Moab in the
democratic party, especially the
yallers,' and all the children of the
PhilistineS in that party, especially
the protectionists, were agin Wood
row Wilson. That was manifest IT
was brazen.
Measured Bryan With Their Own
Yardstick
There were SWarms of the bench
men of privilege about Levi Morton's
tavern that bitter cold day when the
SNOW was knee-deep outside. We
Wilson men hear this from the chill
dren of Cain: Wait. Tomorrow We
will spring the Joline letter, and tina
will cook the goose of your school
master' And sure enough the!
printed the Joline letter in which Mr.
Wilson had employed some Language
not at all plimentary to Mr.. Bry
thought it had made Wilson's cak'
dough. and certainly w. R. Hears
proclaimed that it had settled TIL
thing and made the nomination o
Wilson impossible.
E+Now in those days were folk
who did not know. They We're play
ing Bryan for a little man with
mighty heap Of contemplate vanity
Hating Bryan as the devil hates hol
water, they wanted him. implore
aim, to pull their scorching chest
uuts out OF the fire. They represent
ed to him that the nomination c
Wilson would be a cruel reflection o
aim that would divorce him from tn
political business. In their rance
against Wilson they sought to enlis
in their cause man for whom the
had less tolerance than they had fc
Wilson, if that were possible, an
perhaps it was not. Greeks bes
gifts, now, as then.
well matters and things wei
On. In a soap box primary Cham
Clark carried Illinois, and to foil
who see but do not observe, ever
thing looked bright for Cham
Right then and there my lovable o
friend Champ did the most indi
Greet thing even he ever achieve
and that is saying much-he sent
congratulatory telegram to the chi
Of the 'Yallers.' and Hearst spres
Il clear across the continent in va
Ter headlines | then knew Chan
Clarks goose was cooked, and l sa
stood as good a chance to be pc
rs Champ did to be president
''Well, the convention assemble
Mr.. Bryan was the biggest man in
He could have nominated Chan