Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-07-10
NEW BRYAN VERSION.
New Light on Bryan Incident is Dis
covered in His Home State.


water; tell me about II. lie talK-
ed in his sleep for a whole hour re-
Gently"
There is new version of the Bryan
of the Bryan incident that have not
seen il print, but that is passing from
mouth to mouth in Nebraska, where
the friends of the Democratic Senator
Hitchcock are sore with weary wait
ing for federal appointments. The
Senator and Mr. Bryan started out in
political partnership some years ago,
as | hear the local situation explain
ed, and very much along parallel
with our Wisconsin statesman MI. La
Toilette, Mr.. Bryan has been found
different master, unless the adherent
was willing to take the foOtman's
seat, alone, at the back of the convey
ance and mount and dismOunt to open
and shut the door when hidden. Sc
natOr Hitchcock dominates the Omaha
World Herald, and along with criti-
cisms of Bryan for deserving the pre-
sident at critical time, the promise
comes through it's columns, now, from
day to day. that the faithful are to
come into their kingdom, because the
ex-secretary can no longer hold back
Nebraska patronage against the De
mOcratic senator.
This is merely preliminary as il
Illustration that there are local condit-
ions congenial TO the circulation of
gossip unfriendly to Mr.. Bryan. Here
is the story A man who told me
several weeks ago and assured me
that as long as May he had predicted
Mr., Bryan's retirement from the cab
met before July 1, tells me that he
based prediction on gossip current a
mong the friends Of Senators Ollie
James, Trey WOodson and other Ken
lucky Democratic leaders, who had
in the past been reckOned as Bryan
supporters, but as | suspected, fell
out with Bryan at the Baltimore Con
vention. In fact, know at least one
prominent Kentucky delegate who
told me, after that convention. that
Bryan tried to force conditions there
that would compel his own nomina-
ton, and my friend denounced him
rOundly Another acquaintance,
Nebraska man, says that he heard
Senator James denounce Bryan pri-
vately, at Baltimore, as "a traitor. -
SO there has been friction of long
standing. One man says it dates, es-
specially, back to one of Mr. Bryan's
campaigns, that of 1905, as | remem
Der, when his managers demanded
very large contribution from the Ken
lucky distillers that was not forth
coming
PROHIBITION AND DEMOCRACY.
Now, coming to the Nebraska story:
1t is explained that Mr.. Bryan's pro-
hibitiOn prOnOunciamentos have been
very unpalatable to the Kentucky
statesman, and that the matter came
to a focus, not many week S ago, in
the presence of the president. il not
actually in the White House, when
Bryan threatened to go into Kentucky
and preach prohibition. Senator Jam
es, who is a giant physically. and he
almost came to personal encounter,
and were intercepted by friends
WoodsOn declared that if such a thing
happened he would follow Bryan and
publicly denounCe him Whatever this
tale may lack in accuracy of details,
it is not impossible that it may have
been an important factor in the recent
Eruption in the Wilson cabinet. Ii
so, the possibilities of pretty bad
riot III the Democratic party over the
liquor question are toreshadowed and
MIR. Bryan = erratic political genius
would be very dangerous to the party
If his fatuous espOusal of sloppy
peace policy had not already worked
his own destruction. Asst now stands,
Mr.. Wilson, has. probably, gotten rid
of hopelessly incompetent Secretary
of State, and the prohibition question
at the same time. kentucky will be-
saved and yariagated side issues.
sowu by cabinet busy body, Will add
to, rather than obscure, the lncreas
ing popularity of the administration.
HOW " AIRS FpI ! NM XtsANs
1t would seem as if every clear
thinker must be learning some lessons
from the peace propagandists like
Jane Adams aud the latest recruit
Mi Bryan. 1t requires onlya remin-
iscent survey OF the world since the
high hopes inspired 10y the first inter
national peace conference st the
Hague, to the present almost world
wide cataclysm of war, to shake the
tirme est faithin our much Wanted adj
vance in civilization and toward the