The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-03
BRYAN FAVORED LANSING


 Friends of William J. Bryan in Washington scout the idea that there win break between President Wilson and his former Secretary of State It is said that he appointment of Robert Lansing to be secre- ,ar of State has had tendency draw the President and Mr. Bryan even closer together than ever before it is admitted that Mir. Bryan recommended the ap- pointmeut Of Mr. Lansing He called the attention of the President to Che circumstance it is said that he and his counsellor worked together in perfect har- mont for two years and he praised his successor in the strongest terms which he could command as dip- Iomat as a man and as patriotic American states man Other officials and employees of the State De partment say that very close and warm personal ,endship between sIr Bryan and Mir Lansing resulted from their association in the affairs State and that Mr. Bryan when consulted by the President as to a successor recommended his friend and associate or Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels for the place It is claimed. and. not contradcted that 1t was Mr. Bryans recommendation that turned the scales in a- yor of Mr. Lansing Correspondents of several Eastern papers agree on this. and one. writing in southern paper says that there is complete understanding oe- tween the President and the former head of the Ca5 net lie alleges thar President Wilson was at first inclined to select some well known statesman to head his Cabinet and mentions Senator Kern and Senator Owen among the number that were being considered but he says when a became known among the Caoi- net members that Mr. Bryan had spoken so highly of Mr. Lansing the sentiment was unanimous that be should get Che place.
 Louis sieboId writing in the New York World be- fore the appointment and when it was thought that someone else than Mir. Lansing would get the palce' corroborated this position saying;
 Mr. Bryan is said to have even spoken
 kind word for two men that he regards as
 available for Secretary of State, The first
 and. in fact his iavorite was Secretary of the
 Navy Daniels The other Mir Lansing
 Hence it is that the retention of Robert
 Lansing is favored by several members Of the
 Cabinet as well as a large number of party
 leaders It is mol. believed that Mir. Bryan
 would present any great opposition to the per
 nianence Of Mr Lansing. because the two men
 were intimately associated for more than two
 years.
 In this connection the followers of Mir Bry
 an express tahe most supreme confidence that
 he will be consulted by the President regarding
 an matters of party politics These men do not
 admit the possibility of the President taking
 go step of any consequence affecting what Mr.
 Bryan regards as party policy" without fully
 consulting his former Secretary Of State. The
 reasons given by them GO justify their conii-
 dence are that NIT. Bryan Is quite as important
 and influential a party leader as he was two
 weeks ago. and that the President owes it to
 him to seek bis advice and Go be guided by 1t
 to large extent.
 One of Mir Bryan's most trusted lenten-
 ants declaces that the visit of the President
 to his former foreign adviser on Friday was not
 to say "goodby" as stated. but to talk over party
 matters To ignore MT. Bryan ir such mat
 ters now according to the view of the latters
 friends would be equivalent to inviting ser
 ous split m the party