Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-01
.BRYiH'S 1920 PLAN
PUZZLE TO DEMOCRATS
Leaders Unable "a Fathon His
Purposes or Discover His
Choice for Presidency.

Washington. Jan 1.-The political
plans. purposes ard prospects ol William
] BryAa have he,n matter If wider
speculation and norc disqutcted comment
It'll y Ash.nEtaa for the last IQ daYS or
two weeks than havc ail other political
davc.onmcrtS combined Akhaugf evc~s
effort has bccn rnadt II fathon his dc
s Crs. nct~ndv here appears u know F." hat
hc is np to
Al that rAn BE put down With any
degree 7t cc-taIutv is thet he Is been
invited to ~ t3cIpAte be jackson Das
dinner IN II a~huEton on January ; hc
has scrertcd that nyltatIon ho vii MAKE
S genuine frlaa speech
Nothing else + positively known about
Mir b-vau prog-an. b5t very great
deal 81 hope IS being entertained THAT hc
NlIl sav something tio1 Hll give 80 atIa
comfort IL ccrte,1 5ndvi5Ha. political
boouss he asowed eand.dates and
those 90 The verge os syuwai alike a.
trusting that ~ BRYAN. even # he calls
20 names. .av down >aua speci0ea-
tI0ns regarding the nexr Ilenac-al-
candidate u wnics oagG oi them n.af
measure up Nl9t II laohed Tor i
description az the KIND of man whom the
Comnoney pgll support for the l'resi-
lgLlr8 ttt1sCF fl4tfi& y i3lt4 vii IL s@}SaAA
bodv other hall himself
There have been repeated lntimadons
here Iar souie time that if MIR BRYAN
should make up his nlad that he himself
cannot D. nominated j. Will come forna
At some clIueal stage of the campaign for
an Nacreudcut candidate or pcraape Tor
some man VINO had not hitherto been
seriously considered i ts saiI tiat ne
has one or two u such men ID mind It
tins moment and thaf they Do rot alto
cether qualify as straight Administration
supporters
II would be interesting to know whom
j, Is ,bat 'ir. Bryan is considering ses the
best possible Democratic let next year.
but he has ever called ANY name, -
that cor necu0n II h.. been u stncte-i
confiteIoe Nome oi the DcmocIatIc
leader herc pretends 70 know the
identity q his choice
Il IS said. however. thar he IS not
LncIninc 10 any OF the more widely talked
Ut candidates. The same thing VAS true
III i9f2at Baltimore H. raa not for Clark
nor Underwood noI flr Harmon, the
three leading figures 81 the beginning of
The Baltimore convention lie came o {
for Wilson who at the outset did not ap-
pear 70 have chance
II = feared IN political CIRCLES here
that when the showdown comes Mr.
Bryan wlli be found 4cclaHminq some
such candidate AZ senator PomcTene, oi
Ohio, Or Senator Owen oi Oklahoma.
or Governor Cox oi Ohio or Vice -Prcsi-
dent Marshall II has been intimated in
public that Bis real choice is Herbert
Hoover but dIlgenf inquiry among his
rlcud- brings ~ confirmation of that
IEo may snclnc e. Mr. Hoover. hut The
latter Il In 30 sense a Bryan type of
public man lIe has rendered ~ con
spiruous party service and Is not even
q confessed Democrat
Perhaps the most important hing
about the Bryan reappearance H actiye
politics y the fact that lie il not being
dcrided il any official quarter here lie
Is bciHg taken very seriously The mdi-
cation that the President viii never
again be able t. assume the active lead
ership of his party, a leadership which
for the last seven years has been SUI
premt Glvcs Mr. Bryan an opportunity
To come back As powerful factor IL
Democratic ranks.
He is coming back, moreover. and APP
parently means to have an important il
hot decisive hand il the party sffairs
81 the future And he ia doing il in his
owp nay keeping his friends as we'll Is
those who arc hostile ID hIs leadership
guessing a. % his purposes.