The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-12
BROTHER CHARLEY
IN FRONT RANK
Pertinacious Kinsman of
Great Commoner Is on
the Ticket
NEPHEW ALSO NAMED
Politics His Delight and the
Inside Work Hits His
Great Genius

number three" Is a favorile one
with the Bryan family. Three times
did william Jennings Bryan run for
the presidency, and each time was de-
featcd. Three times did his brother,
Charles Wayland Bryan, run for the
democratic nomination for governor
Of Nebraska. and on the third try
he was successful. The third time
was on July ls, when he was en-
tered In a field of four candidates.
and led all of them in the poll, not
wthstanding that one OF them was
the head Of the Nebraska farm bu-
reau federation and a real dirt
farmer.
While In Nebraska c. w. Bryan
Will head the democratic ticket az
the party candidate for governor,
mp IN Minnesota his only son, Silas
l.. Bryan Is the party nominee for
Lieutenant governor. Capt. Sias was
one OF the first TO graduate from the
officers training camp at Fort Smell
ling, Mimi, and after he had served
in the trenches OF France he went
back TO Minnesota, married the girl
settled down to practice law. That
was three years ago. now he Is car
rying the democratic flag In the sec.
Ond-line trenches as its candidate for
second place
Charles w. Bryan has been the
stormy petrol Of democratic politics
in Nebraska ever since w. j. Bryan
and Senator Hitchcock. in 1910,
. parted company over the liquor
question, In the numerous battles
between the two II has been Charles
W. Bryan who did the planning and
the mining and sapping, Just as, pre-
viously, he was the closest friend and
adviser OF his brother in his presi-
Dental campaigns. He has a gen
Jus for politics, and the inside work
Of the game has been his chief de-
light. 1t Is revealing no secret TO
say that It was his suggestion that
led w. j. Bryan to introduce the
famous resolution In the Baltimore
convention pledging that body not to
support a Wall street candidate, n
move that admittedly forced the
nomination OF Woodrow Wilson.
At the last national convention he
was an alternate from Nebraska, aft
er having routed the Hitchcock fore
es In the fight TO control the regular
delegation. Hitchcock men have re-
peatedly declared that It was &C. w"
who prevented a reconciliation of
the two chieftans. When in 1918,
Brother Charley" after a success
ful term as mayor of his home city,
where partisan politics and partisan
labels are unknown in municipal
elections, filed as candidate for gov
ernor the Hitchcock men dug up
Keith Neville, western Nebraska
fnllIiDu9tra anH HafaafnH him ", tha
4, primary. Two years later Neville
again heat him.
Peace Made With Hitchcock.
This year Bryan changed his tao
tics, He let Il be known that IL Sem
ator Hitchcock would pledge himself
TO support enforcement Of the Vol
stead law all would be forgiven. The
senator did so, and n little later II
was announced that party leaders
had Joined in a demand for slate
that contained both their names,
along with candidates for two other
offices. This led to loud cry from
those left on the slate, and some of
the illtchcosk lieutenants flatly re-
fused TO support Bryan, saying he
was trying to gain the nomination by
attaching himself to the senator's
political coat-tails. In the end II
came out that while the senator felt
he could be nominated without the
Bryan support. he felt he needed 1t
In the election, and so the slate went
through.
Meanwhile Bryan has been IN the
thick of things political He found
In the spring OF 1921 no one IN LIN
coin TO run on platform calling for
municipal coal-yard, a municipal
ice plant and a public market, 30 he
sfiled himself He was elected mem
ber OF the commission, but instead OF
naming him mayor the other COM
missioners selected one OF their
number. He says this was because To-
cal business interests interfered. He
was named street commissioner
blutfed the ice company into reduc-
Ing rates and, with his coal yard, he
says, he saved consumers $l5O,OOO
last winter.
Charles w. Bryan has not the ora
torical gifts OF his brother, but he
can make fairly good speech, is
brtmful OF ideas and OF fight. He
says he will make the campaign on
Newberryism in Nebraska, basing II
on the money spent by the rich man
named by the republicans TO oppose
him. He will also attack the civil
administrative code and republican
code and republican extravaganza
and high taxes.
Bryan Is 55 years old, has been
Business manager of the Commoner
for 20 years, operated two farms
close to Lincoln, and lives in a mod
est home close by where his brother
began his political career. His fam
lily consists of AIRS. Bryan and
daughter. Mary Louise, and his SON
Silas, named after the father OF w.
j. and c. w. Bryan.