Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-01-18
BRYAN TO RUN
FOR Sen 4 TE
FROM FLORIDA
Former Secretary of State to
Oppose Senator Trammel
This Fall
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
Transferred Residence to Southern
State From Nebraska Several Years
Ago.

Washington, Jan. 1S.-William Jen-
nings Bryan, three times the Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency,
and Secretary Of State during the
first Wilson administration, will be
a candidate for the United States Sen
ate from Florida.
Information to this effect has just
been received in Washington from
those personal and political friends in
the State of Mr.. Bryan's adoption to
whom he has confided his purposes
and his political ambitions.
1t was asserted positively here yes
terday that Mr.. Bryan will enter the
Florida Democratic primary in !Au-
gust against United States Senator
Trammel and there is the utmost con-
fidence on the part of the Bryan sup
porters in the State that he will win
Already, it is stated, there is we'll
organized movement in Florida back
of Mr.. Bryan, movement particlpat-
ed in by some Of the leading Demo-
Gratis of Jacksonville and North
Florida as well as by party leaders
in the far southern end of the State.
Even so, Mr.. Bryan will rely pri-
marily upon his personal campaign
and not upon any friendly organiza-
ton in his behalf or upon such or
ganized opposition to Mr.. Trammel as
already exists in the State. He eX-
pects to take the stump, probably late
in the spring, and to go into every
county from Tallahassee to Miami. j..
He will duplicate IN the matter OF
energetic campaigning the perform
ance of Sidney J. Cats, who captured
the Governorship some years ago by
a canvass which extended virtually to
every crossroad in the State and which
nvercame the united organization op-
position of the party.
Several years a"o Mr.. BRYAN for
mally transferred his citizenship from
Nebraska to Florida. Earlier than
that he had taken up winter resi-
dence in Miami Both he and Mrs.
BRYAN became so attached to Florida
as a delightful nlace to live that they
decided to sell their home at Fairvlew.
near Lincoln (Neb.). and to remove
permanently to Florida.
It was doubted at the time how
ever, whether for purely political rca-
sons the Cnmmoner would not Keep
his citizenship in Nebraska where he
still publishes his magazine and where
he still has a powerful following.
While this was being debated among
the friends of the former Secretary of
State, he withdrew entirely from Ne
braska and announced his intention
of becoming a voter in Florida.
There was a suspicion entertained
on the part of many Democratic
politicians in Florida that Mr.. Bryan,
in becoming citizen OF the State
had more in mind than the calm of
Florida climate and that soon or
later he would ask for Senatorial
nomination. It was even believed in
some quarters, that Mr.. Bryan might
enter the contest for the Senate then
being waged by Senator Fletcher and
Mr. Cats.
However, the new Floridian felt
that it wnnld be premature for him
to ask political favor at the hands OF
a State in which he had lived for so
short time. He is said to have told
friends somewhat later that this was
his feeling. aside from the fact that
Mr.. Bryan had then and still has high
regard for Senator Fletcher And IT
is morally certain that if Bryan had
gone into the fight two years ago he
would have drawn more heavily from
the Fletcher forces than from the
Cats camp, with the result that Cats
probably would have been elected.
There is said to be very consider
able group of Florida Democratic
leaders who are opposed to the re-elec-
tion of Senator Trammel and who
would welcome a candidate with whom
they had a, fair chance to defeat the
incumbent.