The Washington times., 1925-02-23

FORM an interesting cHnpCeT ~
the great national drama that
unfoLded IN the first tICe1tty
gears of this century. Mr.. White.
dealing With both Nth kindly
get unbiased frankness, tells OF
the relations of the ttOo men IN
this issue. Another ipstGlLme1tt
tCiu be published neat Monday
Colonel House, upon meeting
Wilson in 1912, was convinced
that here was the leader of the
evolutionary movement in the
Democratic party. Without con-
sulting Wilson, House went
straight to William J. Bryan,
who for sixteen years had been
voicing the new creed in the
Democratic party and so had
become the national leader of
the liberal faction in that party.
House had supported Bryan;
Bryan trusted House.
. He spent several hours with
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan, telling
them about the career, the per-
sonality, and the inspiration of
Woodrow Wilson. House made
a deep impression. Naturally
House did not tell Bryan that
Wilson was Houses choice as
a new leader in their common
cause, but he planted in Bryah's
heart a trust in Wilson. Then
the Harvey break with Wilson
became public. It was an af-
front; deep, grievous affront
to the conservative forces in the
Democratic party. These forces
had been led by Grover Cleve-
land, and in 1904 they gathered
under Alton B. Parker's banner.
This conservative group hoped
again to control the party in
1912. It's members at first
were not definitely opposed to
Wilson.
Men like Harvey had felt that
they could take him as a just
compromise. But when he broke
with Harvey, and when his
bureau made capt.
tai out of that break, his ac-
ton enraged the conservatives.
seeing the break with
Harvey, rejoiced. Wilson, sup
ported by Harvey, and through
Harvey by the Morgans, and
through the Morgans by the
thing which Bryan called Wall
Street, was sticking hard in
craw.
The "Cocked-Hat" Letter.
When Wilson broke with Har-
7ey, that impeachment was gone.
Then into the wool of the cloth
woven by the fates came Adrian
4. Joline, whom Wilson had de-
eated for trustee of Princeton in
he spring of 1910. Mr.. Joline
with a letter from VIII
on. written in 1907, denouncing
3ryan. It was a letter that be-
anne famous in the campaign as
lie ACINCA8 AA hACA
wilson expressed the pious hope
hat something dignified and ef-
ective might be done ito knock
Bryan once and for all into a
The letter was given out evil
Iently to hurt Governor Wilson
WITH the Bryan faction In the
Democratic party. But the very
act that it was given out from
hat Estate known as Wall Street,
o hurt a liberal, strengthened
3ryan's feeling that Wilson was
,enuine. House, being belfast at
he time. sent Josephus Daniels to
zee BRYAN and explain the JolIne
.nisode Bryan. being a I1beral
'irst and human being some
rhat later, rose magnanimously.
January 8, 1912, before the guests
assembled at a Jackson Day DAN
Iuet in Washington, Bryan met
Wilson for the first time. shook
lands with him. put an arm
around Wilson and gave him the
Bryan benediction!
The support Of Bryan put more
igor into the Wilson presidential
,andidacy than had all the out
.iders. cohorts, and heralds In halL
year. blowing their paper horns
through their paper organizations.
Harvey. House, Bryan, Joline,
ZACH woven with the other united
q make an anchor rope that
many storms in coming
lays and years.
House Left Scene
Just before the Democratic ma
tional convention assembled In
late June at Baltimore, Bryan
sent to all the candidates a let
ter protesting against the nolni-
nation of Judge Alton B. Parker.
IN ayowed conservative, as tenn
norarv chairman of the conyen-
tion-a nomination that had been
made by the Democratic national
which had held over
from the Parker campaign in
1904.
Bryan's letter was one OF those
delightful Bryanesque things;
uuixotic, irrelevant more or less.
and highly improbably if not alb
soIuteIy impossible. But it had
a righteous spirit behind 1t; VIII
son was the only candidate OF
first magnitude who Endorsed the
Bryan position. That strength
ened the anchor rope which had
been woven at the Jackson Day
banquet in January from strands
which House made, strands which
Harvey made. strands which 10
line made. all unwittingly, in
other days and other years.
The Baltimore convention as
eemhled. Bryan. in alpaca coat.
white vest, clerical tie, with thin
ming hair above his dome Xix"
head. still youthful, still carrying
the air of the Boy Orator of the
platte who came out of the West
in 1895, was leading rather gro
tesquely the forces of insurgent
Iibara liSpo i'm the convention. At