Show I Efforts to Minimize Bryans Bryan's Strength I IJ J In His Party Well-Meant Well But Futile r pHE HE Democratic argonaut from Baltimore who attempts TRE j to induce members o of his own or other parties to believe that at Mr rr Bryan is no longer leader of or the Democratic party and that tt the the progressive movement has bas outgrown presumes too much upon the credulity of his bis hearers bearers The da days s 's when the re returned returned returned re- re turned traveler could entertain and astonish his bis townspeople by wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- stories stones of what he had bad seen in the city have passed eliminated by the telegraph and the printing press The Utah delegate ate to Baltimore who reports upon his return home that Mr ir Wilson would have been nominated if Mr Bryan had not noc been there at all should make a trip to toV Washington V ton and convince Speaker Clark of that fact The indignation of the latter over o the tho part palt the Nebraskan played in bending the convention to his desires was heated and we wc have no doubt the speaker and his managers are better informed of the damage Mr Jr Bryan did their cause than thau members members members mem mem- bers of tho the Utah delegation could possibly be despite their prominence in the convention William Jennings Bry Bryan n was the tIle dominant figure of the Democracy's Democracy's racy's qua quadrennial gathering wrote the platform and selected the can can- an- an Had Speaker Clark CI not remained indifferent h T II and quiescent Wilen Aryan callCU upon aim ui to iu Lo am in nl JUdge Parker ranger for A for J tho ulu temporary chairmanship there would woul have been a different result Most of the correspondents who were close observers of tho the trend of affairs b believe that the Nebraskan rather favored Clark over Wilson Vilson especially as ns the associations of the latter were with those who had always fought Bryan and th the Bryan policies The Tho amazing and abrupt change of heart beart on the professors professor's part and his bis frank frnnk statement to Mr Bryan Bran that he lie would be the gutters gutter's latter's man established re-established the balance between the professor and hi his chief opponent But Blit when Speaker Clark chose to antagonize Mr Ir Bryan Blynn ather Bather than to incur the opposition of Murphy Ryan and Belmont Delmont his doom was sealed scaled and Professor Wilson was as actually tho the nominee nominee as he be was several days later when the convention ratified the Bryan an choice The rhe Democratic desire desir to eliminate Bryan Blan an and Brynn sm and to take advantage of V Wilsons Wilson's lson's al conservative ve record to draw all conservatives conservatives conserva consent tives to him is well understood and it testifies to their political fore fore- sight But the attempt will be a failure because the Nebraskan will wiIl not permit it The professor is Bryans Bryan's man else he would not bs ba the nominee He has bas made the Bryan policies his and 1 he is pledged to their enforcement if the impossible should happen and he be be chosen President ent Delegate Russells Russell's efforts are arc well-meant well and are inspired by uy political good sense But Bul the facts as well as the logic of the o situation situation situa situa- lua tion arc are against him 1 1 1 v 1 E MIGHT a add d that Mrs Ir Wilson does docs not M Mrs rs Wilson Yv smoke a pipe never drinks absinthe to excess and that her success at poker has Does Not never ne been phenomenal The inspiration of or these Smoke remarks is tIre the unpardonable confusion which for forthe the moment existed in some quarters concerning the llie i identities entities and habits of Mrs Woodrow Witson Wilson Wit Wil son wife of the Democratic nominee for President President President dent an and Mrs 1 Wilson Woodrow the famous writer The latter smokes and doesn't care who knows it Airing her views on the thc matter mattera a few days ago to a reporter Mrs Wilson Tilson Woodrow grew v quite eloquent eloquent eloquent elo elo- quent but unfortunately tho the intelligent compositor who has bas since been hung drawn quartered and fed to the fish typed the name as Mrs 15 WI Woodrow Wilson by an unconscious but fatal transposition Whereupon l the wife of the Democratic nominee was impelled to write letters to various editors denying that she used In fact she thinks t they're ey re just horrid It is reassuring to know that the false publication concerning Mrs l Wilson was a accidental and not by design The American public grows irritable wb when ll imposed upon in this way and is accustomed when deceived de- de deceived de de- to omit from consider consideration tion the unimportance of the subject mat mat- ter Whether Mrs firs Wilson Ti does oes or does not smoke cigal ets whether she sha eats cats pie pie with her ber knife or fork or in ii the old fashioned way that musses up the oars ears and whether she fin finds s it advisable to disrobe bc an and get g-et into a filled bathtub when she eats cats an oran orange c is beside th the ques ques- tion All this has r to tn do n with her eru erudite ni ite hut but tie it j bus husbands husband bands band's s qualifications for the presidency 2 r H HGEORGE 2 a 1 ao tole CREEL a Denver er newspaper mallS man mall manof GEORGE S Surprising of marked ability pl played a prominent of 0 part in electing the present it reform admin- admin Views or istrati on in Denver Because of his devotion dc toa to toa toa a Police the cause and nud his fitness for the place the tho new Official mayor appointed him commissioner of or police and the thc mayors mayor's confidence ence in ll him m has bas been abundant abundant- abundantly l ly justified d the by exodus from Denver of a number number num num- ber of undesirable citizens Recently Commissioner Creel has excited the populace by depriving his policemen of their clubs and securing the release of an unfortunate prisoner whom a stalwart policeman badI had bad I clubbed because the prisoner accused his captor of lacking the instincts of a gentleman Such views on the part of a police official are refreshing but I I unusual Creel seems to have the novel el idea tb that t he be holds bolds his b place in the interests of the people and that ia la policeman despite the well well- known intelligence of the members of that vocation is not necessarily always right Instead of busying himself tr trying ing b to prove that the accused officer did lid not strike his helpless prisoner he be puts it beyond the power of other members of the force to do so by y depriving depriving- them of their clubs Believing that thai patrolmen find it necessary to halt baIt flee flee- lug ing suspects by shooting at them only because the obese limbs of the law aro are too fat to run Commissioner er Creel plans to dismiss those members mem mem- bers hers of the force whose girth renders readers footwork laborious or impossible We Ye do not imagine that Creel will be a a poI police ce commissioner very ery long but members embers of the Denver er police department will never never have any difficulty culty recalling with n a a shudder his vigorous reign I I z 2 IN N SOLEMNLY announcing his irrevocable decision decision de de- de- de A. A American to vacate Newport an and d 1 leave c cave it to t the thc he Hive Is hoi polloi I I. I Townsend Burden one of the a chiefs of the American nobility declares that Poor Place there is 11 no use bid hiding ng or trying n g to hide the For For Drones Drones fact that people of fashion have bave no proper place in which to live in America It should be understood un un- understood that Mr Burden whose unfortunate a accident ac ac- of birth has made him merel merely an American Amern hcan millionaire society leader rather than an English earl or a Russian grand duke emits his remarks more in sorrow v than He anger would not leave Newport but for t the disagreeable ble danger if he e remains that he ma may y y have e to rub shoulders with men who actually work with their hands bands their brains o or for their daily upkeep His sentiments mn may do o l him m little credit but it r is d good to know them His manifest discomfort in this busy lan land and his conscious ness that as a drone he is lie not in harmony with his environment will go far to allay the national fear that Americans American becoming were vere as effete and gen genteelly lazy as the parasitic class in Europe That Yankee a hustle and bustle still jars the ne aesthetic soul of such u as Mr i Bur Burden en in indicates in in- that we have not drifted as far from the stan standards and principles ples pies of our forefathers as the alarmists would have hae us its believe belie The courtly knights says s-ays the Baltimore Sun S. nn are in the thc lists of riding in the tourney on many y a hotly contested field field al and ci the thc of love queens L and beauty were ne never nevermore more lot lo loel ely el or of beautiful in all the thc h history story of romance The l' l real leal al Baltimore mi mint certainly t julep does get there J r rIf I. I I If France and Russia are to he become ome closer allies than ever er the country which lies between them will be t the e force which c draws rs them together Fea Fear of of Germany mal mah strange strang o Combinations A Chicago woman has las been arrested f for r her cook cools cooks s jewelry jewel jewel- r ry No fco wonder it it has become so hard to keep help P. P |