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Show PLAN" TO HEAD OFF BEYAN. Dewey Said to be the Tool of Eastern Gold Democrats. New York, April 4. A Washington dispatch to the Evening Telegram says; "It has developed that the announcement announce-ment of Admiral Dewey's candidacy is a part of a well-laid plan -of eastern Democrats to head off Mr. Bryan's nomination." The Evening Telegram's dispatch continues: "T he admiral will not admit ad-mit that there is any organization behind be-hind his candidacy or state whether he would like the Republican or Democratic Demo-cratic nomination. He told me today that he was in the hands of the American Amer-ican people, and wes as willing to obey orders from them as he has been from his superiors in the navy. He said: " 'I have every reason to believe that there is a popular demand tor my nomination. nom-ination. I decline to say whether I am a Democrat or a Republican. I want to be the people's candidate. I fully realize real-ize that in announcina: mv willingness to become a candidate that my troubles are beginning, but a man who has the interests of his country at heart cannot escape his share of them, and I am willing to risk all that may come to me. " 'From every state in the union and from all classes of the people I have received gratifying evidence of a desire for my nomination. The demand has become so general that I felt constrained con-strained to give serious consideration to the matter, and although I had previously pre-viously stated that I would rot accept a nomination, conditions have so changed in the past few months that I cannot longer as a loyal American citizen cit-izen say that I will not obey the will of the American people. If their decision is that I am a suitable person for the presidency. Beyond confirming my announcement an-nouncement there is nothing- further that I can properly say at present.' " |