POLITICS IN AMERICA.
BRYAN AND A BRTBE,
WASHINGTON^ March 14. The^mattor of party leadership m the Senate and House of Representative has become a question of paramount political importance. .The Rieptiljßfioans, , who have lost thsir big men, Aldriclk and Halo, must return to the old systwn of leadership through a syndicate, jj* no One Senator has sufficient ' following or power of domination to establish hupself sole director of affairs. , .'.-.Four cm six Republicans will combine tii^teresti' and become- ''the big four" or "the bi&sir" m the. management of routine. . Ajftatemerit is made m the World 1 that WjUiam Jennings Bryan Avas offered £9Kj,000 while he Avas a member .of Cbnn-eSB. The offer, it' is said, was, mad© whflp he Avas a member of the Committee of Ways and Means m the Cleveland Administration, bo that Bryan should not bring m a mihoritv report on a bill to issue £30,000,000 m bonds payable m lold. Bryan is credited with saying, that [piere was not enough, money in Warl Btrejet to buy him. • ' ", •. ; .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12411, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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