William Jennings Bryan to Woodrow Wilson

William Jennings Bryan to Woodrow Wilson

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

WWP17709

1913 April 29

William Jennings Bryan writes to Woodrow Wilson about the California Alien Land Bill.

Wilson Papers, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

TELEGRAM.

W.U. D223NY 150
Collect Government Rate
3:06 am 30th
Sacramento, Calif.,
April 29, 1913.
President Woodrow Wilson,Washington, DC

At Executive session held tonight I presented your answers and made clear your position. No vote has been taken but lines are being drawn. There will be a determined effort to pass a bill containing words “ineligible to citizenship” or words meaning the same thing. The effort will be opposed however, with possibility of defeating it. Your position has gained friends and they are prepared to fight. I am not sure that I can do anything further, but it might be well to return Thursday morning and look over the situation. After reading my speeches and my answers to questions you can inform me at San Francisco, tomorrow, whether I have left anything undone. Those who favor radical action spoke tonight as if they did not care to hear anything more, and were prepared to use “ineligible to citizenship”, in spite of your advice.

Bryan.

Letter

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924