Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-24
Lively Time Expected at the Demo-
cratic Convention.
GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS WORK
Bryan to Help Him to Be Nomi-
mated for Governor.
WHAT HE EXPECTS TO DO
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pecia4 pi4pftch TO The Evening Star.

BOSTON, Mass, September 4.-On Sat
urday of this week comes the elimination
of the democratic fight for supremacy in
Massachusetts. On that day Is the demo-
cratic state convention In this city, and no
| convention that the party has ever held in
| this state has been watched SC closely.
Unless all signs fail, the state convention
| will be 1S-karat imitation of the ma
| tional convention at Chicago. That is to
| say all precedents 10 organization and
parliamentary procedure will be thrown to
| the winds. 1t will be Chicago all over
! again. with George Fred Williams the
| William J. Bryan Of the occasion.
Williams has won his fight, of that there
| is now no question. He has gone backward
| and forward over the state, speaking in
| city and hamlet alike. Every collection of
| houses that will send delegates to the state
| convention has been visited either by him
| self or his agents. No town has been too
unimportant to be included in this political
| pilgrimage. Williams has made ii per-
| sonal fight. His speeches have been filled
| with personal pronouns. He has put Will
| Jams first and silver second. He has de-
| manded the nomination for governor; de-
manded 1t boldly and in the strongest Ian
| guage.
Bryan to Help Williams.
Not only that but Bryan himself is to
| demand it for him. Candidate Bryan will
| openly espouse the cause of the would-be
| candidate Williams. Bryan is to come to
| Boston purposely to do this. 1t has been
| all very shrewdly arranged by Williams
| On Saturday comes the convention that Is
| to nominate the candidate for governor.
| On Friday night comes Mr.. Bryan. pro-
| gram has been laid out that will make the
names of Bryan and Williams one and in
| separable in the democratic mind in Massa-
| Friday RFV3n
| to speak in Music Hall in this city At this
| meeting there will be present. by special in
| vitation and in prominent seats. nearly all
| the delegates to the convention that is to
| convene on the morrow.
| Addressing himself to those delegates,
| Mr.. Bryan will ask. will demand the nomi-
| nation of his friend, George Fred Williams.
| for governor. Then Mr.. Arthur Sewall. the
| dem 1:ratic candidate for Vice President
will DE summoned from his Maine home to
appear upon the platform of Music Hall.
| and make the same request of the demo-
| Gratis of Massachusetts. Mr.. Bryan will
then go to the balcony of the Revere House
and make speech to as many people as
| can gather about that historic old hotel
| Here atso Mr.. Williams nomina ton for
| governor will be mentioned. Still third
| speech will be made that same evening by
Mr.. Bryan from the stage of the Bowdoin
! Square Theater. where he will speak for
five minutes between the acts of a nauti-
| cal play and for third time wave the
! banner of Mr.. Williams
SDend
the night at Mr.. Williams home at bed
| nam, just outside the city. and in the IN orn-
Ing will he brought into the convention
hall at the proper time by Mr.. Williams
! by that time the two will be SO thoroughly
associated together that a vote against
| Williams for governor in the convention
VIII be considered as a direct insult to Mr.
| Bryan. the democratic nominee for Presi
dent At least. this is the hope and ex.
pectat1on of Mr.. Williams friends.
The Opposition.s Actions-
What will be the action of the anti-Wi.l-
Jams men in the convention is a mys;er,
They will be in minority as far as mem
bers are concerned, but in their ranks VIII
be the men who have led the party in the
past. In their fight 10 prevent the nomina
ton of Williams they have been badl,
handicapped by the difficulty in finding d
candidate to oppose him. To make the
fight against Williams was an undertaking.:
SO Improbable ard SO thankless as not IL
: appeal to any one of prominence For
weeks search has been carried on for an
available and, above all, a willing candi-
| date. Pressure was brought to bear upor
| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ham
| lin TO make the fight Hamlin is agains,
| Williams, publicly and openly, and took q
prominent part in the convention of the
! gold democrats that sent delegates to In.
dianapolis. But Hamlin refused He wants
to run for governor. but not this year. He
d VII
nothing gained. even if he should succeed
| in securing the nomination, the repuha1.
can candidate for governor this year II
Massachusetts will have anywhere between
$1,000 and 100000 majority.
Ex-Congressmen ONei and Everett were
| besought bui in vain. Exmayors of Bos-
ton. prominent democratic manufacturers
| leading lawyers, all were asked to become
the candidate of the Russell and gold wing
| of the democracy. But one by one they re-
fused. The excuses were different, but the
meat of the reply was the same. And sc
the matter stands. No candidate has We;
| been decided upon by those hostile to Will
Jams. The whole state has been canvassej
, and no man has been found to their liking
who will consent to make martyr Of him
self.
To Turn Out the State Committee.
, With no formal candidate against him
and making personal campaign that ha:
been thorough AMI alert. Williams has
majority of the state convention. LAWN;
secured this, he does not intend to be con
tent with simply nominating himself. Hi
, participation in the Chicago convention
has taught him new move in the way o
: conventions. He is going TO have the sta
| convention turn up It's lose al the demo
cratic state committee, the nationa
, | convention turned up its nos. at the demo
cratic national committee. The state com
mittee is against Williams by good Ma
jority. Several test fights have b.en mad
| III the committee tHlS SUMMER, ana al
were decided against Williams. Ia thi
| state the state committee has always ha
the privilege of choosing the officers o
the state convention, AMI no objection ha
| ever been offered to the persons thus St
| lected.
But Williams proposes to make a nev
| precedent. The state committee has sc
lected the officers for the state convention
in accordance with it's custom. But tines
: officers will not be allowed to serve. VII
liams will have the convention vote then
down and put in list of his own. Ar
other plan that he has is to turn out tn
: present state committee, on the groun
that they are not real democrats, the.
have refused to ratify the Chicago plat
: form, and put in their place a committe
made up of men who are his friends an
upon whom he rely.
A fusion between the democrats and pop
ulists is another thing that he will carr.
, out if he can. In return for the populist
nominating him for governor he has prom
ised to give them one Of the eiectors-at
large on the democratic ticket. He ha
. picked out this man. and he is Henry VIM
: of Maiden, who has been mayor of tina
| city on a reform ticket, and is one of tn
hest-kuoWn populis.S in the state.