The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-01

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this has been the custom and ought
not to be departed from.
The temporary chairman of the
convention has not yet been selected
and will not be announced until the
national committee meets at Kansas
City tomorrow.
The contest for the honor of being
temporary chairman of the convention
seems to be exclusively between ID.
A. Rose, Mayor of Milwaukee, and {.
s. Thomas, Governor Of Colorado.
The greatest interest is of course
manifested In the nomination of
man for the second place on the ticket
this being the unknown quantity
of the convention. 1t is pretty gen
orally conceded that the nominee
must be New York man.
The nomination of Roosevelt makes
New York the battle ground in this
campaign and the early talk has
been in favor of New York man for
the Vice-Presidency. If New York
can have n candidate for the Vice
Presidency who has the confidence
of the working people the leaders
there say they can easily carry
the State. Roosevelt is not as strong
as he was two years ago and Platt
knew that he could not be reelected.
If he couldn't be reelected Governor,
how can he be elected Vice-President?
The New York. men talked about
for Nice-President are Ell oft Dan
forth, Judge Parker. 0. II. p. Bel
mont, George b. Mcclellan, William
Sulzer, David B. Hill and ex-senator
Murphy. Hill and Murphy are not
candidates. Mr.. Hill has intimated
that when New York is called in the
roll of States he will make speech
seconding the nomination of Sulzer.
Sulzer is the first man to get on the
convention ground with his boomers.
Sulzer headquarters have been opened
at the Savoy hotel. 1t is the first head
quarters opened by any candidate for
the Vice-Presidency and half dozen
Tammany workers will be in charge
pushing the claims of the New York
congressman. who seems to be really
the most active of the candidates for
Vice. President.
Sulzer has been to Lincoln to see
Mr.. Bryan. The result of the visit
is unknown.
Concerning the convention and it's
program the Kansas City Star says:
''This year the Democrats made
haste to reach for the flag. They
make red, white and blue their stand
ard color for badges. The convention
badges will be silk flags hung from
bars of oXidized silver. They have
even dug up their old Liberty bell and
are using miniature of it for a cam
paign button. The campaign picture
~ prxop xybinh roacs ont with the
sanction of the national committee,
shows the leader surrounded by flags
with the Liberty bell in one corner
and the inscription, Bryan and Lib
erty," below. Bryan and Liberty"
will be a war cry of the campaign and
speakers will be directed to call atten
ton to apt patriotic expressions.
1T was with the same idea in mind
that the date of the convention was
fixed for July 4. Carrying the same
idea further they made the reading
of the Declaration of Independence
a part of the preliminary exercises
of the convention. The movement
to nominate Bryan on the first day
of the convention is inspired by the
same motive of giving campaigners
a chance to talk patriotism. There is
no 1urtner reason assigned 1Or III eN-
cept that they want Bryan nominated
on day. that must suggest patriotic
ideas.
There will be singing in this cam
paign. After the Civil war Confed-
crate officer said that if the Southern
army had such songs as the Union
soldiers sang they would never have
been defeated. The Republicans
have always recognized the power of
patriotic music in a campaign. In
Kansas ten years ago new party
sprung from the Farmers alliance,
where farmers had met on winter
evenings to talk of their troubles
fairly sang its way into control Of
the State Legislature in a single cam
paign. No one who heard the Popu-
lists of that year sing, "GoOd-by, Old
Party, Good-by," ever doubted the
power of song as a campaign argu-
ment. This year it is proposed that
the Democrats in convention shall
stand up and sing my Country 'Tis
of Thee" and, when they go home,
tell the Democrats from one end of
the country to the other to sing"