The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-23
LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRACY.
toward peace

i LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRACY.
i Because of the rather extensive contest for th
honor attached to the democratic presidential nom
nation the St. Louis gathering win be the politica
event of interest prior to the election itself Tn
work of the Chicago gathering admits of no doub
as to the outcome President Roosevelt will be choSel
as the standard bearer Down at St. Louis on th
glorious Fourth the various aspirants win fight ou
their uncertain battle brief resume of the promi
nent men who win line up for the several candidates
appears in the July number of Success, from the
pen of Robert Adamson, who says in part:
In the first place, it should be stated that the
personnel of the democratic convention will be vastly
changed. In double sense, the assembly will pass
the party from one generation to another 1t will
transfer the issues well the reins and the fore
most parts in that gathering which now promises to
be historic for the party, will be played either by
actors entirely new or by those who have been ree-
gated to obscurity for eight years Four years ago.
the only wish consulted was Mr. Bryan's, and he
governed the convention from Kansas City at his
pleasure. This year, reduced to the ranks he will
lead the remnant of his following which Mr.. Hearst
has been able TO hold together. It will be a curious
situation presenting the broadest contracts On one
side of the hail. under the flag of the radical young
edtorcandidate, will be ranged such famous lights
of other days. survivors of the Bryan idea and the
pOpulist party as the fiery and fowery General
James B. Weaver, twice a candidate for the presi.
dency himself; the vocferous Alexander Troup, the
fighting New Haven editor, and friend Of Bryan in
the enemy's country" James NJ Griggs of Georgia,
James G. Johnson, the national committeeman from
Kansas; John j. Fitzgerald, the flaming young radi-
cal from Rhode Island, and host Of mining and
agricultural statesmen and doctrinaire pubcists
whose dearest antipathy is the moneyridden east.
On the other side, probably in control at the open
ing, will sit the men who have been politically sub
merged for eight years-David B. Hill, who was
Missed and howed at at Chicago, and who was ignored
at Kansas City; the whte-haired, Grecian-cast Cor
man, who has been patiently biding his time for eight
years and is still young in the hope of the pres
1ency the gruf and uncompromising Smith Of New
Jersey, the exponent of Cleveland and unrelenting
fore of every shade of radicalism; James NJ Guffey
he coal millionaire Of Pennsylvania and proprietor
)f his party in that state who has also waited for
Bryan to subside; Henry G. Davis, teh picturesque
md rugged millionaire ex-senator from West Vir-
yna who has returned to politics at S3 years Of age
% celebrate the return Of the party to sanity
William F. Sheehan Of New York. who bolted Bryan
nd is managing Parker; and all the rest of the list
If reOrganizer" leaders who have held such paltry
'oles in party management wor the past eight years
Of new figures who will be potent factors, there
IRE many. John Sharp Williams, the trenchant,
brilliant democratic leader in the lower
louse Of congress, will be prominent in the coming
onvention His nomination for vice president is not
me Of the remotest Of the possibilities Of that gath
ring. He has ben the issuemaker in the session Of
congress which has just closed, and it is judgement
# both parties that he has done his work better than
ny predecessor in that position in many years. Will
Jams is little man, with frowsy brown hair that
verhangs his forehead, dark-brown mustache, and
10 disposition to give himself the airs which are usu
LILY associated with southern statesman He is dis
inctly new type of southern leader.