The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-31
Two Names Are Being Con-
Sidered by Democrats
For Next Campaign.
SAY NEBRASKAN is LOSER.
THE SOUTH is READY TO VOTE
FOR THE DELAWARE JuRiST-
THEY ARE CLEARING THE SIDE.
TRACK.

Indianapolis. March 3o.-A dispatch
TO the News from Washington says:
1T is significant that the south is call
ing for the nomination OF Judge George
Gray. of Delaware. for the presidency
by the democrats. IL is calling for the
Delaware man because 1t does not want
TO be forced TO take Bryan again. Bry-
an is not wanted because of firm
This conviction that the Nebraskan
can not be elected is not confined TO
the south II is the testimony Of
every man who has been about the
country the last few months that one
can not find many democrats OF con-
sequence who conscientiously believe
that he can be elected. This convic-
ton may become SO deep rooted as 10
upset the program to bestow another
nomination on Bryan. The south
could cause an abandonment of the
program If il set about il determin-
ately to do it, but the probability is
that it will do more than let its feel
ings be known. III il has to take
Bryan. ii will do 1t with reluctance.
Recently there have been some
indication that the Democrats of the
north. or at least goodly number
of them, begin to realize that ii will be
"a fatal mistake To make Bryan the
candidate of the party again The
best informed men are not prepared
TO say at this time whether any move
ment to pull the democrats of the
coed. Just now they are inclined TO
doubt it.
Might Turn 10 Another.
land yet they suspect that IL the
fact can be pressed home that he can
not possibly be elected the rank and
file of the party might be persuaded
to turn to some one else. AS the sit
uation stands today the east is dis
posed to cooperate with the south in
a movement in favor OF Judge Gray
The weakness of such a movement lies
in the fact that the very moment it
is started the cry will go up from the
hard and fast followers OF Bryan
throughout the central west and the
far west that the conservative wing of
the party-the Wall street wing-is
again attempting to capture the party.
1t will be pointed out that in 1901 this
wing of the party got control. nomi-
mated Alton b. Parker, and led the
party TO ignominious defeat. Unless "A
great change has come over the party
throughout the country any effort To
pull IL away from Bryan-particularly
IL this effort shall appear to have
originated in the eastern states-will
be looked upon as an attempt OF the
money bags" TO gain control OF the
organization.
Among southern and eastern demo-
Gratis generally there exists the hope
that the party will see the wisdom Of
nominating a safe and sane candi-
date. and it is this hope that leads SO
many members of the party to look
to Judge Gray. The charge that Judge
Gray is representative of the Wall
street coterie of democrats-the Ryans
and the Belmonts who brought about
the nomination of Judge Parker-is
not true. and there is a faint hope
in the men who are preparing to
sound the country on the Gray sugges-
ton that the rank and file of the
party will. after mature consideration,
be willing to accept him as the man
on whom the party can unite"