The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-09-13

The New York Tribune recently
gave place to the following dated at
Pittsburg, Penn:
A. F. Dulin, of New York City,
president of the Bryan Democratic
League, of New York, and a member
of the National Democratic Con-
gressional Committee, arrived in
Pittsburg this afternoon to meet ex-
Congressman Charles A. Towne, who
will arrive here tomorrow on his
way home from Japan. While here
Mr.. Dulin started a full fedged
boom for Towne for President, de-
claring that he was the one man
whom the Democrats could nominate
who might be elected. Dulin gave
out the following statement, which
had evidently been carefully prepar-
ed:
A vast majority of the radical ele-
ment which heretofore has affiliated
with the Democratic organization
look upon Theodore Roosevelt as the
greatest Democrat who has occupied
the Presidential chair since the time
of Andrew Jackson. The so-called
conservative element look upon the
President as a menace to our bust
ness interests and a dangerous man
in every respect. If, however, the
President should consent to- be a
candidate for reelection in 1908
it is my opinion that it would be i'm
possible to defeat him. At least so
per cent of the radical Democrats
would vote for Roosevelt in prefer
ence of Bryan or any other Demo-
crat. 1t is believed that the Presi-
dent will not accept the nomination,
and for this reason the principal
Democrats of the country believe
that the Democratic nominee of the
national convention will be elected
provided that the nominee is not
representative of either the conser-
vative or radical element.
Should Mr. Bryan be nominated,
the conservative element of the East
would concede his election; should
a conservative Democrat be nomin-
ated, the Bryan element will defeat
their candidate. The schism in the
Democratic party is well defined, and
the facts are rapidly creating the
same condition in the Republican
party. 1t is manifest that next
years campaign will be battle
royal, the Roosevelt Democrats and
the Roosevelt Republicans uniting
against any reactionary candidate
nominated by either convention
There is serious doubt If Secretary
Taft or Governor Hughes could be
elected in the event of his nomina-
ton, because it is we'll known that
the Republican machinery in New
York state is not anxious to contrib
ute to either the nomination of Taft
or Hughes There is powerful
element in the Republican party in
New York state which favors the
nomination of Secretary George B.
Cortelyou.
The electoral vote of New York
is absolutely necessary for the Dem
ocrats to elect president. The
present political situation points
strongly to Democratic victory in
the Empire State next year, provid-
ed the nominee of the Democratic
party is not Mr.. Bryan.
There is one man, now a resident
of New York. of whom little has
been heard of late, who seems to be
the strongest candidate as vote
getter the National Democratic Com
mittee can name. refer to Charles
A. Towne. l find a powerful ele-
ment in both the South and West
who consider Towne the most avail
able man to nominate at this time.
They believe that he would receive
every vote in the Democratic organ
ization that Bryan would get. The
fact that he is openly opposed to
government ownership of railroads
will hold in line for him a vast ma
jority Of the conservative Democrats
that he is the one man who favors
modified protective tariff schedule,
and would, owing to his views on
this subject, receive at least mil
lion Republican votes. The exper-
fenced Democrats contend that the
nomination of Bryan would ALLEVIATE
the entire conservative element of
the party. There would be no fall
ing off on the Republican vote to
the cause he would represent.
AS a public speaker Towne has no
superior, If an equal, in the ranks Of
the Democracy. 1t is not improba-