The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-27
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION
ELECr LOYAL BRYANlTES
AS DELEGATES.
CONTEST ENGAGED IN
For Fourth Place as Delegate al
Laroe--WeaVer Defeated Be-
cause of Prohibition Record
-Porter's Speech.

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| Bryan's namc came ;ystily from ever
Democratic threat at the state con
venticn today. Pryanites who hav
been loyal through all the years wer
selected as delegates at large, tn
platform adopted was a re-cast o
Bryans Nebraska platform and thl
endorsement of Bryan in the Omab;
platform was made stronger and NOR
eloquent by his Iowa admirers Ever,
mention of his name was greeted will
stom of applause
When the resolutions committee
met it heard request from BryaI
that the ideas of the Omaha platform
be endorsed by the Democracy O
Iowa There was some sentiment il
favor Of adopting the Nebraska plat
form in toto, but firaIly it was re
written,
Delegates at large were not chosen
until nearly o'clock this evening
They are;
Claude r. Porter, OF Centerville
Jerry b. Sullivan of Des Moincs; e
J. Dunn, of Mason City. who were
chosen on the first ballot, and G.. II
Duncombe of Fort Dodge, who won
out in a contest with General Weaver
on the second ballot.
The Bryan men were so over
whelmingly in control not only in the
state convention, but a'so in the DIS
trict caucuses, that there were nc
fights except among the Bryan men
themselves A spirited contest fol
fourth place as delegate at large de
yeloped between Genera1 J. B. Wca
Yer and c. f. Duncombe, of Fort
Dodge, former candidate for governor
Fred White made plea for Weaver
ard so did General Weaver himself
but the river counties would not for
give the latter's prohibition record
and their votes elected Duncombe.
Chairman c. w. Miller of the state
committee, al antiBryan man, was
forced to withdraw from the race for
reelection as a member of the state
committee and chairman.
Late tonight General Weaver an.
nounced that he would accept the
def of the men from the river dis
tricts and become candidate for
governor before the primaries on the
prohibition ticket 1t was stated also
that Claude r. Porter and Jerry B.
Sullivan would enter the primary race
for United States senator.
In his opening speech of the con
vention Chairman Porter lauded
Pryan as Demacracys leader and
made a plea for harmony in the party
He addressed the assemblage as fol
lows:
Never in the past, In my humble
Judgment. has the need for the effec'
tive application of genuine Democrat
ic principles in our governmental af
fairs been so great as at the present
The political engagement of 1896 has
been termed the First Battle" and
so it was in the struggle of the people
for the restoration OF the rule OF
man as against he rule of dollars. II
was. however. but a preliminary
skirmish to the contest we are now
approaching. For twelve years
predatory wealth" has been building
and adding to its intrenchments, but
the issues are now more perfectly un
derstood, the lines more clearly
drawn. and our forces. | hope. more
United. The result viii be more far
reaching. the battle bound TO be more
terrific. but greed, trickery and Gun
ring must be trampled underfoot," II
the republic is to live.
Republican MisruIe.
For forty years the Republican
party has held almost undisputed
sway at Washington Forty years in
which to grant special privileges to
the few, forty years of class legisla
tion. forty years of positive executive
and legislative favoritism, and forty
years of law permitted favoritism
Men do not gather grapes of thorns
or figs of thistles" in the twentieth
century any more than they did in
the commencement OF the first. and
we now have an abundant fruitage
from the seed sOwn. Trusts, monop
Giles and combinations without mum
her. industrial corporations with q
capital stock of ten figures. and
whose yearly income and disburse
ments exceed those of the national
government: railroad Unification
graft and frenzied finance galore;
wealth created and fostered by law
defying and trampling underfoot those
lews enacted with the view of at
tempting to control or curtail their &C
tiyity.
There is but one political organlza
ton to which the people or this coun
try can look, inspired by any hope oi
success. and that Is the party that
has had and now has. as It's funda
mental principles, equal rights to all
and special privileges TO none'-tht