The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-03
No ALLIANCE At DENVER
GRAY AND JOHNSON WILL NOT
POOL ISSUES AGAINST BRYAN.
WANT FIRST PLACE OR NOTHING
erysn's Followers Claim Victory on
First Ballot, but Are Overlooking
No Possible Chance to Mako His Sc
lection Sure-Anti.injunctio Plank.

Denver. July 2.-Claiming victory
on the first ballot, but overlooking no
possible chance to make their tri.
umph sure, the followers OF Mr. Bryan
have been watching for any move on
the part of his rivals that would com.
pei him to go single handed against
the field, as Taft was obliged to show
his strength in the early stages OF the
Chicago convention against the com.
bined forces OF allies" The arrival.
however, of the personal representa-
tives OF Judge Gray and Governor
Johnson. the only candidates who are
expected to enter the list against Mr..
Bryan, has failed to disclose any com
mon ground of agreement between
them. The Gray managers asserted
that they had no intention Of entering
into a coalition with the followers of
Governor Johnson and had not made
them any overtures for combination.
The same disclaimer to pool issues
was made by the Johnson people.
They said they had no other view but
the nomination of Governor Johnson
and intended to make their fight for
that purpose only.
The attitude which the Gray and
Johnson people have assumed has
led to considerable conjecture of a
vice presidential character. The fol-
lowers of Mr.. Bryan profess to be-
lieye that the refusals of the Gray and
Johnson men to make a combined fight
against the strength OF Mr.. Bryan
means that they are not averse to &C.
cupying positions in which they can
avail themselves of Bryan votes for
second place in the event of his nomi-
nation for the presidency. On this
point however, both Mr.. Lynch, for
Governor Johnson, and Mr.. Marvel,
for Judge Gray insist that the Bryan
people are utterly in the wrong. Their
men, they say, are out for the first
place and are giving no consideration
to the vice presidency.
Roger c. Sullivan, national commit.
teeman from Illinois, announced that
his state might have a candidate for
the vice presidency in John Mitchell
eryan's Views on Injunction Plank.
What Is regarded as the very latest
indication that Mr.. Bryan does not
contemplate changing his position on
the injunction question to meet the
Ideas OF the conservatives was brought
to town by Frank S. Monet, Republic
an attorney general of Ohio from 1896
to 1900. Mr.. Monet was in conference
with Mr.. Bryan at Lincoln Tuesday,
as the result Of which he says he will
have Mr.. Bryan's Endorsement in ap-
pearing before the resolutions COM
mittee of the convention to state the
legal and political reasons why the in
junction plank should pledge the Dem
ocratic party to amendment of the law
in these three particulars: First, to
prevent the issuing Of the writ in in
dustrial disputes except after notice to
defendants and full hearing; second,
to permit trial before a judge other
than the one who issued the writ, and
third, to allow jury to be summoned
in all cases where the alleged con-
tempt is committed outside the pres
ence of the court.
That Mr.. Bryan has heretofore TAX
en- his stand on an injunction plank
containing these elements is the state
ment of Mr.. Monet, and the fact that
Mr.. Bryan requested Mr.. Monet to
urge their acceptance by the resolu.
tons committee, is taken by the
Ohioan to mean that Mr.. Bryan will
be satisfied with nothing less.