Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-29
CONSERVATIVES PROTEST
Object to Adopting the Recommends
tions of Gompers.
ASSERTIONS OF GOV. THOMAS
It Is Declared That a Radical Stand
Will Take Colorado From the
Democrats by $4,000.
Special From STAFF Correspondent.


DENVER. Col. June 29.-The mutter-
ings of the approaching storm i'll the
democratic national convention are begin
ming to rumble through the Rockies. 1t
is not going to be all fair weather with
good fellows gathered together in this
convention by any manner of means. All
indications point to a bully good row.
conducted In old-fa ashioned democratic
style. The platform will be the cause of
1t. and the proposed anti-injunction plank
will be the main issue. kilograms are
pouring i'll from the east serving notice
the leaders here that they might as
well prepare to meet vigorous resistance
of eastern delegations to Gompers and
the anti-injunction plank which Mr..
Bryan has indicated he desires to have
incorporated in the platform. Influential
democrats in the east are taking the
ground tnat if Mr.. Bryan is given the
nomination by the overwhelming vote
which seems to he promised him he will
be called upon to yield to views other
than his own in the makeup of the plat
form.
These and other communications re-
ceived here betOken growing resent
mert among democrats east of the Missis-
sippi river against making the democratic
party merely a Bryan garment and dye
ing it in the radical colors of the popu-
listic west so that nothing of it's original
weave and texture is visible. They are
admitting that he can be the candidate
but they declare he ought not to be al
lowed to be the whole party. Some of the
westerners who are on the scene here are
inclined to the belief that this protest will
not get very far. They are of opinion
that Bryan will dominate the delegates
and they will do his will. 1t is thought
here that the committee on resolutions
will be strongly pro-Bryan. The con-
servatives say that in such event they
will take their fight to the floor of the
convention However. there may be a
long struggle in committee on resolutions
similar to that at Kansas City in 1900,
when the money plank of 1896 was re-
affirmed by a majority of one vote, that
of the delegate from Hawaii.
Opposition of Conservatives.
AS matter of fact, the feeling of the
conservatives against the GOmpers anti
injunction plank is more intense than
was the opposition to the reaffirmation
of the money plank in 1900, and for a
reason readily understood the money
platform was a general proposition af-
fecting every one alike. 1t is objected
that the anti-injunction plank is a class
question relating to one particular class
OF workers over all others engaged in
the worlds work. 1t is claimed that
this is in violation of the cardinal prin-
ciple of democracy of special privileges
for none. equal opportunities to all.
There is intense local sentiment against
the Compers plank, and incoming dele
gates will feel it at once. 1t is easily
recalled that Colorado and this whole
section of country has experienced Sc
we're labor troubles. The Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, whose record of op-
preston and blOodshed was so vividIy
described by Harry Orchard in his con-
fessions. has left an indelible impress
sion upon the popular mind in this
region and created bitterness against
organized labor which VIII take years
to disSipate.
Ex-Gov- Thomas of this state who was
temporary chairman of the Kansas City
convention. says that if the democrats
adopt the Gompers plank Colorado will
go against Bryan by 200 Gov Thomas
in an interview. points out how the in
junction writ in the late labor troubles
when Gov. Pea body was eXpeling strikers
operated in favor of the laboring men
themselves and preserved them from op-
preston He also charges that the West
ern Federation of Miners threatened to
drive the Federation of Labor out of the
west if that body would not Join them
and were deferred only by menace of
injunction from the United States court
Contention of Radicals.
The contention of those who are in
sisting upon the anti-injunction plank is
as follows:
This is about the only line of marked
cleavage between the democrats and re-
publicans in the coming campaign If we
adopt a wishy-wash labor plank we
have no especially distinct issue with the
republicans to present to the people, La
bor will then divide along the lines of
old party affiliations. If we meet labor S
demands in this respect we will command
the labor vote in its entirety The re-
publican platform is being denounced all
over the country. If We do not radically
differ from 1t we will be in the position
of justifying the republicans
There is very little talk of the vice
presidency today. The men who are on
the ground are for the most part desir-
Gus OF taking candidate from New York
They have become imbued with some OF
Mr.. Bryans confidence that the west is
all right, anyhow, and that Ct will be
Open warfare is being made against
Gov Johnson by some OF the Bryan men
from st. Paul, who are flooding the pa
pers with rampant charges that he is in
sympathy with James j. Hill and the
railroad interests Indirectly they pay
tribute to Gov. Johnson by charging that
the men who are backing him for first
place don't want him to take second
place. since il would strengthen BRYAN.
and they don't want Bryan elected.
n. o. NJ.
BRYAN WOULD CONCILIATE.