The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-05-22
review OF SITUATION
|BRYANS NOMINATION Is ASSURED and GREAT
FORCES WORKING FOR HIS ELECTION

The Oregonan contains the following concise sensible
and timely review of the national political and
the forces at work that may land Mr. Bryan in the White
House
California and Alabama are long way apart but they
both for Mr. Bryan The California delegates to the
Denver convention instructed for him first
last and all the time More than that the Democrats at
adopted of those platforms which the New York
World shudderingly denounces populstc and social
istc Such platforms common in both parties just
a this time and to the putocrac mind they undoubtedly
look ominous The California Democrats declare for the
mative and referendum postal savings banks and the
direct primary All these measures radical and your
thorough going socialist says they socialistc The
real socialists damn all such the direct primary
the initiative and referendum and SO on by call ng them
mere paliatves What they want is to get control of
the Government and then put through programme which
they yet formulated but which may conceive
would be pretty revolutionary The California platform
merely reiterates Mr. Bryans wenown ideas of egisla
ton About the proprey of these ideas thoughtful men
differ, of course.
# The World prefers Governor Johnson of Minnesota
to Mr. Bryan because says he offered to the party
platform which Democratic not Popuist or Social
st There is doubt that the Minnesota Democrats IN
putting Mr. Johnson forward carefully constructed their
Statement of principles to catch the fancy Of the Eastern
pluocrats but as for the Governor himself he
radical than Bryan There of the Bryan prnci
pies which he has publicly advocated Indeed he has
gone farther than the Nebraskan directions For
example Mr. Johnson declared public address that
no should be permitted to enjoy an income OF more
than ten thousand year How would this suit Mr. Ryan
Mr. Belmont and other eminent leaders of the Democracy
in New York?
There is no possibility of nominating Governor Johnson,
there cannot believe that the metropolitan
democracy of New York would support him. They make
retense of desiring him for candidate now in order to
harass Mr. Bryan but if he actually to be nominated
they would at raise hue and cry against him. Tor ne
has none of the Qualities which they really Presi
dent and all of those which they detest Mr. Johnson
sincere advocate of thoroughgoing popular rule What
the New York putocrats wish the rule OF an ogarchy OF
wealth Their ideal candidate man like Parker he was
SO utterly repudiated by the people that would be d1c
ous to put him forward again. but they are crying up the
claims Of Judge Gray who like him as one pea
another and whom the voters would reject with he same
The undeniable truth that the Democratic voters
will have Mr. Bryan and nobody else Tor their ca1odae
spite of the Eastern newspapers and the party BOSSES
This is shown plainly enough by the result OF the Ala
fbama primaries That state was claimed for Governor
Johnson His friends headed by Senator Johnston made
vigorous fight against Mr. Bryan and great expectations
were based upon the outcome The result shows now @ @
some politicians know about popular sentiment IN tne
own states The Alabama primaries went tlee D 70 one
for BRYAN and the returns make his nomination at DeVe
purely fanciul outside of three four newspaper oce
while in the North Democratic masses are more loyal
to him than they ever before Mr. Bryan were as
sure of election as he of nomination we shod saute
him as the next President of the United States
In his last campaign Mr.. Bryan carried i've states
which Judge Parker lost four years later Al ol IT ne 49, W.
(which Judge Parker did not drive away from the DeocIatG
party conceded tohim he will still be many votes snort OF
elections To win he bring some new states 1lto Ce
column of his party and just now II can De oo ~ IL
tery But there two 1ncalcuabe 1acors III Poleo
year which tend to vtate all predictions pased upon
returns They the labor vote and the
of the people with sandpat politics 1t would De Iasi 70
trv to estimate what the effect OF these factors VIII De- %
it may turn much more important than the plaoeO
otcans expect If the labor leaders can SWING the VoUe
of the unions it will be cast against TAFT ms uIl'edSa
fact must be faced Perhaps they cannot swing the vote
but one must not forget that organized labor grows
homogeneous every year and develops more pronounced
class feeling 1t puerie also to overlook the ~
recent Supreme Court decisions IN turning LABOR
aya1 from Taft and toward Bryan We say nothing at
present of the negro vote because MI ForaKer IS hey 70
become econced to his successful fTa af al @ @ S follow
negro vote followed him away from Ia1t SO II VIII
him back again But the popular dscontent must De