The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-04

significance. says he had had no pat ronage. no ofiice-hoiders. no machine behind him For tho most part as he adds. the machinery of the Democratic party was in the hands of state or To- cal leaders who were not for Bryan.
 They had everything with them ex- cept the people. Mir. Bryan had noth- ing except the people. And in the end. as the big. strong fellow on his front porch chuclk1es, everything went the way the people wanted it to go.
 This Is what Bryan has done: this Is the way he has done 1t. And the man that can do this in that way. aft CT the superficial observers the coun- try over had ruled him out as a back number and dead one. has something very extraordinary In him. He is a power, force. quantity. an entity. a factor in our national life. He is some thing that must be reckoned with. That his party Is doing now. It is learning who is master. His is the power that has tanned his party trained 1t. made 1t answer his call. eat out of his hand. What he win do with the country remains to be seen. Just what this power of his is. how 1t will look in chemical analysis. what we shall find at the bottom of the cruel ble. is not to be discussed just now.
  the fact Is this man sitting there so calm and serene and confident on his front porch is the Democratic party of today
 What is he going to do with it7 We have already indicated. He Is trying to reunite ft, weld it together, to fili 1t with hope and enthusiasm. He is here to meet hundreds of Democrats on their way to Denver. to receive their allegiance. to give them his benedic- tion. All Democrats now look alike to him. so long as they are for Bryan and harmony and success. Ask him about the vice presidency and he will tell you he has no choice. that all he wants is a man who will at the gem eral idea of harmony and sue cess, and who can stand on the plat form. Ask him about the platform. and he points you to the Nebraska State resolutions adopted last spring. But as you dig a little deeper Into Mr. Bryan's nina, not so much by what he says as what he docs not say and what his friends think. you will Ind that he wants an Eastern eonserva- tive. a representative of the old school. like Judge Gray of Delaware. for his running mate. Mir. Bryan believes the choice of Gray would add positive strength to the ticket He believes #
 
 as q sign that at last the old party had really gotten together. that all fac tional differences had been buried. that there are no more gold Democrats. no more imperialists. no more anti-Bryan men.
 Tn the same way you learn that Mir. 5ryan does not take kindly to the talk of Governor Johnson for President. Many observers had supposed the lead CT would welcome the possibility of at taching to his ticket the man who could. according to prevailing opinion. help gather In electoral votes from States where the Scandinavian popu- lation is large, man who has a rec ora as winner and who has yet to suffer his first defeat But Bryan does not look at it that way. Mention John sons name to him and the heavy jaw at once gets heavier, a cold RIint comes into the eyes. It is obvious enough he does not have any great love for the man who has dared contest the first place with him. even If that contest of delegates.
 Judge Gray has also dared atand m for hrst place. His friends werc here yesterday, pretending to talk prest- dency for their man, and in pubiio af least, refusing to admit that. the Judrs I would accept second place. But 1t waa significant that after their departure MT. Bryan talked to his friends of the effect upon the convention that might be exerted In case the friends Of other aspirants for the Presidency were to fall in with the prevailing vtew-in plain English. if all opposi- ton to Bryan himself were to be with drawn Thus we see there is amnesty for Gray, and possibly a vice-Presi- dency, if he will step aside and con- sent to take second place,as a represen- tative of the old school. But 1t is not dtscoverabie that this amnesty has up to date been extended to Governor Johnson.
 Perhaps the Minnesota man belongs to the wrong section of the country and the wrong wing of the party. He does no exactly At the general scheme.
 Mfr. Bryan diplomaticaIiy suggests that he does not know what the con- vsntion Is going to do about anything He tries 10 carry the fiction that he ia not bossing the job, that he is not combating the example of running a convention by long distance. But 1t is only fiction; and perhaps 1t would be just as well for Mir. Bryan, frank man that he is. to drop the subterfuge and come out into the open and make no bones about it He is running the | convention, and he intends to run i'm He has a right to do so. For that the l people placed the power in his hands. Having this power. he realizes. whether he admits it or not. that 1t Is his duty l to use 1t It is his duty to the party, | to himself. No one knows better than | he what is good for the party No one | arrsA sS. a7f ez4Hsa khA Aak. .aa &~~