The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-07-02


on the first ballot, but overlooking no
possible chance to make their triumph
the followers of Bryan have been
watching for any move on the part of
his rivals that would compel him to
go single handed against the meld, as
Taft was obligde OF show his strength
in the early stages OF the Chicago con
vention. against the combined forces
Of the "alies.'
The arrival today however, of the
personal representatives of Judge
Gray and Governor Johnson, the only
candidates now expected to enter the
race against Bryan, has failed to dis
close any common grouud of agree
ment between them.
Combination Cisclaimed.
The Gray managers asserted that
they had no intention of entering into
a coalition with the johnson men and
there have been no oyertures for a
combination. The same disclaimer
was made by the Johnson people,
The followers of Bryan profess to
believe that the refusals of the Gray
and Johnson men TO make a com
bined fight against Bryan means that
they are not averse to occupying posi-
tions in which they can avail them
selves of Brayn votes for the second
place in the event of his nomination
for the presidency On this point the
Of
insist that the Bryan people are ut
terly in the wrong. Their men, they
say, are out for first place and giving
no consideration to the vice presi-
dency.
Platform Talk.
Discussion on the platform CON
tinues to be largely confined to the
anti-injunction plank and on this sub
iect the latest information from Lin
coin regarding Bryan's attitude to-
ward that portion of the resolutions
was brougt by Frank S. Monett, for
mer attorney general of Ohio who
arrived in Denver today with the an
nouncement that Bryan desired him
to address the resolutions committee
on the legal phases of the anti-injunc-
ton plank. Monett, personally. is in
favor of a strong uterance upon the
subject. He conferred with Bryan at
Lincoln yesterday.
Samuel Alschuler, who is a prob
able member of the committee on
resolutions from Tllinoiss, declared to-
day that he didn't believe the anti-in-
junction plank would be of such char
acter that any controversy would be-
provoked by it.
Alschuler's Opinion.
There has been talk of a radical
plank in the platform" said Alschuler,
"and all sorts of meanings have been
grouped Under that word. 1t alf de-
pends upon what Is meant by the
word radical | think it is entirely
safe to say, although | am now giving
my personal opinion only. that any
assumption that the anti-in junction
plank will be an attack upon the
courts is incorrect. 1t unquestionably
will favor jury trials for contempt, !
and due notice to all parties so con
cerned in injunction proceedings. 1t !
can safely be stated also that the |
plank will be a clean cut definite |
statement. and not a straddle such as
the Republican party mas made. 1t is |
entirely within bounds to say the In |
junction plank adopted by the Demo |
cratic national convention will be
more advanced than the views which |
have from time to time been ex-
pressed by President Roosevelt, in !
fact it is my opinion that we will he |
more conservative than the president |
would have been if he could have /
written the plank in the Republican |
platform
Illinois Will Be Solid.
Asked about the vice presidential /
situation. Alschuler declared that in /
mis- opinion the great desecrable a.
tribute for any candidate was that he
should be from Illinois. If however /
that state did not present any name /
he was utterly at loss to predict at 1
this time who the Illinois delegation
viii favor
The state, he said. would stand for