The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-07
Continuous Swelling of Nebraskan's $ Strength NEW YORK STILL FAILS
 TO SHOW HER coLoRS National Committee Discusses Senator Mccarren's Contests. Various Anti-Brysn Elements Meet and Agree that 1t is Futile to Con-
 tinas the Fight i'm View of
 New York's Action.


 Denver colo, July 6.--tspecial.)-- The hubbub of this last day before the Demoeratio National Convention. these main developments of the day stand out prominently.
 The wave of Bryan sentiment nas m creased to apparently overwnelinsnss n,.sss nation of the Nebraskan seems now as sured beyond any reasonable doubt un- less some unlooked-for reversal or po- iiticaI conditions occurs. ..
 All efforts to unite on Vice-Fresl- dent have proved futile and the con vention will begin its dehperation .o morrow with the contest for second place wide open. ,s.
 A maiority of the Pennsylvsnia dele yation in caucus named Col. James M. Cxuffey as National Committeeman is oman defiance of Mir. Bryan's demand for his displacement and 2. on tne heels of, Guffey's stinging public ar raignment of Bryan as a 'hypocrlle, m m rrate and falsifer." minority or tne pernsviyania delegation had rump caucus which sought to depose Guney frono leadership and install James Kerr, a Bryan man, as Pennsylvania Ieadef. The New York delegation appointed committee of ten to draft q piatrorm, and named Judge Alton D. farhe1, une
  the New York representatANo oh say Platform committee.
 The New York caucus was silent on the presidential and vice-presidential eitnafion and New York still fails 10 show her colors.
 National Committee Meets.
 The Democratic National Committee held it's first meeting to consider con- faats. which resulted in the dismissal If Senator McCarren's New York con tests and the seating of Roger Suiti- vans Illinois delegates.
 The foregoing are only me man features of an eyenttul day, marked py the continuation or tnAt noisy aelton, saaa, stration which ushers In a national eenvention, with delegations and their hosts oT followers pouring into town, with hands and marching clubs vieing in turbulent demonstrations and with streets and hotel Hobbies Ailed with surglng crowds.
 Amid all this confusion. the men of action have worked unceasingly. Most of inc states effected their organiza- ton. electing members of the commit taas which will serve tomorrow. Aside from the many private conferences over candidates and platform, the day has been one of preparation and bnsi- ness detail for the coming assempiase-
 The arrivals during the day and to- night have practically completed the roster of State delegations, and have .ua9nad an idea of the aggregate strength commanded by the Bryan forces There has been one continuous swelling of the Bryan strength with onlv scattering accessions for other candtdates This has become so ap- narent that the nomination of MT. Bryan seems assured not only of the required two-thirds of the convention, but practically by a unanimous vote, except that of Minnesota and Delaware, whose representatives still insist they will be steadfast to the end to their fayorite sons, and scattering anti Bryan votes from Georgia, New York, pannsylyania, Maine and several other localities, with scattering opposition, dwarfed the magnitude of MT. Bryan's total.
 While this steady tide of Bryan strength has been setting in, the allied opposition have been looking intentiy hut vainly toward New York, for it has been recognized that Chief Mur- nhy the present genius of the delega- tion, held key which might loosen a movement for or against the Nebras- kan. With New York taking the lead and throwing it's seyenty-eight voter against him, Guffey and his PepnsyI- yanIa cohorts would have followed suit: Georgia was waverlng and likely to turn a block of Southern strength away from Bryan and this, with the organized strength of Johnson and Gray, might fraHe given vitality to the allied opposition. But all these reck- onings have come to paught because of New York's persistent silence
 Opposition Tumblea.
 Mfr. Murphy is neither for Bryan nor against him anN with his leaderless, .airnless position, the allied opposition has crumbled to pieces. If Murphy
 oIa fn the lead, as is generally believed, he will have the satisfaction of going back to New York, with the declaration that it would have been lacking in politi- cal saKacity for New York to act against Bryan until the aggregate strength of the opposition was demon- strated to be sufficient to defeat him
 For the first time tonight the aI- lied opposition disclosed figures show ing what might have happened had New York announced at the outset that it's 7s votes should be swung against Bryan.
 According to this table, total of 349 votes, or considerably more than the necessary number to block Bryan nomination would have swung into line with New York. the claim in de- tail being as follows:
 Alabama 1 Florida '; Georgia. 2si Louisiana, IS; w. Virginia, fl; North Carolina 24; Connecticut lz; DelaWaEe 6, Maine Il; Massachusetts I2; New Hampshire {; New Jersey 14; New York 7S; Pennsylvania 4S; Rhode Island 4 Vermont 8; Minnesota 22; Ohio IF Wisconsin 6; Alaska 6; Porto Rico 6.
 The total vote of the convention is 1,002, the one third necessary to pre- vent nomination being SS4. whereas the allied opposition claimed fifteen fl excess of this requirement., had New York furnished the rallying point.
 A meeting was held late this even ing of the various anti-Bryan elements during which the situation was fully canvassed and a practical agreement reached that 1t was futile to continue the fight in view of New YorlS's inac. tion.
 The heated contest in the Pennsyl vania delegation ragged around Mir Guney. but his victory, his enemies claim. Is less significant than mtgh appasr. The hopes of the Bryan mel