The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-07-11

two feet deep IN water, While the ROCK
Islands lines were washed out both
north and south of the city, making it
| impossible to bring to Lincoln any of
the trains scheduled to arrive during
the day. The Northwestern passenger
station was just outside of the water
| line, but it's roadbed is said to be SO
| far under water west of the city that
| it will not attempt to move it's after
noon train scheduled to leave the city
at 1:50 o'clock.
| Denver. July6.-This is the way the
Hearst newspaper correspondent sizes
up the situation on the eve of the DEM
ocratic convention:
William j. Bryan of Nebraska for
president and George Gray of Della
| ware for vice-president, platform close
ly following the lines of the Nebraska
platform, written by the Sage of Fair
view himself. This is the prevailing
! opinion among those on the ground
here tonight as the result of the dem
ocratic national convention, which will
convene here tomorrow.
1t means the complete triumph of
William Jennings Bryan, the rout Of
the Ryan-Belmont wing of the party,
| and the total eclipse of the New York
representation at Denver.
IT am convinced that New York will
not be represented on the ticket" said
State Senator Thomas F. Grady to-
night.
Bryan has more than the necessary
two-thirds to nominate him. We have
had scouts out all day looking into the
situation, and everyone has brought
in a report to Charles Murphy which
shows conclusively that Bryan cannot
be beaten. 1t is all over"
| New York, accordingly, will support
Bryan, who will receive the entire
vote of the Empire state in the con-
vention.
The name of Justice William Gaynor
of New York will be presented to the
convention as the states choice for
vice-president, but with little hope of
landing the prize, for it is now gen.
orally understood that Gray will &C
cept.
New York, that is to say, the pluto
cratic wing of the democratic party in
the Empire state, will get just this
| much:
The election of William J.-"Fingy''
I-Connors to succeed Norman E. Mack
as national committeeman
This is the final slap of the anti
Bryan wing at the men on horseback.
If there was any way for Bryan to
prevent this it would be done, for Mack
has been consistent Bryan supporter
for the past twelve years, and it is
hard for Bryan to have to sit idly by
and see his friend sacrificed. But the
selection of new committeeman lies
entirely with the New York delegation,
and New York has been so completely
flattened out that there is no other
punishment that Murphy can be men,
aced with to force Mack upon him.
! 1t goes back to the Parker resolu-
ton on the death of Cleveland. Alton
B. Parker, who four years ago was
leader of the party, is today the most
pitiful object of the convention
scorned by the Bryanites and repudi-
ated by his own state organization.
Bryan was, apparently, willing to
deal on the square with everybody.
He was posing as the great apostle Of
party harmony and was even disposed
to make some concessions to the East
| Parker Resolution.
Then came the publication of the
proposed Parker resolution on Cleve-
land, with it's covert slap at Bryan
! Whether rightfully or not, Bryan at
tributed this attack to the Ryan-Bel-
mont wing Of the party, which all
along his friends have claimed have
been back of johnson. He flared up
and after a hurried view of the situa-
ton decided that the time had arrived
for showdown.
| The plan was to crush New York alb
solutely. Friday night James Dahl
man, mayor Of Omaha, made his ia
nous call on Murphy and told him
| bluntly that Bryan did not care where
New York stood, since he could be
nominated without the New York dele
gates and elected without the New
York votes.
Saturday came the end. New York
humbled herself by allowing 1t to be
! understood that her solid delegation
would vote for Bryan in the conven-
ton. The caucus today will so decide.
She will do anything that Bryan asks.
save only that Mack must go and be
replaced by Connors.
Whatever it may mean so far as the
result at the polls in concerned, this
much is assured: Bryan has ridden
rough shod over the New York delega-
ton and reduced their influence to a
cipher. He has flattened out the Ryan
belmont crowd and relegated the EN-
plre state to rank comparable to that
OF Delaware. The New Workers. are
made to look like pigmies.
Government to Reserve Strip.
Dawson. July 6.The Canadian GOV.
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