The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-07-10
CLEVELAND RESOLUTIONS ARE
INTENDED TO CAUSE DIS.
II CORD AT DENVER.
TO HEAD Off JUDGE PARKER
Nebraskan Followers Will Have Reso.
l., iutions Of Their Own Introduced
omtting the Objection
able Language.


to the memory of the late ex-Presidel5
Grover Cleveland is a clever move on
the part of enemies of William Jen-
nilgs Bryan to infuse factional feel
ing into the Democratic national con.
vention friends of the Nebraskan
Thursday determined to offer a reso
luton of character designed not to
raise controverted political issues.
Through control of the temporary or
ganization of the convention the Bryan
following expects to have its resolu-
tion brought to the attention Of the
delegates Immediately after the speech
of the temporary chairman has been
delivered. In that event the Parker
resolution would have to be offere,! as
a substitute, if submitted at all, and
the Bryan men declare that the New
York delegation would thereby be
placed in the attitude of attempting,
under the guise of eulogizing a great
party leader, to create strife and dis
sension and to make harmony impos-
sibe. All Democrats, without regard
to factional affiliations, applaud the
SuSSSSIlOu lIOLu view IOIh IldI tHC
national convention should embrace
the first opportunity of honoring the
memory of Mr.. Cleveland. but most
of those who have expressed them
selves on the subject are of the opin-
ion that the resolutions adopted should
not contain anything over which there
could be the slightest difference CT
opinion. The New York resolution
which was made public Wednesday
night, is denounced by such Bryan
leaders as Mayor James c. Dahlman
of Omaha and Judge M. e. Wade Of
Iowa, the member of the national CON-
mittee, from that state. They declare
that its adoption would be direct
slap at Bryan and insist that in CIV
ing it out for publication the New
York delegation intended to disparage
the Nebraska candidate. The portions
of the resolution which particularly
aroused the ire of the friends of Mr..
Bryan relate to Mr.. Clevelands rec
ord on the questions of maintaining
the integrity of the courts and finance,
the paragraphs being as follows:
HE respected the integrity of our
courts and so insisted upon the strict
enforcement of the law that every
honest man or interest might be pro-
tected and all offenders punished,
without fear or favor
'He maintained the public credit
and honor, stood firm as a rock in
defense of sound principle of finance,
and resisted dangerous economic doc
trines and practices left by the Re-
publican party as heritage of our
people"
It was said Thursday by Mayor
Dahlman that these expressions are
but thinly yelled attacks upon Mr.
Bryan, and his well known attitude on
the question of adopting an anti-in.
junction plank, and his position in
1896 and 1900 on the money question.
The publication of the Parker reso-
luton was a bombshell exploding in
the midst of the Bryan followers and
steps were at once taken by members
of the committee on convention ar
rangements to head off it's introduction
in the convention. They were unani-
mously of the opinion that it would
provoke a discussion and possibly a
fight which they desired to avoid. Sew
eral members of the committee, who
did not care to be publicly quoted,
did not hesitate to say, however, that
in their opinion an argument in the
convention over such a resolution as
hn JicUra DoftI and in ttrn
the party in the eyes of the country.
R. NJ. Johnston, the Texas member
of the committee on convention ar
engagements, said Thursday:
IF that Parker resolution is intro
duced in the convention it will raise |
all sorts of q row. The friend of Mr.. |
Bryan do not propose that, under the |
guise of resolution honoring Grover
Cleveland, Mr.. Bryan shall be at
tackled and his policies for the last
IL years held up to rebuke."
Secretary Woodson of the national
committee, who has been elected sec.
rotary of the convention, Tuesday an
lowing assistants:
Assistant Observation-Disclosures S.
Northen, Atlanta, Ga; H. c. Rich
mond, Fremont, Neb.; c. A. Nash,
Perry, Iowa; Edward Cahill, Spring
field. ILL.,; Will Reid, Rawlins, Wyo.,
and Frank B. Ross. indianapolis. Ind.
Reading clerks-William McEniry,
Rock Island, ILL.,; T. F. Smith, New
York City; William E. R. Byrne,
Charleston, w. Va; c. ]. Gavin, Den
YER. COL; Rees P. Horrocks. Little
Rock, Ark, and Joseph E. Kelley, In
Ind.
Tally clerks-Ruby Laffoon, Madi-
sonville, KY; V. ALERT, Langdon, n.
D.; E. E. Murphy. Leavenworth. Kan;
Thomas II. Lovelace. st. Louis, Mo-;
Thomas g. Collier, Memphis, Tenn,
and .. 9. Ernt, Decatur, Ind.
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