Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-04-20
D|RECTPRIMARY Law THE JOHNSON RO0M
EASTERN SYNDICATE'S EFFORT To
BEAT BRYAN.
campaign of Gov Johnson is i'm full
Blast. With Headquarters in Chi.
CagO. Delaware BOOmS Judde
Gray. Why Predatory Corpora.
tiOnS Fear BRYAN.

bIOuS SdT bryan.
1t is now quite evident that Gov
ernor Johnson is the choice of the
Eastern syndicates for thwarting the
democratic demand for Bryan as the
presidential candidate of the demo-
cratic party. Bryan's nomination is
the one thing these interests now
fear. They would risk any man to
sidetrack Bryan. But they do not le-
gard Governor Johnson as risk.
James j. Hills 80. k" is good enough
for them.
The one specific virtue urged in be-
half of Governor johnson is that he
would surely win. The same asser-
tion came four years ago from the
same sources regarding Judge Par.
ker. 1t is as baseless regarding
johnson as it proved to be regarding
Parker. Governor Johnson has no
popular strength outside of his own
state. The prediction that he would
carry Wisconsin is the veriest NOON
shine. If La Toilette were the repub-
lican candidate no democrat could
carry Wisconsin, and Bryan is the
only democrat who can carry that
state against any republican. AS to
Governor JOhnsOn's own state, Min
nesOta, no democrat can carry it for
president. With all the support
which Governor Johnson had from
the corporations in his campaign for
governor, and even with republican
candidate whose candidacy the cor
porations should ignore, as they did
that OF Governor JOhnsOn's guberna-
torial adversary, Governor Johnson
could not secure the electoral vote
Of his state. He could not carry a
single state that Bryan would lose; !;
and he would lose states that Bryan
can carry.
There has never been any prob
ability of Governor Johnson's nomi-
nation. There would be less than
ever, were it possible, now that one
or Mr.. Hill's handy men has opened
Governor Johnson's headquarters at
Chicago under the evident and only
thinly concealed patronage of Mr.
Roger Sullivan, and that the repub.
lican papers are singing Governor
JohnsOn's praises in chorus, as they
did Judge Parker's about this time
four years ago. Democrats who put
principle above pie have come to un-
derstand fairly well that any demo
crat whom corporation magnateS
vouch for and republican newspapers
exploit, adds nothing to his presiden-
tial availability by encouraging the.
overtures. Such a man must win his
spurs as a democrat of principle, free
from big business entanglements, be
fore he can hope to command the con-
fidence Of democratic democrats.
! At recent meeting in New York
City a number of conspicuous repre-
sentatives of predatory wealth, three
of whom bitterly denounce President
Roosevelt, We're discussing the ap.
preaching presidential election and
it's probable result. While they could
not find language severe enough in
which to condemn Roosevelt, they
were also opposed to Bryan. One oi
the gentlemen present, a Southern
democrat, asked these captains oi
industry" and railroad magnates why
they feared Bryan, reminding then
that if he should be elected president
there was a reasonable probability
that the senate and the house would
nevertheless be safely republican
One of the most aggressive of the
predatorialists candidly replied "Wt
fear him for the attorney general ht
would appoint"
There is really not an atom O.
good faith or Of sound purpose in the
campaign being urged for Gov. John
son or for Judge Gray. There was NJ
good faith in the campaign which
was pressed for Lewis Stuyvesan
Chanler and which has disappeared
from the face Of the political earth
The one thing that animates tn,
newspapers and the politicians wh'
are opposing the we'll known and tn
notorious desire of an overwhelmin,
majority Of the democratic voters O
the country for Mr.. Bryan's nomina
tion, is desire to defeat that nomi
nation. They do not want him nomi
mated because they fear, indeed, the.
know, that he will be elected. An,
with soft words and fine promise
fhav ara saving that they admir-