The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-29
Bryan by Acclamation Says Major
Dahlman and raymond" Predicts
Eastern Man For His Running Mate
Ultra Conservatism Will Dis
tinguish National Demo
cratic PlatfOrm-Taft Turn.
ing Over Office to Wright.


Dahlman. OF Omaha, Bryan's personal
representative, predicted today that
the Nebraskan will be nominated by
reclamation. He declares Bryan will
have 703 votes, even If Johnson and
Gray are placed in nomination. He
said there will be no hard feeling af-
ter the convention, and Democracy
will leave Denver harmonized. Dem
ocrats here are looking for a fight
over the national craftsmanship. Tom
Taggart, of Indiana, has entered the
race for reelection. Bryan's friends
are urging Dahlman against Taggart.
The Platform.
Denver, Col, June 20. - With
Bryan sure to be named for the pres
idency and with some eastern man
like Gray, Douglass or Chanler slated
for second place, chief interest in the
Denver convention, says Raymond in
the Chicago Tribune. For a wonder,
Bryan is disposed to be conservative,
and his lieutenants promise the plat
form ne dictates will be conservative
also.
Times have changed since 1896,
when the Nebraska leader was a poor
lawyer just defeated for congress and
with no capital but his own gift for
political oratory. He has been CON
stantly in the public eye since then.
His Chautauqua lectures and his
paper have made him wealthy. If not
actually rich. He has begun to have
a money stake in the community, and
his Influence on the platform in 1908
Is far different from what 1t was
twelve years ago.
Jim" Dahlman, the cowboy mayor
of Omaha, brought from Lincoln a
rough draft or suggestion" of plat
form, which has been passed around
among the leaders IL does not con-
tain a declaration for the government
ownership of railroads. When Bryan
Announced that doctrine in his speech
at Madison Square Garden on his re-
turn from Europe, | watched the
faces of the old Democratic leaders
in the boxes. and it was easy 10 sec
how much they disapproved of the
idea.
... The Railroad Plank.
II was a distinct retreat from the
traditional Democratic doctrine OF
states rights, and men like Senator
Daniel. of Virginia, Henry Watterson
of Kentucky and Clark Howell, OF
Georgia, at once refused to accept II
as Democratic in any sense. Since
then Bryan has learned wisdom, and
the Denver platform will be strong
on government regulation of rail
roads without mentioning govern
ment ownership at all.
It is likely that some of the Wis.
cousin railroad planks which were
discarded at Chicago will be incor'
pOrated in the Denver platform. II
will probably declare for the physical
valuation of railroads.
The chief plank of the Democratic
platform is to be that which will de
clare for government guarantee OF
deposits in national banks. This is q
pet idea with Bryan. This scheme
proposes in the rough that tax should
be laid on al deposits in nationa
banks, proceeds of which viii form
guarantee fund out of which thu
government will pay depositors o
broken banks at once without wait
| ing for the slow process OF liquida
ton.
Here, as in Chicago, leaders are be
sieged by the labor chiefs, who de
mand concessions. Gompers is pre-
pairing to move on the Denver con
vention as he did on that at Chicago
with a plank defining the rights o
labor before the courts. At Chicago
plank was inserted in the platform
which pledges the party to sustain
the courts. but at the same time de
clares for legislation forbidding thu
issuance of writs of injunction with
out notice except in cases of emer
gency. Gompers is not satisfied will
the plank. and he is preparing e
move on the Denver convention will
the same plank which was turned
down at Chicago.
I'VE pledge ourselves to the enact
ment of a law to prohibit the issu
ance of injunctions in cases arisini
out of labor disputes, when such in
functions would not apply when NJ
labor disputes existed, and that in nj
lease shall an injunction be issuet
when there exists a remedy by ordi
uary process of law, and which &C
shall provide that in the procedur
flor punishment of contempt of cour
the party cited for contempt shall
when such contempt was not com
mitted in the presence of the court
be entitled TO trial by jury"
The leaders say nothing so radica
as the Gompers plank will be permit
ted to creep into the Denver plat
form. The injunction plank of tn
lChicago platform will be denounce
and derided as a subterfuge to cate
1.-THE labor vote, but the Gomper