The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-06-18
MUCH INSTRUMENTATION
What the News Columns Show
About the Fight.

nomination. Last Mon -
ay the ntilfryan leaders and press =,
gents-and it is worth while to hear - :,
D mind the fact that there have =,
eased to be any Johnson leaders or
ny Gray leaders or any other pCsit-
We leaders, for they lump themselves
ogethPr in one cohort as 'anti- \
3rayn leaders '--oifered this info.ma- o
ion:
"Mr. Bryan has now only GIG dele
yates, or ffty-two short of the two
thirds necessary to nominate.
In the first place this estimate is 4
not at all accurate. The New York
Herald, which has been wholly non
partisan, credits Mr.. Bryan with IA
delegates, or about seventy more
than necessary TO nominate. But if 1t
be admitted that the estimate made
by the "antis" that Mr.. Bryan is
short tifty-two votes of two-thirds
majority, it might also he inquired Il
of them which one of their candi /
dates, whether Judge Gray, with his
six from Delaware and MS possibility |
OF few from Florida, or Governor |
Johnson with his twenty-five from
Minnesota come anywhere within !
ifty.two votes of a majority or IA two
thirds vote In the convention. If
the votes of these two candidates are
combined they viii come not within
fifty two of the number necessary to
nominate, nor will they come within
go of the number necessary to rom"
mate. How utterly futile it is for
this very small tail to expect TO was
| the democratic dog. In IA long inter
view given out in Georgia, Governor
Johnson announced concerning his
campaign that "we have tried to
make good, fair tight ana we in,
tend TO keep right ON in the same
line. " This raises the question as to
what is a good fair tight In politics,
and also how far Governor Johnson
Is personally responsible for what his
managers are doing In his benalf and
apparently with his cuuutenance.
For example, the regular demo-
cratic convention ia the state Of H.
linois instructed It's delegates for Mr..
Bryan. Governor Johns0n's repre-
sentative and hnancier, II. b. Lynch,
gives out TO the press statement
that $50, 900 return postal cards have
been sent out TO democrats through
out the state Of Illinois urging that
vention did not represent demo
cratic sentiment aud that an organ
ICED eliolt should he made to per
suade the instructed delegates to VIC
late their Instructions Aside from
the olllce Of the clerical labor in
v0lved and tie printing, this piece OF
Johnsonian fair play cost for TIE
cards alone VI 600 -money expended
to persuade regularly instructed dele
gates to violate Hhat was practically
an oath Of Office
And again, Ia the state of khnsa'
the state convention instructed al
delegates for MIR. Bryan. Mr., John
sons managers invaded that STATE
, insisting that the instructions die
not express the will of the people
and that II was time TO correct or L
annul them. The real democrats o
the state accepted the challenge
cheerfully and at conference hell
only "A few days ago, attended TN
state convention, the Johnson force
were swept of the face OF the earth
Is IT fair or honorable policy for
man with barrel OF money benin
- bin to attempt 90 annul the actio
of regularly constituted democrati
conventions
We are making "A good, fair, hRh
aud will keep on. says the distii
puished Minnesota representative I
the eastern interests. Very well !,
US consider the fairness Of the hRl
In Pennsylvania. tifty-three out {
l. sixty. four district delegates TO II
state convention were instruct ed /
81 the men who elected them to vote .
Denver for the uOmlnatiuB of y
" BRYAN. A state convention, Cul
trolled by Mr.. GulIcy. of tie Siau'
81 ard OH company, left uuiustfuct,
four ueleRates-li large. And no
the advocates Of t,uyernor Jahut
ST are urging With specious, and le
in some cases, specie arguments, q
~ tae0ry that action Of the state co
yention which controlled four ta
ST gates should control the siNty.fou
,o These furnish a few Illustrations
toe sort Of the good, fair tRht ma
81 Governor Johnson behalf ul !
,v only intimate political associate, 90
- for which he must be held rc,p"u
~ bible. II is d most unfortunate sit
30 alton for bin, f0r hc hl, reas'i
- he known - his CWu candidate d.
~ merely IS the anti Bryan cIudiddi
he himself in his later speeches b
lost that poisc and seIfrcsira
'' Ahich characterized him in d
earlier utterances THIS q0u,atu
and summary Of 4 portion OF /