The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-24
POWERS IS OUT
FOR ". j. BRYAN
Democratic Leader Speaks for
Instructed Delegation
to Denver.
NEBRASKAN SURE TO WIN
UTAH SHOULD GET IN LINE AND
HELP HIM.

Judge o. w. Powers is strongly of the
opinion that the delegates from Utah
to the Democratic national convention
nomination of William J. Bryan. In a
letter addressed 10 The Herald, Judge
Powers says:
To The Salt Lake Herald: 1t ought
not to be necessary for anyone in Utah
to urge upon the Democrats of this
state the propriety and the justice of
sending TO the Democratic national
convention a thoroughly loyal and en-
thusiastic delegation instructed TO work
and vote for the nomination of William
j. Bryan for the presidency. Neverthe-
less, while the rank and file of the
Democratic party of Utah is intensely
favorable to Mr.. Bryan, there are lead
ers of the party who are giving aid
and comfort TO his enemies in the east,
and particularly to that element that
dictates the political policy of the New
York World, New York Times and New
York Sun, and which contributed $780,
600 in an effort to encompass his defeat
at the Kansas City convention.
1t is said by these men, and they are
strong men i'm our party, that they are
willing TO consent to the selection of a
Bryan delegation TO Denver, but that
any EFFORT to instruct the delegation at
our state convention in his favor will
meet with strong opposition, and that
ii will be voted down. If they are sin
cere in their declaration that they will
permit a delegation favorable to Mr..
Bryan TO be selected, why will they not
| permit" the state convention to in
struct for Mr.. Bryan? In their effort
to thus throw discredit upon his cause.
in this. a state that his friends can well
claim, they are following the plans laid
down by the anti-Bryan men I'm the
east. During the past sixty days l
have had the honor of receiving cour-
teous visits from four anti-Bryan mis-
siOnaries, who have argued and pleaded
for an uninstructed delegation from
Utah. If Utah is for Bryan, why can
not the Democrats in convention as
sembled announce to the Democrats of
the nation that they are for Bryan?
Why are not the men and the women
who will assemble in our state conven-
ton, fresh from the people, just as
competent to say whom they desire for
president as the six men will be who
will be selected delegates? Can it be
possible that some one desires to secure
q delegation Ostensibly for Bryan. but
lukeWarm in the faith, with which to
trade with the politicians in the east?
Bryan is bound to be the nominee of
the Democratic party. whether we are
for him or not, and he will be elected
president, and it might be just as well
to line up in our state convention for
Bryan and anti-Bryan, so that those
who are now carrying on a guerrilla
campaign against him will not be able
TO claim, after he is indicted into Of
fee. that they We're his true and loyal
friends all the time. The very fact
that men who do not want Mr.. Bryan
TO be nominated are pleading and
working for an uninstructed delega-
ton, ought 10 be sufficient argument to
convince any Bryan man that the dele
cation should be instructed. Our dele
cation went 10 St. Louis four years ago
uninstTucted, and il was not shining
light i'm that convention. 1t followed
out the wishes of ant-Bryan men in
the east, and it helped TO give us Par
ker and a 10000 majority for Roosevelt.
in Utah.
That the rank and file of the Demo-
cratic party in the entire nation are
heart and soul for Bryan is shown by
the fact that the statesmen who have
been 10 Utah during the present spring.
fostering and organizing an anti-Bryan
sentiment. declared while here that the
south would repudiate him, that Cal
ifornia and Washington would not in
struct for him. And during the past
week Alabama, South Carolina, Michi-
gan, Washington, California and the
District of Columbia have instructed
their delegates TO support him.
Bryan is the logical candidate. AS a
private citizen, by his sheer force of
character and brilliancy of intellect he
has become the first citizen of the re-
public in private life. The principles