The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-05
Opposition to Nebraskan is
Melting Away as Final
Comparisons Are Made.
IRIDDE.R MENTIONED
FOR SECOND PLACE.
.Bryan's Foe Said to Be Favored
by Bryan, Who Also Asks
Whats the Matter With
Swanson, Of Virginia.
Denver Spends
Lurid 4th.s

tErseial..o The Times pi..ateh,l
ENvER. COL. July i.-The
American eagle, and the Dem.
ocratic rooster have We'd with
- each other to-day In giving
OF July In It's brief. but strenuou.
existence. Throughout the day the
streets have been ablaze with color
and roaring with an incessant din
OF cannon crackers that mingled with
the outbursts of enthusiasm OF arriv.
ing political delegations
All the time long trains Lave been
creeping over the prairie from every
direction. adding their throngs to the
multitudes already here.
Crowd still 10 Come.
/ Tonight the State Capitol and other
public buildings loom out of the dark
ness In living fire with every outline
marked by myriad lights; the streets
spuisate with convention throngs and
the clatter OF fireworks; the hotel lob
sbles are filled with political leaders.
delegates and onlookers from every
section of the country. and there Is a
general elimination of to.day's conjunc-
ton OF patriotism and politics. Thus
far, however, there Is no storming OF
Denyer's gates. and the crowds are
somewhat below the average of ma
itional conventions, owing to the dis
lance of Denver from the popuious
centres, and also because the govern
ment and State restrictions on rail-
road passes keep back the hundreds
who have, heretofore made national
conventions the occasion for quad
rennial free excursion. l.
However. the convention Is still
three days off, and there is ample
time for an influx up to precedent in
numbers and noise.
1t Is estimated that 10000. strangers
are already here, and 10000 more are
expected in the next two days.
L In Pickle. Ss
The New Workers are In a pickle
over the vice-presidential. situation.
yesterday, when they Handed here. they
William y. Gaynor, of Brooklyn. and
asserted that the delegation at It's
caucus on Monday would declare for,
Bryan and advance Gaynor as the
States choice for the yice-presidency..
To-day, Charles F. Murphy and his
friends in.S the delegation. not forget,
ting. Senator Thomas F. Grady have
heard a lot about Jumping into the
frying pan situation with Justice Gay
nor as the chief object to be toasted
Bryan had made itfclear to the New
Workers that Gaynor was the best man
to be named II they could agree upon
told Senator McCarren that he would
accept the nomination..
McCarren could be slaughtered in,
the committee on credentials. but all
would have to be loyal to Gaynor. a.
fellow-townsman. and Gaynor's pleas
ant relations with William r. Hearst
might induce Hearst to forego any
determination not to support a ticket
which had Bryan for its head. The Job
was all cooked up at Lincoln, and was
to be tried out for the additional rea-
son that Bryan believes that a New
Yorker should be named for Vice
President to counteract any political
advantage which. the Republicans < Of
the State may gain in the nomination
Of Representative James s. Sherman.
Produced Editorials.
+ It was all very beautiful from the
OF Mr.. Bryan, at Lincoln,
but to-day his friends, with longer
apparently, began to attack
Justice Gaynor. They produced edi-
torial articles from a New York City
which In years gone by
severely CRITICIZED Justice Gaynor'H
for abjuring his religious faith
and attacking 1t from the lecture plat
torm.
I All day the critical editorials. some
Of them dating back fifteen years,
have been peddled among the dele gates
here, among Democratic ma tional COM
and among Bryan and anti
Bryan men. AS a result Mr.. Murphy
and many others in the New York
dele cation, feel tonight that Justice
iaynors cannot be selected by the dele
cation ION Monday. and that even II
be were, he would be rejected by the
Bryan men In the convention.
G 1t should not be thought that Justice
1aynor's boom is altogether dead, but
i lis casting and flutterng In the last
throes. There are mon In the New
York delegation who hope to see It
revived by the time the delegation
on Monday afternoon.
58;5 How About swansons
The New Workers began tonight to
'ay that they did no I. really care to |
lame a scandidat ate for sthe vlce-pre
lency. hey. seem to think that&RryanI
should take ohm w. Kern, OF Indiana,
~ should make even more strenuous
efforts to induce Judge Gray, OF |
Delaware, TO, accept second place on
he ticket. II
! The Johnson men. with the exception
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