Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-09
OLD OTTUMWAN
is ON THE JOB
JAMES w. MYTToN, BROTHER OF
MISS LAURA MYTToN, HAsTENs
TO PUNcTuRE THE FRANCIS
BOOM.
IeY j. K. poUeHERTY.l

DENVER, COlO., July o. .--lopSCldi.J
James T. Lloyd of Missouri, chair
man of the Democratic national con-
gressional committee said last night,
after comforting with the manager of
the Gray bureau:
Il believe that after the Gray man
ayers are convinced that New York
will vote for Bryan, of which every
body else is sure, Gray will come out
for vice president.
"If he will come out soon enough he
can get the nomination on the first
ballot.
'.He is the logical man for the sec
ond place.
.sHis conservatism as against Bry-
ans radicalism, would balance the
ticket admirably
"Grays record in every position he
aas filled is so good it overbalances
The only point against him, namely:
his opposition to silver in 1906"
Lloyd and Gray are personal
friends.
Mytton on Hand.
James ". Mytton of ST. Joseph, Mo-,
brother Of Miss Laura Mytton, clerk
of the United States court in Otbaaa,
wa, and himself a former Ottumwan,
created stir here when he arrived
for the two-fold purpose Of attempting
to puncture the vice presidential
boom of David ]. Francis of Missouri
and to win support to the candidacy
of John Mitchell, the labor leader.
Mytton is a delegate from the
Fourth Missouri district in which he
has been prominent party leader for
years.
That the former head of the United
Mine Workers is candidate is made
public in letter received from Nit
chell by Mytton, who is warm friend
and admirer of the labor leader.
Though couched in diplomatic phrases
Mitchell's letter is plain that he is not
Mitchells friends do not lose sight
of the statements that, while
the labor leader has been in
poor health for a long time, he is ''at
present much better" This indicates
that If the nomination is offered to
him, Mitchell will find himself sufh'
GENTLY strong physically to accept.
Missouri Not in Doubt.
Mytton has been looking around the
situation in Missouri and he says he
finds there is no sentiment in his
home state for the candidacy of Da,
vid R. Francis, former governor and
president of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition.
"The reason is this said Mytton
with Bryan at the head of the ticket
Missouri is not for one minute to be
considered doubtful state, hence M
need for a Missouri man for SECOND
place.
If we are to win the presidential
election this fall, in my judgment, il
can only be done by nominating fol
vice president man of known
strength among the people, who cal
attract accessions from the Republi
can and independent ranks. To my
mind, that man is John Mitchell o
Illinois. His whole life is one tha
will appeal to the toiling masses al
over the country, and it is from tha
class of people that we must expect t,
gather strength.
MoIders of Thought.
II am for Bryan and Mitchell, th
great molders and leaders o
thought in this country. Dem
ocrats pure and simple Me-
like Lincoln, rising from the hun
+, blest surroundings and so conductin
their lives as to be not only loved
but venerated by the true citizenship
of the greatest nation on the face o
the earth
The Mitchell boom was given
wide airing through Mr. Mytton's az
tivity, though in the camps of som
of the other vice presidential cand
dates it was denied that Mitche
would permit his name to go befor
the convention.