The San Francisco call., 1908-03-29
DEMOCRATS SEEKING
TO DEFEAT BRYAN
Hearst Ragtag and BobtaiI
Party TO Be Aided in
Revenge Plans
Prominent Men Are Out to Cut
Away TwO-thirds Support
From CommOner
BY g. g. Carlton


on the part of certain leading demo
Gratis TO try 10 encompass the defeat of
Bryan by depriving him of the two
thirds vote necessary to nominate. The
design of these conspirators seems to
he to concentrate their support on eN-
Governor Johnson Of Minnesota or
upon Charles A Towne. now of New
York. formerly prominent member Of
congress and United States senator
from Minnesota. It is interesting TO
note IN this connection that Dolphin
II Deimss, erstwhile Napoleon of
. Jaw partnership with Towne. with Of
fees in the Trinity building, New York
Bryan is now threatened with opposi-
tion also from Hearst's following.
: little by little the purpose of Hearst
IN prolonging the life Of the Independ-
enCe league and organizing therefrom
the new national party is becoming
known. He seems TO have twofold
purpose in view: Firstly. TO satisfy
~eEgeful feeling against democracy for
Epurning his presidential aspirations
and making him a political outcast:
Aecondly, TO build up new political or
gsnizstion-a party Of discontented
ones, democrats. republicans, populists,
socialists and anarchists.
This army OF the disc0ntented. COM
posed OF ragtag and bobtail is nRtur-
ally expected TO draw more from the
democratic party than from any other
political organization. Hearst fully ex-
poets to draw enough votes from Bryan
10 defeat him for the presidency.
sgRYAN TURNS DOWN HEARST
1t is the understanding here now
that. far from reaching an understand
ing with BRYAN when the two met at
Hearst's residence in this city several
months ago. they came TO no agree
rnent whatever. In fact. the Nebraskan
turned down the overtHres made by
Hearst, realizing full we'll that an al
3.ance with him would forever destroy
his. prospects, for. while Bryan himself
mas been ranked among the ultra radi-
cal, he could not openly countenance
Hearsts rabid ansrchistic doctrines.
Therefore Bryan is q marked man.
.. He. is TO be slaughtered in November
and. Hearst expects TO teach democracy
. 1nat he and his following are not TO be
despfsed Whether or not Hearst ex-
meets TO nominate himself for the presi
dency. on his ragtag and bobtail ticket,
=. can only be conjectured at this time
He may deem IL the part OF wis
dom 10 stay out of the race and nomi-
nate a figurehead TO demonstrate the
strength of his following in Novem-
her. and make another bid for the
presidency four years later IT can
hardly be conceived that Hearst could
hope 10 be elected in the ensuing
.CamDa1En. Tor. WithaA. ne Is SOfeWu-
=. Yet there are some here, who know
him Intimately who declare that he
=. is SO strongly imbued with the presi
dental ambition and is so falsely en-
:. .couraged and haftered by sycophants
q: end political parasites who gain a live
,.lihood by feeding his vanity. that he
actually has been led to believe that
. HIS popularity with the masses would
sweep him into the presidential office
on tidal wave Of discomfort.
: HEAsT-s LONG DREAM
= II is said that IT has been Hearst's
dream. almost from boyhood at least
from his maturity when he began his
journalistic career, with the Exam
iner as birthday present, to build mp
following of plain people. or more
,: properly speaking. of discontented
ones. who would regard him as
Moses to lead them into land of
plenty.
=. This has been his one ambition He
has never for moment relinquished
IT and this, too. was his reason for
establishing a chain OF newspaper or
gans At one time there was much
talk here that Hearst would establish
newspaper in Washington. d. c.. but
she idea was dismissed by him as
being impractical. from q political
standpoint. for the district of colun-
'bia has vote. So he concluded that
: Boston would be more TO the purpose
In brief his purpose now seems to
e. be TO. satisfy revengeful feeling
against his enemies, to pose in the
iimelight as a political power, to ad-
vertise the Hearst papers and never
for an instant relinquish his ultimate
design on the presidency.
Bryan is now threatened by organ
lied opposition within the ranks of the
regular democracy-Colonel James NJ
GIffey, the democratic boss OF PennsyI-
vania; ex-senator David 3. Hin of New
York and others. relying upon the sup
port OF Senator Daniel of Virginia. who
is outspoken against the wisdom of
: renominating Bryan; ex-senator James
p K. Jones Of Arkansas chairman Of the
national democratic committee in for
mer Bryan campaigns; Henry Waiter
son Of Kentucky. and others equally
Influential They now entertain a hope
of securing enough anti-Bryan dele
gates TO prevent the Nebraskan from
getting the two-thirds necessary to
nominate in the national democratic
convention at Denver. Guffey and Hill
have recently been busy in Washing
ton and elsewhere, trying to corral
1877 votes.
They figure that with New York and
Pennsylvania sending uninstructed
=: delegates to Denver, ii is within lSs
votes of organizing the rebellious one
third of the convention. which will
prevent the nomination of Bryan
Minnesota is counted upon TO furnish
her 221 votes, thus leaving 167 more to
be discovered.
: The peculiar condition exists that,
. while the leaders in congress are op-
posed 70 Bryan. their constituents gem
orally are for him. For the same rea-
son any attempt at a reliable forecast
OF the situation is well nigh impossi-
ble.
II is declared that If the combination
succeeds in preventing the nomination
of Bryan, there is TO be a bitter fight
between Governor Johnson of Mime
sofa and Charles A Towne of New
York Bryan, II is expected. would
throw his strength TO Uowne If he dis
covered his own nomination to be i'm
possible
Charles A. Towne has had a kaleido-
scopic political career. crowded into a
II year period He is lightning quick
In changing his politics, but seems to
~r-ffA a f.ox