Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-01
Gray Of Delaware Opens
Headquarters at Denver.
Anti-Injunction Plank Promises
10 Develop Lively Fight.
Bryan Wants Radical One, But Tag.
CART and Sullivan Don't.

Denver. Col, June 30.-Although cam
didates for the nomination for Vice
President OH the Democratic ticket are
numerous; and despite the fact that
their number is likely to be largely in
creased before a choice is actually
made, it Is the general opinion among
such leaders of the party as are now
here that if George Gray Of Delaware
will declare his willingness to accept
the second place on the ticket he can
have it, Mr.. Marvel, Judge Gray's po-
li.cal manager, insists that his man
Is candidate for first place and when
it has been settled that he cannot have
first place it will be ample time to
place him in running for the secondary
position provided he cares to take it.
Mr.. Marvel declares that Judge Gray
will not be satisfied with anything less
than the head of the ticket.
Mr.. Marvel when informed of the
sentiment regarding Judge Gray as
candidate for Vice President, said:
I'VE don't know anything about
that. 1t does not concern us. Judge
Gray is a candidate for President and
he is going to be nominated. We are
nothing else"
expected his candidate to show on
the first ballot, Mr.. Marve said:
He will get all of Delaware, all of
Maryland. IL great part of Pcnnsyl-
vania, probably all of New Jersey, and
many votes from the South. We are
not making any specific claims as to
figures but this fact must be born in
mind. There are 400 unrestricted dele
gates To that convention. You can
draw your own conclusions as TO what
that means. but it certainly means
something"
Mr. Marvel said that the name of
Judge Gray would be presented to the
convention by l.. l. Handy of Della
ware, seconded by =. A. O'Berl, chair
man of the recent Democratic conven-
lion in Pennsylvania. He declared
there will be several ether seconding
speeches but that he could not to-
night name the men who would make
them.
It is well known that Mr.. Bryan
would be pleased to have Judge Gray
for the Vice Presidential candidate and
the only thing that prevents the lat
ter from becoming leading candidate
for that position is the simple but all
powerful fact that he will not declare
himself to be a candidate at all.
The Gray Presidential boom was for
mally launched today and headquar-
ters were opened in the Savoy hotel.
During the early afternoon a corps OF
expert bill stickers were going about
the hotels putting up Autographs of
the Delaware candidate. No other pic
lures have been placed as yet, and the
Gray men secured the most prominent
places in the Hobbies of all the leading
hotels.
The johnson headquarters will not be
opened for several days. and the date
on which the Bryan banners will be
thrown out has not yet been deter
mined, but it will be Saturday or Sum
day after the arrival of the Nebraska
delegation.
1t Is certain that there will be a
strong fight in the committee on reso-
lutions and possibly on the floor of
the convention itself, over the anti-in-
junction plank. Word has come indi-
rectly from Lincoln that Mr.. Bryan is
i'm favor of plank somewhat radical
in nature, and 1t is certain that such
men as Sullivan, national committee
man from Illinois, and Chairman Tag
gart of the national comittee abe
strongly opposed to it. Sullivan gave
out a statement in which he favored
'cuual rights before the law" and used
three other expressions of similar
character which were construed to
mean that he was opposed to a strong
anti injunction plank.
Sullivan denies that he intended to con
vey the impression that he planned to
fight the anti-injunction plank. but 1T Is
generally believed he is against extreme
language in this part Of the resolution
1t Is we'll known that between Mr.. Bryan
and Mr.. Sullivan and other influential
members of the Illinois delegation no par
ticular amount of love is left and reports
have been circulated that IL an anti-in-
junction plank is adopted more radical in
It's character than the Illinois people feel
they can approve that the state when 1t
comes to halotng FOR President will
break away from its Bryan instructions.
Sullivan denied this emphatically today,
lie said:
I'VE are told to stick for BrA an ana
we are going to stick. do not believe
that any platform fight can change our
present program. Illinois has no Idea OF
breaking from its Instructions
The forces opposed to radical labor
plank were made stronger today by the
arrival of Charles G. Hefner of Wash
ington state who has the proxy of John
Y Terry, the national committeeman
from that State. Mr. Heifner announced
empkatically that the Pacific slope and
particularly the state of Washington was
opposed to the adoption of such a plank
as was presented at Chicago by Samuel
Gompers and other officials of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
1.-THE adoption by our party of such a
plank would be transparent sop to