Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-07-12
With Convention Excitement Over,
Democrats Realize Cause Hopeless.
SOME SORENESS TOWARD BRYAN
Do Not Like the Method by Which He
Dictated Running Mate.
SOME FRIENDS INFORMED LATE
Colorado and other Mountain Demo
Gratis Admit They Cannot Carry
single One of the Noun
tain states.
crrom a staff CorrespondentO


DENVER. Colo, July 11-(special Telo-
gram. denver Is rract caly deserted By
delegates ana convention visitors today.
Those who have not returned to their
homes have hfSed to the mountains for
few days rest. The enthusiasm incident
to the convention proceedings has died cut
and those here are beginning to look at
the situation without prejudice and begin
to realize the hupelc ssncss from the demo
cratic standpoint They are somewhat
piqued at Mr.. Bryan for his conduct In
the matter Of the selection of running
mate 1t develops today that the selec Ion
was made by Bryan at o'clock Friday
morn'ng, after he had been notified directly
that Judge Gray would not accept the
nomination and had also been informed by
Tammany that that organization had no
choice. Then Mayor Dahman, Tom Tag-
CART and Roger sullivan named Kern and
Bryan STAMPED the selection with his
20. X" Then Taggart, Sullivan and Dahl
man got busy and organized a campaign,
insisting all the time that Bryan had left
the choice open to the convention.
To have sent out the word that Bryan
had decided upon Kern would have b en- t.
advertise that Bryan was debating to the
convention. IT would also have created
many political sore spots among those
delegates with favorite sons of their own
And so it happened, not by chance, but by
design, that the army Of delegates were
not aware when the convention was called
to order that KEN was their man.
james Gives First Tip.
In fact the first lntimation given them
that KEN was to be their choice was when
ellie James, the Kentucky statesman an1
spellbinder, took the platform and seconded
the nomination of the man from the banks
of the Wabash. And even then only few
Of the wiser ones caught the drift of the
thnS. This, too, in the face OF the fact
that 1t was after o'clock In the afternoon
when Mr.. James spoke. and the choice OF
Kern had teen mad at $3.50 in the morn NJ.
The leaders, of course, knew of the Kern
decision made by Mr.. Bryan. 1t was abso-
lutely necessary that they he taken into the
confidence of the big three. But that they
guarded their secret we'll was evidenced by
the fact that they permitted their own
spellbinders to place favorite sons in NOM
ination in good faith.
As an example of this witness the plac-
ing in nomination of Clark Howell of At
lanta by J. r. Hill of Georgia. Mr.. Hill
thought Mr.. Howell would have a chance.
SO did quite a number of other delegates.
Furthermore, It was not until an hour or
more later that they awoke to the true sit
uaton and withdrew his name. One dele
gate reached the platform and started in on
his nominating speech before he knew
where he stood, He started off extolling
the merits of his states choice and was
Just about to present his candidates name
when Acting Chairman Ollie James touched
him on the arm. When the speaker turned
tn 10 n
preston of confusion that was really laugh
able. II required full half minute for him
10 recover his poise. Then he smiled and in
an abashed sort of way announced that
! while he had intended naming "A democratic
| peer from his own state he had been In
! formed that his friend had decided not to
have his name presented and so he, the
speaker would second the nomination OF
John w. Kern
Change tn Colorado.
! I lived in Colorado in 1896. when the
Rock mountain region was Bryan mad.
The change in the political condition has
been little short of marvellous l have
talked today with nearly a score Of business
men, most of them democrats, and they
have no hesitancy in declaring that the re-
publicans will carry Colorado this year by
10000. The socialist vote here has grown
! in the last few years, but 1t is evident that
it will go TO Debs rather than TO Bryan.
while all of the old silver republicans, who
controlled the, balance of power in the state
during the days of the silver craze, have
returned to the republican party. There is
nothing In existing political conditions to
give Bryan any hope of carrying Colorado.
Montana, Idaho or any OF the Rock moun-
tain states. w. II. H.