Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-19
AEBRASKAN TO GET
MISSOURI AND FLORIDA
Wins Over johnson In Alabama
but Minnesota Governor
Carries Big Towns
California Endorses
Peerless One.


da's ten delegates in the Denver con-
vention will be selected by the voters
in the Democratic primaries which are
being neld throughout the state to-
day. Candidates will be nominated
today for United States senator, pres
idential electors, congressman from
the three districts and county and
state offices. There has been much
rivalry for places on the Florida dele
CATION to the national convention, but
1t is likely that the states representa-
tives will be found in the Bryan
ranks.
Missouri Democrats.
jefferson City, Mo, May l9.-Mis-
souri's Democracy is gathering in
force in the state capital today, pre-
liminary 10 morrow's state conven-
tion. Four delegates at large and two
delegates for each congressional dis
trict of the state will be elected to go
to Denver. Presidential electors and
a national committeeman will also be
chosen. Bryan's Endorsement by the
convention is apparently "a foregone
conclusion.
Split i'm Michigan.
Lansing, Mich, May 19.-Bryan Is
the rock on which the Michigan De-
mocracy threatens to split when the
state convention Is called to order
here tomorrow. Sentiment among
the delegates who are gathered in the
hotel lobbies today is about evenly di-
vided between the Nebraskan and
Governor Johnson of Minnesota, and
a warm fight between the two factions
is expected when an attempt is made
to pledge ne delegation to Bryan.
Soutl. Carolina Doubtful.
Columbia S. c., May 1s.-Whether
South Carolina will climb into the
band wagon of William Jennings
Bryan and support his candidacy in
the Denver convention will be decid-
ed tomorrow. when the Democratic
state convention will convene in this
city. While the rank and file of vot-
ers have not manifested a great deal
of interest in the matter, a fierce
newspaper controversy has been
waged over the Bryan Endorsement
question. Both the Nebraskan's sup
porters and the anti-Bryan men are
claiming certain victory In tOmor-
rows convention.
Pennsylvania Democrats.
Harrisburg, Pa, May IA three
cornered fight between the protag-
Onists Of the Bryan Democratic league,
the George Gray league and the
Johnson league will mark the Demo-
cratic state convention here tomor-
row. Each OF the three candidates
has strong supporters among the lead
ers of Pennsylvania's Democracy and
the warfare for supremacy will un-
doubtedly be bitterly contested. The
Bryan league adherents are working
like beavers to secure an instructed
delegation for Bryan and the adoption
of a platform in line with the pro-
gressivc political views of the Ne
braskan.
Mobile, Ala, May 19.-Returns
from yesterdays Democratic primar-
les indicate beyond doubt that
Bryan is the choice of the state De-
mocracy for the party nomination for
president. The count will PROBABLY
not be completed before tonight.
johnson polled larger vote than
expected and appears to have carried
Montgomery, Mobile and Birmingham,
the three chief cities OF the state.
Fresno, Calf, May 19.-The Demo-
cratic state convention today adopted
platform instructing the California
delegates for Bryan and indorsed ex-
Congressman Theodore A. Bell for
temporary chairman OF the national
convention at Denver July Z