The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-03-12
Johnson IkDORSED
IN HIS Home State
BRYAN SUPPORTERS DEFEATED
IN AWARDING SANCTION FOR
NOMINATION.
Commoner's Adherents, However, Re
fuse to Abide by Decision and Will
Wage War Before Democratic SEES.
sion Convenes, May IL.

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cratic state committee Of Minnesota
Friday afternoon. after a bitter fight,
adopted a resolution indorsing Gov.
John A. Johnson of Minnesota for
the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton and recommending that he be
named by the national convention at
Denver next July. AS the meeting
of the committee was presided ver
by Frank A. Day, private secretary
to the governor, and who voted for the
Johnson resolution on every test and
on the Anal ballot, the action of the
committee is held by political leaders
as placing the governor formally in the
race for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
Bryan Men Object.
The Johnson resolution was car
RED by a vote of 6s to %, after the
Bryan adherents had forced two test
votes, on both of which they were
defeated. The Bryan men insisted
on a roll call on every vote and gave
notice in their speeches on the orig
inal resolution that they would not be
bound by the action of the state COM
mittee, but would make a fight
throughout the state for a delegation
from Minnesota to the national con-
vention instructed for the nomination
Of Mr.. Bryan. Moreover, a meeting of
Bryan adherents, held at the Ryan no.
tel Immediately after the adjournment
Of the state committee, formed a Bry-
an organization which proposes to
,arry the contest against Johnson into
every precinct of the state.
Convention Set for May IA.
The state committee Friday after
noon. besides adopting the Johnson
resolution, voted that the state con-
vention to elect delegates to the ma
tional convention should be held in
st. Paul on May IA. The matter of
calling a convention to nominate state
officers was left to a committee of five
to be appointed by State Chairman
Frank A. Day. The meeting of the
committee Friday was the most large
ly attended in the history Of the
Democratic party in Minnesota, word
having been sent to all members that
a resolution indorsing Johnson would
probably be offered. or the Ill mem
bers 90 we're present or were repre-
scented by proxy. Several proxies
we're thrown out on a technical point,
though on only one proxy contest was
there any indication of. the Johnson
Bryan fight. This was on the proxy
held by James Manahan of St. Paul,
who is conducting the suit before the
interstate commission against Pull
man rates.
Omaha, Neb., Mar. 6.-Friday was
bryan Day" in Omaha. For that
matter it was Bryan Day" throughout
Nebraska. With the Democratic state
convention as a nucleus, party leaders
from every county and practically
every primary district in the common
wealth pledged allegiance to the pres
idential aspirations of Mr.. Bryan and
to consider means for furthering his
interests before the Democratic ma
tional convention at Denver next July
Enthusiasm was prevalent throughout
Thursday. 1t broke loose early in the
afternoon session of the convention
and gradually gathering volume broke
out in tumultuous vociferations when
at the beginning of the evening ses
sion the platform committee presented
q resolution.
Ohio spurns Own. Sons.
Columbus, O.. Mar. 4.-The Repub
licans Of Ohio who met Tuesday held
their state convention, dealing 8
staggering blow to the interests Of
Senators Foraker and Dick by wiping
of the state central committee every
man who was known to have any bias
In their favor. OF the ri members
of the new committee II were re-elect
ed and Of the changes made. sever
we're Foraker men and all the Foraker
men on the committee. The othel
three who were not reelected were al
for Taft and their retirement wal
caused by local conditions alone
Every member of the new committe,
To- Taft man.