Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-03-27
TODAY HE WILL INVADE
(. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
While Nebraskan Is Swinging Around
the Circle New Workers Are Busily
Engaged in Manufacturing Senti-
ment for Johnson.

Washington, March 26.-Pollticlans |
attribute a hidden significance to the
visit of William Jennings Bryan III
Washington today. The establish |
ment of Johnson headquarters here
and in New York and other eastern |
cities, and rumors of plan to cap
ture the eastern delegations to Den-
yer for the Minnesota man, have
caused some trepidation among the
| Nebraskans supporters in Washing
ton. Mr.. Bryan will hold several i'm
portant conferences with Democratic
leaders in Washington today.
Tomorrow Mr.. Bryan will invade
Pennsylvania, one of the strong
holds of the opposition to his candi-
dacy, speaking tomorrow evening in
Pittsburg. Reports state that the
members Of the Pennsylvania Bryan
League have arranged an elaborate
reception for their chief, and that his
appearance in the Smoky City will
mark the beginning of a determined
campaign to contest the state delega-
ton in the interest of the Nebraskan.
From Pittsburg Mr. Bryan will go
to Parkersburg, w. Va, and thence to
Kansas City, Mo-, where he will be
the guest of honor at one of the great
est political banquets ever held in the
west, to be held Monday night. On
Tuesday he will be in Lincoln and
will entertain the Democratic and
quet. Later next week he will begin
a western tour that will include cities
and towns in Kansas, Colorado Ne
braska and Iowa.
While Mr. Bryan is engaged in
swinging around the circle, his oppon-
ents in the east will be busily en-
gagged in manufacturing Johnson thun-
DER in the hope of preventing the
Nebraskan's nomination for the presi-
dency. The anti-Bryanites hope to
secure control of the delegations from
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, Delaware and Massachusetts
with possibly several others. In New
York, the Bryan opposition is headed
by Mayor Mcclellan and Charles F
Murphy, while other prominent poll
ticians have taken the lead in Other
Eastern States. While johnson is
considered the logical choice of the
anti-Bryanites, either Judson Harmon
of Ohio, or Judge Gray, of Delaware
would be acceptable as a compromise
According to report much work hal
already been quietly done in organ
izing the anti-Bryan men in Pennsyl
vania Massachusetts and New Jersey
and the indications are, it was sale
that the campaign will be hard on
for the Bryan men to fight. While tn
delegations from the four states woul
not constitute a third of the Who'll
number--a third being necessary
prevent a nomination-it was state
that the hackers of the movement e!
pect that if they can control the soil
delegations from four important state
luCy Will nave lllLiC III ldii.
II ing other delegations about them, an
N in that way massing enough to d.
feat a nomination on the first ballot
New York has seventy-eight del
gates, Pennsylvania, sixty-eight
Massachusetts, thirty-two, and Ne
10 Jersey twenty-four, total of 20
be There are 965 votes, and Mr.. Brys
IS will have to get SAB. To prevent h
w. nomination on the first ballot, his 0
a ponents will have to muster 1922 vote
1t was pointed out by friends of t
III Nebraskan that he has many frien
is in all the state mentioned, and thi
while uninstructed delegations mig
be sent from each to the conventiC
it would hardly be possible for t
he anti-Bryan men to capture all the
An. egates from each of the states.
the, other hand, it was stated TIL
with the aid of the unit rule, so
anti Bryan delegations might be Sc
to Denver.
two In promoting their campaign t
INV anti-Bryan forces will have the {
les. operation of Minnesota, which "
send delegation instructed for Jof
SON.. and of Delaware, which has
n. ready signified its intention of SCI
ing its delegates pledged to Jud
~, Gray. Massachusetts, through its sta
committee has refused to declare
ar Bryan, and North Carolina, to I
;. surprise of the Bryanites, failed