The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-01
VICE PRESIDENTIAL
 QUESTION IS ASSUMING
 GREATER PROPORTIONS
Judge George Gray Appears To Be the Favorite Candidate for the Second Place on the Ticket, But His
 Manager Says He Will
 Not Have 1t.

f NOt nave II. 2 Denver. Col June 3o.-Although candi- tdates for the nomination for Vice Presi- T. sdent on the democratic ticket are nu- n Numerous and despite the fact that their be Humber is likely to be largely increased tn srofore choice is actually made, it is of2Ye general opinion among such leaders G'iN the party that are now here that if hipahorge Gray of Delaware will declare OF A willingness to accept the second place Nef the ticket he can have it. Josiah Mar o'A3e of Wilmington Del, the manager nH the Gray presidential campaign, who Arrived in Denver tonight, will not, how | aRer, give his consent. He insists that ,hhe Delaware man is a candidate for U yyst place. and when it has been settled waat he cannot have first place. it will de ample time to place him in the running For the secondary position. provided he Sares to take it. Mir. Marvel denies, However, that Judge Gray will be satis- ked with anything less than the head of Tihe ticket.
 aI Mir Marvel when informed of the senti- 5' Tent regarding Judge Gray as candi- I. hte for Vice President. said: ' E.We don't know anything about that by does not concern us. Judge Gray is V tk candidate for President and he is go- tRg to be nominated. We are running him if for President and for nothing else. { The people out here" it was suggested J H.are running him for Vice President. and 1t is generally believed that MT. Bryan fayors him for the second place on the ticket"
 Waste of Time.
 s,rhere is not a man in the country who could be placed at the head of the democratic ticket said Mir. Marvel. 'who would not like to have Judge Gray for running mate We know all about that but we are not considering him in any light other than as candidate for the first place. nor must anybody else so consider him. If they do they are making great mistake and they are wasting their time"
 When asked how much strength the expected his candidate to show on the first ballot, MT. Marvel said:
 He will get all of Delaware, all Of Maryland a great part of Pennsylvania, ?, probably all of New Jersey and many votes from the south We re not mak- ing specific claims as to figures, but this fact must be borne in mind There are 400 uninstructed delegates to that con- vention. You can draw your own conA \ clusions as to what that means but it | certainly means something
 s Mr. Marvel said that the name of Judge Gray will Abe presented to the convention by L. I. lHandy of Delaware, seconded by P. Al O'Boyle, chairman of the re- cent democratic state convention in Penn- sylvania. He declared there will be sev- eral other seconding speeches, but said that he Could not tonight name the men z who wiu make them.
 Frederick B. Lynch, manager of the Johnson boom for the presidency, is ex- toA ar,ix-a hara tnna nU md " open headuuarters at the Abby hotel. C It is well known that Mir. Bryan would be pleased to have Judge Gray for the ] vice presidential candidate. and the only f thing that prevents the latter from be- coming a leading candidate for that posi- \ tion is the simple but all powerful fact ! that he will not declare himself to be 4 candidate at all.
 Gray Boom Launched. The Gray presidential boom was for D mally launched today and headquarters 4 were opened in the Savoy hotel. During N, The early afternoon a corps of expert .i stickers were going about the hotels / I pu ting up Autographs of the Delaware I candidate No other pictures have been ! placed as yet, and the Gray men seized the most prominent Liaces in the Hobbies lk of all the leading hotels.
 /A The Johnson headquarters will not be kopened for several days, and the date on lthch the Bryan banners will be thrown Tout has not been determined, but it will lbe on Saturday Sunday, after the ar- Aival of the Nebraska delegation.
 It is certain that there will be q strong | Int in the committee resolutions i'd possibly on the floor of the conven- r n itself over the anV-injunction plank. kford has come indirectly from Lincoln at Mr. Bryan is in fayor of a plank of
 somewhat radical nature. and it is cer-
 that such men as Sullivan, national
 Ajtteeman from Illifois and Chair
 ATaggart of the national committee
 Nongly opposed to it
 Anti-lnjunctio,.
 n tN\n gave out a statement in which
 X to,td 'equal rights befre the law" tsed other expressions If a similar 3ter which were constriad to mean Dm me was opposed to srong anti Ulion plank. Sullivan dents that he
 led to convey the impressin that he
 Id to fight the anti-njuncten plank,
 -- is generally believed tlAt he is AU extreme language in thispart of Vyl tolution It is well known hat be-
 Bryan and Sullivan and othes infiu-
 imembers of the Illinois Adele-
 1no particular amount of lte is
 =. Ld reports have been circRted
 hn anti-injuncton plank is akpt-
 -A radical in it's character thaiAhe 0eople feel that they can tp-
 yat the state when it comesto
 kfor President will break awf
 Bryan instructions. Nj
 Adenied this emphatically todaAI
 told to stick to Bryan, and
 ling to stick I do not believe N platform fight can change our M NnA4gramme. Illinois has no idea s2a NZ away from it's instructions. IT sts opposed to a radical plank II lstronger today by the arrival