The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-03-18
lBv WnlIs J. Abbotl

Washington Mar Special
| People in Washington are rather iu.
tcrcstcd in what is being said by the
representatives of Gov John \. Dhu.
son of Minnesota. The latcs. man
to talk Of GOV. johnson is a Mr. W.
B. Honncssy of ST. Paul, close
friend OF GOV. Johnson, he says so
hImsclf-and a man thoroughly ac.
quaintcd with the political outlook
In the west aud northwest Mr.
] llonucssy says hc has been sent to
Washington to disillusion Bryan ad-
/ hcrcnts and TO feel the pulse of nat.
| ional Legislators He insists that
GOV. Johnson's private secretary,
/ Frank A. Day, understands exactly
what shall be done for the governor.
Mr.. lIcnncssy who is not known
I very widely throughout the United
/ States, informs the people in Wash.
ington that Bryan has not the
chance of the proverbal SNOWFALL
| The only man in lIcnnessy's view is
| Johnson In criticizing this sugges.
ton beg to make it clear that /
do OF criticize Gov. Johnson who
seems to be a man of more intclli.
gence than his associates
This is what we are told about
Johnson: It is asserted that he
will have Wisconsin He has about
as much chance of having Wiscou.
sin as TAFT has of getting Indiana.
His friends talk about Illinois
/ Illinois will be beyond question
for Mr. Bryan, and there IS nobody
of prominence in the Democratic
party i'm Illinois who desires to see
/ Mr. Johnson nominated. Again they
speak of Kansas. North and South
! Dakota and Washington, and COT
orado is Tutoring on the fence
There is nothing i'm that. However
admirable Gov Johnson may be
these states i'm the middle and north
west are not for him, and they are
for MIR. Bryan. His strength comes
entirely from that little piece of land
bounded by Broadway, on the west,
Broad street on the east, Pine and
Wall street running down TO the
East River In other words the
candidacy of GOV. Johnson is the
same ola candidacy pressed by the
b financial institutions Of this country
urged 10y the absolutely undcmocrat
factors in the democratic party, and
: intended To either defeat the dem
ocratic party or to elect man who
would not stand for real democracy
Il is high time to say what should
be- said about GOV. Johnson. How
ever able me- may have been. how
ever honorable his original purposes
may have been, he has now put him
self i'm the hands of the men who
are standing not for democracy, moi
for honest and true democratic pr,n
ciplcs, but has allowed himself to be
the stool pigeon of men VINO only
desire TO control the democratic par
| ty. as they long have controlled The
republican party. GOV. Johnson has
passed beyond the plane of true
democracy lie has gone SO far that
il can no longer be- said of him that
he stood for real democracy Wheth.
cr ne has been the dupe of the men
who have put up the money for his
campaign no one can say today.
Whether ne has chcerully accepted
their contributions can only be
guessed IL is quite time for the
democratic party to consider wheth-
er GOV. Johnson stands for demo
cracy. for James }, Hin for the
railroad interests or for himself
What the Party Should Stand For.
\ senator on the democratic side
talking to me this morning said,
The greatest strength that the dem
ocrauc party has shown was in 1896
Then il dared to stand for pure, true
and militant democracy. Then Il
put forward as a candidate man
who stood for the masses and
against the classes In 1896 the
party carried more states than II
had for three elections before and
more than it ever has since. When