The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-07-07
WAVE OF BRYAN SENTIMENT
is NOT OvERWHELM MING
Convention Will Start With Contest for Second
Place Wide Open Pennsylvania Dele
gates Name Guffey for Committee
man Despite Bryan's Demand

leus was silent IN the presidential AMI
Iviee presidential situation and New
Ycr!. still fails to show her coIors.
Contests Disposed oof.
| The Democratic national committee
held its first meeting to consider con.
tests, which resulted In a dismissal o.
Senator McCarren's New York con.
fests and the seating of Roger Su H.
vans Illinois delegation.
Aside from many private confer
Iences over candidates and the plat
form, the day has been one Of pre-.
lparation and business details I tho
coming asscmblage. There has been
a continuous swelling of Bryan seatl
ment and only scattering accessions
for other candidates.
Bryan's Nomination Assured.
/ This has become so apparent that
the nomination OF Rryaa seems assnr.
ed, not only by the required two.
thirds vote. but by practically una2'
nous vote. except that OF Minnesota
apd Delaware, whose representatives
Istll insist that they will be steadfaat
to the end to their favorite sons. AM
scattering anti Bryan votes from
Georgia, New York. Pennsylvania
Maine and several other localities.
a scattered opposition dwarfed by the
magnitude of Bryan's total
What Might Have Been.
While this steady tide of Bryan
strength has been setting in the a.,
lied opposition has been looking IL
tently but vainly toward New York,
for IL has been recognized that Chief
Murphy the political genius of the
delegation, held a key which might
unloose movement Of genuine force
against the Nebraskan With New
York taking the lead aud throwing 3s7
against him, Guffney and his Pena
sylVania cohorts would have FOLLOWED
suit; Georgia was wavering and like.
ly to turn a block or southern strength
away from Bryan and this with tn
strength of johnson aud
Gray, might have given vitality TO tse
allied opposition.
Murphy Kept Silent.
But all these reckonings have corne
10 naught because of New Yorks per.
sistent silence, Murphy is neither for
Bryan nor against him. and with this
aimless position. the allied
Dpcsition has crumbled to pieces. II
Murphy has waited for some one else
10 take the lead, as is generally be.
icved, he will have the satisfaction
II going back to New York With tho
declaration that it would have been
lacking in political sagscitv fer Nsw
York to act against Bryan until the
aggregate strength Of the opposition
was demonstrated to be sufficient to
lefeat him
Figures Disclosed.
For the first time. tonight the al.
led opposition disclosed figures show.
ne what might have happened had
lew York announced at the outset
hat its rs votes would he swung
'gainst Bryan. According to this
able 3i9 votes. or considerably more
han the necessary number to block
}ryan's nomination. would have
wuug into line with New York, the
lain In detail beIUc as follows:
Alabama /. Florida 7. Georgia -
is, West Virginia Il. North
'arolina "a, Connecticut l., Delaware
Maine II, Massachusetts u. New
hampshire {. New Jersey II. New
'ork. rs. Pennsylvania IS. Rhcde Is
md I. Vermont :. Minnesota q. Ohio
2, Wisconsin 8, Alaska 6. Perez
leo s.
The toal vote of the convention Is
0o2. the one third necessary to pre-
ent a nomination being 334. wheres=
Ie allied opposition claimed fifteen
I excess Of the requirement had
ew York furnished the rsl'ying
lint
Situation Csnvsssed.
A meeting was he.l this evening Ct
arious anh Bryan selemeuts during
hich the situation was fully canvass