New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-15

"The New York sun and The Baltimore
Sun" have recently revived the complaint Oh
The New York World" and The Charlestoh
News and Courier that The Tribune IL tr!lhS
to force Mr. BRYAN as a Presidential CANDIDATE
on the Democratic party 1t Is natterlhS 10
have so many intelligent contemporaries cfeolI
us with influencing one way or ano'her Tue
action of the opposition But we nave never
assumed the role of counsellor to the Demo
cratic organization and see no advantage in
offering unsolicited advice to the Denver con-
vention. which. we presume. will follow its own
ideas of fitness and policy in nominating
Presidential candidate. Whatever the Denver
convention does or refuses to do is none or
our funeral" If we have commented now ana
then on Mr.. Bryan's apparent strength as
candidate for denomination it has merely been
with tho purpose of interpreting facts ana ten
denotes in politics as we see them.
The New York Sun" charges us with giving
aid and comfort to the Bryanites' in our re-
marks last Sunday on the Democratic situation
in PENNSYLVANIA Yet all we intended TO DO
was to show. on proof furnished by the lead
ing anti-Bryan Democratic newspaper III fenn-
sylvania-"The Philadelphia Record the
sxty-eght votes of the Keystone State coula
not be delivered TO the opposition at Denver
without recourse to what The Record ue-
scribed as "acts of treachery or bargain and
been led to believe that the delegates elected at
the Congress district primaries on April 16 were
with few exceptions anti-Bryan. Yet 1.-The Rec
ord's" canvass of the delegation showed that OF
the sxty-three district delegates so far chosen
thrty-six were either personally pledged TO MI
Rrvan's support or were elected on tickets lndi-
eating that they ran in Mr.. Bryans interest
These tbirty-six constitute a clear majority OF
the state delegation of sixty-eight. The propiem
of the hour in Pennsylvania is whether or not
Colonel Guffey will compel the state conven-
tion 10 enforce the unit rule and then persuade
five or more Of the delegates elected In the city
nf PHILADELPHIA as Bryan men to change their
oninions and thus shift control TO the anu
Bryan faction.
II shoud not argue an effort TO laid and COM
fort the Rryanites' that we have merely cdlieu
attention TO these facts and to the determination
of pronounced anti-Bryan newspaper Ike
..Tho Record" not to acclaim or even condone
an opposition victory purchased ny such meas
,,ras nv common consent the Democratic Or
ranization in Pennsylvania, controlled for the
last ten wears by Colonel Guffey, has now
reachn,l the depths of ineficienCy and worth
lessnoss and its continuation unamended WOULD
no y nuhIic misfortune The Record therefore
deserves credit for saying plainly that If 1t mas
N choose between Bryanism and Gufey1sm It
will take the former. The Tribunes only con-
Germ in the matter in bringing THIS N
reresting situation the attention Of the pubic
which had assumed that Pennsylvania vote
would necessarily be thrown against Bryan III
Denver Our readers are entitled TO know What
tho real strength of the opposition to MI
Rryan's denomination is, and we shall endeavor
| IN give them our best Judgment on the progress
and outcome of the Democratic canvass.