Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-30
TRYING TO
 BEAT BRYAN
Opponents Will Not Concede
 His Supremacy.
TALKOFINJUNCTION PLANK

Party Leaders Differ as to Nature of
 Statement to Be Made In Denver Platform-Conservatives Oppose Ap-
 proval of Nebraska Declaration Saii
 to Be lndorsed by Former cansi-
 date - Criticism Is Premature, Ac- ! cording to His Partisans-Johnson
 Will Not Go to Convention City and | Won't Take Second Place.
 Denver, June 30.-Seven days before the Democratic national convention ths Bryan claim that it is all over but the shouting" still finds dissenters. The first note of dissent will be sound ed with the arrival of Colonel Lynch and the other Johnson workers. the New York contingent. Josiah Marvel and the Gray men from Delaware. Gubernatorial Candidate Brown of Georgia and Colonel Guffey and the Pennsylvanians, who are solidly against Bryan.
 l Marvel telegraphed a positive state ment that Judge Gray will not accept the vice presidency under any circum- ! stances. For some reason inexplica- ble to the Bryan leaders both the Gray and Johnson people refuse to read the handwriting on the wall as 1t is read by the Bryan men. . Mir. Bryan's managers lay claim to more than 100 of the 1,00S votes to be cast in the convention. The Gray and Johnson leaders do not concede more than 165 votes for him on the first bal lot. They will concentrate their ef- forts against his securing any more. It is their hope that if they can pre- vent the 612 delegates necessary to ! nominate from casting their votes for him on the first roll call they can ulti- mately nominate some other man, Johnson or Gray. if possible. but any one to beat Mfr. Bryan in the end. List Of chaplains.
 Chairman Taggart of the national committee announced the chaplains for the last three days of the con- vention. and the complete list is now as follows:
 Tuesday. July [. Right Rev. James J. kean of Wyoming: Wednesday. Rev. C. F. Beisner of Grace M. F.. church. Denver: Thursday. Rabbi Manuel March of Seattle. Wash: Fri day. Rev. P. T. Ramsey of St. Paul's M. E. church. South Denver.
 Notices of contest have been filed with the national committee. involving forty-five seats. but of this number the contests actually filed relate to thIr- teen seats. Six of these are from the District of Columbia. and seven are from the First. Second. Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Pennsylvania congressional districts. The First and Second dis sricts. however. have only one seat each in dispute. Notices of contests ret to he filed came from Chicago and Brooklyn. In the Chicago cases the First to the Tenth congressional dis tricts are involved. the contesting dele gations being led by Robert E. Burke of Chicago. Contesting delegations from Brooklyn will come from the Second to the Seventh New York con gressi0nal districts.
 Want Prohibitisn Apprevsd.
 It developed tat the prohibition question is to be brought to the front and that a desperate effort viii be made to have plank declaring in itt favor placsd Ia the platform The prohibition movement viii be headed bT General James B. Weaver of Iowa the Peoples party candidate for presi dent Ia 1so2 He denznded cf the recent Denocrztic couventicn in th.f stste thst f declare in fsvor of proht