The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
DELEGATES
 MAY REVOLT Allies Have Grounds For
 Hope. PENNSYLVANIA CONTROVERSY Guffey-Bryan Fight is Developing
 Bitter Feeling. Anti-Bryan Men Claim They Are aaaa- Ing strength and Mir. Bryan's Nominatfon is Not Yet
 certain.
PENNSYLVANIA CONTROVERSY

Denver, Col. July 1.-The possibility of a revolt by delegates, out of sym pathy with the Bryan control of the Democratic National Convention against the parliamentary practices employed by officers of the convention. today. in sending the Pennsylvania controversy to the Committee on Cre- dentIals, Is the one hope of the allied opposition to MT. Bryan's nomination.
 This opposition is proceeding on the belief that the Committee on Creden- tials will report against the contesting delegates from Philadelphia and in fa- vor of Colonel James A. Guffey. Na- tional Committeeman, 1t is believed. In which event a minority report will be made.
 The first test of anti-Bryan strength, therefore, will occur over the adoption of the report of the Committee on Cre- deneials and It promises to be the bit- terest of the convention. Should 1t be decided against the Bryan men. some Of whom have announced purpose to railroad" the Pennsylvania leader out of the party in accordance with the ex- pressed wish of the Nebraska candi- date, unduestionably it will encourage the opposition to MT. Bryan to renewed efforts to defeat him for the presiden- tial nomination. No sooner had the G0nRGutlOu AdJOuEnSu IO3NS tA&A hAC. anti-Bryan men began to gather seto discuss the situation. At several of : these informal conferences the con- sensus of opinion was that the Guney-. Bryan fight furnished an Issue on which tho anti-Bryan men could take their stand and supply the rallytng ground that has been needed In order to con centrate their forcess
 It was asserted by anti Bryan men tonight that the refusal today of tefa- porary Chairman Bell to recoEni4e tho demand of Gufkey men for a roll call on the question Of sending the Penn syipania case to the Credentials Com mitsee. has brought to them many re- crutts, and that these. added to the force that has been against Mir. Bryan on all other points. promises victory for Colonel Guffey tomorrow. On the other hand the Bryan men claim to have Colonel Guffey's scalp already dangling at the belt of their leader and declare that they are not worried in the least.
 Mr. Bryam's DiRereaces.
 Much is being made by the Guffey men of the differences which Mir. Bryan has had with such men as Roger Su1ii- van of Illinois. John T.. McGraw of West Virginia, and certain of the Dem- ocratic leaders of Texas, Tennessee. Wisconsin. Michigan and other States.
 
 cations from these States are anxious to administer a rebuke to Mir. Bryan for his alleged interference with, the. State delegations in selecting their rep resentative in the convention after the States themselves had declard in fa- vor of the nomination of the Nebras- kan. Should the anti-Bryan men prove to be correct in their estimate of the situation, MT. Bryan, without doubt, will be defeated in his attempt to over turn Guffey in Pennsylvania.
 It is not unlikely that contest over this issue would engender the bitterest kind of feeling and have an important bearing on the vote of the convention after candidates have been placed in nomination for the presidency. It is conceded that if Colonel Guffey should be defeated which would be the result of seating the anti-Guffey delegation from Philadelphia, that would end the opposition to MT. Bryan and all of the fighting spirit would be taken out of the anti-Bryan men. The Nebraskan's friends then will be given a clear road to the adoption of whatever character of platform they favor and no showing whatever would be made against him for the nomination for first place on the ticket. Should the Bryan men be disposed they could dictate also the nomination of the ice-presidency. Gos- sip over the candidacies for vice-pres- ident has been completely overshad- owed by the events of the day and there is little change in the situation There are nearly a hundred men in the field.
 Such leaders as found time to give attention to the vice-presidential situa- ton tonight, however, seemed to think that the Bryan-Guffey contest having become a national conRentiop issue, there is little hope left of the nomina- tion of a conservative Eastern Demo- crat on the ticket with MT. Bryan. The feeling was that there ie such grave danger of the alienation of the con- servative wing of the party that no man representing that wing would consent to being named.