The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-17
PROMISED TOO MUCH
avn GOVERNOR BLANCHARD IS LEFT AT HOME.
Reported That He Promised Brynn an
 Instructed DeieGation-HiiEh Interesting Story-He Wh Not Be Delegation From State at Large.
Baton Rouge Correspondence to NC"
 orleans States.

From state at Large.
 Baton Rouge Correspondence to NC" l1rhe. Governor Blanchard. honored at Washington by being chosen 10 hehe sse the committee of resolutions at Presidents conference of Governois = has been effectually shut out rom se tendance upon the State convention to elect delegates to the National Conven- delegate at large; that in all proDao 1 ty he will not be allowed 10 repI as 1 his congressional district, and that ne iS to lose his place as member Of the Na, tional Committee constitutes the mos. highly interesting political development. ! of the week. The hotel roppies sh. State House have buzzed with the
 An alleged promise of the Governor | to MT Bryan to deliver to him the bility that in such an event, If tne | Nebraskan is elected. the Hon; N. V | Blanchard would become the chief dis. dis. | penser of Louisiana patronage, IS saIo | to be the raison d'etre for the uh- horsing of His Excellency. As a con. | seduence if present indications do not | change, Senators McEnery and Foster. Governor Sanders and Mayor Benrman and Louisiana will send an uninstruct- ed delegation to Denver, though tne convention will give MT. Bryan an in- dorsement.
 The story is an interesting one. When Mir Bryan came to Louisiana last December to deliver lectures at Alex andria and Lake Charles. Governor Blanchard went to Alexandria to greet him and to preside at breakfast Tn his honor. The Governor Is said 10 entertain a belief that MT. Bryans chance for election in view of RepupI- can demoralization, is not improba oie and when they met and put their heads | together he is said to have told the | Nebraskan that he had the situation | | that MT. Bryan might go his way re- | joicing assured that an instructed delegation would be delivered to him al l Denver.
 upon himself to make this pledge, the | States correspondent is unable to ar l firm. But that statements to the ai- feet that he had done so reached Csado where he does know to be the fact ana | that since then there has been unceas- | ing rumshoeing in an effort 70 prevent | the Governor from capturing the con vention and heading the delegation to | the western city.
 The result has been a complete de- feat of the Governor at home If ne made the promise to Mir. Bryan and 1T he has been planning a coup that would l send him triumphant to Denver only a | miracle will see him through. for the action of the Caddo convention on last His Excellency in the June convention | Impossible The inside details of the | convention have only now reached here. Anti Blanchard men were in complete control and their action would seem to indicate that they left no stone un- turned to prevent the Governor from becoming a member of the delegation | titled to twenty delegates. Of these l six were given to the Blanchard people. | They were named by the convention: l But in order to make them Voiceless | tt Tn | rule. If the convention had stopped | there, a chance would still have been | open to the Governor. But 1t went fur | ther. It adopted a rule prohibitins members from giving their proxies to i any but co-delegates and when one of the strongest Blanchard men expressed a desire to resign, presumably to make l place for His EXcellency his right 10 l do so was denied.
 Official connection of the Governor with the State convention Is therefore impossible. for proxies are limited to 1 pals. Delegates selected to go to the National convention do not have to be members of the State convention. IT to choose him. the Governor would be 1 eligible for election. But 1t is said even that door is barred to him, for the district has already been sounded ano | he is not to be one of the two delegates and two alternates who are to be chosen
 Up to some weeks ago 1t was ex- | pected that Louisiana would fall in under the Bryan banner; in other words that an instructed delegation would 1 be sent from the state. A reVulsion Tn
 feeling has. however, been wrought and now it is said party leaders will
 bend their efforts to have the conven- tion stop with an indorsement of MT. Bryan The sixteen delegates will be allowed to exercise their own will when they get to the battle ground The ad- l vantage they will have will lie in the fact that not being tied up they will
 be able to give Mir. Bryan the votes
 he needs if he Is short the required
 number or to force stampede to Governor Johnson, Judge Gray or
 some other available man in the con | Ventton
 They will be able to cut a big figure
 if MT Bryan is short the necessary
 two thirds giving him the votes he
 needs to nominate him or forcing the
 convention to take a new man if it is
 considered in the best interests Of the
 party to do so.