The daily sentinel., 1908-03-26
Bryan is
Watching
OVER HIS FENCES
Interesting Story Of the Great
Democrats Movements in
Supposedly Hostile Country
lin Washington Today.
Especial to The sentinel.)

Washington, Mar. 26-Politicians
attribute hidden significance to the
visit of William Jennings Bryan in
Washington today. The establish
ment of johnson headquarters here
and in New York and other eastern
cities, and rumors of a plan to cap
ture the eastern delegations to Den
yer for the Minnesota man, have
caused some trepidation among the
Nebraskan's supporters in Washing
ton. Mr.. Bryan will hold several
important conferences with Demo-
cratic leaders in Washington today.
Tomorrow Mr.. Bryan will invade
Pennsylvania, one of the strongholds
of the opposition to his candidacy,
speaking tomorrow evening in Pitts
burg. Reports state that the men,
bers of the Pennsylvania Bryan Leag-
ue have arranged an elaborate re-
ception for their chief, and that his
appearance in the Smoky City will
mark the beginning of determined
campaign to contest the state dele
cation in the interest of the Ne
braskan.
From Pittsburg Mr.. Bryan will go
to Parkersburg, w. Va, and thence
to Kansas City, Mo-, where he will
be the guest of honor at one of the
greatest political banquets ever held
in the West, to be held Monday night.
OnTuesday he will be in Lincoln
and will entertain the Democratic
and Populist editors of Nebraska at
banquet. Later next week he will
begin a western tour that will in
clude cities and towns in Kansas,
Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa.
While Mr.. Bryan is engaged in
swinging around the circle, his OPP
ponents in the East will be busily
engaged in manufacturing Johnson
thunder, in the hope of preventing
the Nebraskan's nomination for the
presidency. The anti-Bryanites hope
to secure control of the delegations
from New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware and Massachusetts
with possibly several others. In
New York, the Bryan opposition is
headed by Mayor Mcclellan and
Charles F. Murphy, while other
prominent politicians have taken the
lead in other Eastern states. While
Johnson is considered the logical
choice of the anti-Bryanites, either
Judson Harmon of Ohio, or Judge
Gray of Delaware, would be accept
able as a compromise.
According to report much work
has already been quietly done in Or
ganizing the anti-Bryan men in
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and
New Jersey, and the Indications are,
it was said that the campaign will
be a hard one for the Bryan men to
fight. While the delegations from
the four states would not constitute
third of the whole number
third being necessary to prevent a
nomination,-it was stated that the
hackers of the movement expect that
if they can control the solid delega-
tions from four important states they
will have little difficulty in rallying
other delegations about them, and
in that way massing enough to de-
feat a nomination on the first ballot.
New York has seventy-eight dele
gates, Pennsylvania, sixty-eight;
Massach chusetts, thirty-two. and New
Jersey, twenty-four, total of 2O2.
There are 965 votes, and Mr.. Bryan
will have to get CAB. To prevent his
on the first ballot, his
will have to muster 1922
votes. 1t was pointed out by friends
of the Nebraskan that he has many
friends in all the states mentioned,
and that, while uninstructed delega-
tions might be sent from each to the
it would hardly be pos
sible for the ant-Bryan men to cap
ture all the delegates from each of
the states. On the other hand, it
was stated that, with the aid of the
unit rule, solid anti-Bryan delega-
tons might be sent to Denver.
In promoting their campaign the
forces will have the CO.
operation of Minnesota, which will
send delegation instructed for
Johnson, and of Delaware, which has
already signified its intention of
sending its delegates pledged to
Judge Gray, Massachusetts, through |
it's state committee has refused to
declare for Bryan, and North Caro- |
lima. to the surprise of the Bryan
ties, failed to adopt Bryan reso-
ution.