New-York tribune., 1908-07-10
BRYAN SILENT ON NATE
HIS DECISION AWAITED.
Gray's attitude DisconcertS Nebras-
kan-Tak of DARK Horse.
IRx Telegraph to The Tribune.

Denver July with the nomination of Bryan
| for President assured fact, with the entire
| convention in the hands of his friends with
his enemies desirous that he shall have all the
| things he wants and forever after hold his
peace. there remains but one important question
| to be decided, that of the Vice-Presidency.
one thought fills the minds of the delegates,
| friends and enemies of the Nebraskan, ''Whom
does Bryan want?'
Mayor Dahlman says he does not know, ex-
| cept that it must not be Governor Johnson.
Willis J. Abbott insists that he has not been en-
. lightened. Ignatius ]. Dunn asserts that the
| Peerless One" has made choice, but the Ne
| braska delegation speaks first for George Gray
and second for Charles A Towne.
| 1t is inconceivabie in the minds of the dele
gates that Mr. Bryan will not issue orders from
Lincoln. They gather about his apostles here
| in the hope that inkng may be given them,
but the attitude of the henchmen of the Ne
braskan is '1et wait until Bryan is nominated,
and in the mean time retain the support of all
the Vice Presidential candidates, whose names
are legion and who, with their friends, compose
| a majority of the delegates
There is not a state delegation in Denver
| which does not regard Judge Gray as the
| strongest possible candidate yet mentioned.
| Bryan, who 10 have forgotten that the
Delaware jurist once boted his ticket, would
make almost any sacrifice to have him as rum
| ming mate but the Gray managers, who now re-
! ceive credit for absolute sincerity as well as
great political acumen, insist that Judge Gray s
! telegram to Bryan makes his being drafted I'M
possible, that he represents entirely different
| branch of Democracy, that he can wait until
| BRYAN and Haskell and the rest have been COM
| n1etelv submerged. and then show that the pre-
| dictions made by his friends as to this campaign
| have become assured facts.
Despite the repeated assertions from the Gray
forces that their principal will not participate III
| a BRYAN campaign, it is not improbable that the
Delaware jurist will be placed IN nomination by
another state, probably either Nebraska or ONO
t4ic managers say that they will take the plat
form and by reciting some homely truths so an
: tagonize the Bryan men as to make the nom
| io+5on of Judge Gray an mpossibility. The
Bryan Southern states, North Carolina and
| c.eoreia are of the opinion that Judge Gray IS
too bfg A man to be sacrificed, and they are
talking strongly of Bryan-Towne ticket after
+bo GEORGIA delegation has cast compliment
+arv ballot for Clark Howell.
New York will not present candidate unless
.l,,,s mind is changed. He wants nothing
to do with the convention He has unseated
oJoCorran and is content now to preserve his
organization and follow along. New York will
nrohablv cast its votes with Illinois. and Illinois
wants John Mitchell. Murphy has no hope of
oorrvine New York He will make his fight in
the CITY: will crow Il told you so' when Bryan
is defeated and hopes to come TO the convention
in 1912 able to dictate candidate, platform and
campaign managers.
The Washington, oregon, Montana and Idaho
delegations at first preferred Francis after Gray.
but when they heard that Francis and Bailey
were somehow connected with Standard Oil
matters they dropped the Francis boom and now
I INolI- ,ic
would appeal to a part of the Missouri delega-
tion who although Folk has been numerically
Inundated by them here, might welcome the op-
nortunity to allow the Governor to walk the
political plank with Bryan and be well rid Of
( both.
The Texans want Martin Lttleton, and Muir
ply would agree to support him if he expressed
the slightest desire for the nomination but Lit
tleton does not want it.