The San Francisco call., 1908-07-09
Delegates of Some Pivotal
States Silent During
Demonstration
Jim Gnffey's Remains Scattered
Along Track of Nebraskan's
Juggernaut
Credentials Committee Report
and Platform Framed Ac-
cOrding to Instructions
IAnti-InjunctiOn Plank Is as
Radical as Desired by the
Dictator
By Raymond

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
DENVER, July Chicago's steam
roller was a red toy wagon compared
to the remorseless 200 ton compound
locomotive which has been driven
through the Denver convention with
Bryan at the long distance telephone
and Jim Dahlmann alternately footing
the whistle and piling in the coal
Poor jim Guffey. His dismembered
remains are scattered along the track
in the immediate vicinity OF the stained
glass signal light he guarded so brave
ly, but so fooHshly The coroner's
jury in Gu1ey's case will render a
verdict of justihable homicide. If not
OF actual suicide. He had no business
10 sleep on the track and. from the
Bryan standpoint. he deserved all that
came TO him The Bryan steam en-
gine ran on the main track all the
time and never jumped or ran into a
switch
The action Of the credentials COM
mittee was pulled OF according TO pro-
gram, the expected stampede was pro-
longed in the convention hall for an
hour and sundry odd minutes and the
resolutions committee finally got to-
gether on a platform which is as radi-
cal in every particular as Bryan de-
sired.
ALL Is NOT HARMONY
Naturally enough it was a day OF
committee work. The session OF the
convention during the day was all bun
combe. The big committees were not
H. % - "a
do was to listen to speeches and in
{ troduce Bryan's name at the right time
for a demonstration which should out
last in mere duration that at Chicago
when the magic name of Roosevelt was
sprung upon the convention. Yet here
in Denver all was not harmony, for
some of the great pivotal states re-
spite Of the frantic efforts Of Bryan
delegates.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, and even Connecticut. SAT
still with Georgia and Tennessee. and
refused TO be butchered to make a
Bryan holiday. 1t was night session
which did the work and which went
over the report OF the credentials COM
mittee wherein the master had been
recorded, and prepared itself to adopt
the platform which had been dictated.
plank by plank. from headquarters at
Lincoln. Before the convention met in
its night session all the work had been
pretty we'll laid out. and in every de-
tail, however minute. the hand OF Bryan
was constantly made manifest.
Gufey. whose right to the Phiiadel-
phia delegation was affirmed by the
national committee, was deprived OF the
ten delegates whose seats were IN
doubt, thus causing him to lose COM
pIete control OF the Pennsylvania dele
CATION as a whole. although he hoped
to secure his return to the national
committee by the narrow majority OF a
single vote
Pat McCarren Of Brooklyn was
thrown out after slight consideration,
thus extending the sphere Of influence
OF Tammany across the East river,
and incidentally losing New York to
Bryan beyond the possibility OF a doubt.
because the Brooklyn democracy would
not vote for Bryan now II the Angel
Gabriel was his running mate, and that.
too, in the City OF Churches.
SULLIVAN MAKES GOOD
Roger Sullivan made good in the Gre
dentials committee and Bobbie Burke
was left out in the cold The Dubois.
or antt-Mormon delegation in Idaho.
was seated and the Mormon crowd in
the shoestring state is breathing are
and vengeance against Bryan and all
he stands for, openly declaring he will
be beaten all the way from ShoshOne to
POcatello and from Rathdrum to the
Sawtooth mountains. The district OF
Columbia was split up and both the
Johnson and anti-Johnson men in Ohio
were given a single district.
Although the platform was not ready
when the evening session OF the con-
vention was called TO order. the sub
committee had pretty well finished its
job and it's contents were well under
stood. There is an antl-injunction
plank which is just as radical as any
thing Bryan has ever asked for, al
though the phraseology has been
changed. This plank did not meet the
approval OF Governor Haskell OF Okla
homa. chairman Of the resolutions com
mittee, who. curiously enough. was a
railroad promoter not so long ago and
was closely associated with B. =, Yoa-