The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-14
GOMPERS WILL SUPPORT BRYAN ThisAnnouncenentOver- shadows All Others. MR. KERN VISITS FAIRvIEW Indiana Promised Nebfaskan by Ten Thousand Majority. Current Gossip Has Narrowed the Con- test of the Craftsmanship Down
 to James, Lamb, Atwood
 sad Csmpau.
 
MR. KERN VISITS FAIRvEw

Fairview. Lincoln. Neb.. July 1s.-- Samuel Gompers. President of the American Federation of Labor. will support wm. J. Bryan in the coming Presidential campaign.
 Tn political circles today this an- nouncement overshadowed all others, even the arrival of John w. Kern, the vice-Presidential nominee. While MT. Gompers' support was promised to the ticket he specifically denied any pres ent intention of taking the stump in the coming campaign. Reports gained currency that the labor leader would speak for Bryan, but he made no such announcement He left Fairview after a fifteen minutes interview with MT. Bryan. At present it is believed there will be no need for Mir. Gompers's ser- vice in an oratorical sense and Mir. Gompers does not expect to be called upon to speak publicly in the campaign. The Republican convention, Gompers asserts, Ignored the demands of labor, while the Democrats adopted them in their platform. His course he says, is clear. and he will do what is demanded of him in the interests of labor as best impressed in the platform adopted at Denver. As the situation is at present, MT. Gompers's efforts can be better ex- pended elsewhere than on the rostrurn.
 In his Interview with Mir. Bryan,
 
 Morrison. secretary of the Federation, and James Duncan. also a labor leader.
 The representatives of organized la- bor and the vice-Presidential nominee, John W. Kern and party, reached Bry- an Station by the trolley car. MT. Bryan, in his neglected fedora hat and alapaca coat, went out to greet them
 Gsreets Mir. Kern
 "Ah. there is the vice-President," ob- served the leader of the ticket smiling and extending his hand. What MT. Kern said in reply was lost in the confusion. but his smile was reassur- ing as he shook hands vigorously with the standard bearer of his party.
 The Presidential and Vice-Presiden- Yial nominees. arm in arm. led the way to the Bryan home followed hY Ahra- ham Simmons, delegate at large to the conventions; John E. Osborne, member of the State Central Committee of In- diana, and U. S. Jackson, chairman of the committee. Mfr. Jackson after talking with Mir. Bryan. declared that Indiana would go for Bryan by 10000 votes He based this prediction on a canvass which he said he had been making since the middle of January. He anticipated the enrolment of many Roosevelt Republicans on the Bryan list.
 MT. Bryan told his visitors that it had been reported he would make q front porch campaign. He was by no means certain of this but admitted that he had promised to make a speech in Chicago on Labor Day. Aside from this date the candidate for the Pres- idency had made no plans.
 Interest today naturally centered in the visit tomorrow of members of the new National Committee. Dr. Hall. National Committeeman from Nebras- ka, yesterday stated that the Chair naanship of the Committee lay amongst Ollie James of Kentucky, Campau of Michigan, Lamb of Indiana and Att wood of Kansas. Today speculation Campau and James and to the latter largely because Mir. Bryan has ex- pressed such great admiration for his political and intellectual qualities and to Campau because of his admitted bus mess ability.
 David R. Francis is out of 1t be- cause of his own plea that though sto- ries of his connection with Standard oil were untrue. the libels were sufi- eient to prevent his running for any office. Tom L. Johnson has been elim- inated, 1t is said, by his flat refusal to occupy any office where he might be asked for legislative. favors in. exchange son has admitted Wall Street connec- tions but none with whom he would care to mix politically.
 Campau OF Lamb.
 Current gossip tonight had narrowed the contest to Campau of Michigan and Lamb of Indiana. Neither has ex- pressed himself as desiring the posi- tion, but neither has denied ambition in that direction. Campau has been defeated for the National Committee man from Michigan but his business ability is undisputed; Lamb Is credited with marked influence in his home State and the peculiar abilities which make for successful campaign man ager. Thus 1t Is on the eve of the meeting of the National Committee with MT. Bryan tomorrow.
 Mir. Bryan does not desire to name the Chairman himself but the absence of initiative on the part of his sup porters probably will compel him in the end to name the man. No man in America is more admired by Mir. Bryan than Ollie James of Kentucky, yet Mir. James. in all probability, will not be named as Chairman of the National Committee for he himself has denied any. of the requisites which make for a successful campaign manager. On the other hand Mr. Campau Is recog- Of the manager of political warfare. Mr. campau is not an orator of na- tional attachments. but he is a busi- ness man whose merits have not been attacked.
 Thus the situation stands with not a few believing dark horse may be se- lected before the committee adJourns from Lincoln.