The San Francisco call., 1908-07-06
Democratic Delegates Viii Dodge Injunction Plank
SOUTHERN LEADERS
LOSE THEIR POWER
Dixie Represented in Denver by
Only the Few Senators
Friendly to Bryan
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

DENVER, July 5.-Sorrow and dis
appointment have reached the hearts of
the southern men. They have come to
Denver to find that their section of the
democracy has waned in power and in
fluence in the democratic convention.
The suave Bailey of Texas, the delib-
crate Culberson of the same state,
"Pitchfork" Tillman of South Carolina,
the erudite John Sharp Williams of
Mississippi and the polite Daniel of
Virginia have passed from the demo-
cratic stage and their places have been
taken by men from the north and from
the west who have not had their ex
perience in the national game.
Dixie today is represented in Denver
by only few United States senators,
Gum Shoe Bill" Stone, the single dele
gate who represents his state in the
upper house of congress, that has sur
vived the washout which the Bryan
flood has caused, and Senators Gore and
Owen of Oklahoma. who are not dele
gates, and whose influence consequently
Will be slight.
Senator Bailey is a delegate from
Texas, but is afflicted with a sore throat,
which prevents him from making the
trip to Denver.
EXCUSES BY SENATORS
There was talk that Culberson might
be named as the presidential candidate
instead of Bryan and he declined to
accept election as a delegate at large
Tillman conveniently found it desir-
able to make a trip to Europe and he
is enjoying mountain climbing in
Switzerland far more than he would
the Bryan altitude of Denver.
Daniel may come but he will cut
small figure. His relations with Bryan
have not been cordial for some time
and he recently was thrust aside by the
peerless one" who asked Governor
Claude Swanson of Virginia, instead of
the senator, to second his nomination
on the floor of the convention.
Two of the delegates at large of
Louisiana will be Senators McEnery
and Foster, both of whom are regarded
in Washington as administration rather
than democratic senators, and Bryan
takes much the same view.
FEW NOTABLES IN SIGHT
The men who will be prominent in
the convention will be men whose
names are not known nationally, ex-
cept in a few instances. Starting in
New England, they will be George
Fred Williams of Massachusetts and
Alexander Troup, great Bryan man,
and Archibald Mcneil, a democratic
leader in the state senate and vice
presidential candidate, both from Con-
necticut. Bryan has made it a point to
stroke the Tammany tiger, with the re-
suit that Murphy and his cohorts
avowedly are for him.
Farther west there are Tom John
son of Cleveland, and Judson Harmon,
former attorney general and democratic
candidate for governor of Ohio. John
| w. Kern, a lawyer of Indiana and vice
presidential candidate, is Bryans chief
reliance in the Hoosier state dele
cation.
Four men will be Illinois representa-
tives in the coterie that will control
things in the convention-Roger S. Sui
livan, Judge Carroll C. Boggs, ex-Mayor
Edward F. Dunno and NJ F. Dunlap of
Jacksonville, the latter a schoolmate
of the Nebraskan.
NEW POWER Is SOUGHT
Ex-Congressman Wade and Jerry B.
Sullivan, who is Iowas vice presiden-
tial candidate, are the reliance of
Bryan in the Iowa delegation On the
Pacific coast there is Theodore Bell,
formerly a member of congress and a
near governor" of California. Okla
homa has forged to the front through
the preference that Bryan has shown
| for Governor Charles n. Haskell, who
is the candidate of the peerless one"
| Tor the cnalrmanSnlp OIL Jne resolutions
committee.
1t is a new power which Bryan has
sought to create in the old democracy.
| The list includes men who fought for
| the gold standard. who have been as
sociated with the Cleveland wing of the
party and who even have had Affiliations
with Hearst. The men who have been
dsregarded come from a section whose
democracy cannot be shaken whatever
may be done to those who lead it.
Bryan shrewdly has counted the cost
of these tactics and thus far they have
! been successful beyond the expecta-
tions of those who have watched The
course with misgivings