The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-03
Haze Hangs Over His Candi-
dacy for President Since
All Desire Him to Be Vice
President.
BRYAN WILL BE BEATEN
IF HE is NOMINATED.
Democrats at Denver Are Now
Conceding This and Hope
For the John Johnson
Day.


Tom Grady of Tammany hall and ].
*. Mcguire, former mayor of SYRIA
cuse who is a strong Tammany man,
the New York situation was cleared
up sufficiently to indicate that there is
little probability of the delegation
getting together on any man who
would be acceptable to the rest of the
country for vice president On the
contrary, the other New York men
here say that if Mr.. Bryan indicates
his continued preference for Judge
Gray they will be entirely willing to
accept him for second place.
New York Has Rules Contest
Tom Grady, the Tammany SPELL
binder. came on here not for the pur-
pose of interfering with the vice pres
ldential situation, but to take up the
New York contest. The fight between
Murphy and McCarren is to be one to
the death Grady, it is supposed, will
be the New York member of the COM
mittee on rules. The reason for this
Is that there is back of the Murphy
McCarren contest, an old fight as to
whether the state convention or the
district body shall control the eIec-
tion of delegates. Pat McCarren had
undisputed control or Brooklyn. His
district delegates were elected by safe
majorities. When the matter was
taken up by the state convention.
however, Murphy had control and
without hesitation. as well as without
much, If any. legality, he and "Fingy"
Conners threw MeCarren out of the
state convention bodily and elected en-
urely new delegates from the Brook
lyn district.
Gray the Most Likely Man.
None of the New York delegation al
ready on the ground seems to have
any idea that it will be possible TO Sc
cure the nomination of New York
man for second place. Charles A.
Towne is being persistently doomed
by a small coterie. but there is no evil
denee he can secure the support of the
state under any conditions. Bird S.
Coler, the former controller. is accept
able to the Bryan men, because he is
with them in regard 10 the anti-in-
junction plank. Mr. Bryan himself
does not want Stanchfield and the
state democracy as a whole simply
laughs at Chanler. The result is that
the situation on the vice presidential
question remains dependent entirely
on the attitude of Judge Grey himself.
He has never yet said positively that
he would refuse the nomination for
second place, and il is significant that
all the leaders here expect him to ac-
cept it when it is offered to him. es-
pecially if IL comes to him with the
knowledge that the offer has the ap-
proval of the presidential nominee
himself
Every day adds to the growth of
democratic opinion in opposition to a
radical labor plank. Mr.. Bryan is
standing out for such declaration. at
least nominally, but recent visitors
from Lincoln all agree that he is be-
coming milder in his insistence. and
the plank when finally adopted is al
most certain TO be infinitely more con-
servative than that which was put in
to the Nebraska platform by the ex-
press direction of Bryan himself.
Parker to Lead Opposition.
Alton B. Parker will lead the fight
against the anti-injunction plank in
the committee and On the floor, IL nee
essary. He will make his argument
on legal grounds. The strongest OBJ
jections to the proposed plank and the
ones which will really produce re-
suits If any are TO be produced. are
purely political ones
Every important democratic mana
ger who is here takes the ground that
II would be huge mistake TO allow
Bryan to impress his personality on
the party policy. Most Of them, un-
der their breath. admit that his
chances for election are exceedingly
dim. They are all looking ahead four
years and they want to keep the party
within certain conservative lines. so
that there will be nothing TO apollo
yize for when John johnson or some
other live democrat is substituted for
Bryan. They are willing that the
sage of Lincoln should run the conven-
ton to suit himself and select his own
running mate, but they will stand out
10 frame the platform after their own
IDEAS.
Conservatives Claim Committee.
The conservatives claim they win
have a majority of the committee on
behind them. Whether
his is true no one can tell positively
1t the present time. because in many
Of the delegations there is a fight on
over this particular plank and the
membership OF the committee will not
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