Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-07

his trip West, expressed the belief that
woman suffrage will come eventually
In passing through Nebraska on his
way to Kansas, Gov. Johnson declared
| that w. j. Bryan has passed the zenith
of his popularity and joined the has
| beenS."
Secretary Taft made a clean sweep of
| the Minnesota county conventions Even
in Hennepin, claimed as La Toilette
| stronghold, the convention instructed for
| Taft.
The Democratic convention at Manila
defeated by one vote a resolution con-
demning the Taft administration of the
| islands and then Endorsed Bryan for the
presidency.
The South Dakota Democratic State
convention elected eight delegates to the
national convention and instructed them
to vote for William Jennings Bryan for
the presidential nomination.
Rev. o. ID. Elicit. an ex-Methodist
preacher and editor of the Iowa Prohibi-
zionist. will be candidate for the Pro-
hibition nomination of Governor of Iowa
at the primaries to be held on June 2.
After w. ]. Bryan had delivered an adj
dress in Lansing, the Michigan Demo
cratic committee refused to indorse him
for President, and he left the city, declar-
ing that money was being used against
him.
After two days of hard fighting the
New York Democratic convention refused
to indorse w. j. Bryan, but drove Sena-
tor Patrick McCarren and his Bryanites
from their seats and elected an unin-
structed delegation.
In New York Frank Duffy, an election
district captain who was convicted of
having assisted thirty men to register
falsely at the last election in the Seven
teenth Assambly District, was sentenced
to not less than two years and three
months in prison.
Gov. johnson gave his presidential
boom some personal attention on his way
to and from the dedication of the Mime
sofa monument on Shiloh battlefield Be
sides his Shiloh speech. he delivered an
address at Louisville and informal talks
at Chicago, Indianapolis and other cities
en- route.
Organs of the Socialist party through
out the country are reprinting the recent
editorial from the Washington Post APP
proving the statement made by John S.
Wise of Virginia that American politics
is now chaotic, and that nobody knows
what Democrat or a Republican is
The Illinois Democratic convention in
structed the fifty-eight delegates to the
Denver convention-eight at large with
half a vote each-to vote for William
Jennings Bryan, and Ito use all honora-
BILE methods to secure his nomination"
A personal liberty" plank was put into
the platform after a spirited two-hour
fight in the resolutions committee The
platform instructs for Bryan and severe
ly arraigns Gov. Deneen's administration
as a compound of extravaganza and fav-
oritism and ''heartless treatment of
State wards. 1t charges Republicans with
being in league with rich tax dodgers
and the footing of public funds by fav
ored contractors
What is regarded as virtually the first
challenge of the presidential campaign.
if it is to be fought between Bryan and
Taft. came from the lips of the Nebraska
leader of Democracy when he spoke al
the big dollar dinner at Kansas City,
Mo-, attended by 1900 members of the
Young Mems Democratic Club of Mis-
souri,. Judson Harmon of Ohio was also
down for speech. and he began it, but
the eagerness to hear Bryan made the
audience impatient, and so noisy that
Harmon had to quit. The keynote of
Bryan's talk was comparison between
Taft and La Toilette, in which he made
it plain that he regarded the latter as a
real reformer. who, if he were nominated,
would command the support that big sec
ton of Republicans who want to see
things done, while Taft he characterized
as a bogus reformer. Bryan made it
plain that he expects to see many Repub-
licans support the Democratic candidates
if the Republican party names Taft.