Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-02
BRYAN TO GET
NOMINATION ON
FIRST BALLOT
LEADERS WORK, HOWEVER, TO
INSURE TRIUMPH
NO COMMON GROUND BETWEEN
GRAY AND JOHNSON MEN
Questions Concerning Platform and
Vice Presidency Much Discussed,
but Leaders Are Not Agreed
as to Outcome
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.OOuIluueQ rum Aako OAot
phases OF an anti-injunction plank Mr..
Monnett personally is in favor OF a
strong utterance on the subject. He
conferred with Mr.. Bryan at Lincoln
yesterday.
Samuel Alschuler, who is the proba-
BILE member of the committee on reso-
lutions from Illinois. declared today
that he did not believe that the anti
Injunction plank to be adopted by the
convention would be of such a charac-
ter that any controversy would be pro-
voked by it. There has been talk OF
a radical plank in the platform" said
Mr.. Alschuler, land all sorts of mean
ings have been grouped under that
word. 1t will depend upon what is
meant by the word radical 1 think
it lie entirely safe to say, although
am now giving my personal opinion
only, that any assumption that the
anti-injunction plank will be an at
tack upon the courts is incorrect. 1t
unQuestionably viii favor jury trials
for contempt and due notice to all
parties concerned in injunction pro-
ceedinss.
Will Be Clean Cut
"It can be safely stated that the
plank will be clean cut, definite and
not a straddle, such as the Republican
party has made. 1t is entirely within
bounds to say that the injunction will
be no more advanced than the views
which from time to time have been ex-
pressed by President Roosevelt. In
fact, it is my opinion that we will
be more conservative than the presi-
dent would have been If he could have
written the plank in the Republican
platform"
When asked about the vice presi-
dency, Mr.. Alschuler declared that in
his opinion the great desirable attribute
for any candidate was that he should
be from Illinois. If, however, that
state did not present any name to the
convention he was utterly at a loss to
predict at this time who the Illinois
delegation will favor.
The state, he said, would stand for
Bryan to the finish, and there would
be no break in its vote at any time.
When shown a copy Of Judge Gray's
telegram from Washington, declaring
that he would not consent to being
placed in nomination as a candidate
for the presidency, Mr.. Marvel, the
Gray campaign manager, said:
There is nothing new in that tele-
gram 1t repeats exactly what Judge
Gray said in his letter to the Della
ware convention. He has never given
his consent to be placed in nominal
ton before the convention, but his
-IrlenQS, VINO TGdllSe HOW VIGIL quail
fed he is to be president of the United
States, have taken the matter in their
own hands. 1t is our affair. and not
his"
Consider Only One Problem
When told that 1t was reported that
Mr. Bryan favored John b. Stanch-
field of New York for vice president
if Judge Gray was not available, Mr..
Marvel laughed and said:
There is no need of my saying any
thing on that subject. The only man
ner in which we consider the vice
presidency is to wonder who would
head the ticket with Judge Gray"
After meeting and perfecting tenn
porary organization next Tuesday the
Democratic national convention will
adjourn for the day out of respect to
the memory of former President Gro
yer Cleveland, if the present plans of
the committee on arrangements are
carried into effect.
The committee has not reached the
point of making a definite announce
ment but the question has been re-
Gently discussed and the expressions
generally favor this course.
It is believed the adjournment can
be taken in this way without inter-
fering with the progress of the pro-
ceedings Of the convention, at the same
time enabling the convention to pay
the proper degree Of respect for the
ex-president.
The committees will be announced so
that they can proceed with their busi-
ness. The program looks to the COM
pletion of the work of the convention
within three days.
Roger c. Sullivan, national commit
teeman from Illinois, tonight an
nounced that his state might have a
candidate for the vice presidency in
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