The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-28
l1o.n with his fellow Democrats oil over
he land In bringing harmony out OF

\oin with his fellow Democrats oil over
he land In bringing harmony out Of
9ShAos.
It IL believed here by nll that Mr..
Hearst will eventually see his way
plear to end the Independence League
movement IN the interest of united
party, and also that many of the stiff
L personalities Of the last few years are
TO give nlace to something like fra
ternal Democratic feeling.
Tho negroes are TO have confer
efica here on July 18th, with a view to
organizing movement to support the
Democratic national ticket. With
majority OF Democrats insisting that
Taft Is not as strong as Mckinley was
IN 1895. the year in which Mckinley
4 first crossed swords with Bryan; with
Bryan advocating harmony "all along
the line; with Mr.. Straus laboring
with Mr.. Hearst. and with safe and
sane platform, the Democrats now on
the ground feel that Bryan Will give
Taft the greatest political fight In the
annals of political history.
Brynn ms II Hun,orist.
Mr.. Bryan tells friends here that he
IL not to make many speeches In the
campaign Mrs. Bryan smiles when
her husband says that. for Mr.. Bryan
as a child of three. was stood upon
table in his old home at Salem. Ill,
and made to recite Peers and he can
no more help talking than brook can
cease bubbling. Mr.. Bryan. too, thinks
he Is becoming hulnorit after Sester-
day at Lincoln. when one OF his friends,
discussing the vice-presidency asked
him: How does Woodrow Wilson
= strike you2"
...F'ine I" replied Mr.. Bryan, "he strikes
me very we'll. In fact. he strikes me at
every opportunity"
Colonel Watterson relates that on
his recent visit 10 Lincoln, he material
~ aided Mr.. Bryan In framing the
platform to be adopted by this con-
vention. and the colonel adds: Il never
had anything to do with platform
that the candidate who stood upon 1t
wasn't winner
Opposed to Bailey.
Mr.. Bryan is opposed to Senator
Bailey as chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions and were Senator Barley
well enough to take the place the Ne
braskan would oppose and defeat nm.
Bryan believes that Senator Cum
4 Shoe Bill Stone should hold tho Res-
olutions Committee.
Mayor Frank II. Brown. OF Lincoln.
personal friend of Mr.. Bryan. is to
be Nebraska's member of the Resolu-
lions Committee and Charles ". Bryan,
brother of William j. Eryan, will be
the personal representative of the Ne
braskan throughout the work of the
convention. All of Mr.. Bryan's chill
dren are to have seats in the conven-
ton.
The platform now being written by
Mr.. Bryan at Lincoln will be- in large
measure. the Nebraska state platform
which was adopted at Omaha on March
9Th. Mr.. Bryan wrote that platform.
but said st the tine that the declara-
rations in 1t were necessarily incom-
plcte; that some subjects which un-
doubtedly will be included in the ma
tioual platform We're omitted. while
others were treated in the Nebraska
document in a purposely brief manner,
so as to allow amplihcation at Denver.
The Nebraska Platform.
The Nebraska platform advanced lit.
tie that is new. The Fowler and AID
rich currency bills were condemned.
Emergency currency, it was declared.
should be ISSUED and controlled by
0 the Federal government"
Immediate revision of the tariff was
empha sized as a necessity, the stand
pat" policy being ridiculed in the bold
est terms. There was straight de-
claration in opposition to Asiatic I'M
migration, and there were paragraphs
favoring the eIght-hour working day
and the irrigation and reclamation pro-
jects. There was no reference to gov
eminent ownership In the Nebraska
platform, and neither was there "a
personal liberty clause" therein.
Mayor Dahlman was generally cred
tied with having in his possession a
copy OF the platform which is to be
submitted to the convention, but he
did not bring it.
IT talked with Mr.. Bryan about the
platform" he said, but that is all. 1t
is not drawn up, so far as know, at
least not in definite form. There is
no mystery about the platform which
will be adopted by the Democratic con-
vention. It is generally understood
throughout the country on, what sort
of a platformM Bryan is willing to
stand. and the pubic knows as much
about it as LIDO"
When asked whether or not an 'fn-
Junction" plank will be inserted In the
platform, Mayor Dahlman admitted
that in this respect the platform Of the
roming convention would probably diff
fer from that Of the former Bryan plat
form. He dstlared,:t however. that
nothing yee*had been determined in
this respect. and in all probability the
entire matter would await a visit of q
number of men prominent in the labor
movement to Mr.. Bryan at his home
In Lincoln. This conference, he said.
might be held in the early part OF next
week.
Permanent Chairman.
No selection was made for the
permanent craftsmanship by the COM
nittee on arrangements to-day.
This matter went over until g.
meeting OF the full committee can
tibe held. The most prominent-
~ mentioned in this connection
are Representative Henry Clayton, OF