The San Francisco call., 1908-07-02

Protest of Delaware Judge
Against Nomination Is Not !:
Taken As Final Word
Nebraskan's Followers Agree
With Conservatives That
Jurist Is Strongest Man
JOhnsOn's Supporters Want to
Reserve Him for First Place
Four Years Hence
Clark Howell of Georgia Would
Be Acceptable if Assured OF
Southern Votes
By Raymond
c1AL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

/ SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
DENVER, July LIT is still Bryan
and Gray, provided Gray will accept it.
About that, of course. there is differ
ence of opinion since the dispatch
from Wilmington this morning. in
which he says: "As have repeatedly
said, would not consent TO being
placed in nomination as a candidate
for the presidency. now say with
equal emphasis that will not under
any circumstances consent to a noni-
nation for the vice presidency"
| This declaration by the Delaware
Judge is not taken as final here at the
present time In the first place he
does not say he viii refuse the nominal
tton. In the second place he was put
in the field for the presidency in spite
! OF an identical declaration on that sub
ject some time ago. Moreove-. his two
4 boomers, Josiah Marvel and r. j.
| Beamish. the first of Delaware and the
second Of Pennsylvania. already have
i opened extensive Gray headquarters
/ here, at the Savoy. They are going
/ ahead. and If he can be placed before
/ the convention for the nomination for
president he is equally eligible for sec
( ond place. Not only the Bryan men but
/ the conservative east and west have
\ united on Gray as the strongest man
/ to put on the ticket with Bryan, and
/ they will not give UP this idea until
there are some entirely new develop
ments-
DEMAND FOR JOHNSON
7 Mayor Daniel W. Lawler and Dick
I O'Connor, the politicians of St. Paul.
arrived here today from Colorado
Springs. They express confidence that
johnson Will have a chance in the con-
vention. but some OF his supporters
i from other states do not hesitate to
/ say cOnfidentially that there is not a
/ ghost OF chance for the Minnesota
/ governor and that Bryan will surely be
nominated on the first ballot. Lawler
and OConnor have gone back to Colo
radO Springs and will not return until
/ the first OF the week, which is a suffi-
cient evidence Of the hOpelessness OF
/ the Johnson movement for first place.
/ As to second place, Mayor Lawler
/ said to me this afternoon: Il win au-
thorize you to say in your dispatch in
behalf of Governor Johnson, in the most
positive terms. that he is not a candi-
1 date for the vice presidency and that
T.
| is offered to him. You cannot make
this too strong"
! In spite of this fact there is a strong
/ desire among delegates from all parts
/ of the country to secure for the ticket
the strength which Johnson's name
would add to it All over the north.
There is good deal of bitterness dis
played by Bryan men toward the Min
nesota governor. His nomination for
second place would be bitter pin to
/ the Nebraska leader, and yet at the
same time the convention might run
away from dts leaders and put the Min
nesota governor on the ticket in spite
of both Bryan and Johnson.
EXPECT BRYAN's DEFEAT
/ This would be almost as bad medicine
for Johnson's followers as for Bryan
himself. They say that the Minnesota
governor might have won the presi-.
Dental nomination away from Bryan
/ If he had been actively in the field as
early as last January. His candidacy
was not announced until after various
state and district delegations pFac-
ltically We're decided upon and pledged
ito Bryan. JOhnsOn's managers now are
willing to get for him all the prestige
that can be obtained from the present
convention, but they do not want him
/ put on the ticket for second place. be-
cause they say with utmost frankness. .
| that they expect Bryan to be defeated
and they want to hold Johnson in re-
serve as the strongest presidential cam
didate for 1912.
If Gray positively declines to run
there is a possibility some new man
may be- taken up, and favorable men
( tiOn-. was made today OF the name OF
/ Clark Howell of Georgia, who Is ac-
lceptable TO the conservatives and prob.
\ ably would be nominated IL he could
lget the southern vote pretty solidly be-
hind him.
4 Opposition to the anti-injunction
plank is getting. stronger every day.
and the belief continues to grow that
Bryan would not be bitterly disappoint-
ed if the convention should turn him
down on this point.
i No decision has been reached yet as
to who will be the chairman OF the
committee on resolutions II some man
/ like Senator Bacon Of Georgia comes
here with his delegation he probably
will be picked for the place. Some OF
1 the more radical element today gave
out the tip that Governor Haskell OF
Oklahoma would be the chairman.
OPPOSITION To SOCIALISM
The conservative leaders. half a
dozen OF whom I saw this afternoon on
this subject. say they would fight
Haskelfs selection bitterly. and thar.
while they are disposed to be entirely