The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-08-18
Bryan's Fight is Lost.

Words of prominent Democrats ut
tered just before and during the
Democratic national convention at
Denver that. II Bryan were made the
nominee, certain states needed to
bring any sort of assurance that the
Democrats would carry the country,
would certainly be lost, are now be-
ginning to bear their fruit.
ut Is noticeable" says The Pitts
burg Press, commenting upon the re-
lection of Bryan by leading Demo-
cratic newspaper that supported him
in 1900. that comparatively few OF
the Democratic leaders who are now
giving Bryan their support are not
extremely modest in that support,
and they would be infinitely less mod
est IL 1t were not for their natural
desire to remain with the party lines
in order to have the right to be
acknowledged as regulars when the
time shall come for the reorganiza-
ton and rehabilitation of the Demo-
cratic party. They are giving Bryan
Il free hand; they are allowing him to
make his own campaign, and they
intend to let him go on with the pro-
cess of his own elimination as the
future leader of the party. They be-
lieve he will be defeated in Novem-
Der, and they want to be in position
TO say that even with the party or
ganiZation behind him he could not
win"
In this connection, the remarks of
a number of the leading Democrats
of the country at the Democratic
national convention at Denver, are
shown now to have been no Idle chat
tering. Prominent Democrats in the
convention stated with earnestness
and emphasis that the Democrats
could not hope to win II Bryan were
made the nominee. Their words,
however, were drowned in the clat-
tering. whizzIng, crunchIng noise OF
the Bryan pile driver then at work,
but they now are pointed to by a
large number of Democrats as pro-
phetic words whose wisdom and
worth were lost in the air at the boss
ridden convention at the foot of the
Rockies.
1--WE want every doubtful state
or at least good majority OF them >
declared Isaac l.. Straus. of Mary
land, in seconding the nomination of
Governor John F. johnson for presi-
dent at the Denver convention, This
Is indeed the supreme need upon
which the event of the approaching
contest hangs. We do not require a
candidate who can carry South Caro-
lima or Texas. Any Democrat can
do that Beware lest you name a
candidate who shall not only lose us
the doubtful states but Republicanize
Democratic states. Maryland Is a
Democratic state. The only occasions
since the Civil war upon which 1t ever
lost president or congressional cleo
tion in that state were the occasions
when Mr.. Bryan was a candidate. II
you nominate him, he will lose the
state this year and carry our candi-
dates for congress down with him,
On the other hand Governor John
son can carry Maryland by $4,000
majority. I believe the same condi-
tons exist in Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia,
Illinois. Indiana and possibly Ken
lucky. Mr.. Bryan's nomination will
land those states squarely in the Re
publican column"
It Is now conceded by almost every
Democrat that Maryland is lost to
Bryan. The apathy to the forlorn
Bryan cause in other doubtful states
shows that they, too, will join the Re-
publican column. To use a colloquial
expression. "Bryan's cake Is dough-
right now and 1t may safely be con-
ceded generally that Judge William
Howard Taft will be the next presl-
dent OF the United States.