Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-30
AROUSE:
CANDIDACY OF GOVERNOR JOHN.
 SON BEINGS NEW HOPE.
PROBABILITY OF WINNING
Party Leaders See ii the Man from Minnesota an Unusual Chance for Victory at the Polls
 in November

Chieago.-At the Johnson leadquar- teFs in the Grand Pacific hotel there are signs of satisfaction With the turn the presidential nomin= ation contest is taking in tha Dom ocratic party. As the Johnson man. asers see it the action of the New York state Democratic convention and that of the Michigan Democratic state central committee marked sig niiicant change in the contest. From TOW on, said F B. Lynch, who is in charge Of the Johnson campaign. you VIII hear much similar news. From now on people Hha raaI the napers will know that there k q lively con test og. aecl=Hatire1 ta5ueh t shall be so faE as Ez aEa caaccrno5, for the Democratic IofHtaal.5a at Denver. The two o.5e.sI &a5.aae If lage-I refer to Che caasa taken l1 taa NaE York stato convention and the Michigan state committee -oae merely in6iea- tons of what F coins aa =ata the surface. TEe faef j. t5a 5-nk and file of tha H4E.J axe y,E.4= ap t5 the op- Dc. 4aiJe tl.a Johnson cs1dtaaey af- ford 1AcE a5s b. .aafHs 5a reflect on what | ai sbins Y. 9ry xt No Fen3} aood Ha ard 4a eoH#.9e. that with Eez. candid =}2sa 3e.4=zsn t is ECl eais raz .a'e hat mahab.e The aeW# of sIse azzt#a az lae zsfehiaaa state eeassat zeaa.t51es %as SUP prise, bal Eaue t.o les pea s5H& oa that aee9ant 1t %aF al tle mate sarIri@e because ot tae fact that we have done H8 active #atk ia Michi- gan and supposed If eoii.se, fhat the state central committee would ind0rsc Bryan and Campau Na had received many encouraging letters from that state, but did not believe that the party leaders would refuse an indorse- mont to Bryan aud Canpau in this state which has been SO friendly to them in the past
 Another thing that is significant is that. although we have made no effort whatever to organize in Illinois, quite numbsr of counties are electing un. instructed delegates to the Springfield convention, and in all such cases fail ufe to instruct means that the dcla gates are fayorablE inclined toward Gov. Johnson The popular response We are receiving in Illinois shows Us that had We been in the field few months earlier this state could easily have been lined 1fp for Mr. Johnson. We are receiving a perfect deluge Of letters from all parts of tie state and largely from friends and supporters of Col Bryan who believe that tho time has come for a new candidate
 Scores of letters are being received at the Johnson headquarters from Bryan Democrats ill all sections C the coU1trN. While as much attached to GoI Bryan us eyer, the writers feel that 1t would not be wise to nominate him a third time
 \ typical letter is the following Der dealer at Niles, O.:
 T reply to you as a Democrat. I have talked of and pondered over this presidential election many times. and have found that John A. Johnson is the man needed to lead us to success have worked hard for Bryan in his last campaigns. and fell with him. I am now out for John A. Johnson We can win if he is nominated l will talk with our delegate here and urge him for Johnson. l have told him Bryan can't win, even II nominated. have quit politics for the past three years. but will go to work for J. A. J. For if we nominate him he will surely be elected. I will stay by him until the last vote is counted in November. Trust me with any political work you may offer me for his success.