The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-04-15
BRYAN's ENEMIES LINING TIP.

son IOf the pfeSlueHtN ny the Iopu-
list puts one seceder from Bryan $
own camp into the field against him.
Another of Bryan's enemies from his
own household viii be nominated
when the Hearst independence league
or National party meets two or three
weeks after Bryan.s nomination by
the Democrats. Throughout the en-
| tire proceedings at st. Louis yester-
day and the day before the sentiment
of Bryan's old supporters was over
whelmingly against him. The anti
+ Bryan feeling was so strong that no
quarters was given to any proposition
looking to a postponement of the
nomination until after the Denver
convention should act. These propo-
sitions were looked upon as devices
for fusion, aud everything in that d.
rection was yehemently denounced by
the st. Louis gathering. The walk
OUT of Minnesota and the Ne
braska delegations does not alter in
the slightest degree the fact that the
bulk of all of Bryan's old Populist
supporters are against him in 1908.
They gave him hundreds of thou
sands of votes in 1896 and / 900. fur
nishing him a chance to boast that his
poll in 1896 was greater than Cleve-
lands was in 1892. and were the ele-
ments which gave him the strength
among the people which placed him
higher on the roll than Parker.
This fire in the rear on Bryan is
certain TO tell powerfully against him
in the campaign. The selection of
Samuel w. Williams of Indiana for
. he al ho a. fial. af
is admirably calculated to weaken
Bryan at a strategic spot in the DEM
ocratic line. The Democrats started
out by announcing that Indiana was
one of the states in which they in
tended to make an especially active
canvass in 1908. Watson. as candi-
date of the Popuist party, received
only $500 votes in Indiana in 1904.
but it is probable that his poll will be
larger in that state in 1908. Local
pride will call out a bigger vote for
the ticket in that state than ii re-
eefved four years ago, when a Ne
bGska man held the second place
upon it, The Populists have left the
Bryan camp for good, and they have
burned their bridges behind them.
Those enthusiastic demonstrations in
st. Louis against fusion with the
Democrats has an ominous look for
Bryan in 1908. Their fight against
him will be in a section of the coun-
try in which he needs votes. He will
carry the south, notwithstanding
Watson's personal popularity in his
home state Georgia, and in the rest
of the locality below the Potomac
and the Ohio. Bryan will get all the
southern states which Parker car
ried, except possibly Maryland and
Kentucky. Maryland went against
him in 1896 and 1900. and Kentucky
turned him down in the first of those
years. Kentucky gave him short
lead in 1900 but it went against the
candidates for state offices in most
of the elections since 1900. in which
he made a personal canvass for the
Democratic nominee.
While the Populists will see to it
that Bryan will make no conquests in
the west in 1908, Hearst's party will
fix things SO that he can have no
chance to carry any of the eastern
states. Hearst has personal grudge
against Bryan, and so has Hisgen, the
man whom Hearst favors for the
presidential candidate of the In
dependence League for 1908. Hisgen
was the Hearst nominee for governor
of Massachusetts in 1907, and he was
the second man in the voting. Guild,
the Republican, carried the state, but
| Hisgen stood next to him in the total,
and the Democratic nominee Whit
ney was third. Under the leadership
of either Hearst or Hisgen-and one
or the other of these is reasonably
sure to be the candidate-the Lea
guers, or Nationalists, will make
strong canvass. A large majority of
their votes will be drawn. from Bry.
ans side. Bryan is well aware of
this, and on this account he has tried
hard to conciiate Hearst, but the eff
| fort has been vain. Hearst announc-
ed several weeks ago officially that
/ his party would not support Bryan.
/ The date and place of the Hearst
party's convention have not yet been
/ fixed upon. but these details are of
no consequence. Some date between
| July 3 and 30 has been named pro-
visionally as the time for the open
/ ing of the Hearst party's convention.
/ The men at tn. head of the party
will see to it that the convention
meets early enough to prevent even
1 the most sanguine Democrat from
/ getting eXuberant over the chances
of his party This years campaign
promises to he more exciting than
any which the country has had in
the past third of century. except
possibly that of 1896, and the 1896
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