Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-06
MAY LAST FOUR DAYS
Denver Convention Likely to
Adjourn Friday.
SOME PROBLEMS ON HAND
Controversies That May Take Much
Time to Settle.
CONTESTS. TO BE DECIDED
subcommittee Expected to Report
CONTESTS. TO BE DECIDED
subcommittee Expected to Report
Committee Tonight

1 ASA> A1S Soi., ulS VI lie SelleTdI GA
pectation now regarding the democratic
national convention that begins tomorrow
is of a four days convention with final
adjournment some time Friday. but po-
tentialities of trouble, as yet undeveloped
lie in several subjects still unsettled. and
a positive forecast is impossible Even If
1t be assumed, as many do assume. that
Mr.. Bryans nomination is practically a
certainty. there is still the open question
of the platform and the controversy over
the injunction plank; the possible con-
sumption of time by the contests before
| the credentials committee and possibly on
the convention floor, and the selection of
candidate for the vice presidency.
| The vice presidential problem took
| somewhat different turn yesterday, when
an intimation was received, through what
| have hitherto proved reliable channels, to
the effect that Mr. Bryan believed both
| the logic and StrategicS of the situation
| suggested the propriety of deferring def
| mite activities as to the second place on
| the ticket until the first was disposed of
| This led to perceptible falling off of the
gossip on the subject. and the whole mat
ter Is for the moment sidetracked
Parallel to Chicago Convention.
The situation in this regard is singu-
larly like that which existed at a similar
juncture in the republican convention at
Chicago last month.
To add still further to the parallel with
the republican convention. Monday finds
general interest in the platform still con.
| fined almost wholly to the proposed plank
regarding the use of court injunctionS
especially in labor controversies.
The labor representatives on the ground,
Gompers. Mitchell and others are urgent
ly pressing their claims upon those who
will presumably have import ant influence
in the committee on resolutions.
The weather. which yesterday was de-
cidedly hot. changed in the night after a
series OF crashing thunderstorms, and be-
came raw and rather cold. Leaden skies
replaced the turquoise dome from which
yesterday the sun smiled upon the in
coming delegations. During one of the
| storms of last evening many delegates sat
IN stalled electric cars in various parts of
the city waiting for the power to be
| turned on. while vivid lightning played
across the sky and smashing volleys of
| thunder echoed from the mountains.
Contests to Be Decided.
Today's program included caucuses of
many of the state delegations, some of
them likely to have weight in significance
even as affecting the presidential nomina
tion itself; and the beginning of work by
the national committee upon the several
contests which. while not likely to affect
final results. might involve expenditure
of time sufficient to delay the work of
the convention.
called for 10 am. was expected to ap-
point subcommittee to consider each of
the contests before the convention, the
understanding early today being that
these subcommittee would meet i'm
mediately and simultaneously with the in
tenttOn to report upon the contests tonight
to a meeting of the full committee. The
contests officially entertained are those
from the following states:
New York, second to seventh districts
inclusive.
Pennsylvania, first to sixth districts in
elusive and the thirtieth and thirty-second
districts
District Of Columbia. entire delegation.
Illinois, first to tenth districts inclusive
Idaho, entire delegation.
Ohio. ninth and nineteenth districts.
Conference of New Yorkers.
| Principal interest attached for the mo-
ment to the caucus of the New York state
| delegation. appointed for the noon hour,
| for the attitude of that delegation and
| the delivery of it's big bunch of seventy
/ eight votes cast as one under the opera
| tiOn of the unit rule will beyond ques-
| tiOn have a moral effect, to say nothing of
| the balance OF power which has been
| potent and sometimes absolutely deci-
| sive in national conventions memorable
| in political history. Such expressions as
| have come from the delegates from New
| York have In general way encouraged
| the belief that that state would cast her
| solid vote for the nomination of Bryan.
but there is in the delegation group of
| veteran fighters, formidable in experience
| even II not large in number. unalterably
| opposed to the nomination of Bryan, who
| fully realize the strategic importance of
| today's caucus even though it's attitude on
the main question might be indicated only
! indirectly in the selection of representa-
| tives upon the convention committees and
upon the national committee and who
| are certain to continue fighting until
! fighting appears unfruitful even of for
| lorn hope.
| Tom Johnson Beaten.
An interesting development yesterday
was the definite decision Of the Ohio dele
cation by an overwhelming vote that
| Mayor Tom l.. Johnson of Cleveland shall
not be national committeeman from that
| state. The Ohioans. arriving late in the
day over the Santa Fe route held their
caucus on the train. thirty-three of the
total of forty-six delegates attending.
Johnson got only six votes. the other
| twent ty-seven being cast. for Harvey Gar
| ber of Columbus, former chairman of the
democratic state executive committee.
Mayor Johnson himself, arriving with the
| delegation and driving alone in open
| carriage to his hotel said that he had
| no interest in the talk of his bens chair
man of the new national committee.
| THAT work is out of my line entirely"
said he. 'and. moreover. my work at
Cleveland is as yet unfinished
"old Kaintuck" Conspicuous
| One of the big contingents which ar
rived late yesterday was from st. Jo-
| seph Mo-. and was headed by the Mon