The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-05-07
MASSACHUSETTS FOR BRYAN.

massachusetts.
MASSACHUSETTS FOR BRYAN
| George Fred Williams Thinks Coy. John
son Should Put an End to the Farce.
In a letter to F. A. Pike of St.
Paul, George Fred Williams of Bos-
! ton tells how Bryan carried the Bay
Tree state, and how the Associated
Press and corporation-owned big
daily newspapers Systematically sup
press the news. Mr.. Williams ridi-
cules the candidacy of Governor
Johnson and requests him to put an
end to the farce.
"At first thought was surprised to
get your wire this morning asking me
to telegraph you the general result of
our state primaries and the probable
outcome of the convention, but I do
not know why the press of Minnesota
should be any different from that in
Massachusetts, where the news which
is favorable to Mr.. Bryan is system
atically suppressed. For example, in
this section we have heard nothing of
the Pennsylvania primaries, when 7
am informed by the president and
secretary of the Pennsylvania Bryan
league that they have carried the state
by two-thirds in favor of Mr.. Bryan
and that the state conventions will
put an end to Mr.. Guffey's control of
the democracy in that state.
II thought, however, that the AS
ISOLATED Press would not be so bare
faced as to question or conceal the
sweeping victory which the Bryan
forces won in this state at the
caucuses last Wednesday. In point
of fact our fight was won a month ago,
and after attempting at every point to
find a..joint in our armor the opposition
was abandoned, and our caucuses
merely registered the practically
unanimous sentiment of the state
democracy in favor of Mr.. Bryan.
| "Gov. johnson has had one partic-
ular friend in this state named
O'Brien, who has been heralded as
johnson leader here. In the six
teenth ward of Boston he put in the
only ticket which was pledged to John
son, only to be most decisively de-
feated. In the whole state there is
not candidate or a delegateship who
is opposed to Mr.. Bryan. Our state
convention will be undisputed and
four delegates will 60 to Denver
pledged to Bryan. All fourteen dis
tricts will send unquestioned Bryan
men, who will probably be likewise
pledged. No one here questions that
the thirty-two votes of Massachusetts
will be first, last and all the time for
William Jennings Bryan.
I'm this state of things Gov.
Douglas, who had been an aspirant
for presidential or vice presidential
honors, publicly declared that he was
a candidate for no political Office
"A prominent conservative who re-
turned from political conferences in
New York last week stated to me that
in that state the Johnson candidacy
was now regarded as farce. Penn
sylvania being against him, and Mass
achusetts, which they impudently
claimed for him, having already de-
cided; Illinois having declared for
Bryan, and the states surrounding
Gov. Johnson having ignored his
candidacy, it would seem to me as if
there might be hope that Gov. John
son, for the party good and as testi-
mony of his own loyalty, might with
draw his name and thus bring a.
unanimous democracy to Denver to
lay out successful campaign.
"Of course, no one denies Gov.
Johnson the right to be candidate.
and it is much to be regretted that his
present candidacy is generally
regarded as under the administration
of Mr.. Thomas Fortune Ryan. This
gentleman, as you have seen, has just
been before the grand jury and testi-
fed how he and his associates looted
their own corporations to obtain funds
with which to oppose Mr.. Bryan in
1900. .-
1T strikes me that the first duty of
every good democrat in the land is
to disarm these men who pollute our
party with their corporation funds,
and it is much to be regretted that so
good man as Gov. Johnson, even
unJustly, should be regarded through
out the country as the recipient of
tavors from such sources