The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-05-20
A WASHINGTON OPINION

New that the question of instruc ed
delegates to county, state and nation
al conventions is SO much in the pub
lie mind; When the country has Just
about conceded that the aiminstra-
TONS candidate must be named Wheth
er, as in the case Of Montana, the
voters want him or not; VIII the
enemies Of William Jennings Bryan
are moving heaven and earth to pre-
Vent state delegations from being in
structed for him; the Wash ngton
Star, the most widely circulated news
publication which has never been a.
cused Of being strenuously pro-Bryan,
has this to say regarding the question
Of instructed delegates to d nver:
The Star quoted the men who are
appealing for unrestricted delegation S
as saying that their request is not an
ti-Bryan not formulated for or a
gainst any man. And then the Wash
ington editor goes on to express these
incontrovertible facts:
AS a matter Of fact however,
those who hold this strain ar
masquerading Their request is
formulated against a particular
man, and that man is Mr.. Bryan.
= s. They are going to thu
convention with the object Of
beating him in view, and the more
uninstructed delegates tn re are,
the better their chances of sue
cess will be. In vain VIII they
spread their nets in sight of any
instructed delegate. Moreover, as
MIR. Bryan probably Sc the
fight against him at D3nvir will
be directed by New York mon
eyed interests; and they work only
in one way their wonders to per-
form. A nomination made by thu
Influence by money would have to
be supported in the campaign by
the same influence, and that
would make success at the polls.
impossible. Mr.. Bryan himself
though bound to support the tick
ct would be SO heavily handicap
ped that his value as stump +
would be reduced to the mini.
num-
There is much in this editorial from
an ultra conservative paper which j:
absolutely true. In Washington dur
ing the last week, when men of po
litical prominence from all parts O.
the country have been pr sent, Their,
hats been an army of anti-Bryan agita
tors nearly all hailing from n. Y
and all lavishly provided with fund
for entertaining purposes.
Our Washington correspondent, MI
Willis J. Abbot, says in a recent let
ter to the Herald many things aon
these lines; among others Mr.. Alb
bot writes: THE anti-Bryan cam
paign, like the Parker campaign, i
financed in Wall Street, and the sam
men are conductig this one as di
the former one. And yet no hea Iva
is being made, no state that Nigh
be regarded as friendly to Mr.. Bra
and to progressive democracy ha
been lost to either. The red culou
claim tn It all uninstructed d lie a
lions are anti-Bryan delegations i
one not TO be considered for a mon,
ent by any Intelligent observer of DO
tiles. At the same time the deman
Of the loyal and sincere friends {
Mr.. Bryan that all delegatio ions shoul
be instructed is a justifiable and prt
per one. The state that does not il
strUct will be claimed, VIII tn I iu )
" or unjustly, by his foes. TT
state that instructs is on record an
the whole nation will know where i
public men stand"
1t behOoves Mr.. Bryan's fr ends
mong Chouteau county democrats
get in and add their little might.