The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-10
Past Defeat Gives Added
Strength to Democratic
Nominee.
CANDIDATES WILL
RULES CONVENTION
And Out of Chaos He Brings
Peace, AS Denver'5 Cheers
Awaken Night Echoes.
By J. c. WELLIN Err.

DENN ER, July lc-lt IS done Inc
/ Democratic party is going into the Gam
paign reunited. with William Jennin',s
Bryan as its candidate, and witt
| platform that comes nearer satisfying
every one IN the party than any since
| 1892.
I, is interesting to contemplate that
the man over whom the party splil in
/ Chicago twelve wears ago, this year
was the dominating spirit in the work
Of rsunlJing II. Reunited" must nc
used IN its broadest sense. There still
are in rne party men Of high standing
and acute political sense who we're
4 sincerely opposed to the nomination
1 Of Mr.. Bryan. and st!ll believe the party
I has made mistake. There are sores
70 be treated. The work Of making
peace all along the line has not ceen
| finished, but in a bread sense the party.
/ to all appearances, is reunited.
The gold Democrats who pulled away
/ from the party IN 1896. remained away
in 1900, and have not gone over 20 the
! Republican party, are represented in the
/ harmony program carried out - this
! convention. Perhaps many Of them
would have chosen another candidate If
/ they could have had their way, but
they realized that they could not domi-
nate. They came here willing to meet
their enemies more than half way. and
that is about where the meeting took
place.
An Honest Effort.
! Unless all signs fail. they are going
I from the convention determined 20 lend
| an honest hand in the election OF the
/ nominee. This means that the Repub-
! lican party viii have 70 meet a foe next
/ fall such as it has not met since Il
went down to defeat in 1892. Il will not
I be worth while for the Republicans 10
/ deceive themselves as tC the strength
Of the nominee Of this convention. He
is not the Bryan of 1896 or Of 1900. It VIII
be a surprise II he does not direct his
campaign with wisdom.
This convention has demonstrated. ap-
parently, that he IS strong as ever with
the voters who followed him in 1886 and
in 1900. and that he is now acceptable
TO the Democratic voters who were un-
willing 10 support him iG those years
One has heard much talk here the
last week 70 the effect that a Repub-
llcan President paved the road which
has led to approximate Democratic
harmony This IS a phase Of the sit
Q
l Whatever the fact may be, the voters
Of every State undoubtedly VIII hear
much in the campaign about how Theo-
I dore Roosevelt brought the people OF
/ this land to respect the policies OF VII
/ liam Jennings Bryan, and how the Chi
/ cagO convention Of the Republican
party refused to apl rove many Of these
/ progressive ideas.
| That TOpro0rro4e ---.
/ viii be more united in support Of the
! platform they have adopted than the
/ Republicans are in support Of the Chi
cago platform is asserted bv the Demo
J cratic leaders from every section OF
) the country. OF course SeDtember and
/ October viii reveal whether this asser-
/ ton is true What is said here is only
| a reflection Of the sentiment existing
among the representatives of the party
! assembled
Feel RooseveIt's Force.
/ The possibility that Theodore Roose-
welt and his policies may split the Re
! publican party, while bringing harmony
! to the Democrats. is discussed with
much seriousness by the Democratic
! leaders. The men who will have charge
! OF the campaign for the minority party
/ hope TO make the most OF this situation.
they say the country will hear much
OF the fact that the Republican conven-
| ton was presided over by a conserva-
/ tive; that the chairman Of the platform
! committee was a conservative, and that
/ much of that which Roosevelt and Ia
4 Toilette would have had in the platform
was rejected, after Roosevelt had adopt
| ed II as the creed Of progressive Repub-
] Leans
/ That phrase in the speech OF Chair
/ mittee on platform, Take It TO Len
! YER" promises to be a favOrite one with
/ the Democrats as the campaign comes
| on. The changes VIII be rung on IL by
/ every campaigner who goes out to plead
/ the cause OF Bryan and to argue that
| Bryan has become the real conservatOr
/ Of prOgresstveness. II the convention
was long drawn out and tiresome it was
| because IL had an unusual task 10 per
! form through its Committee-that or
| steering through the rough menacing
breakers the harmony craft
Factions Join Hands.
Last Saturday there came together
here remnants Of the party as it ex-
listed prior to the national convention IN
1896. Brought together under the call
! were men who have been steadfast
1 Bryan adherents for twelve years; men
who joined the gold Democratic party
in 1886 and have been voting the Repub-
Hcan ticket quietly ever since; men syho
were called silver Republicans, and men
who affiliated with the Populist party
or the Socialist party for a time 1t
was not an easy task to round all these
up under one banner.
II could not have been done, had not
the prospective nominee of the cOnVen-
tiOn, with his firm grip Oh the dominat-
ing faction here, exercised great tact.
He wants peace because he wants to
be President, and he was able tc hold
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