The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
BRYAN EXPECTATION
COUNT ON CARRYING HIS OWN AND
 OTHER REPUBLICAN STATES
He is Carrying All Before Him in the Conventfon--wfn Conduct HIS Own Campaign Largely Af-
 ter NOminatfon.

walter wellnan Denver Special to
 Chicago Record Herald.
 Mir Bryan believes conhdentially ne will carry Nebraska Colorado is an, back to its Bryan allegience-
 The Democrats assert 1t without any qualifications: the Republicans admit they are not confident
 and Indiana. It is understood he will visit both of those states and make fight for them. The Republicans claim sosyess sy sss to 0 oTs c less apSn snass % about
 Oddly enough. the Bryan men count upon getting Iowa, or coming very SiSss Ssrs that sS H Ssa eas sis ys men will be loyal, but that Taft can't carry. the. state by more than 5o,ooo. The Perkins people give Taft only 4ois Rooseveit's Iso,Oo0 is to fade away to mates. why may 1t not disappear alto-
 Brssn wasa asa hs it 0pso psops sts fes sure Montana and North Dakota and Wash ington and declare their chances are
 The Democratic spirit is one of "get. ing all the old differences, of rallying srOund Bryan ,s as the lsadsr fS,Tgettins ,sls the knife that entered Psrker's vitais from the hands of the discontented Bryanites, and the more, recent efforts to cheat Bryan out of his victory.
 So we see. the convention making ready to acknowledge not only that wissst of then, all in laying out plan of campaign. One of his best plays has been that of starring Judge Cray as his choice for second place. was proved most effective healing sores ana Inspiring confidence. and wili continue to exert such influence throughout the campaign no matter whether Gray De ST Satia ss I the yes e see tss convention making ready to give en- thusiastic indorsenlent to. Bryan's plan of moderate fadicalisrn, of going as Tar had really sincere progressive party behind him, of taking such q stand that if any one criticises 1t as the radi- nothing but Rooseveltism. and you Re- publicans cannot complain of that"
 We see the convention as whole, staadna Etn 1ny ssusrefy snf bsna grxS snd cans of Iowa, the Roosevelt Republic ans of the whole West; with the trust.
 Standing by him. also only min. ority protest in his plan to raid the labor vote through a plain and unmis- ment by injunction to outplay the Re- publican straddle.
 And the significance of all this. juds- as observed and written without pre- Is % putting 'TaO; it's Best foot foot forward. 1t ls an has a Gser Sssn m sha se ss the Ai ias ths indications are that this years strugSle for the presidency is to be the hard hal Sad 1 since isss. ttS 1t is S centsst which is to be almost nation wide.
 The Democrats will fight not only for New York but for Connecticut, New W Contest oo ala Vest ysRinia i diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, the Daketas. Nebraska. ColoTado and a number 1sS1 of mountains and coast stetss,fi ;,f not only meet the enemy along this far-fiung battle line, but will try again for. such states as Missouri. Kentucky, Carolina. It Is to be a big night.
 Whether Bryan wins or not In No- vember he has achieved n renarka- he has chioroforrned the tendency to, take for leader a man who in the opin- ion of many could surely bring vic- sory ne has , eronght sp1na n nafpoay a. haay united for sixteen years he has made himself the undisputed leader despite his earlier blunder of free silver and
  ship. Both free silver and government ownership of railways appear to be for. gotten by. the pemocracy: we hear or not the country has forgotten them will develop later.
 It is no secret that Bryan. believes he was beaten in 1896 because his campaign was not as effectively man. aged as 1t should have been. This time he plans to get at the head of his or and executive. He wants . man like Mayor J9hPson of Iowa, or Mir. caInpau " curiousiy enough, the Democrats ex- pect to have pretty good sized cam. Rf1sH Rsfts out tuof of the sYoOco6 Hs etsrpfisng PsneT s oa S at aD LcO the Sat @ srsaa a would immediately chip in ss0.00o more, or one. years income over and above his living and traysling, sxpen. around s1Oo,ooo to start business with
 There is good authority for the state. fair-sized check and that the railroads and corporations generally are going to whack up evenly with .perfunctory playing safe and not caring very much
 1t should be remembered that the federal SUPPLEMENTARY law which not be enacted till after this campaign is thing of the past.
 There are renewed rumors of peace between Hearst and Bryan. No one Bryan HrS eG against inst the editor. Hearst's grievance Is that Bryan would .not sup port him for President four years ago, cockreIl. Also that when Hearst ran for governor, instead of proffering his services in the campaign Bryan found 1t convenient to take a trip around the to Berlin to meet Bryan and serve no- tice on him that hereafter there could be no peace between them. Hearst Is a good hater. Bryan IS holalng out fne Independence party, but because he wants the Hearst newspapers with him. The Bryan people have a theory that Hartman can control Hearst If he cares to do it.
 For generations cardinal Demo- cratic principle has been opposition to sumptuary Legislation. plank on that subect has been In most Of the Democratic platforms for thirty, years. There will be no such plank in this years platform. MT. Bryan and his ad- visers are afraid of the temperance and prohibition agitation, and the time honored plank will be droppe1 out ot is very clever in finding a reason for this He says sumptuary legislation is now a local and not a Federal oues- ton. and, therefore, 1t has no proper place in a national platform
 taken. the wicked Republicans are sending to Denver a lot of negroes to demand in the platform an tendorse- ment of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth