Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-25
With Nominations of Taft and
Bryan Almost Conceded, Run.
ming Mates Are Discussed
DEMOS LOOK EAST AND SOUTH
Several Available Candidates From
Both Sections--ShouId Hughes or
Knox Defeat Taft Shaw of Iowa
Might Have Second PIace-Metcalf
Being Considered With Taft.

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must have noticed that during the
past week or ten days there has been
very marked let-up in the talk or
nominating some man other than Mr..
Bryan as the democratic candidate for
president. The New York Word,
Washington Post and u few other
rabid anti-Bryan newspapers continue
to discuss the availability of other
candidates. but the anti-Bryan move
,ment in congress. which while ago
promised to make itself formidable.
has almost wholly died out.
1t has been so strikingly demonstrat-
ed that the great mass of democrats
want Bryan as their candidate that
hope of displacing him no longer is
seriously entertained. Democrats, at
least so far as the party is represented
in congress, now accept Bryan as a
foregone conclusion.
With the question of the presidential
dCSCplGu ttS SStllSu, aShi0
cratic thought is now turning to the
selection OF his running mate. Eastern
democrats argue that the logic of the
situation calls for an eastern man
for vice president, but there is a very
strong sentiment in favor Of nominate
ing a man from the south.
The eastern men most discussed are
Lieutenant General Chanler and At
torney General Jackson, OF New York.
The latter Is follower Of William r.
Hearst and the former, tho elected at
the time of the democratic-H flu
sion, is regarded as a conservative.
OF Southern men, the name Of Senator
John w. Daniel, of Virginia. is most
presidency.
In the absence Of knowledge as to
the views Of Mr.. Bryan, however. it
is not regarded as especially profitable
to speculate on the subject of the vice
presidential nomination. 1t is con-
coded that he will dominate the con-
vention and that whoever he favorS
will be chosen.
There also has been considerable
vice presidential talk among republic
cans, but nothing like crystalization
of sentiment. So long as there remains
doubt as to who will be the nominee
for president, it would be idle for vice
presidential aspirants to shy their cas-
tors into the ring. There is every pros
pect that second place on the ticket
will be used for trading purposes, just
as it has been done by both parties
in conventions of the past. When the
delegates have all been elected, should
it be demonstrated that Taft or any
other Of the candidates has enough
votes to assure his nomination. the
question of q running mate probably
will be taken up and decided before
the convention meets. But If the con-
vention meets with uncertainty as to
who will head the ticket, the vice
presidency will be one Of the chief
paWns used in the convention game.
It all along has been the assump-
ton that should Taft be the nominee
for president, some eastern man would
go on in second place, but lately there
has been a good deal of talk of a vice
presidential candidate from the far
west Secretary Of the Navy Metcalf,
who is Californian tho native of
New York. is the far western man adj
vocates of Pacific coast nominee have
in mind He stands very close to the
president and is highly regarded in adj
circles. Like Taft, Met
calf is a Yale man and should the tick
ct be Taft and Metcalf, that university
would do lot of growing over Har
ward, which has taken a great deal of
glory to itself during the Roosevelt
administration. Mr.. Metcalf went to
California about 1880, opened a Jaw Of
flee in Oakland and was three times
elected to congress before becoming a
member Of the cabinet as secretary of
commerce and labor.
Should either Hughes or Knox be the
winner in the republican presidential
race there would be strong sentiment
in favor of the nomination of Leslie NJ.
Shaw of Iowa. for the vice presidency.
Tho he was long a member of Mr..
cabinet former Secretary
Shaw by recent utterances has landed
himself in disfavor with the admins