The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-29
WATTERSON SAYS
IT'LL Be BRYAN
Tells Chicagoans Governor Johnson of
Minnesota is Victim of
Reconstruction.
THINKS HIS VOTE 200 TO 25O.
Kentucky Editor on Way to Visit Ne
braskan Makes Issue Halter
on Predatory Trusts"

CHICAGO, June 9.-'The cardinal |
rule of the democracy is the rule of |
the majority" declared Col. Henry
Watterson today, and to that epigram
expressing his opinion Of the present
| candidacy of Gov. Johnson, whom he
! first brought forward for the presiden-
| tial nomination more than year ago,
| the Kentucky colonel added his pre-
diction that Bryan will be nominated
| at Denver by the democrats next
| month upon the first ballot and by &C
clamation. The Louisville editor is
on his way to pass a couple of days
| with Bryan at Lincoln, Neb., and he
stopped over at the Auditorium Annex
for a few hours today to shake hands
with republican leaders, to whom lie
is as well known as he is to the chief
tains of his own party
PROCRASTINATION VICTIM.
"Johnson's cause is a lost cause"
said Col. Watterson. He is the victim
of procrastination. When Bryan said
in a speech year and a half ago that
he would step aside if shown a candf-
date who could offer more chances of
making race promising greater sue
cess, took him at his word and nam
ed Gov Johnson. But the introduce
ton of the Minnesota governor into the
presidential arena fell as fiat as a
stale buckwheat cake. There was moth
ing doing. Hardly a soul jumped up
and murmured 'Hurrah!' That lethargy
lasted throughout all of 1907, and it
was not until along in March of this
year that the east took up Johnson.
The east is not the part of the coun-
try from which the advocacy of John
son should have come, and three
months ago was not the time to es-
pouse the candidacy of Johnson.
WOULD RUIN DEMOCRATIC
p CHANCES.
- ITO bring forward Johnson and no.
e inmate him at this late day would be
- to ruin the chances of the democrats
/ to carry the election. But there is no
- danger of that disaster happening.
+ Bryan will win on the first ballot by
g reclamation. / do not believe that
e Johnson can have more than 200 or PSI
>, votes ut the utmost in the Denver con.
: vention. Only once in the history OF
n the democratic party has a candidate
e who entered democratic national con-
u vention with majority of the dele
gates been defeated for the nomination
by the workings of the two-thirds rule
and that was in 1874, when the allies.
as they would be termed nowadays
succeeded in keeping the nomination
from going to Former President Var
Buren,, who had a majority, but lacked
, twO-thirds of the convention.
1T is hard 10 look forward from
y June to November, but ! feel that will
Bryan we have a fighting chance thi
D year. | have not before seen the de
mocrats so thoroughly in accord will
Bryans candidacy. There appears t
e be little real opposition to him among
the democrats. Taft will certainly b.
the republican candidate and | believ
Il that Bryan could beat Taft with GER
tainty if the election were to be hell
D tomorrow without national campaign
or the expenditure of republican
FL campaign fund.
ID Il say a republican campaign fund
VI because with two of Tafts brother
multi-milliOnaires, with the 'predator,
trusts as President Roosevelt has dub
ID bed them, lined up behind the republi
can ticket and with no law for tn
NJ publicity of campaign contribution
upon the statute books, it seems hard
NJ ly an exaggeration to predict that tn
war on these predatory trusts will b
ID the main issue of this campaign and
fancy the strength of Bryans candi
ID dacy will lie in the common sense O
the voters of this country when aske
Nj to decide whether they will trust tn
job of bridling the trusts to Bryan O
M to candidate who wears the mask c
- Taft, but behind whom Turk talons c
Hartman, Morgan and the system.