Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-01
SECOND PLACE
MAY BE GIVEN
DELAWARE MAN
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS THINK
GEORGE GRAY LIKELY
HIS MANAGER WANTS HIM TO
HEAD TICKET
Many Rumors Rife In Denver and
Various Candidates Are Discussed
as PossiblIlties-PIatform
Gossip Varied
BY Associated Press.

their number is likely to be largely in
creased before a choice is actually
made 1t is the general opinion among
such leaders of the party as are now
here that If George Gray of Delaware
will declare his willingness to accept
the second place on the ticket he can
have it. Josiah Marvel of Wilmington,
Del, the manager of the Gray presi-
Dental campaign, who arrived in Den
yer tonight, will not, however, give his
consert. He insists that the Delaware
man Is a candidate for first place, ana
when it has been settled that he can
not have first place 1t will be ample
time to place him in running for the
secondary position, provided he cares
to take it.
Mr.. Marvel denies, however, that
Judge Gray win be satisfied with any
thing less than the head of the ticket.
1t is we'll known that Mr.. Bryan
would be pleased to have Judge Gray
for the vice presidential candidate, ana
the only thing that prevents the latter
from becoming a leading candidate for
that position is the simple but all
powerful fact that he will not declare
himself to be candidate at all.
Boom Is Launched
The Gray presidential boom was
formally launched today and headquar-
ters were opened in the Savoy hotel.
They were arranged some hours in ad-
vance of the arrival of Mr.. Marvel,
and during the early part of the after
noon corps of expert billstickers were
going about the hotels putting up litho-
graphs of the Delaware candidate.
The Johnson headquarters will not be
opened for several days, and the date
on which the Bryan banners Will be
thrown out has not yet been deter
mined, but it will be on Saturday or
Sunday, after the arrival of the Ne
braska delegation.
1t is certain there will be a strong
fight in the committee on resolutions,
and possibly on the floor of the conven-
ton itself over the anti-injunction
plank. Word has come indirectly from
Lincoln that Mr.. Bryan is in favor Of
q plank Of 81 somewhat ssdicai natdre,
and it is certain that such men as SUI
livan, national committeeman from IL
linois, and Chairman Taggart of tho
national committee, are strongly op-
posed to 1t. Sullivan gave out yester-
day a statement in which he favored
equal rights before the law" and. used
other expressions of a similar character
which were construed to mean that he
was opposed to a strong anti-injunction
plank.
Wants Soft Pedal2
Sullivan denies he intends to convey
the impression that he planned to fight
the anti-injunction plank, but it is gem
orally believed that he is against ex
treme language in this part of the
resolutions.
1t is we'll known that between Mr..
Bryan, Mr.. Sullivan and other infiuen-
tial members of the Illinois delegation
no particular amount of love is lost,
and reports have been circulated that
If an anti-injunction plank is adopted
more radical in its character than the
Illinois people feel that they can ap-
prove, that state. when 1t comes to ball
loting for president, will break away
from its Bryan instructions.
Sullivan denied this emphatically to-
day. He said: 1--WE were told to stick
for Bryan and we are going to stick.
do not believe that any platform
fight can change our present program.
Illinois has no idea of breaking away
from its instructions"
The forces opposed to a radical labor
plank were strengthened today by the
arrival of Charles G. Heifner of Wash
ington, who has the proxy of John Y.
Terry the national committeeman from
that state. Mr.. Heifner announced em-
phatically that the Pacific coast and
probably the state of Washington was
opposed to the adoption of such a
plank as was presented at Chicago by
Samuel Gompers and other officials OF
the American Federation of Labor.
He said;
"Thea adoption by our party of such
a plank would be a transparent sop to
union labor which would be repugnant
to voters in all sections of the coun-
try. 1t would be a promise that no
law making body would be willing to
fulfil It could not help but injure the
Democratic ticket at the polls"
yt.e
presidency will go to the east, but
he was not ready to say how his dele
cation will vote.
The coming of Mr. Heifner with his
statement of the sentiment on the Pa
cific coast against the proposed anti
Injunction plank and the announce
ment in the east that Martin w. Lit
tleton of New York will come here to
make a fight against the insertion Of
such plank in the platform easily
makes this question the most import
ant under discussion. New England is
said to be opposed to the plank and
New Jersey and Pennsylvania also are
accredited with pronounced antag-
onism to such a resolution. If the New
York delegation and the Pacific coast
delegations should take determined
stand against it the fight would as
sumo formidable proportions. II is not
DtlltKcQ HCiC lAdl AAC OPl'CSANACAA ~
Sullivan of Illinois and Taggart of In
diana means that the entire delega-
tions from these states would oppose
Mr.. Bryan's wishes. Most of the CEN
trail and western and southern states,
1t is said, will be lined up to support
whatever program Mr.. Bryan's friends
present.
The question Of tickets continues to
divide the members of the COMMITTEES
~, q t.Fn NJ o. apnaTfG and the
committee of Denver citizens which is
looking after the Denver end of the
convention. AS is usually the case, the
local people would like to receive a
greater number of tickets than the
committee feels that 1t can spare.
The hospital here will be patterned
after the temporary hospital at the
Chicago Coliseum. The contracts for
equipment and supplies and the mat
ter of securing attendants of compe-
tent physicians and nurses will be dis
posed of tomorrow.