The Dickinson press., 1908-10-31
DEMOCRATS CANNOT
SUPPORT BRYAN
LADDERS IN the Party All Over ~
Country Qult the Nebraskan
i. o0ce.Seeker and Come
Out for Taft
HNo1oveland Democratic Rsfuse to Be
Whipped Into Line and Organise
TO Fight the Man Who Disrupted
the Party-Solid South Shows
Signs Of Breaking Up.

One Of the best indications that the
country in November is found in the
continued numerous OBJECTIONS Of here
tofore prominent Democrats from that
party. Practically all of them give as
q reason that they cannot support the
thrice offered candidate and his change
able and unstable theories of govern
ment. They simply cannot bring them
selves to be identified with Bryan.
Perhaps the most notifying incl
dents which the Democrats have expe-
rienced in the present campaign were
In Massachusetts, where two big men
named us Democratic presidential elec-
tors declined to serve on the ground
that they were unable to support Mr..
Bryan and greatly preferred Mr.. Taft.
These men were Ferdinand Strauss aud
G. H. P. Gould, of Lyons Falls, both
business men Of the irst rank. Mr..
Strauss, especially, has been prominent
in the Massachusetts, Democracy for a
long time. Their d%eclination to serve
as Bryan electors caused a sensation In
the old Bay State and throughout the
country.
Democratic Congresshas for raft
Eagene Walter Leake, Democratic
Representative In Congress from New
Jersey, called at Republican National
Committee headquarters early this
month to offer his services on the stump
for William II. Taft. Though he has
been q stanch Democrat all his life, he
10 bitterly opposed to William Jennings
Bryan and because he believes that the
election of Bryan TO the Presidency
would mean the greatest calamity to
the country since the civil war. he IL
ready to exert himself to the utmost to
aid the election of Judge Taft. He is
speaking at Republican rallies through,
out the Eastern States.
Democrats Organise to Fight Bryan.
That the sentiments felt by these men
are shared by many in New York ia
shown In the organization Of the "Cleve-
land Democracy" an association whose
principles are anti-Bryan, and which
has been formed. according to the arti-
Giles Of incorporation, ITO revive the true
spirit Of Democracy among the voters
Of Harlem and Of the whole city"
Headquarters have been opened and the
club is doing active work. not. It is al.
most unnecessary to say, in the inter
ests of the continuous Nebraska Office!
seeker.
John r. Dos Passos, a leading New
York lawyer and author, who has al
ways been a Democrat. has come out
In a long statement announcing his al.
legiance to Taft and denouncing Bryan.
ism and the remnants of the party which
Bryan controls. II am a Democrat" he
says. II expect to cast my vote for Mr..
Taft" william B. Davenport. a we'll
known Brooklyn Democrat, for many
years Public Administrator Of Kings
County, has denounced the Democratic
platform and Is now a vice president Of
the Taft-Sherman Lawyers Club.
Anti-Brysn Sentiment Widespread.
Former Special City Judge Irving
K. Baxter, Of Utica, N. Y, who has
always been q Democrat, and was
elected on that ticket, not only has re-
pudiated Bryan. but will take the
stump and advocate the election of
Taft and Sherman. Even up in Maine,
where the members Of the Democratic
minority are supposed to be hopelessly
bidebound. there is detection. w. HI.
Mclaughlin, of Scarboro, for instance.
announces that he has become so dis.
gusted with Bryan In the Haskell con-
troversy that he has swung over to
the Republican party.
After hearing Judge Taft speak at
st. Louis, ]. D. Houseman, of Denver,
Colo, q well-known railroad builder,
announced his conversion to the Re-
publican party and its candidates. Mr..
Houseman had been a loyal Democrat
for many years. This incident Of
course, 10 a direct tribute to Judge
Taft's powers al q campaigner, of
which many evidences were produced
on bis now famous western trip.
"Csaversions" In the West.
At Ct. Joseph, Mo-, n Of the feat
ures was the conversion" Of W.. f..
Davis, Z prominent Democrat, who
went to . meeting ct the stock yards
to zee Mr.. Taft. After sizing up the
latter Mr.. Davis declared: II
thought I would vote for Mr.. Bryan,
but this man surely looks good to me-"
Another Missouri Democrat, u. B.
Haywood, Z Burlington Railroad con.
ductor Of st. Louis, evidently wal
similarly impressed; at any rate, be,
has announced that TAFT will get his
Lyoss. Noticeable among thsfvics presi-
osnts at the Taft reception at 81.
Louis were James .. Smith, head Of
the st. Louis Business Mems League,
and Frederick N. Judson, wsll-known.
lawyer. both Democrats who have de-
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