The San Francisco call., 1908-07-06

tied down by his pledges at home, al
though, as GufTey shows. he was made
the victim of Bryan's desire TO run the
party.
a natural leader, with the necessary
bravery and fire-such man, in snort,
as David B. HilI-might use the Guffey
episode to weld together this anti
Bryan element, and such movement
would have the sympathy of tire dls-
satisfied delegates from states like Illl-
nois, Indiana and West Virginia, who
would be only too glad TO resent the
attack on their trusted leaders.
There is no Moses in sight for the
anti-Bryan minority of the convention.
and the result is the nomination Will
be made on the first ballot with
scores, perhaps hundreds, Of votes 10
spare. Had the feud between Bryan
and Guffey broken out six months ago,
and had Governor Johnson been in the
other story 10 tell.
BRYAN CONTROL ABSOLUTE
Bryan controls the coming Denver
convention, not only so far as to Sc
cure his own nomination, but 10 the eX-
tent that he will dictate the minutest
part Of the organization and that every
plank of the platform will receive his
personal o K. 1t will not be possible
during the campaign TO intimate that
this, that or this delegation in the plat
form was written into it against the
Will OF the candidate himself. On the
contrary, every test word, every dot
over every ''P' and every cross through
every "t" will be the expression of the
complete mastery of the man at Lin
coin. whom Guffey called "an arro-
CANT boss" but of whom it is only
justice to say that he generally does
what he thinks to be for the best in
terest of his own party as he sees it.
Not only will the convention organ
ization and the platform represent in
the minutest detail the desires of the
"commoner.' but the vice presidential
nominee viii be equally the creation
of his "smirking palaver," as Guffey
calls IT.
New York can name the candidate
for the second place if it chooses TO
do so, but this is because Bryan himself
thinks it the proper thing to do. When
Judge Parker was nominated the New
York delegates left the matter OF vice
president to Bryan and it was he who
selected Henry G. Davis of West Vir-
ginia. Thus far the New Workers have
not even attempted to agree on choice
for second place from that state. They
have passed up Lewis Stuyvesant
Chanler, Judge Gaynor and half doz-
en- Of the other minor notabilities. They
lilA III EEl LOStluEI Oil I1cA iii W ASiNbAC-
ton, who would make a brilliant can
vass of the country, or Francis Bur-
ton Harrison, who has southern afilia-
tions which are backing up rather
strongly just now, or upon an entirely
new man. If the New Workers do not
get together there probably will be
another effort 10 induce Judge Gray TO
accept the second place on the ticket
with Bryan.
GRAY OR JOHN MITCHELL
For some reason the idea seems to
prevail that Bryan is anxious TO have
Judge Gray on the ticket with him,
and there is a possibility that his per-
sonal appeal might be listened to.
John Mitchell, the coal miner, has
not yet actually refused the place. He
probably would feel a hesitancy about
it, because of the peculiarly warm re-
lations that existed between him and
President Roosevelt and because of the
often expressed opinion of the presi-
dent that the acceptance of political
nomination by any labor leader would
destroy the organization to which he
was attached. 1t might help the demo-
Gratis TO nominate Mitchell but it would
be fatal to the great union he has
built up, because every leader OF that
organization in the future would be
suspected of manipulating it for his
So strong has grown the desire to fol-
low Bryan to any extent that the op-
position to the injunction plank is
likely to be of a perfunctory character.
The New York delegation has agreed
TO let Judge Alton B. Parker go on the
resolutions committee.
This is as it should be. He will pre-
sent the conservative idea and do 1t as
a lawyer should do it. He has not got
it in him to make a bitter fight on any
subject. He knows the methods of the
law courts. but he is unversed in the
bitter strife of political conventions.
Whatever he does will be done tenn
perately, moderately and without any
blare of trumpets. He will do no harm
to Bryan's program, although he will
give a fair presentation of the conser-
vative point of view.
HARMONY MEANS SUBMISSION
The result is that the ti-injunction
plank is likely to be adopted, following
pretty closely along the lines of that
written by Bryan himself for the Ne
braska platform. 1t will be shaded
down little and notifications will be
seen under miscroscope, but the gen
eraI principle will not be yielded and
the harmony of the Denver convention
will in this regard, as in every other,
consist of complete submission to the
mind of the master.
Bryan expects TO make the insurance
of bank deposits the leading issue of
the coming campaign. This will be one
of the strong planks in the platform
and 1t, too, will be almost identical
with that expressed in the banking law
of oklahoma Governor Haskell of that
state is to be chairman of the resolu-
tions committee and this is sufficient
guarantee that the platform as a whole
is to represent the radical element of
the democracy.
Finally, to complete the domination
of the convention by Bryan, which may
or may not be for the conventions
good, the leaders have been trying to
bring the peerless leader" to Denver
at the close of the week to participate
in grand ratification meeting. For
that matter Bryan might just as well
come here the night before the con-
vention as the night after it.
KENTUCKY FOR BRYAN AND GRAY
DENVER, July 5.-United States SEN
ator McCreary of Kentucky said tonight
that the Kentucky delegation would
g.