New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-24

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liquor dealers offered large money for
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Arch of Great Beauty.
Probably the first object to greet the
| incoming conventionite will be the
| beautiful welcome arch which Den
| yer has erected At night this arch
| will blaze with many electric lights
| It is. DenVer's open sesame to hospitali-
| ty. Under it will pass the delegates
| from every section Of the land, includ-
! ing the automobile train In which
some of the Illinois delegates and their
| friends will go overland to the conven-
ton city. -Four big touring cars and
| an auto commercial wagon for baggage
will depart from Chicago June q for
/ Denver, stopping en- route to visit Will
liam ]. Bryan at his farm home near
Lincoln, Neb. The auto train expects
to reach Denver on the Fourth Of July
| in time for the fireworks.
4 Mr.. Bryan, of course, is leading
candidate for the nomination for presi-
dent There are others. Governor
/ JOuuSOu VI NluucSOld, WHOSE.
was started too late, according to Ed
itor Watterson of Kentucky, who saw
1 him first as presidential possibility,
has gained very considerable follow
ing. Judge George Gray Of Delaware
has friends who will urge his nomina-
ton. Former Governor David r.
Francis of Missouri is said to be
candidate.
For the vice presidential nomination
i the Democrats do not seem to have so
much visible material as the Republic
ans could produce prior to their con-
! vention. But the woods are full of
Democrats available for the honor.
One of the latest possibilities mention
ed is Governor George q. Chamber
lain of Oregon, just nominated for the
United States senate under the novel
primary law Of his state which will
require Republican legislature to
elect him. Lieutenant Governor Lewis
8. Chanler Of New York is among the
mentioned. Former Governor William
u. Douglas Of Massachusetts is posi-
btlity. John Mitchell of Illinois, for
mer president of the United Mine
Workers of America and the best
known Of present day labor leaders,
has been strongly recommended by in
fuential Democrats.
In the event of Mr.. Bryan's nominal
ton for the presidency there are the
cleft overs" and some Democrats have
suggested a Bryan and Johnson ticket
TFho tin convention a
tWo-thirds vote to nominate. This year
672 delegates make up the necessary
tWq-thlrds. s
Should Mr. Bryan be nominated this
will be the fourth Democratic conven-
I ton which he has dominated. He went
to the Chicago convention of 1896 as a
Nebraska delegate. 1t is not probable
that single delegate expected Bry-
ans nomination prior to that conven-
ton, not even the delegate from Lin
coin. But when that delegate made
his ''cross Of gold" metaphor speech it
was all off with the leading candidates.
Prior to the convention at Kansas
City IN 1900 the situation was re
versed There was nobody in sight
but Bryan. His nomination was as
sured long before the delegates met.
At ST. Louis in 1904 the convention
named Alton B. Parker of New York
for the presidency, but it was by and
with the consent Of William j. Bryan.
Mr. Bryan did not want the nomina-
ton that year. Having borne the party
banner twice, each time going down to
defeat and being held personally re
81 sponsible for failure by a considerable
section Of the party, he was willing to
appease the demands of that section
i by permitting it to name the candidate.
But he was not willing to let the CON
vention put forth platform upon
which he and his friends could not
stand consistently In the committee
rooms of that convention he made one
of the most remarkable fights of his
whole career. a fight for a platform
& that would not estrange the majority
Y of Democrats, and he won.
In Denver, of course Mr.. Bryan will
not be represented in person. He will
the Kansas City convention 1t is only
I. when a man doesn't expect a nomina-
ton or when he doesn't want it, as in
the case of Bryan at Chicago and St
Louis respectively, that the etiquette OF
American politics permits him to take
hand in the proceedings.
i The man selected to deliver the
speech placing Mr.. Bryan's name be
fore the Denver convention is Ignatius
j. Dunn, city attorney of Omaha. Mr.
Dunn is hailed as polished and force.