Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-24
INCONSISTENCIES AND
HARMONY WILL PREVAIL
AT BALTIMORE---GRAVES
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.

BALTIMORE. June 24.-To the
Roosevelt third party boomers" al
Chicago the Democrats already as
sembled at Baltimore send back the
instant and emphatic assurance thai
the Republicans can build no hopes
upon the prospects of Democratic di-
vision for The support of Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Baltimore convention. in the
opinion of men of all factions nov
present. will be a Progressive. con-
vention. controlled by the Progressive
Democrats. 1t will nominate pro
gressive permanent chairman. 1t viii
adopt a progressive general platform
and it will nominate a Progressive
Democrat as candidate for president.
There is no thoughtful Democrat now
present at Baltimore who expects OIL
predicts any other outcome than this.
Up to this time it may be said truly
that no Democratic national conven'
ton of the last twenty years have evel
had SO bright prospect for harmony
and united action as this.
Everywhere. and in all the divided
camps assembled, there has been
spirit of good humor and of goot
fellowship. fully recognizing the pres
ence of rival and competing candidates
for the presidency and fully resolved
to fight it out fairly and vigorously II
the convention and to fraternizt
promptly when the verdict of the con
vention is reached and to present {
solid phalanx to the common enemy II
November.
Bryan's Attitude Regretted.
Outside of few casual and perhaps
transitory criticisms of one of the can
didates, this spirit of fraternity and O
good will has prevailed
1t is universally regretted among Mr.
Bryan's friends in Baltimore that h
should have deemed it necessar,
to project at the time he did and il
the way he did those sharp and dis
cordant kilograms in language of bit.
terness and defiance. which made The
first serious threat of wrangle among
the Democrats.
This action is regarded as all the
more astonishing from the fact tina
Mr.. Bryan must have sent these dis
patches from the press seats at the
foot of the platform of the nationa
Republican convention and within
full view of that vast object lesson o
wrangle and bitterness which will de
stroy the Republican party.
1t is freely said here even amont
Mr.. Bryan's friends that if he had in
tended to bring this fierce division
into the ranks of the party he ough
to have expressed his choice befort
Judge Parker's selection as tempo
rary chairman and not afterward
Mr.. Bryan had declined the place fol
himself
The Associated Press carried OF
Thursday morning to Chicago the an
nouncement that Judge Parker would
be selected by the committee of ar
ranger IT'S Of the national committee
on Thursday afternoon.
Should Have Protested Sooner.
If y wan had been so violentl,
antagonistic to this nomination, hi.
friends now declare that he ought Il
have voiced on Thursday morning thos,
protests and that defiance which he ha
reserved Tor Friday morning, 90 hour!
after the nomination was publicly an
nounced
Dispatches from Chicago declar,
that when this news was announced or
Thursday to Mr. BRYAN and his com
ment requested. he replied.
Il will attend to one convention a
a time. I will attend to this one Will,
I am here, and l will attend TO thu
Democratic convention when | get t.
Baltimore
Whether this be true or not true
the Democrats at Baltimore are o
one mind in thinking that Mr. Bryan
protest should at least have beef
strenuouslv presented in advance, a
his later sharp and antagonistic te1e
grams could only result in discorc
and division, and if they had succeed
ed in humiliation to Judge Parker
not an suspicious beginning.
The gossip Of the corridors and tn
streets at Baltimore also espresso
surprise and regret that the friends o
Governor Wilson. who had not pre-
viously voiced any violent protes