Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-01-12
BRYAN LOSES FIGHT
COMMONER is BEATEN IN Eff
FORT TO GUST GUFFEY OF
PENNSYLVANIA.
HARSH" WORD IS PASSED
Harmony Reigns Supreme at jackson
Day Democratic Feast-All Lead
ers Are Given Enthusiastic Recep-
ton as They Enter Banquet Hall.

Washington. = William Jennings
Bryan was defeated in the Democrat
ic national committee by vote or
80 to IS in his fight to prevent Col.
James M Guffey OF Pennsylvania
from being seated as committee mem
Der from the keystone state. Mr..
Bryan openly accused the colonel OF
betrayal of his party.
Most of the contention over the
seating of Guffey was conducted in
executive session. Mr.. Bryan, who
succeeded four years ago in keeping
Guffey off the committee, got into &C
ton a few minutes after the commit
tee began it's labors in the assembly
room at the Shoreham.
! In the course of the argument over
Guffey, A. Mitchell Palmer, his op-
ponent for the seat to which Guffey
was elected, charged him with having
deliberately defeated the choice OF
the Democrats for governor and sup
porting man of his own choice.
That's lie!" shouted Guffey, land
you know it's a lie."
81 demand an apology" said Pal
mer, growing red in the face. Guffey
supplied the apology reluctantly
whereupon Senator Tillman, who had
been sitting quietly in his seat, arose
and said: Il think he ought to apollo
gize to the whole committee"
Mr. Guffey furnished this apology
also, and good humor was fully re-
stored.
Fully one thousand of the leading
Democrats of the country honored An
drew Jackson at a banquet at the
Raleigh hotel and at the same time
congratulated each other on the
coming victory of the party, as they
sat about the table.
Never before in the history of the
| party has there been SO brilliant a
gathering. Democrats from every sec
ton of the land from every great
city, even from the distant insular
possessions, were there, all happy, all
! enthusiastic, all inspired with com
mon purpose.
The new banquet hall of the Hotel
Raleigh had been gorgeously decorat
ed for the occasion. The Stars and
Stripes were everywhere to be seen
AS the leaders of the party came in
each one was given a rousing recep
tion Hearst, Clark, Bryan, Wilson
all were energetically cheered and
each held a reception after he took
his place.
Every state was represented among
| the guests and ably represented
Senators, representatives, governors
members of the bench elbowed each
other in the press at the tables.
On every side there was con-
fdent talk of party success. Op-
timism was abroad. and if there
were any differences among the
friends of some of the prospec-
tive candidates they did not put
in an appearance.
Senator O'Gorman, as POSTMASTER
occupied the seat of honor at the ia
ble w. J. Bryan was on his left. At
the speakers table were w. r. Hearst
| Senator Johnson of Maine. Senator
Taylor of Tennessee, Senator Kern OF
Indiana, Alton B. Parker, Champ
Clark, Senator Newlands of Nevada
Gov Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
Joseph W. Folk of Missouri Senator
Pomerene of Ohio, Chairman James T
Lloyd of the congressional campaign
| committee.
Senator Kern of Indiana devoted his
speech on jackson Democracy" to an
attack on the action of Theodore
Roosevelt in allowing the steel trust
to absorb the Tennessee Coal & Iron
company for the ostensible purpose OF
aborting a panic.
Governor Wilson, speaking to the
| toast Democracy, Past and Future,
denounced the tariff system as the
means by which the business interests
have gained their hold in politics.