The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-09
Made Forty-Nlne Speeches Against
Harmon and Writes scorching
Editorial About Other
Candidates.
NO CHICAGO COMPROMISE
Refuses to Run for President on the
Republican Ticket Instead OF
either Taft or Roose-
welt.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
LINCOLN, Neb, May 9. William ].
Bryan in his Commoner today de-
livers an editorial broadside at Gov
ernor Harmon and Congressman I'm
derwood, declaring that their Wall
street game has been exposed. Bryan
says in part:
THE campaign for the nomination
has now progressed far enough to
enable the democratic voters to know
the methods that are being employed
by the Wall street crowd to capture
the Baltimore convention. Mr.. Har-
mon and Mr.. Underwood are the re-
dictionary candidates. The predatory
interests are quite Indifferent as to
which OF these gentlemen is nominal
ed Mr. Harmon was picked out first,
but big business began to smile upon
Mr.. Underwood, as soon as 1t became
evident that Mr.. Harmon was not
making headway as candidate. They
have now divided up the territory in
which they think reactionary has
chance, and Mr. Harmon Is running in
few states in the Eorth, and Mr.. I'm
derwood in six states in the south.
There could be 10 clearer case OF
bad faith, and the fact that such
methods are resorted to, ought to con
vince any fair minded man that the
reactionaries are not expecting to win
by an open honest fight, but by delib
crate deception. A reactionary woulc
4 find it impossible to win at time Ike
this. when SO large majority OF the
people are progressive; but the
chances Of a reactionary candidate
would be still further weakened, If he
4 we're nominated as a result of com
bination between few men running II
different sections on local sentiment
Governor Harmon and Mr.. Under
wood are working both sides OF the
street, but their tactics are becomins
/ SC we'll known that they can not hope
to continue much longer even the
small success that has attended theil
efforts"
4 VIII Not be on Republican Ticket.
i LINCOLN, Neb., May 9.-William J
Pryan fatty refuses to be comprom
ise candidate at the Chicago conven
ton. declaring himself in his Common
Ell today as follows:
mo. MIR. Bryan will not be a com
promise candidate before the republi
can convention. 1t is true that he il
more progressive than President Iaf
Eand less dangerous than Ex-Presiden
Roosevelt, and it is probably true
also that the president and the ex
president would each rather see hin
president than the other, but he feel
under no political obligations to eithe
one of them and is willing to let then
fight out their differences even if i
splits the republican party
Forty-nne Speeches Against Harmon
DBLPHoS, Ohio. May 9-Reitera1
ing his charge that close friend 0
Governor Harmon's on June %. 1905
attempted to buy certain Ohio dele
gates MllO apOClt 'HotiuANC ~
bryan, VIM. j. Bryan early today pre-
pared to wind UP his tour of Ohio an
; leave for his home in Lincoln, Neb.
!. Bryan spoke here this morning. Hi
farewell speech at Van Vert at moo
D was the forty-ninth he has made
Ohio against Governor Harmon's cal
didacy.
Governor Harmon's denial of Br.
ans charge that Harmon hackers a
tempted to buy the support of OH
delegates instructed to Bryan in l9(
caused the Nebraskan today to issr
+ second statement. In this Brya
$ says he will furnish the governor
copy of the letter through which II
so.called Harmon friend offered
Y buy Bryan delegates, if the govern'
t. will say in writing that he does NJ
s believe such an attempt was made
any of his friends.