The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-27
BLYTHE THINKS THAT BRYAN !
MAY UNITE WITH ROOSEVELT
BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE.

copyright: 1912: BY Sam1. G. B1ythe1
BALTIMORE, Md, June 27.-Poli-
tics worked overtime at its traditional
trade OF making strange bedfellows in
Baltimore yesterday, and it had the
most complete collection of oddly as
sorted conspirators bunking with one
another which any convention has pro-
duced since the Bryan stampede in
1896.
Lions and lambs were occupying the
same trundle beds, and hyenas and
hares had identical room numbers.
Predacious plutocrats were jolly old
pals with horny handed sons of toll,
and slaves of Mammon linked arms
and toddled off to bed with severely
plain representatives of the plain peo-
pie.
Captains of finance turned in with
privates of the same, and the varying
changes of the day made a kaleide-
scope look like a painting of still life,
one of those little things the common
folks hang in their dining rooms show
ing the artists idea of what peach,
a plum, a banana, and a sirloin steak
do not look like.
Harmony Not Real Reason.
Do not misunderstood me. 1t is not
harmony that brought about these
com binations, coalitians, and confeder-
acies. 1t was lack of harmony, longest
ed with ardent attempts to get some
thing in return for the associations.
The predacious plutes did not con-
sort with the horny handed because
they liked to, but because they had to.
1t was a case Of force, as were all the
other alliances.
Each party to each union wanted
something for himself, hence each one
endured the conjunction in the hope
of ultimate personal emolument.
The announced reason for all the
maneuvering, plotting, trimming, trad
ing, coaxing, threatening. cajoling,
arguing, dealing single, and double
crossing was the good of the party
The real reason, of course, was the
hope each intriguant had of getting
some over he wanted himself.
Predatory Piutocrats Worried.
Inasmuch as the most selfish and
mercenary pursuit on earth is politics,
it's opponents in Baltimore played it
as selfishly as possible, and at night
there were a large number of wilted
collars, wilted nerves, of nebulous
hopes AMI large number of condi-
tons that would not stand the acid
test.
The most interesting feature of the
day was the condition of the predaci-
for them in politics. They began
trembling before the temporary chair
man roll call was completed Tuesday
and they hadn't stopped at all last
night. The plutes are scared ever since
they discovered how narrow was the
margin by which they defeated Bryan.
Thomas F. Ryan, as captain general
of the plutocrats, sat most of the day
in the apartment he had hired and re-
ceived reports from scouts and from
ub-plutocrats he has in his train. Mr..
Ryan was visibly disturbed. Rather, to
be exact about it, he was invisibly dis
turbed, so far as the public was con-
cerned, for only a few of the chosen
were admitted to his presence. Ryan's
condition was clearly apparent in the
nervousness of his satellites and his
handy men. They were disturbed, too.
Doubt They Have Victory.
When you come to think of it, it is
enough to agitate and annoy any pluto
crat who comes to Baltimore to wipe
William Jennings Bryan off the map
and only succeeds in smudging the
place on the map Mr.. Bryan occupies,
instead of cleaning it up.
Moreover, there was another phase
of it that plagued Mr.. Ryan and his
friends. Woodrow Wilson types that
phase.
Mr.. Ryan and his seconds are Balti-
moring this week with two avowed in
tentions. One is to depose Bryan. and
the other is to defeat Wilson. Each
project is dear to the hearts of the re-
dictionaries. So, after they had can
vassed the situation, and had recon-
puted the vote in the convention on
Tuesday, they were not so sure they
are accomplishing either undertaking.
and they began feverishly looking for
a way.
The only way they could discover
is the Champ Clark way. They learned
early in the week, that they might as
we'll abandon the plan of naming Har-
mon, or Underwood or any other con-
sentative. They learned that the tenn
per of this convention, and of the
Democratic party as whole, demands
a progressive nominee on a progress
i've platform. So they quit trying to
be their preferred kind of conservative
and set about to be as conservative as
the convention will allow them to be.
Clark Hope of PIutocrats.
1t is inexpedient from their view
point to nominate Wilson. and the On
ly certain way they can figure out to
defeat Wilson is with Clark, the other
leading candidate. So they set about
trying to find out where they stand
with Clark, and how much they will
have to do to name him.
Their plans contemplated an en-
deavor to name Clark on the first
ballot. for they thought this the only
way to eradicate the Bryan influence.
which they assert is with Wilson, and
eradicate Bryan some more simultane-