New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-29
bryan MEETS MATCH
IN JUSTICE COHALAN
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ton. so far as the gossip Of to-day Is
concerned, credit should be given 10 su-
preme Court Justice Cohalan as the man
who furnished the idea and the plan
whereby Bryan's ends would be defeated
even while his resolution with the Sung
extracted was being adopted.
The clever New Yorker was on the
floor Of the hall near the rear when
Bryan began to present his resolution.
He watched every move carefully, ana
when the fight Of the Virginia men
forced Bryan to withdraw that part pro-
posing the throwing out Of Ryan and
Belmont, Justice Cohalan made all pos
sible haste to Room F, where the New
York delegation was in caucus.
cohaan Spois the Scheme.
II was net without considerable difh-
Guilty that he gained the door Of the COM
rnittee room, for there Ias tremendous
crowd in the hall, and the veteran SER
geant-at-arms, Charley White, at frst
seemed to entertain some doubts as 10
whether he should be admitted.
Justice Cohalan urged Murphy to get
his men out on the floor Immediately
He told the boss Of Tammany Hall that
there was grave danger Of Bryan start
ing a. stampede Immediately, and, more
to the point than all, he laid out the
scheme Of kidding" Bryan by having
the New York and Virginia delegations,
most intimately concerned, vote for the
Bryan resolution instead Of against it.
The stories to-day are all to the effect
that Bryan was too good a parliament
tartan not to know that his resolution
calling for the dismissal Of Ryan and
Belmont was out Of order, and that the
Nebraskan brought his point up in that
particular form expecting it to be turned
down by the convention, which would
have given him the chance to bolt.
One delegate from Texas, an instructed
Wilson man, said to-day in the lobby OF
the Belvedere, that he learned in the
Bryan headquarters that the Nebraskan
had received a. personal message from
Theodore Roosevelt offering TO put Bryan
at the head Of the ticket Of the new
third party, and that Bryan's idea was TO
force the convention TO turn him down
on his Wall Street issue" so that he
could go before the country as the sure
enough champion Of the "peepuL"
Confirmation Of this last bit Of gossip
was not forthcoming, however, and those
who heard 1t refused TO believe that
Roosevelt would even have dreamed of
offering any one a place ahead Of him
| self in the prospective new party.
There isn't a manager Of a would be
nominee in town to-day who doesn't
claim TO be pleased beyond measure at
the first and only vote taken last night,
or. rather, this morning. Those whose
scores were high are pointing with
pride" and those whose scores were low
are not viewing with alarm" but,
rather. are trying to make delegates be-
| lieve they regard it better TO start low
and grow, and at that a good many OF
them have plenty of room in which TO
grow.
! Even those whose names do not figure
in the score at ell are cheering them
selves. or trying to, with the claim that
the real nominee hasn't yet been named
and altogether the situation is such that
almost any Democrat in good standing
will buy drinks for innumerable dele
gates on the theory that the lightning
may yet point his way.