Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-24

sides all day. Every headquarters in
! the city was as busily engaged as il
| the convention already was under way
and the necessity for speed was ur-
gent. All seem bent on one object
/ the preventing of a stampede to Bryan
the thing the managers of all the am
| lious candidates seem to fear most
AS for the commoner himself, he is
reported to be willing and ready to
! test his strength against all cOmers.
1t goes without saying that the adher-
ents of Clark, Wilson, Harmon, Under
wood and Gaynor can see nothing but
the ultimate nomination of their
! choice, but there is an undercurrent of
feeling on the outside among the dele
gates who are rapidly arriving, that
something akin to what happened at
Chicago is likely to occur here before
the convention closes.
Among the old time politicians the
nomination of President Taft by the
Republicans is hailed with delight
They can see nothing but Democratic
success this year. The split in the
Republican ranks, the direct result of
the theft of the convention by the ring
bosses. is cited on all sides as the
greater reason why the Democrats
should come together on some strong
candidate and thus insure his election
in November
The only rub is that the Democratic
leaders are far from being unit as to
who the strong candidate is. Colonel
Bryan's name naturally suggests itself
to all, but the three defeats he has
suffered make him more or less of an
impOssibility to the old line politicians.
A new man of equal strength but less
prominence as loser is the way they
figure it.
In the Bryan-Parker controversy is
seen a repetition of the Roosevelt
Taft embroglio at Chicago. Judge
Parker stands, and always has stood.
for Wall street. 1t is recalled that he
was the gold Democrat opponent of
Colonel Bryan eight years ago
Colonel Bryan is a progressive, and
as such stands for much the same
things that Theodore Roosevelt repre-
sents. Judge Parker is the dark
horse" choice of the money kings
Colonel Bryan is the dark horse"
of popular choice. as has been shown
by the number of votes cast for him
In each of the elections in which his
name has been before the people. He
has thrown his strength to Woodrow
Wilson, but it is likely the coming out
of Judge Parker as the choice of Wall
street may have its effect. and that the
progressives may force Colonel Bryan
to accept nomination.
In the event that a reactionary can
dldate is named it hourly becomes
more probable that Bryan will nor
support him, and that a split in the
Democratic party will occur as wide
as That in the Republican party.
| BY UNITED PRESS ASSOC1ATIONSl
BALTIMORE, June 24.-Unless the
Democratic Progressives agree on
substitute for Parker, Bryan personal
ly will be a candidate for the tempor-
airy chairman of the convention. ac-
cording to his statement this morning
If they insist on Parker. the nation
al committee leaves their action open
ohiy 10 one Interpretation. that they
want a fight. We will accept the
gage. We will battle to the finish"
the commoner declared.
Opposed to Parker
lBf UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS1
BALTIMORE, Jpne 24.-Pennsyl
Vania, in caucus, voted 80 to 6 to on,
pose Parker should the national com
mlttee approve the subcommittee Sc
lection
After two hours session the Demo
cratic national committee postponed
until O'Clock tonight action on the
subcommittee report naming Parker
as chairman. Another subcommittee
was appointed to confer with BRYAN