Show OR r Some discussion has arisen among amons amon party arty leaders h as to the advisability or of instructing the Utah delegation to the Denver convention for some come special candidate So Mo far as ai can be ascer the sentiment of the party is Ig Iga a Instructions and The Herald believes believe It the part of or wisdom to per permit permit mit mft the delegation to use its own judt jud ment ent after it gets into the convention Whatever preference there may be as ast asto t io to candidates the Democrats of this I state tte are not committed to any an one II mans fortunes though they recognize i Mr 11 Bryans Brans party part services The ques que if Lion Uon with them as with their theiL Democrats all over the country Is ls not nolt who ho is the most conspicuous Democrat hut what candidate possessing presidential presidential qualifications would make mak Vie fie best race Not a few of Mr MI Bryans followers seem m to assume that it Is some sort of tf bad Iad faith t to suggest that possibly he Is not Mt t nt the strongest stron t and al l most Candidate to come c me before the conven convention tion A very er large number of loy il Democrats however hoever IIaN hav serious doubts as to whether he would get as asnan asnan n nan votes tl is ni either elther Governor John Johnson Johnson Johnson son or Judge Gray or Judson Harmon With them it is a party part duty d t to select selecta af f a their candidate the ono ona man nian who HI be b strangest before belore the people hi Inning ing regard at the same s me time for the character and executive ability If r in a n president The ThEY have lUle a right to their convictions on this subject s bj t and Mr Bryans supporters make m k a Ii grave sTave mistake mistake in hi assuming that he heiR is entitled to have hae havethe havethe the tile nomination without opposition or question M sq 0 long as liS such a sentiment exists Whatever wh service e he he has haR ren ten rendered dered the Democracy and It Jt pas has been ery great he has been repaid a thousand told fold by the honors already alread accorded R him and the loyalty lo alty with withA Uh A he lIP has beep been followed It does doeR not necessarily follow that the most brilliant leader is III the best timber for the presidency Webster ebster and andIa flay lay Ia and Calhoun Blaine Blame and Reed Heed and Conkling are all instances in dis disproof disproof disproof proof and Mr Ir Bryans career carer er so b far has paralleled all aU of ot these th se in some particulars He In unquestionably the most brilliant of or public leaders headers In this he has proved his sincerity his ability as an orator his personal strength Ith the radl al element of ol his party parti Elaine I lne In his best day dil r uld not attract a such crowds and no noman noman noman man In modern political history has exerted a more profound on the policies of his own and the opposition party part For all aU that the very qualities which th have hale made him the premier among po political political political speakers have hae inured to his dis disadvantage disadvantage dt advantage at the polls He has opinions long ions of or his own on uny nn question that may ron arise and he has fastened hastened to I commit his ills party part to Ulese opinions whether the party was ready to adopt them or not He has advanced some Ideas that were distinctly opposed oppose to aU all 11 the ibe be traditions of or his party part he has committed himself to policies of cen een that read like a parody on ont f t Jeffersonian Jert Democracy These are I cited only ony as instances of ot the public utterances which have weakened I Bryan B yan In the south and nd his friends in the north hesitate to put him im forward as the official Q candidate of the j party Part arty J 1 PartH If tt when hen the convention assembles q i In Denver jt lt Is found that of t f tt fe t e delegates are for Bryan he will I ha hae e t the th enthusiastic support of Utah x j If It the convention after a deliberation 11 and nod conference among arong the tile thede deates de pt decides deide that some other r can c n te tte would malt make a better race then Ui n the 1 men who compose 6 that body should l I t D 4 free to apt act acc To commit r lf tes In advance ad nce is to bar barth the tr t ted b liberty o choice hOlce w A l l al py In such j h pe o ra hay hav J J i Jj ih h p f 1 7 W lIi ule JOt JOtt tor 1 t T mU 1 g L L i A 1 fl 11 iJ I r I 41 t t 11 t r 0 J JT T c 15 jj E Eif i H f ff if it f t l j VL |