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Show iiAN IS HAVING SllOTOSITII Nebraska Leader of Democracy Not (lie Choice of Entire ET IS ADMITTED HE IS WELL IN THE LEAD --position Not Centered on Man. but Seeking to Create a Division, tclal to The Tribune. SEW YOI!Kf April o.-r-Stirring times ; ahead for the Democratic pariy. c contest for control of the Denver ivention is now iu full swing. There to be a determined effort to defeat nomination of "William .1. Bryan. pc candidates havo been put iu the Id against him in the hope of eon-llinp eon-llinp more than one-third of the eon-ition, eon-ition, so that Mr. Bryan cannot ob-l ob-l the requisite two-thirds. I &j?By Governor Johnson of Minnesota has HfTfccntlv announced his candidacy for :jjH5tlio nomination. ."Judge Gray of "Dula rdiHirtre has been put in tlx field by his !7j-ft-i(.'iuK and an effort will bo inndo to HtP0V(,nr 'ns ructious for Brvan in the iruBv-'1-' dudson llanunn of Oliio ha? his J"Roipiirrors and Ohio will be the .scene QbV a decisno conflict between Mr. Har-' Har-' TVu1"-"1 anil Mr. Rryan. Thus far in Ohio "JBM'f honors arc even. At a meeting of Bjhc siutr- ominitlt'c several weeks ago, SM1 isolation was adopted in favor of sSHblr. Uiyan for president mid Mr. liar KaHtaun or ioo president. There was held ttiBin 1 ojuuibia recently a "peace- confer- ?nci " oi all the leading Democrats of fiiB' T!,,p- '' icl'usod to pass a Bryan fJBSfEolutJon. and resolved itself into a iIIHPf,vft.r f'onforitnc.o. " liach leader at-tfliMvenrling at-tfliMvenrling wanted peace on his own basis. fltjKjanrl there was no peace. Ono Ohio dis-'fowj.'triPt dis-'fowj.'triPt lias elected and instructed dele-,mlg"tes dele-,mlg"tes for Bryan. Bryan Well in the Land. The record oi I he contest, up to date vijB's ftrongly In fnvor of Mr. Bryan. Ho 'SKad'opted tho same tactics as the Taft Jfcmcn. That ie. he had conventions it .called early in those states that, were frgtrongly i nhis fnvor. Thus he has been ygivcn a flying plait. Nebraska. Okla-.omn, Okla-.omn, Indiana. Kansas, South Dakota, lKlhodo Island, Town and Wisconsin have HfrcId state conventions, and the seventh vBwslricfc of 'Ohio "has elected twQ.-delei ijKjtiee. All instructed, for. Bryan except Hf1 pihocle Islan dand Town. llhodo Tsland Ms jjelectod eight delegates, seven of whom ;i Sire known Bryan men, while one Is 5i ifappnscd to him. and Towa indorped but "Si wild not instruct. Thus Bryan has now 4j 'Mo of the MB delegates elected. The sm Mithc rcandidatcs have none pledged to r!J Hhem. it The entire Rath except Jlhodo Island, Jg ijjnust yet pcak. xho East is not stroug-74 stroug-74 j'ly for Brvan among the leaders of tho ! -I'.'ir'v. The South was for .Tudce Par-d Par-d 'r in 1004. and 1ms- not forgiven the 'JJU Brvan supporters for voting lor Roose-H Roose-H welt or not voting at all. The stnto jjj committers of Nov.- York, Massachusetts, 'm ;erth ''arolina and Minnesota have re-i9 re-i9 'sd o pass- resolutions in favor of a r. Hry.-in. The Illinois slate commit-'M commit-'M J.CC indorsed Biyan about ten davs aso. g iunoro is opposition to him in Virginia, j m evv .Terse v. Xorth fnrolina, Pennsyl-3,r Pennsyl-3,r VRma, North Dakota. Alabama, West jjp Virmnia and Miirj'Iand. while Delaware J 111 bo for Gray. In addition to this, t& Inorc are four states, having thirtr-six J delegates, where it is expected tho delc-2 delc-2 1 R6lc.s will be against Brvan. Lcndors n all these states, except. Delaware, will 6(j avc to contend with strong sentiment i 0" ft'nong the rank and filo in favor of the t nomination of the Xobraskun. c h a" :ihovc Htates should control h. nieir delegates aeainst Brvan they j Ijvonld mustor M2 votes, including New iork and New Jerse3', which ho must st EriT Qt the polls to win the election. thoy could get 337 votes against him "V would niako his nomination Impos BRYAN IS HAYING STRONG OPPOSITION Continued from Page On'. two or three months too late in admitting admit-ting his willingness to make a fight for tho nomination. Evou now Governor Johnson talks liko a man who docs not really care to make a fight. Hopo of the Opposition. The aetion of Iowa in .''indorsing'" instead of "instructing" for Bryan leaves tho opposition with tho hope that if thoy. can mako headway aud show tho unavailability of Bryan they may get Iowa's twenty-six votes arotind to their side in Denver. Johnson is a strong second, choice in Tawo, and prob-obly prob-obly would also bo second choice iu Illinois, Il-linois, with fifty-four delegates. The hard fighting during lho next frw works will ho in New York. Pennsyl vania and Massachusetts. That Nov.' York will refuse to instruct is expected. That Bryan will fail in Massachusetts is admitted. Whether he will get' tho instructions in Pennsylvania will depend on how the money' of his supporters holds out. Tho contest in Ponnsylcnnia is not so much for Bryan as acjaiiist tho slate "boBS," Colonel J. M. Guff cy. At. heart; tho men who are opposing Guffoy qro not for Bryan. Shonld Now York, with 78 delegates? Massachusetts with 32 and Pennsylvania with (58 refuse re-fuse to instruct, that would mean 17S votes against Mr. Bryan, and put him not only bohind tho necessary two-thirds, two-thirds, but place him iu tho minority at the first quarter of tho race. Opponents of the Nebrnskan arc vorv niucb encouraged. They aro not vet working so much for any particular candidate os to prevent the nomination of a man twice defoatcd for thq presidency, presi-dency, who says if ho koops on running long enough he will, in tho doctrine of chances, got tho presidency somo duv. Bryan's supporters hold that their idol The candidates who cntor tho lists is far and away tho strongest man and most promising vote-getter in tho partv. against him must ho .prepared to set up counter-claims and to demolish the claims made in his interest. Bates of tho more important Democratic Demo-cratic state conventions are: South Dakota, Da-kota, April 7: Now York. April H: Delaware April 14; Ohio, May 5; Minnesota, Min-nesota, May 14; Washington, May 18; South Carolina, May 20; Pennsylvania, May 20; Missouri. May 20; Texas, May 26; Connecticut, April 28: Oregon, June 1G and Tennessee, June 17. |