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Show LOOKS LIKE d? If FflflMPUH II If the Delaware Man Will Ac-. fltl' cept. He May Be Bryan's j'K i Running Mate. fBi LEADERS OF DEMOCRACY l' GATHERING IN DENVER ' JB Biggest Fight of the Convention (Bp' Certain to Come Over Anti- fllv Injunction Plank. jl X? DENVER, June 30. Although caudi- 1 Bfflf'i dates for the nomination for Vice- MlH ' President on the Democratic ticket arc '-IIDl'f numerous, and despite the fact that.' 'jflH'j their number is likcl' to be largely in- SBfr f . crcased before a choice is actually CaRViri made, it is the general opinion among ' such leaders of the party as are now : 9' ' hero that if George Gray, of Delaware, AlSB will declare his willingness to accept !K3R the second place on the ticket, he .can (3f''3li'l haVo it. Josiah Marvel, of Wilmington. rwfSf Deb, the manager of the Gray Prcsi- J $K- deutial campaign, who arrived in Den- 'i j vcr tonight, will not, however, givo his consort. lie insists that the Delaware ( I IM. j man is a candidate for first place, aud '"'' 'H when it has been settled that he canuot ' I havo first place, it will be ample time 'lj I to place him in running j'or the ecu- 5 vjU ' 1 ondary position, provided ho cares to ':l 'M n l take it. Mr. Marvel denies, however, 'l3llt?' I that Judge Gray will be satisfied with "m ' I ajivthing less than the head of the ty Mr. Marvol, when informed of the JIM sentiment regarding Judge Gray as a fwm i candidato for vice-president, said: rM ' "We don't kuow anything about. ;J that. It docs not concern ns. Judge". ? '4fm 1 1 Gray is a candidate for president, aiul ho Is going lo bo nominated. We are jffiw vr running him for president and for nolh-' 1 Ivm!1 ing else." ' iff "The people out here," it was bug- 1 JU gcslcd, "arc running him for vice-presi- m4k 1 dent, and it is gouerally believed thai TS Mr. Bryan favors him for tho second 'Vll placo on the ticket." i ' ' Wants tho First Place. I ' "There is not a man in the country . , I M , who could be placed at the head ol . m ,;.' i: tho Democratic ticket." said Mr. Mnv- lum j1 vol, "who would not like to have Judge. -!il '':'? Gray for a ruuning mat Wo know nll' ;SJ. ,' " about, that, but wo are not considering 1'' ; i him in the light of anything but a. M - candidate for the first place, nor must ' ifflr' ' anybody else so consider hiui. If they : ;i i do the- are making a great mistake and a j tbev are wasting their time." 'lK't When asked how much strength h AiViu expected his candidate to show on tht 'lr M4' first bnllot, Mr. Marvel said: "flit "Ho will get all of Delaware, all o T. W 1 J Marj-land, a great part of Penusyl- fily' vania, probably all of New Jersey, and .. uWr man3" votes from the South. We ara J JM J! not making anj' specific claims as to y , Ml j, figures, but this fact must be borne in ? .Jslj mind.. There arc four hundred uuin- "ilW structed delegates in that convention. ifili : " You can draw your own conclusions as I fj jilt . ( J to' what, that means, but it certainly '"") means something." ' ' -TaJ''f Mr. Marvol said that the name of ' 3frv' Judge Gray will be presented to the ' 4 f ; convention "by L. I. Handy of Delaware, ; lljl ' seconded by" P. A. O'Boyle, chairman Hi of the rcecnt state Democratic conven- - 'Slli'r tion in Pennsylvania. He declared ' there will be several other seconding spe'eches, but said that he could not to- night name tho men who will make g "Mi them. im? ' Frederick B. I-jynch. manager 01 tho Pff-'K' Johnson boom for the presidency, ia ''!( ' "' expected to arrive hero tomorrow, aud , SW : will open headquarters at the Albany hotel. ' -ii. Agroeablo t.o Bryan. J J r It is well known that Mr. Bryan 1 j would be pleased to have Judge Gray ' ', j & i for the Vice-Presidential candidate, and y tho only thing that prevents the latter WO ; from becoming a leading candidate for ;'3 '? I that position is tho simplo but all-pow- .( erful fact that he may not declare him- A 3 P : self to bo a candidate at all. 4 I . The Gray Presidential boom was for- F I ! mally launched today and headquarters ' j 5 L were opened in tho Savoy, hotel. They il a J were arranged some hours in advance of vj ' S a ' " the arrival of Mr. Marvel, and during ' .1 lifki the early part of the afternoon a corps . im'J of expert bill-stickers were going about ( ffl Jft," the hotels puttinir up lithographs of the 'jlMy Delaware candidate. vlrtlin'' No other pictures have been placed as A (j H - yot. and the Gray meu secured, the most ? 'm'4' prominent plnccs in the lobbies of all nHi tho loading hotels. The headquarters Mfo were thrown open after tho arrival of llj i Manager Marvel, but becauso of the . -y' ifaU. late hour at which he put in an appear- V '7B anco tho Gray boom was not put into .iffl p nctivc operation. By tomorrow, how- , . TWtjN over, it is expected lo be in full swing. ' 'Mil Johnson Boom Not Big. 'i' 'iW-j The Johnson headquarters will not bo ;l opened for several days, and tho dato ,!A M. ; on which the Bryan banners will bo jjl ' thrown out has not yet been deter- m I M i mined, but it will be on Saturday or M Sunday, after the arrival of the No- ( W ; braska delegation. It is certain that thcro will bo a Mb Afjf strong fight in Iho committee on roso- IliifK lutions. and possibly on tho f'oor.of tho Qi' ixfl convention itself, over tho anti-ui.iunc- HI if lion plank. Word has come .indirectly y U? Mfltf from Lincoln that Mr. Bryan is in favor , tfr ' of a plank of a somewhat radical na- I, fitj. lure, and it is certain that such men a? ft, Sullivan, National committeeman from -"" Mw! . Illinois, and Chninnan Tairuart of tho J-r M ' Nationnl committee, are strontrly op- . jlj mu nosed to it- Sullivan gfive our. vostcr- i Wii dav a statomcnf in winch he favori'd mhl "eoual rights before the law,", and s t,A 'M ( used other expressions ot a similar t 4 Sir' ciiarnctor. which wero ponslrut'd to il Mhi) moan that lie v.'an opposnd to n strong il'VaJl, anti-in.iunction ulank. Sullivan denies nM M2 that ho intendod to convov t.hr- unprrs- , Jj JJj'r, s'.on that ho plhnnod to. fight tho anti- J j ' ununction planlr. but U is cenerally bo- -m mt licvod that he is acninst extreme lan- . ;gf 311 "ungp in this part of tho resolutions. TJ mm , ' " It is woll known that betwoon Mr. ,11 Hi Brj-an and Mr. Sullivan and othor in- if 1 ' Continued on Pago Eleven. ! ".Jill. J, LOOKS LIKE GRAY FOR SECOND PLACE Continued from Pago One. fluential members of the Illinois delegation dele-gation no particular amount of love is lost, and reports have been circulated that if an anti-injunction plank is adopted more radical in its character than the Illinois people feel that they can approve, that the State, when it comes to balloting for President, will break away from its Br3'au instructions, instruc-tions, Sullivan denied this cinphaticalb' today. to-day. He f-aid: "We were told to stick for Bryan, and wo aro going to stick. I do not believe be-lieve that any platform fight can change our present programme. Illinois has no idea of breaking away from its instructions. ' ' The forces opposed to a radical plank wore strengthened today by the arrival of Charles G Heifner, of Washington State, who has the proxy of John Y. Terry, the National committeeman from that State. Mr. Heifner announced emphatically that the Pacific const, and particularly the State of Washington, was opposed to the adoption of such a plank as was presented at Chicago by Samuel Gompers and other officials of the American Federation of Labor. He said: Sop to Union Labor. "The adoption by our party of such a plank would bo a transparent sop to union labor which would 1)0 repugnant to voters in all sections of the count 7'. It would be a promise that no lawmaking law-making body would bo willing to fulfill. It could hdI help but injure tho Demo-cr?Hc Demo-cr?Hc t'eknt at the polls.'' Mr. Heifner believed that the Vice-Prcsideucy Vice-Prcsideucy will go to the cast, but he was not ready to say how his dclcga-tin" dclcga-tin" v.-'ll vtp. The coming of Mr. Heifner with his statement of the sentiment on tho Pacific Pa-cific coast against tho nronosed anti-injunction anti-injunction plank, and tho announcement in" tire Esist that Martin W. Littleton of Ne.w York will come here to make a ficht tipainst the insertion of such a p'ank in tho platform, easily makes this question the most imuortant under discussion. dis-cussion. New Enc'and is suid to be onposod to tho nlank aud New Jersey t and Pennsylvania also are accredited with pronounced antagonism to such a resolution. If tho New York delegation delega-tion and the Pacific coast delegation should take a determined stand nrrninst it the fight would assume formidable proportions, l.t is not believed here that tho onnosition of Sullivan of Illinois Illi-nois and Taggart of Indiana means that the entire delegations from these States would onnosc Mr. Brvan 's wishes. Most, of tho Central and Western and Southern South-ern States, it is said, wil' be lined up to supnort whatever programme Mr. Bryan's friends preseut. Fight Over Tickets. Tho question of tickets continues to ! divide the members of the committee on convention arrangements and the committee of Denver citizens which is looking after the Denver end of the convention. As is usually the case, the , local people would like to have a greater great-er number of tickets than tho committee commit-tee feels that it can spare. Ono mom- ' ber of the National committee described ! the situation today in tho following lan- ! guage: I "It's just this way: Denver is of course entitled to its sharo of tickets, I and it cannot be deniod that the people of this city havo kept their promises and have behaved in tho most handsome hand-some manner to the members of the National committee. On the other hand, and it must bo understood that tho local lo-cal Denver committee is in no way responsible re-sponsible for this, certain people have advertised tho Democratic convention ns a sort of added attraction for tho summer tourist season and have allowed it to be understood that tickets arc to bo had for the asking, and that every traveler who visits the Stalo at tho lime the convention is in progress prog-ress can have a ticket. That is stating it a trifle stronglv. perhaps, but a. lot of that sort of advertising has been done, and it is bringing many people to Colorado who will havo no chance on earth to see the inside of the convention con-vention hall, Tho committco naturally feels this pressure and we cannot decide just what we will bo ablo to do until wo know just exactly how mau3' seals wo will have. Denver is, saying to tho National committee. 'Give us tickets.' and tho committee is replyiug to Denver. Den-ver. 'Show us the seats.' " Question of Capacity. The members of tho committco spent several hours todav in going through the convention hall, but did not succeed suc-ceed jn producing any greater seating capacity. Adequate accommodations for the sessions ses-sions of tho committees on resolutions, credentials, permanent organization and rules not having been provided in the new Auditorium, arrangements were i made today to havo these committees i meet in the building of tho Fraternal i union. That organization today prof- I fered the use of the rooms to the com- mitteo ou convention arrangements and i the tendor was accepted. Chairman Tanroart of tho National committco has been charged with the responsibility of letting contracts for the establishment of a hospital in tho Auditorium building for emergency purposes. Mr. Tapgart insncctcd the hospital in the Chicago Coliseum im-mcdiatrlv im-mcdiatrlv after tho adjournment of the Republican National convention, and was greatly pleased with tho completeness complete-ness of Ihe establishment. Tho hospital here will bo patterned after the temporary tem-porary hospital at tho Chicago Coliseum. Coli-seum. The contracts for equipment aud supplies, and the matter of securing the attendance of competent physicians and nurses, will be disposed of tomor-ro tomor-ro w. Official Appointments. Secretary Woodson of tho National committee, who has been elected secretary sec-retary of the convention, today announced an-nounced the appointment of the following fol-lowing assistants: Assistant secretaries Charles S. Northern. Aanta. Ga.j IL C. Richmond, Rich-mond, Fremont. Nb.: C. A. Nash, Perry, la.; Edward Cahill, Springfield, 111.; Will Reid, Rawlins, Wyo., and Frank B. Ross, Indianapolis, Ind. Reading clerks William McEniry, Rock Island, 111.; T. F. Smith New York City; William E. R. Byrne, Charleston, W. Va.; C. J. Gavin. Denver, Colo.; Rccs P. Horrocks, Littlo Rock, Ark.; Joseph L. Reilev, Indianapolis. Ind. Tally clerks Rubv Laffoon, Madison-villo, Madison-villo, Ky.; V. Allert, Langdon, N. D. ; E, E. Murphy, Leavenworth, Kan.; Thomas II. ijovclacc. St. Louis. Mo.; Thomas B. Collior, Memphis, Tenn.; C. C. Ernest. Decatur, Ind. Messenger to secretary W. V. Richardson, Rich-ardson, Danville, Ky. Messenger to chairman Ernest Bras-ley. Bras-ley. Sullivan, Ind. , It is expected that tho rush of tho delegations will not commence before Sundaj', although many individual delegates dele-gates will come before that' time. Already Al-ready twenty-five special trains arc scheduled to arrive ou Sunday and as many more aro duo on Monday. It is believed by the railroad managers that the number of trains will be largely in-i in-i creased between now and Sunday. ' |