Show MM 4 M H jt M H 11 our weekly washington was hington letter w 1 L 5 H washington D C aug it if one may judge by the howls bowls of lury fury IM and anguish which have been bissu ii t lag ing from democratic national head 14 i j quarters arters su and vicariously uttered hy by I 1 democratic emo cratic leaders in all sections I 1 nothing has boa io 10 i o completely gotten the i Iello cratic poat goat not donkey as al ch chirles liles dawes definition of the we tee parties in the field with that incisiveness with which he ding r same nosed the european situation and devised a plan chic which 11 all europe la is now praising gen dawes dec declared bared campaign to be a tile hie presidential contest between progressive conser and untried and dangerous I 1 lat the real radical con could id find no voting tor for la follette from rom escape rape the no mater how be could find no sive lie he might art reb ve than other tor for voting tor for this of course left davis aulidge ou lidge and that olit of the equation davis ites shell shel I 1 has given the 1 n what A hat and kock to cc tor for they know it is true rub it in C geu en dawes ac abel 1 to described the D democracy em as ortra irately tely recruiting which instead ot of r a will i itself self from the two party lines befalls tile the tate fate which iler affer only r st s real straddle in a rea to those who try it was it was as true as tight fight do doubt liba la is why cruel and that no the davis supporters are so angry advocate I 1 democrats di moc rats had bad hoped to conservatism radicalism in the w west est and ends both in the east to play and now the general tile the middle against up their hand shows exposes knows and no democrat their game how to answer him 0 aw 40 W davis Is william jennings Jen ninga what democratic convention Is the told bryan mr davis present employment meni would be a I 1 latal fatal handicap in a i the once sa said d dental tai race preal he would ald not carry peerless Peer leis one P west of a single state stat Is likely to carry and as ag no DO democrat against co cooledge state an n eastern itkis would leave only the south which has not enough votes to elect a president the N Y times a leading democratic organ tells why dryan was picked for vice I 1 bial candidate it says it is by this time alm pretty plain that gov gor bryan was chosen democratic candidate for or the vice presidency with one clearly Ue tined object he was to hold the vote odthe farmers and the laboring men in certain strategic western states otate a against 9 ainest the assaults of sens sells baor la follette and now the inevitable result of that sort ot of a 0 straddle Is becoming obvious davis dasis seeking to endear himself to the western states is becoming too radical far the east and bryan is be codding too conservative tor for the west abathe democratic leaders are I 1 in n a terrible funk because they foresee the prediction of their peerless leader coming true v 1 according to senator Td Smith ot of deew jersey there Is another occasion pi gravest anxiety to the democrats they have learned that a considerable number of bryan democrats are trying deliberately to defeat davis that la Is they are urging the la fol letter ites to make a fight aich will throw the thel election in senate ithe house is obviously dead deadlocked 10 eked so as to insure bryans president ma many Y too will themselves vote for or la lafollette Pollette follett e to this end they rhey regard davis as inalienably associated socia ted with wall street their views on this subject were strikingly confirmed by senator tom walsh in his speech inborn informing ling davis of his nomination they would prefer a Penic ile dat to la follette provided the damoc democrat rat was sufficiently radl radi roi and they perceive in the archaic provisions of the constitution tit ution a method whereby they can eliminate davis an and d put the democratic radi val into tile the white houie without appearing to desert t their heir party just how far this movement nt has gone Is known only to the Demo democratic democrate crati I 1 leaders and they wont tell but senator smith declares axes it is very extensive in minnesota and adjacent states 40 40 senator wheeler who has just collie hack back to washington declares his faith that the election will be thrown successively into the house and senate with the result that bryan will be elect elected ed president in every section outside the south davis will run third and a poor third at that said wheeler wheeler said lie be regarded bryon bryan as progressive hut but added the west might be TOT fot bryan brya n fo for r first place but they wont be tor for him as running mate tor for davis the west w will ill vote tor for la follette it Is deter determined nit ned to te defeat davis then it bryan happens to ile be elected as the result ot of the deadlock in the house tile the west will be well satisfied but they know a vote tor for bryan is a vote tor for davis therefore they are ining to vote tor for la pollette follette wheeler insisted that there was a introne third party sentiment in thu the new england states and announced ilia his purpose ot of wins going to boston tr tn oen the campaign for himself a and ad I 1 la follette |