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CHARLOTTE DAILY "OESEIiVEK, ""JULY 0J 1CCX .t. r. caldwfxii i A. TOMPKIAii Publisher. very Day iatte Year ;- grBsciupnoy price:. 'V:V' A-T ' ' Dally, v q year ...... .V. . ... ... .. Bis months ......-.. ...... ......... Three months r,,..,.......,..... Send--Weekly ROCXT-ABOUT BETTTJTG OX THE - . ELECTION. ' '. v i Thai f tmoui . underwriters", ex change known aa Lloyds, of London, ia playing a , new, role- on, the ;Am"- can eld of the biff pond. It baa filled a sudden- want for" the -election beU tor. It stands always ready,' we most remember,' to- Insure' anybody, against anything, Including alike 'twine .and the results of a national election. An exporter whose Russian trade would be demoralized by the assassination of 4 001 un uu'7 ivii aivv wm aH Oil insurance policy on the Czar life, AO risk Is so great, so email oa "of so One year Six months .......... Three months ...... $1.04 . PCBLISHERS. ANNOUNCEMENT V"""'-'- w ' " ' Ko. M South trytw treet. 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To re- celvs considerstlon a communication must' be accompanied by the true name of the correspondent. MONDAY, JCLY 20, 1908. ; iCDGE NEAL ON HOMICIDE. 'jAil'who have the public welfare at . heart' should feel grateful to Judge .Walter H. Neal for the address upon the subject of homicide which he re cently delivered before a Wake coun ty grand jury and which an enlight ened press spread abroad. In his ex pressions Judge Neal was character- latlcally able, patriotic and courag eoua We do not believe" that the Startling manner In which homicide is rapidly Increasing among the Amerl ' can people as punishment decreases decreases toward the vanishing point has ever been set forth with more combined force and truth. The cause 1 for this extreme cheapness of human . vllfe he accurately locates In the Jury .box, whence come acquittals for one undoubted murderer after another. ; Behind the juries he points to laws . which over-guard the accused, espe cially In the choosing of jurymen, and i behind both the laws and the juries to an attitude on the public's part which urgently needs reform. "What does It matter," strongly says The Danville Register, in commenting ap preclatlvely upon Judge Neal'a ad dress, "who Is President of the United - State, Governor- of Virginty or Rep resentatlve In Congress, compared to ,the momentous question of safe guarding human life? Jurors are cnieny responsible, and they are drawn from the body of the citizen ship. The remedy must come through . effectively arousing the citizen as to the sanctity of life and the imperative Importance of safeguarding It by dis couraging homicide. We are panlceps cr! minis to the ruthlena slaughter of our fellow-beings so long as we com placently assent to murder und not ' Only permit the slayer to go unwhlpt . of Justice, but often applaud him and .lionize hhn after we have exculpated . him for his heinous crime. Another remedy must come through some amendment of the rules of evidence and such changes In our statute law . as will give the Commonwealth a fair chance to convict." The Importance Of this subject cannot. Indeed, be easily over-stated. We are the bloodiest nation on the face of the earth which has any really t valid claim to civilization or ranks above "the lesser breeds without the law." This section leads In bloodi ness and increase of bloodlm-m. The , remedy lies, with public opinion and those vnost responsible for It. Judge Neat, as an Inntructor of the pt.-ople, certainly cannot be r-prouched with failure to do his du'y. absurd a nature that Lloyds will not handle it if offered the right premi um. Where a cotton exchange offers hedges merely against cotton contln gencles, Lloyds offers hedges against contlngencI.es of every sort. It Is not requiredthat the Insurer shall have any Insurable Interest in- the person, property or event Insured; and hence one transaction may be strictly legiti mate business and another a mere bet, which the law will not enforce, but which the established reputation of the Lloyds brokers makes perfectly good. Cable or otherwise forward Lloyds' credit to the amount mutually agreed upon as premium and you get your insurance policy In, return. Owing to the initiative of an Ameri can manufacturer Lloyds' facilities are now being extensively used by presidential election wagerera. This manufacturer, anxious to run his plant at full capacity if only he could protect himself against the contin gency of .Mr. Bryan's succesa next November, applied to Lloyds through a New Tork brokerage firm and after some little haggling, got a policy for 1100,000 at 10 I-J per cent, premium. Since the Lloyds broker keeps the premium whether he wins or loses, the odds against Bryan stood at about 1-2 to 1. News of this transaction quickly spreading in Wall Btreet, the numerous people who 'habitually bet on elections but find themselves this year under strict prohibition of the recent New Tork Legislature's antl betting law, proceeded to make simi lar wagers. Successive policies against the election of Mr. Bryan were Issusd, until within twenty-four hours Lloyds had run the premium up to the equiv alent of B 8-4 to 1 against Bryan holding It there at lasc accounts. The contract being made In London, New Tork criminal statutes er considered lnsppllcable. Instead of election bets we now find "election policies." and certain enterprising New York brok era have made arrangements whereby thev claim that a transaction can be closed In less than fifteen minutes. Thus gambling on the election flour ishes unhindered as of yore. Lloyds has come to the rescue. The large non-gambling public benefits by 'the light shed upon the election outlook as seen through the eyes of astute gamblers. Moral: There are more ways of killing a dog (or doing even worse things) than one. THE MSSU COTENTION A ILTIFIC.VnOX "MEETING THE ItlKNING SOUTH. Kind enough to term The Observer "always among the first In good and patriotic works," The New Tork Sun remarks with manifest approval upon this Journal's conduct In con tributing a fat hen and a Hong: Kong gander to the Bryan campaign fund. For starting th list thus headed. The Charleston News and Courier receives similar commendation. "Thus," beams The ' Hun, "st least two tmi portant Southern States got Into line for the cause. Who will come next? rieorgia Is ready to do her duty. Col onel Sid Tapp, getting ready to move to New Tork, may have 'no time for such things, but there Is the Hon. Poke Hoggs, likewise the Hon. Dink Butts, also Suulre Gemini Mustard, tq say nothing of others equally en' thuslustlc. Among these, somehow the ball wilt certainly be set a-roll- Ing. Just as we expected, the South Is on fire for Bryan." The Bryan flames centering at Charlotte ard at Charles ton show red In the political sky even from far-distant New York. There Is 1'ttle need of the four Illustrious Georgians to'brlng on a general con fl.iKratlon. Heat of seven July pow er already pervades the affrighted sky. We c.juld not control the out break. If wp would. Burn on, O Bouth; burn on, burn on, and on! Jin Aftermath Story of the Democratic 1-Do in Colorado and Some Faetii , 'and Speculations Claims Made by , Jiouyam Hepubllt-ans nd peseunlS' Uo Democrats -Mr.. Jlryaa , Must Carry New Y ork or tbe Eutire West - to fenccecd Southern, States Have . ' All Voted Like the Goat Tbe East Almo' Solidly Republican New York Holds the Key to tbe Situation ( " IJcwtct Convention New to Okl-Ttme ts Fnthpataam TtuUtaiLri.. if avo tern someuunt - iiie Let-Down That Followed ttio Nomi nation of the Nebraskai Betting Ten to Ona That Bryan win Be Dc- The Democratic convention of 1108 has become a, part of the political history of this great -country, and the campaign .between the , candidates named at Denver and the ones named at Chicago by the Republicans is now on In earnest.. The American people. toy. their ballots, will. In- November, say who they shall .trust with their affairs of state. The all-abiding ques tion is. "Shall it be Tatt and Sherman or Bryan and Kern?" The South, like the goat, has al ready voted. Whatever the Demo cratic party suggests the South adopts. There-will beno - contest -tn the land of Dixie everything being one way. j Sentiment rules in the horns of the' Southern Confederacy. If the Denver convention had put up Tom Watson, of Georgia. or William Randolph Hearst, of New Tork, or John Mitchell, of Illinois, or Samuel Compere, of Russia, instead of the Great Com moner, of Nebraska, the result in November, would be the same. The civil war and the bitter days that fol- owed made the South Democratic and Democratic it will stay until the names of the old parties have changed or disappeared and new ones come to take their place. In the coming election the following-named States may be counted for Bryan: Alabama, Airkansaa, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North ' Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and VIr glnia, making a total of 120 electoral votes. There is no question about any f these unless It te Tennessee. The battle lines will not extend in the territory covered toy these States, In fact, the South will not he In the mighty conflict of ballots. Therefore, it is little wonder that ona finds no enthusiasm in thia section of the country. THE EAST IS REPUBLICAN. ' The situation In the East the solid Republican East is not unlike that of the South except in one or two uncertain States. Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania are Republican Just as certainly as the South is Democratic. In the same list might be placed Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, South and North Dakota, California, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, Washington and Kansas. The contest will toe wagsd In the ten doiibtful State namely, New York, Indiana, New Jersey, West Vir ginia, Nebraska, Delaware, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Montana. There the fury of the battle will be greatest. The iborder States Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Oklahoma said to toe an enthusiastic new re cruit Colonel Alfalfa Bill has the same sort of energy, voice and nerve as Colonel River Bend Abernethy, Gaston. The sight of Colonel Bill re minded me of Colonel , River Bena. Mr. John W. Kern, "twice defeated for Governor in his State, Is a man of ability. There Js but one drawback to him.- The bunch of 'Populistio whis kers that cover his face and detract from his keen, sensitive eye, which betokens good sense and cleverness. Ollle James, of Kentucky, is a mas of transcendent ability and shines in com parison witn. the otners who partici pate in the work of the L'enver rally. ,Kntyj Unitea mates senators there. Only one; Mr. Gore, spoke. Senator Gum Shoe Bill will most-- likely- gtveheir- eleeteraltT,Jc"i . "'-V-5;?4. votes to the Democratic candidate, Therefore, the fbllowing estimate will give an idea of the situation as it looks to a hopeful Republican and a pessimistic Democrat at 'this time ESTIMATES ARE GIVEN. For Bryan Alabama.. ... ...... . . 11 Arkansas 9 Florida 5 Georgia IS Louisiana..,. ,. I Mississippi. . . . 10 North Carolina 18 South Carolina. 9 Tennessee.... 12 Texas . 18 Virginia 12 Kentucky . . , 11 Maryland. 8 Missouri 18 Oklahoma , .... 7 116 Taft Maine - C Vermont. .' 4 New Hampshire 4 Massachusetts ... 1 Rhode Island 4 If The Charleston Evening Post Should-be so fortunate as to win the . Hong Kong gander offered at raffle (by The Charleston N-ws and Courier for. the benetit of the Bryan cam paign fund, it "would present the Wrd to that distinguished neur-I)em-ocrat for permanent possexpion and constant companion. The goose," wt ? are reminded by way of explanation, Js esteemed a foolish bird, but Its i cackling saved Rome." Evidently : enough. The Evening post resents the elbowing tactics employed by The New and Courier, whose desperute efforts to make its way right to ths Peerless driver's side after a thlr- . teetith-hour appearance on the band wagon "naturally Incesses the flrst- , hour passenger, We knew something of the kind was going to be said as soon as the editor of The Evening i Fot got back from. Denver. Is artillery effective against bal loona? Daring night practice byr a Cerman machine gun corps recently this moot-point is tactics was set. tied, a target fcallooh far above and to -the left coming down at the first volley. ,. Attempts to drop explosives Into that gun corps' encampment, un less from a greet height would have been perilous. But a fast-fly ng aero r!ane or Zeppelin might prove quite another matter.-. "' iL ' (' Charlotte has two mysterious dlsgp. f - cranes cases at one time Whe can f n v say that North Carolina Is with- ' i a r?ti c'.'jt " " j ' 'Squire Bailee, South Carolina's leading marriage artist, has skipped westward In consequence of domestic troubles and a prospect of attention from the county grand Jury on this account. If the famous knot-tyer gets us far as Texas we shall com mend him to the benevolent protec tion of The Houston Post. Until such time as South Carolina reforms her marriage laws the de'll be in his feet when he returns. ENGINEER'S TAME SPARROW.-. lias a Fondness For Railroad Men Ilia Queer Nesting Place. Animals' Friend. Jim Is the name of a sparrow which Is the pet of the engine drivers and firemen at one of the railway centres In the north of Scotland. Re was hatched within the noisy precincts of a busy locomotive stable, but falling out of the nest before be ing fully fHtdged was placed in a cage and tenderly cared for in the railway office. On the third day he began to be friendly, and In a very abort time was flying all over the room, and even allow himself to be petted. .' . " In fact, he quickly became so tame that one day when his owner (the local ' railway engineer) was writing he flew onto his band and quietly fell asleep, and when about six months old began to. accompany him on his daily rounds among the engines) in ths yard, perched Jauntily on hie shoul der, or hopping contentedly - toy his side. .. .- lie choose .very queer place for hi seats, the oddest and mrvt awk ward to far being the inside breast coat pocket f his owner, whom he would follow wherever he went, stuf Ong the seleeted pocket with rnisceU Isneeus nesting material.' Jim la noe s' years of age. ..- ' Connwtlcutt Ohio Michigan, . . Illinois. . . , . Wisconsin . . pennsylvana Minnesota. Kouth Dakota North Dakota California..., Wyoming. ............. Utah Oregon. . Washington., .... nansa ...... ........ . .... . 4 10 A- t s A 3 ...J 4 ...I 6 A l a 118 Doubtful ' Now York. ... A 88 Indiana..- .. 16 New Jersey.... 18 West Virginia 7 Nebraska ....,.;. .... 8 Delaware...... .. .'. . . 8 Colorado... I Idaho 8 Nevada...... , 8 Montana . 8 'V 98 The comparative summary, based on these figures, is: For Bryan. .!... ... 18 For Tsft. ....ill Doubtful ............ ..... 88 rhM iHlnr ill votes in the elec toral college It will take' 148 to elect. A NEW LOT OF GENERALS. The onlooker, at Denver, will recall manv interesting facts In connection with the personnel and progress of the national coventlon. J One of the first questions that the Inquisitive mind of the well-informed American will ask is, "Where are the statesmen of yesterday and "Have they, like the glrla of yesterday, clown swtyt", . Ponder over the names oMhose who took pronmjnent part la the - Denver meeting!1 Study the careers of the men . brought forwaVdt 'Whs ' are they? -Who sver heard t Theo. A. Bell, of California, until he became temporary" chairman of that national Democratic convention? , He had been , member of the House of Repressa tatlves In Congress one term, but he wss comparatively unknown nntil a tew days before-the Denver conven tion was alld to oroer. - v no ia Henry D. Clayton, of Alabama? An ewer: ' A third . rate ! Congressman, whose best friends- do not claim much for blm. - What about Senator tJore, Governor HsskelU and Alfalfa Bill Murray, of Oklahoma? ! Mr. Oor was for years s Mississippi" popullte. as Governor Vardaman calls the Popu list. Ths bills introduced lathe Sen ate toy ths tollnd, tout brilliant. Sena tor of the new, ambitious and for ward State of Oklahoma. Indicate that he baa not yet forgot the doc-4 trine of Jerry jltmpson. JiaakeU la Stone, of Missouri, made a motion to adjourn, or something equally as lm portant, bqt that was all. Where were the . other prominent leaders of the party? VJiers were John Sharp Wil liams," DtfVtdLJL- DeArmond, Champ Clark t and others of yesterday? Some were cslledXpn for speeches during the lulls lnthe regular pro. gramme, tout a number of the speecnea would not rank with those made uy commencement debaters in the hlga schools of North Carollrta Bell mads the speech of the week but there was nothing original ?n It. . - 4. . DEMOCRATS OF OLD .'UP PLANTED. : The Democrats of yesterday are no longer leaders, nut have been ; sup planted ey Thomas ileum, of Ala toama; Alfalfa Bill, of Oklahoma, and others : of that kidney.- - Governor Oienn, the oft-tried Democratic war rior of North Carolina, was out of place in that talkfest. He was hooted down toy delegates who longed fur tns Populistio 3 ore and tne rampant Anaua biu. ' What ha become of the giants of tne twuuiT They have been swept aaiue y ine vim ana wooiiy en thusiasts of the West. The v . Soutn, whlsh Is counted on for the votes, toarring the part of two small ciure statesmenCrom Alabama, played an lnslgnliloant role at Denver. .. Where were Rayner and Smith, of Maryland? Simmons and Overman', of , North Carolina? Bacon and Clay, of Georgia? Taylor and Prasier, of 'Tennessee?,- Johnston and Raqkhead, of Ala bams,? . Taliaferro and Milton,, of Florida? Bailey and Culberson, of Texas? Gary, of South Carolina? Paynter, of Kentucky, and hundreds of others prominent in ,the - South ? Sad day have fallen upo'n the party of Vanoe and Ransom, Vest, Lamar ad Gorman. Little fellows without ballast are In tbe saddle. If Mr. Bryan were to be run over and killed toy one of hie fine Jersey bulls at Fairvlew Farm the Democratlo party would be without a head. The question. "Why is It that lead, ers In on great party are so much scarcsr than In ths other?" Is asked. It Is answered by one writer thus: "The war gave the Democratic party. a stunning setback. The solidity of the South has kept It -back, and free silver completed the demoralization YOUNG MEN REPUBLICANS. Again: "Young men of ability go Into the Republican party because the Democrats offer them no coherent programme and a much weaker group oi leader. Probably it would be toet ter for ths country to have two parties led with equal strength, but tne democrats will hardly - furnish In ability to ivooseveit, Tatt, Koot, Hughes and LaFollette. until the South is badly broken or until intelligent and edu cated Northeenrrs feel at home in the Democratic party." " This Is the1 view of one Northern Mr. Bryan ia the Democratlo party, as was demonstrated toy the Denver convention. Four-fifths of the dele gates to that ratification meeting were tor him, some belleveing that be Is the (only Democrat worthy of ," the name, while others favored him for the reason that his personal following would knife any other man put up by the party, and, therefore,; destroy au nope or. success with . any savs mm. it would have ibeen useless to make a fight on Mr. Bryan for the nomination, for one of the principles of Democracy is that the .majority rules, air. nryun had more than majority. Outside of the Bryanlte breast there Is but scant hope for his electloji; toe and his Intimates look for some sort of a landslide. It may como. Mr. Gompers may bring It, but those who do not believe ths Ameri can laborer to be a chump knew that he aoes hi own thinking. - Gompers Snd . his cohorts tried to defeat four Judge in the union-ridden State of California tout th'o better' class of workingmen would, not vote , witii them, and the Judges were re-elected JpJinMltchell has too much sense and Is too honest to promise the delivery of any of the men he represents, but Gompers 1 not of the same clay as Mitchell, , t vf - i HEARST AND WATSON OPPOSE! BRYAN. . '. ' H ' Hearst, of Nvw Tork, and Watson, of Georgia, both of whom were for Bryan in former campaigns, are op posing mm tmterry tnis rear. Tne Hearst paper "in New York, Boston. Chicago, ana San Francisco are lam pooning the Nebraskan In every issue and they will keep it up. Until after tne second luteday in .November. But Mr. Bryan will get many con servattve Democrats that would not vote for him la till and 1900. The very fact that he desired Judge Gray, of Delaware, a Palmer and ftiuckner Democrat of 1891 for his ' running mats will help him In the conservative camp. It Is already being said tnat Mr. Bryan is older, wiser and more astute. New York financier do not like Mr. Roosevelt and it is charged against Mr. Tft that he Js nothing more Utan a creature of Mr. Roosevelt. Tbe moneyed interests are all power ful In elections, if they should .de sire to crush out Kooetvelism In the Republican - party ' they could do It with Mr. Bryan without xear of harm, for ths United States tfenate, ths great check on the President. will be Re publican lar four years to 1 come, Therefore, ir tne, wail street gang were to etand hand off Mr.: Bryan might win. . But WaJl Street will not hand off. '- - . '. ' - . - THE NEGRO IN TUB WOOD PILE. Col. Henry Watterson, the versatile Kedltor - of : The Louisville Courier- Journal, serving as mouthpiece for Mr. Bryan, advocating the conciliation of the negro by the Democrats some time ago, said that Mr. Bryan would court the negro vote. This raised a storm. . Such men as Govsrnor . Var daman. of Mississippi, made quick and violent protest against any such course. - Others and more conservative Southern leaders trembled for the eld party wben they heard these thlnga If Mr. Bryan were to bid for the negre vote of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and other Western States, where It counts, the policy of dealing with the negro In the South would get a setback. - : j -There were several negroes In the Denver convention. I was told by a North Carolina sw two other West s colored delegate came to the Tar Heel delegation and took a seat from which he was ousted. This same North Carolinian saw two other West ern negro delegate I talked with an Iowa darky - la the convention who came to give comfort in Bryan' an make trouble for Taft. The Southern sentiment against courting the negro vote Is very strong. Vardaman told me on ,the way to. Denver that J was going to the convention prepared to make the fight of his Jlfe if the question came up. COLORED VOTERS IN THE WEST It Js a well-known fact that a num beri of Democratic Congressmen in Indiana - received many.' colored votes at the last election. ' In some districts the negro holds the balance of power at the ballot box and he votes with the side that butters his bread. Southern man cannot realise a situs itlon tike thl.v..'v"-.-,,.-' It waTqatrgatmwton,l early In the spring, that John Sharp Wll liams Would insist en a negro plank for the Denver platform.' but nothing was heard of it during the conven tlon, Williams wanted to repeal the fifteenth amendment and disfranchise the negro everywhere. Ths .Inside history of the negro controversy oyer Mr, Nigger, among th . r Democrats, would , make Interesting reading. BRTANITES ARB HOPEFUL.": The' Bryan hopefuls see vlotory In Novenvber. They claim that the eo pie of the West are going to swat the Republican party , for the panic of 1967; Mines, lumber mills and other shops are shut down snd thousand of laborer-are ' out of employment, xne moneyed interests say that rresi dent Roosevelt first chilled and theji destroyed confidence and the . panic followed. Mr, Bryan congratulate! Mr. Roosevelt, saying in conclusion that h had not gone far. enough. Hence. If Bryan la elected, these: capitalist! cold (blooded and close-fisted as they are described to toe will to afraid, The paatlc will not end for1 four years. It Is already being said In ths West that If Tafc whose Judicial training and natural habit of thought make all of his methods less sensational than those of Mr. Roosevelt, Is eleeted the mines, mills and ether, industrial enterprises will begin v work again This is very forceful campaign thun der. The man : who has a wife and child to feed will decide for himself which way to rot when the time comes. Sentiment goes a long way but ' bread and - .butter - makes the Stronger appeal to the men without employment. notwithstanding' Mr, Gompers. This w the argument used toy the spellbinder of ths G. O. P. We voted for Bryan In 1888." said a 'farmer at Fort Morgan, Colorado, to me on the way to Denver, "but you may tell the tooys toack East that we are more Interested In beet sugar now. nd Taft gives us mora hope." .There I ho end of such talk. ' ; But. what if Mr, Bryan, carries New Tork and New Jersey? - This would glvs him 217 or the 488 electoral votes. Then, with Indiana and Nebraska, he would have 848, ..four more than enough to. elect him, New York Is ths key to the situation. New Jersey and the Empire States generally stand to gether in national election. , If Mr. Bryan can carry New 'Tortrhe will stand a fine show of winning, but his most loyal supporters have but little hope of such an achievement But If he "does riot carry New Tork and New Jersey he would have to carry In dlana. West Virginia. Nebraska, Dela ware, Colorado, Idaho, 8 Nevada - and Montana, with their 47 votes: Illinois, with 27, and get three more conceded to the Republicans. '-'-'' NOT ENTHUSIASM BUT PUG - meiTTTr . v i " v- -V ' St V I -w... I J. I ,1 . .I,-- MiMMtwmi ?tstt:tt wwtMMMiHinm 7 ISlMCTICAt ERTAINING TO WilRIGES WHITE GOODS .;J.i',Sii'i.., Genuine 12 l-2c, Sheer,Dimity '.Stripes and, Cecixs, o4d'- lengths, but can be matched .up nicely, ; Price r . the yard.... .... . . i V; .-. ". . ,.-;.7 l-2c. 32-inch Sheer Plaid and Check, Dimity. 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What had Johnson done to Incur ths 111 will of the Bryanltes? His record for reg ularity Is right. He has won battle after battle against odds for himself and his party. Johnson Is the Ideal party man. Yet. there, was toltter re sentment against him, and it cropped out at Denver. ' This wa not true In the case of Gray. Although Gray re fused to vote for Bryan In J898 his randldacv met. more favor -than "Sid that of Johnson. Why? To a man up a tree It looked , like a case of simple Jealousy. There was no argu ment to use against the Mlnnesotan, so something else had to serve. CALM AFTER THE STORM. These things toeing true one need not go fsr to find a cause for all the yelling and cavorting at. the mention of the name of the Nebraskan before he was nominated. Regardless of the fact that the Bryan menfelt certain Of two-thirds on the first toftllot they could not dispel a sneaking fear that Col. Jim Guffey, Charlie Murphy. Fingy Conner, Blue-Eyed Blllle Sheehan, Roger 8ulllvan and others might spring a surprise and defeat their candidate, ana every time tney were given an opportunity they shouted for their IdoL One could de tect this spirit at every turn In Den ver. The natural result ioirowea let down. After Bryan was name 1 the convention flattened out Just like punctured balloon, 'and the nomina tion of a candidate for vice President was more like the funeral of a small pox -patient than anything that ever took place in Nortn carouna. Kern was ihe only man who seemed anxious for the place. The springing up of ths Indiana delegation, as each State voted for their man made the conven tion look like a desert with one lone asparagus patch In ona corner. The enthusiasm, or pugnacity, was over. and nothing of the spirit of the day before remained save in the throats of the Indlanana ' . ;. , BRTAN THE LOGICAL MAN. But," after all," Mr. '. Bryan was the logical man. " He can. It Is generally believed, get more votes and come nearer being1 elected than any man the Dartr could have named.. Thanks to former- campaigns, au tactions are satisfied:- The Bryanltes have - their man. their vice presidential candidate and their platform, ana the antl say. Yon must stana or fail on your own bottom." It Mr. Bryap wins those of his party, who have opposed him. will admit that they were wrong and that he , was right and congratulate htm. . If he fall this time the party will bs reorganised en different lines or enter upon a long sweet rest., a numerous other parties have done be fore, and a new alignment come. . Something is wrong in the Demo cratic party when Southern men Offer on the streets of Charlotte to toet ten to one , that the standard toearer of their party will toe defeated. A num ber Of uci bets have been placed. The Bryan enthusiasm Here Is confined to a very small circle tof Bryanltes, not to say Democrats. ' H. E. C. BRYANT. 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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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July 20, 1908, edition 1
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