New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-06-23

week are among the most earnest and determined
men in the party, They will come to st. Louis de-
termined to have their way or to make
trouble; and as, Judging from present in
dications the former will be impossible,
very exciting contest over the currency
plank of the platform may be confidently expected.
A hasty survey of the field leads inevitably to the
conclusion that the hard-mo men will be largely
the majority in the Convention. The inhatiOniss
will be strong enough to control only the delegations
from Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee, and perhaps IN
that from Kansas. There will be of course few
struggling delegates from other States who will vote
with the rag money party; but the representatives
from the States named will contain the only men
who will make strong and determined fight against
sound currency principles. positive hard money
plank in the platform would be very likely TO drive
nearly the whole of the Indiana delegation and
portion of that from Ohio and Tennessee into revolt.
This, however, will probably he avoided by skill
fully framing the resolution on that subject
as to make it mean hard money IN the
East and on the Pacific coast, or wher-
ever honest currency theories are popular,
and very little or nothing anywhere else. The pol
icy of the Committee viii probably be to strike
blow at the Republican Resumption act of January,
1875, demanding its repeal perhaps, and declaring
it to have been one of the principal causes of the
present depression in business. 1t will also, on the
other hand, be likely to declare in favor of an uti-
mate return to a sound system of currency, based
on gold and silver, and will condemn any measure
which shall provide for enforced contraction OF
expansion of the currency or for bringing about
specie payments at any given time 1t is not be-
lieved that the Democratic party, in its National
Convention, Will commit itself to any specific plan
of resumption, and the Committee will probably
aim so to construct its resolution this subject as
l. fnP Eagfa
hard-money Democrats to stand upon the platform
while Western inhationists shall not be driven from
its support by any radical declarations in favor of
resumption.
The friends of Gov. Tlden deny that they intend
to introduce in the Convention next week any con-
test over the twothirds rule which has governed the
Democratic party in making its Presidential noni-
nations for than forty years, and characterize
the report that they will do of the fictitious
issues raised by their enemies in the hope probably
of drawing them into the folly of fighting them.
Influential members of the New-YOrk delegation
say that they do not propose making any effort to
interfere with the of the party and that they
have no intimation of any sort that individual MEM
bers of the delegation desire TO interfere with those
usages They are certain that the delegation as
whole will make no such fight, and equally certain
that the friends of Gov. Tdcn care nothing about
it, The report that such an effort VIII be made pro-
badly arose from the fact that IN former Democratic
Conventions the twO-thirs rule has more than once
proved fatal to the aspirations Of candidates who ell
tered the contest with very strong backing aud
entertained very reasonable hopes of success. This
fact has led many to suppose that Gov. lidens
friends desiring to avoid this rock, which has proved
so dangerous Gtrong candidates in the past, would
attempt to rmove it at the very outset but 1T
is not at all certain that such policy.
even should il prove successful, would he wise
ono. The Tidcn men will enter the Convention
numerically much stronger than the supporters of
any other candidate but they will IN the beginning
fall far short of securing sufficient votes for non-
ma ton, even though majority could give It.
1t is reported that ex-senator Dooitlc OF Wiscon-
sin will bo Temporary Chairman of the Convention
on Tuesday and Senator Wallace of Pennsylvania
Permanent Chairman.