The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-09-07
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.
The Coming State Convention of
National Interest.
A SPLIT EXTREMELY PROBABLE.

An Intimate Friend Of Senator Hill De-
clnres That the Senator VIII Abide by
tho Decision of the Convention in Sup
porting Bryan and Sewall.
ALBANY, Sept. 7.-More than local and
almost national interest attaches to the
Democratic state convention that meets in
Buffalo next week. Tho nominations
which will be made by the convention are
of but slight Importance as compared with
the other issues which confront 10. No
convention in years, known as state
affair, has been dignillcd with such I'M
portance to tho rest of states and the peo-
pie mt large as this one, and this Is not sur
prising In view Of the questions that are to
be decided.
Will Senator David b. Hill support the
Chicago ticket and platform or the In
dianapolis convention?
Will the state organization support both
the Chicago platform and ticket, or only
the ticket on gold platform?
Will probable support of tho Chicago
platform lead to a split of the party in
New York statep
These are the questions to be solved, and
their solving will be the inspiration for
ono Of the prettiest fights ever seen at
state convention and probable splitting
of Democratic hosts which were never
split here before, Answering the first
query, relative to the attitude of Senator
Hill, it may be said that Senator Hills
position Is IN exceedingly curious one.
Every principle for which he contended at
Chicago was defeated, and every plank of
the platform which he most bitterly as
sailed has becomen II part of tho cnuncia-
tons Of the Democracy.
On tho other hand, every principle
which he fought for at Chicago has gone
into the platform adopted by the National
Democratic convention at indianapolis,
and tho result would seem to indicate that
Mr.. Hill must indorse the latter and re-
pudate the former But just here, when
Senator Hills attitude would seem TO DO
solved without any doubts, comes from
ono close to him statement that would
seem to indicate another attitude. This
friend says:
Senator Hill has fought all his life for
party regularity, and his position will be
defined by the party in convention as
semhlcd, and not by himself. When Mr..
Hill mado his fight at Chicago against the
adoption of tho present platform he did it
on behalf of the New York state Demo-
cratic party, and not for himself. In all
his speeches and battles he merely repre-
sented his party In the state, and if that
party now sees fit to indorsc the Chicago
ticket and platform it would DO no stulti-
fication upon Mr. Hills part to accept its
ultimatum. He must as at Chicago, 60
with the majority
As to the second proposition upon the
question Of whether the state convention
will indorse the platform and ticket
named at Chicago, there is little doubt but
that it will. Tammany will send to the
convention from each district in New
York the district leader rs delegate, and
they are instructed to vote for the indorsc-
ment Of Bryan and Sewall. III addition
to this, at least nine of the interior coun-
tics havo given evidence of thoir intentions
by instrueting their delegates to vote for
the Endorsement Of tho Chicago conven-
tion's work This will result in second
state ticket as we'll as electors.
In confirmation that such course is in
tended by the gold Democrats, there is
tho action by the lato Syracuse convon-
ton postponing their selection of electors
and state ticket until after this eonven-
tion has met in Buffalo. OF this General
Charles Tracey says "If the Bryan and
Sswall ticket is indorsed and tho platform
swallowed by the Buffalo convention there
Is no alternative for the gold Democrats
but to name q second ticket. We would
not vote even for state officers on such u
platform"