The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-29


 the Last Minute--Tho Confronting Issue
 rho Problems Which Are to be Solved
 New york, 1uIy 2l.-The democratic state committee met at o'clock at the Hoffman House. The session lasteu only five minutes.
 Buffalo was selected as the place TOT the state convention. The date or the meeting will be September 16. sara toga was sidetracked at the last min ute.
 No reference was made at the meet ing to the Chicago platform or ticket. When members of the democratic state committee and other party lead CTS began to gather in the Holman House this morning and discuss the po- litical situation, they realized and were ready to admit that the state com mittee at its meeting to-day would have to face condition which has never before confronted the party or ganization in this state. The meeting | was secret
 l The formality of calling @ state con- ventipn which is to nominate candl- dates for governor and lieutenant gov | ernor and presidential electors and | adopt platform, was regarded as l merely an incident of the situation, | and was rarely mentioned to-day by | those who talked of the condition that | confronts the party.
 | The question of accepting or rejecting
 the Chicago platform and candidates ! must be met at the state convention.
 md it was said this morning that cer- i tain members of the state committee
 wanted that body to take some action l to-day
 The party and organization leaders find themselves in this situation. The | Chicago platform is not democratic; l the candidates nominated on that plat 1 form are not democrats, but there are many democrats in this state who fla
 vor acceptance of both platform and | candidates because they apparently
 bear the stamp of regularity l There are some democrats in this state who had rather be regular than
 right, and they insist that the organi- | zation cannot bolt the Chicago ticket l The leaders of the state democracy,
 the ship democracy, and all the other | isms and off-shoots of mugwumpery in l the state that were supposed to be l dead, have bobbed up again and are l talking for third ticket They are | anxious to gather in the scattered, l shattered and battered remnants of their various factions, and marshal 1 them in one organization, to support a third ticket in this campaign osten-
 sibly, but in reality to get organized to fight the regular democratic organi-
 zation in this city at the local election
 next fall
 The Tamrnany leaders know this, I Senator Hill and all the other state
 leaders are alive to the situation, and
 that Is why their present position is
 such a trying one. They do not want
 to endorse anarchy and populism, yet
 many members of the organization are
 crying regularity" and warnings
 against the state democracy. On the other hand, there may be
 another national convention, and a sound money ticket headed by some | iiiAiA OL III LHe pdTIy. II
 such ticket is placed in the field the
 revived state democracy stands ready
 to jump in and be the first to indorse'it
 in the hope of getting some sort of recognition this year or next as an or
 ganization with enough votes to get
 ballots printed at the expense of the | taxpayers.
 l All these things the leaders of the or | ganization had to consider They had | also to consider the fact that the state | convention of June adopted sound
 money platform and that to endorse a 1 populist platform in September would I be regular back somersault, which l the party canont take. Tn order to
 gain time and await developments as
 we'll as to let the country understand
 that the party leaders of this state dc not desire the election of Bryan, the
 state convention will be held later than | usual.