Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-21
new YORK'S FIGHT
What Seems Likely to Be Done at
Buffalo.
POSSIBLE ENDORSEMENT OF BRYAN
Proportions of the Gold Standard
Opposition.
L E A D E R S 81 L f N T


Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, August 20, 1896.
Indications are that the delegation from
Tammany Hall to the state democratic
convention will, for the first time In many
years. fail to be unit. The state conEen-
ton will be held in Buffalo. September IT,
and the Tammany leaders are preparing ior
the assembly district conventions to select
delegates. The executive committee OF the
organization has Endorsed the Bryan and
SewaIl ticket, but the action was not unani-
nous, and in three or four OF the districts
the Tammany leaders, who were opposed
to Endorsement, will make 1t their business
to send delegates to Buffalo who will OPP
pose Endorsement of the ticket and plat
form by the state gathering.
The probable action of the state conven-
ton toward the Chicago ticket is disturb
ing the leaders of the local organization.
Some Of the men who have been prominent
i'll determining the character of the dele
gates, notably eE-Mayor Hugh j. Grant,
John D. Crimmins and, few years ago,
Bourke Cochran, have declared themselves
SO emphatically opposed to the Chicago
ticket and platform that they will not be
taken into the councils of those leaders
who are already on record the other way.
Iamlnany has never before found so great
difficulty in selecting men whose reputa-
ton is wider than the boundaries of their
election districts.
Possibilities at Buffalo.
There is a possibility that the state con-
veEtion will indorse the candidates of the
Chicago convention, while 1t refrains from
undressing the platform. This has been
laid down, informally, as the program by
some of the local leaders who are sticklers
for regularity, and it is this which will
prevent some who have usually been prom
ihent in conventions from attending ths
year. On the other hand, there are some
oEt-and-out sound money districts which
VIII send delegates prepared to make Wig
orous opposition to the program. This
Will probably be the case in the entire fif-
teeEth congressional district which COM
Irises three assembly districts, and is en-
titled TO nine delegates. Two or three
other districts have sound money leaders
and are likely to send men who will have
no part In the program of Endorsement
1t Is 4 very unusual thing for Tammany
10 nnd itself at a convention with it's lead
ers divided on the main propositions. The
discipline of the organization, which has
been the admiration of politicians has
always brought the minority to accent
what majority of its leaders thought
to be for its best interests.
Inc executive committee will hold q
meeting in a few days to prepare a call
probably be known how many delegates
Will refuse to accept the action OF the
majority.
Silver and Tammnny.
TaTmany's executive committee was the
first organization Of Importance in the
state to indcrse the work of the Chicago
convention. II did this in spite of for
nal request from the chairman of the dem
ocratic state committee that democratic
organizations wait until the state conven-
ton had acted. Chairman Huxley issued
this request in the form of an address to
voters after series Of conferences at
which Senator Hill, ex-Gov. Flower and
other delegates to Chicago had been COM
handing figures. The action of the Chica-
go convention in declaring for free silver
vas anticipated by the convention in this
state when it selected its national delegates.
Acting on the advice of ex-Secretary Will
lam c. Whitney and Senator Hill, the con-
yenton broke its usual custom and did not
nominate presidential electors These lead
ers then had an idea that the delegates to
Chicago should be Instructed to report the
action at Chicago to the state convention,
which would decide whether to indorse 1t or
otherwise. Inasmuch that was not done
Tammany felt itself at liberty to act as it
saw fit, and some of it's leaders regarded
Chairman Hinkley's request as an I'M
authorized and uncalled for interference.
Silver Sentiment.
Senator Hill has remained silent since his
return from Chicago, and while he is not
because at the last three state conventions
he has favored seating delegates from anti
Tammany organizations, his attitude will
have great Influence with the delegates
from up the state" districts.
There Is in some parts of the state a SEN
timent for free silver which will, combined
with the feeling among gold democrats
that regularity is the main thing, result
in sending silver delegates to the state con-
vention. In ex-Gov. Flowers county of
jefferson. right on the heels of a sound
money demonstra ton at which Mr.. Flower
sembly district conventions elected del
esates to the state convention instruc ted
TO indorse Bryan and Sewall. In other
parts Of the state, particularly the cX-
IRENE western counties-Chautat1qua Cat
taraugus. Alegany and parts of Erie-there
was a sentiment for free silver which was
audible even before the Chicago conven-
ton. In other parts of the state notably
some districts in Brooklyn and in Roches-
ter, Syracuse and Utica, the democrats are
more seriously divided than they are in
TINS city on the money question, SO that
the state convention is likely to witness a
battle of considerable proportions over the
currency question.
Tracy to Lead the Gold Men.
The sound money democrats, under the
leadership of Gen. Charles Tracy of AL
bany, are preparing for the Indianapolis
convention. They will elect delegates at a
convention in Syracuse, August 81. and a
call is out for local conventions in each
county. This movement of the national
democratic party, as organized at Indian
apolis, is likely to cause considera BILE
trouble for the regular state organization
If the latter sees At to indorse Bryan and
Sewall, because there Is an organiza ton
already existing in several counties through
which the new party may work. This is
the so-called democratic reform party,
which has sometimes polled 12 600 or II WNl
votes, and has the support of the opponents
of Tammany in New York, and an element
CT the old home rule democracy of Buff
1alo; This orga nization has appeared at
the last two or three state conventions and
asked recognition. Its requests have been
denied. 1t is this which is in charge of the
campaign for the indianapolis convention
and 1T hopes, If the regular state conven-
ton Endorses Bryan and Sewall, to draw to
itself the sound money democrats all over
the state.
There Is no question that 1t will be able
to make serious trouble for the regulars