The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-24
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5onAcsount ofthc Black Eye Given
Iimby Thatcher, i,
,A'N]DlSAYs TWAS INDUSTRIOUS.
Isiisyes Il I. Treaehery to til. Popoeratio
Tieket--'rhlnis In. Free silver Demo-,
Gratis shoald Repudiato the Candidate
for Goyernor-A Fine aIs.,All Around.

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NEW YORK, Sept. ?3,--Thc Herald
I says: William Jennings Bryan wants
the free silver Democrats OF New York
/ to rcnudlatc John Boyd Thatcher.
Whether the best means OF doing this
Z Is to put up candidate OF their own
Z rs for them to determine. q,
Mr.. Bryan looks upon II as mon:
strous proposition that the candidate
{ for a state office, after receiving the
nomination on platform Endorsing
the national platform, shall be permits
ted TO .repudiate that platform, I am
4 told Mr. Bryan holds that Mr.. Thatcher
could not have been nominated had he
made his declaration a week before the
Buffalo convention, or. even on the day
Of the convention.
The Popoeratic candidate declines to
accept the view that. because MIR.
4 .Thacher was known to be sound mos
4 governor subsequently to the adoption
OF the national platform places him
K above the platform on which he WAS
{ nominated. isf So
These are about the words as they
,are given to me, with the additional
suggestion that, as the purpose Of the
state machine Is evidently to sacrifice
the presidency for state office, 1t be-
( hooves the Democrats who support the
\ Chicago ticket and platform to see that
the intended treachery be not permit
ted. This may cause a smile. but you
must remember Bryan has steadfastly
= told his followers that free silver was
gaining ground in New York, and he
I. would carry the state.
Astonished and Indignant.
Mr.. Bryan was the most astonished
man In the United States when he
read Mayor Thacher's proclamation.
He went through 1t carefully, reading
every line and smothering his indlgna-
ton with difficulty.
When suggested that the Herald
would be pleased to print his opinion
Of this recent development he shook
4 his head. When asked him IL he had
5 not meant to give the free silver DEM
e ocrats of the state their cue In his
{ speech In. Ripley In August he replied,
sententlously: r
y"In my Ripley speech I told the pieo-
ples'that II they wanted the Chicago
platform, indorsed they should. make
sure OF Its endorsement by instructing
fheF delegated representatives In their
( wishes, They gave such Instructions,
and the convention Endorsed the Chlca-
so platform. have no further COM
fnent to make" 40
/. !. The candidates Popocratic sup
porters have been excited all day over
the Thatcher letter. Most of their spleen
1 has been vented against Senator Hill.
They charge him with springing a
deadfall on their conflding chief. Some
of them have wanted Mr.. Bryan to
cancel his Brooklyn and New York
q city dates. The candidate has been
wise enough to make no move until
he can gain further information.
Would Like Explanations.
L understand he resents the sugges-
ton that the invitation to visit Chair
man Hinkley, and also the invitation
to dine with Senator Hill, were favors
to him. Instead, he thought then that
the state machine got into line because
= the mass OF the Democratic party
would not let It do otherwise. He never
expected that Senator Hill would have
such complete mastery of the Buffalo
convention. ~
-. posSapiC bIlhN IL
public statement Mr.. Bryan will wait
to hear what Senator Hill has to say
for himself. He Is also looking for q
personal explanation from Elliott DAN
forth. After presiding at the Madison
Square notification meeting, Mr. Dan
forth went to Upper Red Hook to see
Mr.. Bryan, and he was understood to
be the intermediary OF Senator HILL
As to Tammany, the Popocratic can
dldate has always thought 1t loyal, and
has even believed the organization ia
vored free silver. Tammany has been
managing his New York city meeting,
and. naturally, he is careful not to at
: tribute to 1t sinister politics in, the
y present crisis.
IS What the upshot of the Thncher
move will be none OF Mr.. Bryanis
friends profess to know, though their
present idea Is a free silver candidate
for: governor. They assure me that the
candidate has no intention OF Ignoring
the matter. and that when he acts the
whole country will say Bryan Is equal
TO the, emergency. The substance OF all
their talk is that the national free sill
yer Democracy is greater than the Hill
state Democracy, and that the presi-
4 dency shall not be Sacrificed. for the
governorship:5 They think Bryan will
take his chances In the wreck. ~