The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
0correspondence Of The Herald.l

OF New York have been accustomed SO
long 20 consider the Empire state one
of the certain gold regions of this cOun-
try than they are not willing now to
admit that it has become doubtful,
with the chances favorable 60 silver.
Such, however, is the case. The OBJ
server nowadays can see dozens of
sEraws that show a silver wind. Not
the least significant Of these is seen in
the intense enthusiasm that has been
met by Mr.. Bryan at every point in the
state where he has stopped.
It is the pride of New York that IL
can furnish as grear demonstrations as
are to be found in the country. The
party organizations have been so built
up that it is possible to bring out IL OH
sands of persons in every part Of the
state on important occasions. The
great rank and file of the two parties
is always ready to give loyal assist
aqce 70 the machine.
But the demonstrations for Bryan
have been greater than any in the his
tory Of New York. In little hamlets
OF scarcely thousand population, thou
sands have greeEed and caleered him.
Half OF the citizens of Buffalo forgot
Cleveland, their fellow townsmau, and
gave him a rouSfng reception. Even
the gold papers, anxious as they are
to belittle his c2ndidacy-as shown by
their vicious rlisrepTeseut aEions of his
Madison Square Garden meeting-have
been compelled to print such para
graphs as these:
The vast audience which Mr.. Bryan
addressed at Celoron, on Lake Chalih.a1l-
qua. last night, was one Of the great
est gatherings that has ever heard him
speak The Celoron auditorium has a
seating capacity of $780, bur it is
claimed that che admittance register
showed more than 1900 persons had
passed through the gate, when it was
broken by the inward rush of those who
fought for entrance. Every bit of avail
able space was filed. AT least 1000
persons were in the main aisles, packed
like sardines in q box. with only those
near the entrance in the rear able to
move Outside the building the jam
was something wonderful, and surprise
is expressed today by many of those
WHO were there that a. panic or fatal
crush did not occur"
The gold papers have said that the
crowds were merely curiosity people. A
writer who has been through the state
with Mr.. Bryan, however, states that
The enthusiasm was such as ne never
saw before in the state. When it is
understood that all these demonstra-
items have been made without the ac-
tive CNt-OItCI Ol the DGllOefdIlc
machine, one can begin 70 understand
the hold that Bryan has taken on the
hearts of the workingmen and far
mers.
The gold men have some old object
lessons before them which they should
heed now. They should remember the
shock given them in 1886, when Henry
George was the union labor candidate
for mayor of New York.
Whom (saOr-o-a orTon1r1pay7 bic poDdi
dacy it was jeered AT by the so-calIed
better element in the city. The news
papers could not regard it seriously.
Abram S. Hewitt, the Tammauy can
dfdate, paid his chief attention 80 his
Republican opponent Theodore Roose-
Welt, now president OF the police COM
mission.
The campaign of George was not os-
tentarious. His chief work was done in
Cooper Union, where he made a num-
beF OF speeches. He had no organiza-
ton behind him. except that of the la
Dor unions. Yet when the returns
were adj in II was found that he was
second in the race with $500 votes.
against 90,552 for Hewitt and so 435 for
Roosevelt. The result was shock to
the Republicans and to Tammany
The union men came forward
again in 1892. With the same disregard
of labor as they have evinced this year
the Republicans nominated Whitelaw
Reid for vice-president. The Tribune
had been one of the most inveterate
foes of the typographical union and
union sentiment was turned against
the Republican electoral ticket. New
York county gave Cleveland 1890 plu-
rality
This sentiment is working again for
Bryan. Arrayed against the Demo-
cratic candidate is almost every man
that union labor has had cause to fear
and hate Hanna the Republican
whole thing" wrecked the Seaman'S
union of the great lakes and his right
hand man is the notorious Payne who
has just put down the Milwaukee
street car strike. More than that the
Democrats have declared against the
most serious menace to union labor
that is government by injunction.
Figures in Brooklyn, Buffalo and
other large cities would give significant
results in line with those in the George
and Reid campaigns, and would show
that union labor almost holds the bal
ance of power in New York state.
Allied with the laboring men this
year, in an independent movement, are
the farmers. who have generally been
loyal pagstssans. BRYAN has been travel
ing through the districts which have
always given Republican maiorites,
and his receptions have amazed the
Mckinley men. In every Republican
farming county in the state heavy Re
publican defections are reported. The
Republican leaders are beginning to
recognize the fact that they cannot
expect 20 bring tremendous majority
10 the Harlem river this year and are
preparing for an attempt to do their
effective work in the Greater New
York district.
More humiliating confession of the
douttfulness of New York state than
the nomination OF Frank S. Black for
governor could have been made by
Tom Plat. Succeeding the talk for
over a year that the Republican ma
chine could elect whomSoever it might
nominate and that it intended to nomi-
nate a man who had been proved
worthy by long and faithful service
under the easy boss the action is a
singular confession of weakness.
Mr. Plat did not dare make an open
fight with one Of his henchmen. Nor
would he nominate one of the opposi-
ton candidates. He was forced, there
fore, TO take up a man who was not
offensive to the opposition. The inof-
fensiveneSs in this case lays in the fact
that the candidate is an unknown.
People who remember the Tatlock
incident a few years ago. when every
body in Salt Lake was inquiring who
IS Tatlock?' can appreciate the situa-
ton here when it was announced that
Black had been nominated. Men met
each other and asked who is Black?'