Evening star., 1896-09-30

identified with his machine that he can con-
troll them when the occasion requires it, he
;elephoned down to Mr.. DanfOrth that
Schraub must be nominated for the second
place and Porter put at the head OF the
ticket. His program went through because
the state committee had trouble enough on
hand and evidently did not care to antago-
niZe Senator Hill any further. To this ex-
tent Mr.. Hill turned down Mr.. Bryan and
those of his followers who had come here
expecting to put MIR. Danforth at the head
of the ticket.
The Gold Democrats.
1t would be hard to imagine a more COM
pletely demOralized condition for party
to enter a campaign than the one which
exists for the regular democracy. The ma
tional democratic party of the state has
had it's convention and has candidates in
the field. 1t has drawn from the "regu-
lars" hundreds and thousands of men who
have heretofore furnished the sinews of
war for democratic campaigns. 1t has
nominated Daniel G. Griffin, who lives in
the same city as Mr.. Porter, the other
democratic candidate for governor, and it
proposes to carry the war into Africa -
Headquarters have been opened and plans
perfected for an organization in every as
Sembly district in the state. Subconmit-
tees to perfect this organization have been
appointed; preparations have been made
to nominate candidates in all the congress
sional districts, or. failing in that, to in
dorse only such republican or democratic
candidates as repudiate entirely and en-
phatically the platform on which Bryan
stands and the Buffalo document which
indorses it. A state committee has been
organized. and under its direction an effort
Is being made to form Palmer and Buckner
clubs all over the state. From the re-
ports it has received the state committee
has prepared an estimate Of the strength
it will develop on election day. The chair
fnkS ,,,;n
not be less than from 20O,OOO to 25O,UOU
votes polled for the third ticket.
Anti-Snapper Element.
In this new organization are about all
the democrats who took part in what is
known as the anti-snapper movement four
years ago. and about all the anti-Tammany
democrats in New York. the anti-Mc-
Loughlin democrats of Brooklyn, the fol-
lowers Of Mayor Patrick Jerome Gleason
Of Long Island City. the so-called home rule
democracy in Buffalo. a small element of
what was formerly the new democracy IN
Albany, ana the reform or anti-Murphy
democrats In Troy may be counted as
supporters of Palmer and Buckner. They
are not only tor sound money en- general
principles, but they take a particular de-
light of array!ng themselves against the
regular machine, to which they have been
opposed for years, on the condition less ia
vorable for active fighting than those that
are offered this year. In addition to this.
Tammany is divided within ITSELF The
Democratic Club Of New York city, which
is one of the strongholds of the party, by a
considerable majority, refused to indorse
the attitude Of the regulars at Buffalo
The very foundations of Tammany itself
are being shaken. In one assembly dis
trict Of this city. namely. the twenty-first,
Tammany club numbering about three
hundred, which has been the regular Tam
many headquarters for that assembly dis
trict, is SO badly split over the question Of
Bryan and lis platform that nobody can
tell which side will control. The matter
is coming up in a day or SO, when reso-
luton is to be presented defining the at
tftude o. the club in the campaign. What
ever may be the decision of the majority,
designations by wholesale are predicted
This is but one of the instances in the
city. sH