New-York tribune., 1896-10-04

A DOUBLE REVOLT AGAINST FINANCIAL
HEREsY AND THE STATE MACHINE.

HEREsY AND THE STATE MACHINE.
Mr. GoRMANs RISE LONG CONTINUED RULE AND
THREATENED FALL AS A PARTY DICTATOR
THE BRYAN ELECTORAL TICKET
SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED.
(rRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBuNE1
Baltimore Oct 3-1n each of the so-called
border States-Maryland, Delaware. West Vir-
ginia Kentucky and Missour-traditonal al
legiance to Democratic policies has this year
been rudely challenged by the vagaries and fol-
lies of the Democratic National platform The
same irresistible impulse has manifested itself
IN each Commonwealth to drift away from old
poltical moorings: the same spirit Of revolt has
been aroused against the crudities and heresies
forced as a new creed upon the Democratic party
nv the sinister and revolutionary leadership of
Bryan Tillman and Altged. But no other bor-
der State has felt as keenly as Maryland the
full sweep of this reaction against long-recog-
nized party authority. Certainly none has
faced the innovations and usurpations saddled
upon the party at Chicago with more conss-
tency and steadiness of purpose; for Maryland
alone among the States which fought free-sil-
yer coinage in the Democratic National Con-
vention. remains on record as failing to lndorse
the National platform. or to reconcile IN any
practical way its own earlier financial declara-
tions with the heterodox and contradictory de-
liverances of the National Democracy. And
however partial may be the Generalization OF
the Democratic organization in other border
States IN Maryland the revolt against the Chi
cago platform and candidates has already
reached that stage where the States electoral
vote may be set down definitely and ire
trievably lost to the Democratic National ticket.
Were the financial hereses Of the Tillman-
Altgeld platform the sole issue Of the present
canvass. the States vOte-cast but once, IN
1864 for a Republican Presidential candidate
might be transferred with much less conh-
dence from the Bryan to the Mckinley column.
Strongly Bourbon in temper and prejudices,
conservative to the point Of timidity in It's po-
litical ideals and Judgments. Maryland has long
been recognized as a natural and ingrained
Democratic State. It's sympathes have uni
formly been enlisted on the reactionary side IN
Federal politics; for more than generation II
has blindly accepted for its political guidance
those purely barren and negative distractions
which still pass for the signboards or true
craftsmanship among the voters Of the South.
Face to face with such conditions as exist IN
other Southern States. where party allegiance
10 Stlll paramount anu party uiS'Pi''i' "-''''~
tenacious and menacing. one can only guess how
far the present revolt in Maryland would make
itself effective.
Fortunately the train for this years explosion
had been securely laid in the long-continued
warfare within the local Democratic organiza-
tion which eliminated last fall in open party
schism and the triumphant election OF the
States first and only Republican Governor Ihe
greater party cleavage at Chicago last July
necessarily followed somewhat broader ana
more general lines; yet it has served in the man
only TO confirm and accentuate the factionai Ns-
ruption at home. For while the seceders from
the local organization have been and remain the
conspicuous advocates OF an honest stahoaru Vi
values. the discredited and defeated regulars
have now to bear the additional burden OF ac-
cepting and supporting all the wildcat theories
Of finance and government which find express
sion in the Chicago platform.
The two revolts within the party-that OF last
year against an overconfdent loca! boss and OF
this year against the heresies OF revoiu-
tonary National platform-have thus 80 COM
p,ete,v coa,esced and mingled that the moving
springs OF the one can scarcely be distinguished
from tbose OF the other Neither hostile move
ment, taken separately might be considered
q Democratic State, the defeat OF q regularly
nominated Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency But this years double revolt-agaihs'
the fallacies Of the Chicago platform on the one
hand. and an odious regime in State politics on
the other-has developed a cumulative energy
which threatens to sweep both sentiment and
tradition by the board and to carry the states
eight votes, for the first time since 1864, back
INTO the Republican electoral column. The dis
credited Bryan electoral ticket. supported by
the disrupted German machine. faces an en-
o"tered and impatient public opinion in Mary
Mno this fall. and no candid or careful observer
VI politics can see anything ahead for this ILL
s'aFred combination but repetition Of the dis
s"er which overwhelmed Mr.. Germans trust
'u ana unsuspectng candidate for the Cover
norshp last fall
AN OLD REVOLT IN NEW FORM.
.ne conditions-in great part local-which
Ae Republican success this year in Maryland
=. ssonsoly certaip can be thoroughly intelligi-
'nV In the light Of the States recent politi-