Evening star., 1896-04-11
That Section to Play an Important
Part in Both Conventions.
PLAN OF THE ANqI-MKlNLEY MEN
The Condition of the Democrats
Will Be Reversed.
THE sOUTH's PROPOSITION

The south seems likely to be most in
teresting factor both at St. Louis and at
Chicago. Her votes are being counted on
to control both presidential nominations.
But there will be fight made on the pro-
gram in both conventions.
To Stampede the Southern Support.
At ST. Louis the anti-McKinley men will
endeavor to stampede the Ohio Candidates
southern support. They think this posi-
BILE, and will bend all their energies to ac-
complish it. Mr.. Sherman when a candi-
date was twice seriously crippled in that
way, and the opponents of Mr.. Mckinley
think the maneuver can again be success
fully executed. If they can secure a num-
Der OF delegates in that way, and add them
to their number In New England, New
York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, pro-
tracted fight in the convention, which is
their hope of defeating Mr.. Mckinley, may
be inaugurated.
What the Mckinley Men Will Do.
But in that event the Mckinley men will
demand an examination of the poll to show
what their favorites electoral-vote strength
is as compared with that Of the opposition
They will insist that his support comes in
the main from states giving republican ma
jorities at the polls, and hence with every
right to be heard in the convention as to
the candidate. They will take the ground
that nomination made by the casting
votes Of states reliably democratic and al
most certain to reject the ticket at the
polls would not only be bad policy, but
perilous policy. Put up the man, they will
ir sist, on whom the good republican strong
holds look with the most pronounced favor,
and for whose nomination they are record
ing themselves in the convention.
The Reverse Condition Mt Chicago.
At Chicago the boot will be OH the other
leg. The south will appear there as the
section having the best right to speak.
She will point to her record, and to the
fact that democratic success without her
would not be possible in any circumstances.
In the circumstances which will then exist
she will claim to be the only section where
democracy may be said to be surely alive.
The ticket and the platform therefore must
be made acceptable to her. She will not
urge any candidate from her own borders.
The man may come from elsewhere; but
he must be such an one, and placed upon
such a platform, as will insure him the
hearty support of the section to which he
will have to look for SO large a portion
of any support he may get.
The Southern Proposition.
The southern men consider this an alto
gether fair proposition founded upon an
unanswerable argument. Why, they ask,
should ticket and a platform be made
to suit the wishes of the Young Men
Democratic Club Of Boston, or the cham
Der of commerce of New York, when both
Massachusetts, and New York-the former
certainly-wfll cut no figure in the demo-
cratic column next November? On the
other hand. why should not the candidate
and the platform be made to meet the
wishes OF those. states which for years
have borne the heat and burden of the
day." and which hold out at present the
only hope to an almost demoralized or
ganization?
Their Proposition Will BE Resisted.
But, fair as the southern men think it is,
their proposition will be resisted The
sound money democrats of the east know
what. it means. and they are preparing to
defeat 1t If they can. They will endeavor
both to write the platform and to name the
candidate. and IN order to do so they will
put without hesitation the whole republican
east against the whole democratic south
and take the consequences at the polls.
They feel assured that the south viii not.
bolt and, so believing, they will press their
program as far as they may find them
selves with the power to press it.