The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-10
WEDNESDAY, November 10, 1897.
The PROGRAMME OF SOME co, DIES.

The victory in New York last week
Aas cheered Democrats in every section
because it shows that the Repubica
party is still in a minority in that State.
1t is also gratifying in that it shows
that Democracy has not lost its hold IN
the Empire State, and that it holds ou-
the hope that by 1900 its voters may
help the South and West elect Mr.. Bry-
an. But it cannot be denied that the
result. won largely on local issues and
partly by men who did not stand true
last year, has encouraged the ''strad-
dlers" in the party to begin a quiet cam
paign TO secure what they call ''con-
servative action in order to hold New
York in 1900.
MCLAUGHLIN, the leader of the Dem ,
cracy of Brooklyn, has already given
It out that David Bennett Hills master
hand was seen in the New York fighf:
that he planned the campaign; selected
Judge Parker; prevented any open air
therefore the author of last Tuesdays
New York victory. Following close
upon the heels of the claim for Hill Of
the honor, comes Roswell p. Flower.
and ex-Mayor Grant, who bolted the
Chicago convention, who declare that tn"
success of the policy of ignoring nation
al questions points out the way to Dem
ocratic success everywhere. Some Of
the gold newspapers have followed along
this line. but nine tenths of them have
agreed with the New York Evening Posi-
that the elections last week meant Bry-
an and Organism.
There is not room to doubt that Hill.
Flower and Grant hope and believe thai
they can by quiet and far-reachins
means undermine Bryan and be able by
1900 to name another candidate ON ),
straddIe platform. They have not
learned anything of the temper of thu
Democracy of the South and West. or
of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
They imagine that the old magic cry
aWe must have New York re- ,,;n,, vii
.se the party to turn away from the
candidate and issues of 1896, and seek
victory through another platform IKE
the miserable makeshift' Of 1892. Ii
Hill and Cleveland. now working to the
same end if not together, could induce
the Democratic party to come back to the
old idea that the party's only hope was
In New York. they think they could
take up Pattison, Parker, or some other
good man whose name stood for no poll
teal principle, and carry the country
They know that the voters will be ready
TO repudiate Mckinley and Mckinley
Ism. and believe if they could make the
money kings feel safe, the Democracy
could again be successful.
These "trimmers" are preparing
great fall for themselves. The rank anf
file Of the Democratic party, who arr
now in full control of the party. do mo-
want another victory that carries with !
no reversal of Republican policy. i
the money power is to dominate the gov
eminent, as it did during Cleveland
and Harrison's administration. they pre-
fer for the Republican party to be II
power than a so-called Democrat. The
want no more battles for reform wher
the masses get only the husks. Cleve
landism, gold bonds, syndicates. an igpf
Die foreign policy, and such Ike are n,
tolerated by Democrats, and they wi
not ut least in this generation wage
contest merely for change OF Office
holders.
II the Clevelands and Hills and Viii
ueys could control him, they would IA
or Bryan with straddle platform. The
know. however. that Bryan is pla
form in himself. and that he is ii
embodiment Of those principles whit
the money power fears. Therefore it
in their plan to spread abroad the o
lies that Bryan is not safe:" "Oh. ye
Bryan is a good sort of man, but 4
extreme" and Bryan cannot apprecia
changed condtiOns." with the hope
weakening him as a successful leadt
That is the programme that has be,
arranged.
New York is &c. essential to Den
cratic success. I've democrats may "