The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-19

1t will make no difference with the course
and character of the municipal campaign in
New York, whatever may have been the
bargain made by Tammany Hall with Mr..
BRYAN but it will make very much diff
ference with the opinion OF Mr.. BRYAN's
character which has been held by his sup
porters in all parts Of the Union If he has
allowed himself to be used by Tammany in
a game to play fast and loose with the cause
for which he stands.
II its leaders had notified Mr.. BRYAN
during his brief visit to New York that
their purpose was to disclaim the revolu-
tionary doctrines proclaimed at Chicago
and to appeal for justification to the old.
time and honest Democracy Of New York
which spurned them last year, the political
situation here would have been simplifed
and the restoration of Tammany Hall to
Democratic confidence. would have been
assured. But nothing 81 the sort was sug.
gested or intended. The assurances of Tam.
many Hall to Mr.. BRYAN were that it
would continue to stand by the Chicago
platform and by him, but it asked that he
should assist it in an effort to pull the
wool over the eyes of the people by pre-.
tending toput aside that body Of revolution.
airy doctrine. with a view to getting votes
on "local issues" fabricated as a means
of decciving gold Democrats into helping
to strengthen the Bryan machine in New
York for the campaigns of 1898 and 1000.
So far as Mr.. BRYAN yielded to such
solicitations, he has injured himself in the
estimation of his followers here and every.
where else in the Union. The supporters of
the Chicago platform last year are now de-
manding and securing the unreserved re.
affirmation of it's doctrines by all Demo
cratic State Conventions. They are refus.
ing to make any concessions or com.
promises, on the ground that any yielding
whatever would bring ruin and downfall
for them as party leaders. Without the
issue of Organism, st~raight-out and clean
cut, their power and influence in the party
is gone irreparably.
How, then, can they make In New York
an exception to their uniform policy else
wherea 1t would be the beginning of the
end of their desperate movement. Mr..
BRYAN would fall into contempt as hav-
ing himself made the ruinous bargain with
Tammany, and Tammany would go down
withhim. The vast body of Its followers who
voted squarely for him last year, in the face
of the opposition of every conservative and
civilized influence in New York, would be
indignant, n would pass beyond its con-
troll irrevocably. They would regard them
selves as sold out by the treacherous Tam
many, and all of them who are really sim
cere would refuse to give their support to a
ticket nominated in pursuance OF the mis-
cradle bargain. On the other hand, no
opponent of the Chicago platform would
trust an organization which undertook
thus to hide its ultimate purpose of assist
ing the Chicago revolution.
Tammany would be obliged to conduct a
defensive campaign, when its chances of
success depend solely on its assuming the
aggressive with great fire and vigor. 1t
would have to expend it's efforts rather in
concealing its duplicity than in pushing
the local issues on which it pretended to
be making the contest for, In truth, there
are no distinctively local issues which can
be made by Tammany Hall. 1t expects to
get much political capital out of opposi-
ton to the Raines law, but that is a
State issue and not a local issue; and in
any event, the votes 1t could attract thereby
would be chiefly those which Tammany got
last year, and would get again next Novem.
Der on the issue of Organism, and which
would be lost to it in great part If 1t under.
took to drop Organism. The liquor question
is swallowed up in the question of the Chi.
cago platform; all other questions are swal.
lowed up in hat. AS TO the "local issues"