New-York tribune., 1897-08-10

Jt is announced that all the Bryan OrgaIlZa-
tlons of Ncw-York and of the various commuhi-
ties which will belong to New-lork Iew
months hence are TO hold a conference to-lhor-
row evening Just what they are to CONFER
ahout is not made known, but they are under
stood to he very grim and resolute in their p'ir-
nose 10 tolerate no nonsense on the part or ram
many Hall. and il may be reasonably assumed
that tbough the discussion will naturally drlft
into details. the main purpose Is to frame ana
nromulgate something in the nature OF an uitl-
matnm. or course there are many points on
which the delegates might confer with strict
nronriety and with more sense than generally
characterzes their proceedings They might,
for example devote their intellects to con
sideration of the not altogether uninteresting
circumstance that wheat and silver are iInpions-
" refusing TO rise and fall together in accord
ance with the mandate which was issued at the
foundation of the world. each having gone OF
ON its own hook in contemptuous disregard of
the others Itinerary They might also take I'M
der advsement the blunt declaration of their
Uncle Horace Boes to the effect that the Tree
silver giant of last year. if not actually dead,
hasn't strength enough left TO stand alone lhis
is obviously case which calls in stentorian
Mrs Lease. who has been getting frisky all
through the spring and summer, and Is more
than likely to jump over the traces before No
yember. The addressing Of personal remon'
STRANGE TO Mrs. Lease at short range is said to
be an uncomfortable process, but it might be
mt IN writing and given 10 the rbald press
with comparative safety. The ultimatum 10
Tammany is the principal business no doubt.
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these other matters.
There is in fact. one detail which lmpera-
lively demands elucidatlon. and we confident
ly expect that some at least OF those pres
ent will be discovered rising to a question of
the highest privilege as soon as the meeting be-
gins. In statement recently issued by the
Peoples League We find this remarkable para
graph: "rhe test of sincerity and devotion 10
'the people is easily applied Those who fought
"last fall in the front ranks of greed and mo-
'nopoy cannot now be trusted to serve the
cause of the people" Why this discrimination
against the front ranks? They may have had
more notoriety than the rest, but were they real
ly any ranker? Does the Peoples League ser-
ousy contend that the man who Obslnately
trudged along in the rear ranks of monopoly all
through an uncommOnly hot campaign should
be trusted anu WtltOlltu HHV SoHi' o'hNi '""p
who succeeded in elbowlng his way TO the front
must he kept in outer darkness? If this Is what
the announcement of the Peoples League really
means it is a pusillanimous utterance which
looks very much like treason. II needs to be
definitely ascertained at to-morrow's conference
whether the proposition is TO provide way by
which persons who We're not in the front rank
but further back in the procession can sneak
over TO the people and get trusted. Then there
are others who were not in the procession nj
all. but who. having retired to their holes and
pulled the same in after them. sat there I'LL the
polls closed and were all the more conspicuous
because they were invisible. Does the Peoples
League desire to welcome these obnoxious Great
ures while the front ranks are Ostraczed?
If the coming conference Of Bryan organiza-
tions doesn't develop enough business TO make
the recording secretary hump himself ii will be
n melancholy failure.