The sun., 1897-11-26

greater influence In shaping the party
policy of the national council in 1900.
| IL is this which makes the Tammany
victory in New York three weeks ago so Inn
| portant and SO significant. Undoubtedly
| that impressive triumph tends to give Tam.
many an even greater and larger power in
the Democratic party than It ever before
held. Its fraternity with the Organized
Democracy is cordially celebrated through.
out the Union and its title to peculiar dis
tinction In the party everywhere recognized.
Instead Of an opposing and resisting dele
CATION from New York like that in the
Democratic Convention at Chicago last
year, delegation in 1900 which will &C.
cept without protest the platform and can.
didates is now assured.
Undoubtedly, II Senator MURPHY and Mr..
CROKER could have their way in determln.
ing the Democratic policy in the next elec.
tlon for President, without any restric-
tions, they would pursue toward the Chi
cago platform Of last year o course of eva.
sion Of its radical currency features some
what similar to that adopted by them in
the late New York campaign. That Is, they
would wish and try to temper the cur
as to make IL as unobjectionable to old
fashioned New York Democrats, In the
form of its expression, as might be consis-
tent with the necessity Of keeping to-
gether the party as whole. Tho Tam.
many platform indicated that radicalism
touching the authority of the Supreme
Court, trusts and monopolies," and In
the more specifically socialistic features of
the national policy, will not provoke Its
opposition, but may rather be encouraged
by 1t, even to q greater extreme, with o
view to getting rid of the prominence of
the silver issue. 1t will not attempt the
useless task Of resisting the overwhelming
Bryan Democracy undertaken at Chicago
last year by Senator HILL and Mr.. WHIT
NEY. That new Democracy has assured
and made more absolute its dominance in
the States generally since the election of
1896, and it will be resistless In the con-
vention of 1900.
With such harmony prevailing, the New
York delegation might have more influence
in moulding the declaration Of policy by
the convention than IL there was such q
division Of sentiment as was manifested
at Chicago last year, which served only
to intensity the determination Of the ma
jority to steer the party in its own way
without reference to the protesting minor
ity. That Is, the New York delegates in
1900 might do more by sympathetic con-
ciliation than their predecessors in 1899
did by strenuous opposition.
The changes that may be made in the
Democratic currency policy in 1900, If any
shall be made, will be determined, how
ever, by events yet to occur, by the situa-
tion and condition of trade and agriculture
in the intervening years and at that time,
but that, whatever it is, it will be rad
ical policy is not doubtful. Strong as
Tammany may be, it will not be powerful
enough to check the inevitable tendency of
the Democratic party to radicalism gener-
ally; and during the next two years the
extreme reached in the Chicago platform is
likely to be extended still further
That the Democratic party of the future
will be distinctively radical party seems
to be settled.