The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-13
Some Advice to Ambitious Politi-
r' clans.

The attempts Of some Of the Democratic
politicians in this State to dodge the Chi.
cago platform will only bring them into
public derision and increase the determi-
nation Of the sticklers for regularity to
force the party to fight the coming cam.
paign under the national standard adopted
last year.
The effort to whip the Chicago devil
around the stump Is the more absurd be-
cause 1t is impossible to prevent the issues
of last year from becoming the issues on
which the State campaign and all the local
campaigns will be fought next November.
whatever may be the devices Of State
and county committees to hide them
away. The great body Of the nominal
Democracy Is unquestionably Bryanite, and
nothing except square Organism will slim
ulate it to any zeal in the campaign. With
out the Chicago platform, the Democratic
canvass here and everywhere throughout
the State would be ~lifeless, even IL its art
full elimination did not result in the COM
plete disruption and d"isintegration of the
party. A party must ave some ideas to
give it vitality. 1t must have a distinct
political faith and n distinct political char.
uCtSls ~ III huNO oliS Z "
and purposes in n national campaign and
another in a State campaign. Such n con-
~trariety would bring 1t to n shameful death.
& If Mr.. HILL, Mr.. DANFoRTH, and other
Democratic politicians want to rescue
the, Democratic party from suffocation by
the Chicago platform they must have the
courage to cast away the gag and refuse to
allow any convention to apply it to them
on the plea of regularity. Because of such
resolution they may suffer temporarily, but
there will be a political future for them.
Otherwise they will be despised by both
the Bryan Democracy and the old.time and
genuine Democracy. Nobody will fear and
nobody will respect them.
In Maryland a laborious attempt at
lodging the Chicago platform was made
and what is the RESULT Who is there that
does not see through the Trick and laugh
ut itf The actual issues on which the citi-
tens of Maryland will vote are the issues
bf the Chicago platform; and so it will be
h New York, whatever attempts to dodge
Ihem may be made by Mr.. HILL, Mr.. DAN
FORTH n their school, or by the amateurs
Ind tricksters who nave got up here in New
York the Citizens Union, so called, and
hoNS oPSho hiohSy Niohis III paying Cdu-
fassers for signatures to a petition for the
nomination of the candidate they had
determined to nominate.
The trick is substantially the same on
both sides, and it is ridiculous in both.
This is not a year when the people can be so
easily humbugged.
Any convention will waste its time which
undertakes to nominate candidates who
will not come before the people on a plat
form which is unmistakable in it's declara-
tions regarding the pivotal issues of this
time. The Bryanites will reject all hedging
candidates as the representatives of polit-
ical trcachery. How can they afford to
give up the Chicago platform, which is the
impelling force of their whole movement 2
Neither can any convention represent
Democratic opposition to Organism which
does not fatty repudiate it as fatal to genu-
Inc Democracy.
Honesty, gentlemen. is the best policy
for politicians and for everybody else.
Courage may fail, but it is not the in
glorious defeat which waits on cowardice.