Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-28
NOMINATED BY THE UNITED DE-
MOCRACY OF NEW YORK.
REGULAR DEMOCRATS WORRIED
DON'T LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING
TWO BOURBON NOMINEES.
w. j. Bryan Writes "a Vigorous Letter
Be Conducted ON the Plat
form of the Chicago
'... ,.4- Convention.

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development in the Greater New York 'po-
litical situation to-day was the unanimous
nomination of Henry George for mayor by
the United Democracy, composed of num-
erous free silver and Bryan clubs which
were active in the campaign of last fall.
Mr.. George once polled 5000 votes as a
labor candidate for mayor of New York.
His strength, if he should accept, would
be drawn principally from the Democratic
vote The United Democracy also adopted
| a resolution condemnng the action of the
state committee in refusing to reaffrm the
Chicago platform and in nominating as
candidate for chief judge of the court OF
appeals Alton B. Parker, whose party
fealty is so doubtful that he Is popuiarly
believed to have voted against the bryan
and SewaIl electoral ticket last year.
The convention nominated John G. Boyd
| for comptrolIer and Winfield S. Overton
for president of the municipal council.
A belief is current that Mr.. George Will
not accept to-nightS nomination II ram
many indorses the Chicago platform.
On the other hand, the old-time Demo-
cratic leaders prefer to ignore the silver
| question altogether; so the Democrats are
| as much worried over Henry George as the
| Republicans are over Seth Low.
| The Republican assembly district leaders
| of the borough of Manhattan met tonight
| and, after a long caucus, decided to place
In nomination at the city convention to-
! morrow these names: Mayor, Benjamin r.
| Tracy; comptroller. Ashbel P. Fitch; pres
| ident of the council. Ross Appleton.
| At a meeting of the executive committee
| of Tammany Han to-day the roll of as
| sembly districts for nominations for city
| and county officers was called with the fol-
| lowing results:
| Mayor-Wiliam Sohmer, George b. NC
| Clellan, Charles H. Knox.
| President of the borough-George w.
| Plunkett Charles F. Allen.
Comptroller-Ashbel P. Fitch.
Much stir was created in political circles
| to-day by the publication OF letter pur-
| porting to have been sent to Colonel Will
| lam L. Brown, of the New York Daily
| News, by William ]. Bryan, urging that
| the municipal campaign in Greater New
| York should be run in harmony wi h the
| principles and declarations of the national
! organization. The letter says:
"A triumph of the Democracy of Greater
i New York, except under the auspices OF
the issue that animates the party, will have
! the same moral effect as q renewed and
| affirmed triumph of the agencies led ty
| Senator Hanna.
| "When parties cease to represent certain
fixed principles, the supreme prerogative CT
the ballot becomes prostituted to contest
| between organizations for the spoils of Of
!, fee and the enjoyment of success.
ITO this prostitution of the ballot may
be ascrfbed every chapter Of shame and
| corruption in the history of American
municipal government. 1t is better to have
a government by the Republican party,
responsible for IT'S declarations, than gov
| ernment by Democratic partisans without
responsibility to Democratic principles.
| 1.-The Democratic party Is the party of
| home rule, and home rule does not mean
| irresponsibility to the nation at large. The
! great cities are part of the state and
| country: they are the granaries, treasures,
! clearing houses and capitals of culture and
| science; they are. created, not Of them
selves, but of the whole peoples toll and
| progress; therefore, 1t is unnatural and ar
I'tificial to avoid responsibility to national
| issues. 1t is political cowardice and polit-
| ical crime.
Greater New York will be the un-
| crowned capital of America. The Demo-
| crate of New York have a responsibility
| not only to themselves and the greater city
but to their party and its living principles
| and the nation. This election is the most
between 1886 and 1900.
ITO suggest that the Democratic party
platform has no place in this contest is to
admit a doubt of its wisdom and places
fallacy of non-political government. The
| issue is the life of the party. not the
| garment, and to alter or deduct from the
declarations of the assembled party Is
mortal injury; nor have battalions which
have fought, now on one side, now or
another. now shoulder to shoulder as
1 friends, now bayonet to bayonet as enemies
a place in honorable war"