The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-16
BRYAN-SHEEHAN BARGAIN.
HERE IT rs, AND THE SILVER MEN
n HOT WITH WRATH OYER IL.

FOR n Promise OF Free silver Delegates from
rnmmany In 1000 tho Free silver Leader
Agrees to Set mis- Nauao to = Letter Saying !
"Drop Free silver Just Now In New York"
Tho details OF tho bargain between William
J. Bryan and Leader John G. Shoehan Of Tam
many Hall behind tho backs Of tho voters of the
Greater New York came out yesterday. The
Information came from Tammany men who are
familiar with all tho facts and who were cor
roboratcd by the evidence of personal friends of
Mr.. Bryan.
In the first place, It was never the intention
Of Mr.. Bryan to mako speeches In Greater New
York in tho Mayoralty campaign. Many in
yitations had been sent to him asking him to do
90. He refused them all on the ground that II
would be unseemly for an ex-candidate for the
Presidency to mount the hustings In local con-
tests. Grover Cleveland spoke once for Roswell
r. Flower in Cooper Union, In tho Gubernato-
rial campaign Of 1891.
Mr.. Bryan. however, could find no precedent
for a Presidential candidate, elected or defeated,
taking part in local contests outside Of his own
home beyond writing q letter or two, such as
President Cleveland wrote in the Fellows-Nicoll
campaign for District Attorney of New York
county.
Before entering New York State at Buffalo
last week Mr.. Bryan had written letters to his
friends in New York and Brooklyn urging them
In the strongest language and the most u%neQuiv-
ocal terms to stand by the Chicago national
platform of 1896 in tho approaching contest
for a Mayor Of Greater New York. There
must be no compromise, nc backward step.
wrote Mr.. Bryan. Those letters are still
in existence. They are similar in tone
and expression to tho letters written by Chair
man James X. Jones Of the Popocratic National
Committee to Mr.. Sheehan and Chairman Elliot
Danforth of the Popocratio State Committee.
After Mr.. Jones had written these letters and
their tenor had been published in TIE Sun. he
was implored to write no more, and then an effort
was made to deny that he had written at all. It
was unsuccessful. but Mr.. Jones was hypnotized
for the future by political promises Of every con-
civable description.
Mr.. Sheehan then sent word to Bernard J.
York. Chairman of the Kings County Popocrats,
that Tammany's representatives in conferences
York Mayoraltyc campaign. would be instructed
not Under any circumstances to use tho words
Although Tammany by its Endorsement of tho
mitted to the free, and unlimited coinage
OF silver at is to !. It was conceived
l bought 9s to 5he sSs feons in no tho ea campaign shss f6 6rc q
Mayor Of Greater New York. Mr.. York was re-
auested to follow Tammany's lead in the mat.
to the Popocrats and free silver were requested
not to use the words " free silver" in editorials
With National Chairman Jones silenced and
Tammsny's ban upon the free and unlimited
came the startling news. that Mr.. Bryan had
also written letters into New York demanding
1 9c4l in no ,hf Sa afas FOR s s n'{ IfSn Of G lSs Gsi Ssw
nstionai platform be taken: Quick on the heels
Several Of II: BBrysa's friends. to whom he
HAD written !, tn those letters. met him in the
NOW, ans fHs Sun lnsHss; These friends II ua.' say
shssh Mri STOOD sioed By " his 1S let letter.. eai to on the ns % anda mi Il
necessary. tho letters can be printed at the
THE bargain between MT. Bryan and Mr.. shee-
han is over the letter Mr.. Bryan Ia. to write TO
pTesenp q the ns fos atfisfIaiss'e on july i Z. M. B rS DE-
according to the bargain. 10 70 say in this letter
View York should be fought mA on local Tissues issaes
I: s eRHSShFs The s Sssatss Ef ike sf PhII fsSa SssSem x!
i to Be made to frse silver" al a ratio q Il g
In return for such a letter Tammany is Be-
sretly pledged to send free,silyer delegates for
ton.
Tammsny in all its principal campaigns, has
to its unalterable support and adhesion to Dem:
GPG aSt,S n national platforms. Bryan's promised
sysdiag o. or J EiG.i lGsss OVER e & he p fop sas PPiEs1 Rational aSf
when Bryan's friends learned of his bargain
were the men who had received Bryan's letters
Gartgins that no backward step be taken from the
han at DelnoniGos; They kept at Bryan. until
Jones Of the bargain, with sheehnn. They told
Bryan that he had been humbugRed, and the
ISiiowing are samples OF the language hurled at
You have dishonored your friends, sir.
You have bought @ gold brick.
We have loved you and admired you, but In
P%oiitiSisn e suit u.s. ss' Wa are 70 T u 'f tSi % light q for r
eaeo platform. We do not beeilIeVvee In this tn poiiey
Of humbug: We believe in fighting this battle
SGPaysasion e lndosss every line u the Chicago
York and Kings counties voted on last election
f Ssy a loT ,hS W GifhiiisagG platform. The platform is
There was very much more of the same order.
a.5?at' the situation here" and lis fr iaSM re-
1oinsd.
l 5as :, iRs@ g Pssi y y create Ess sE' N SstqHll ssr Rl s4s fql
m sSRS Stn,a was said to the effect that II Tam.
yer Ard the principles of the Chicago platform
organs friends said yesterday that they would
SS im upon him BY. telegraph and letter; urging
a T. 10 auheTe TO his bargain with Sheohan.
,dMGee nope to bring him TO his Senses" they
aaaed, before July L."
IL Tammany in the City Convention" they
iEontnued. "introd uces a resolution which mere
HeSnys nat the Chicago platform is hereby re-
ahIrned &c, we will offer as an amendment
t ,ne ehtire Chicago platform. and let Tammany
We Will run our candidates for the city and
SSSnunhhty oiiiees in the counties OF Greater New
amMk, VIII keep alive our organizations, and
VIII go before the National I'M in 1900.
mere are thirty.seven out Of the fifty sub
SorIoefs OF that committee who will tolerate no
bargains OF Jones and Bryan with Sheehan, all
ir the sake OF Bryan In the end"
ARG ESTIyd MAY