The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-14
Getting Wider Apart.

IN New York. the republican party is
going To pass through heavier trials
than those that marked the Greater
New York campaign Next year New
York elects state officers. from governor
down. The election viii pass as the
forecast of the Empire state in antici-
patton of the great national battle of
1900 Except "A miracle be wrought,
New York repubIicanism will go
through next years politics hopelessly
divided: and none of the oldtime poll
tical observers are counting on "A
miracle.
Thus far the Plat element has shown
a disposition to come half way. 1t pro
posed that, under the organization rules,
elections of organization officers should
be held-this. they point out, is neees-
sary in order to keep the organization
within the limits of the law. failure To
comply with the terms of the primary
election law will upset everything. The
Plat people want all republicans to
take part in these elections, to be held
during the month of December, and no
questions asked of anybody. be he reg
uIar or the follower of Low. Nobody
was to be barred
The self-styled respectable element
will not listen to this plan. These mug
wumps reject every proposition. Their
fiat demand Is that the regular organi-
cation actually disband; they declare
that they will have no part whatever
in mending up the machine; on the con
! trary, they assert that they started out
to wreck II, that they have ii pretty
wen ruined already and that they VIII
/ finish it before they quit. Meanwhile
! they have formally announced that
| there must be an entirely new organi-
cation They declare themselves pre-
pared to undertake the making OF H.
and they say in terms that they VIII
! receive in consultation and co-opera-
ton men from the Plat organization
provided these are clean men of recog-
nzed high character and standing IL
the community who have not been dis
credited before the people That is to
say. these puffed-up republican mug
wumps will treat. from their stand
point, with representatives of the Plat
regular organization, but not with any
) OF them who took IA prominent or al
earnest part in the Tracy campaign.
The truth plainly is that the Lowite
will do everything i'm their power Il
! prevent harmony. They will listen Il
? no overtures from Plat. They propos
l To be all there is of New York republi
4 canism; they will associate with thos
: only of the old-organization men VIII
e renounce Plat. his machine, his leader
: shin. his lieutenants, his works.
] Thus, this years rivalry and discor
l. are but the preface of CONFUSION
II come 1t may be written as one of tn
. things that are almost a certainty tina
i next years significant state election /
a" New York will find the republicans wit
{ rival tickets i'm the field. That Is mani
testify the plan of the Low element
and. of course. they can bring abot
st the hopeless division. They may |
s willing To fight democrats, but the
l. first business is 10 kill Plat completely
4 Under ordinary circumstances tn
u would unquestiunably mean an cas-
a. triumph for the democrats in New foi
le next November. II remains to be see
i however. whether the circumstances Il
" cident to the coming election are to
$ ordinary. They will not be If dem
+ cratic state convention attempts IN
or platform OF it's candidates TO set ash
ne the announcements of the Chicago pla
pu form of 1896 respecting silver.
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