The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-24

n OOIu D~eunOCraC lot u bIlVcF Mayor.
Either the strain of defying Popocracy. or
some other circumstance, has been too much
for Mr.. EDWARD NJ. SHEPARD of Brooklyn,
and he has succumbed. After displaying
what promised seemingly irrepressible en-
ergy in opposing the Democracy Of Brook
Ign on the alleged merits of it's ma
ture and organization, and after vertically
browning his p~retensions to virtue by re-
fusing to submit to the Chicago platform
last year, Mr.. SHEPARD concludes now that
the local issue is the thing, and, openly re-
signing his allegiance to the non.partisan-
ship with which he has been more or less
associated, he concludes that for him the
Democratic ticket for next fall will be sat
isfactory as it will come from the regular
Democratic Convention.
In his speech before the County Commit
tee Of his organization on Tuesday Mr..
SHEPARD made his way to action with the
Democrats smooth and barred against the
intrusion of any future obstacle. The little
band of Citizen Unionists Of New York
having failed to nominate u ticket of it's
own, for the present he is relieved of all OBJ
legations to non.partisanship. Next, as the
grand excuse for returning, Mr.. SHEPARD
adopted as his own the humbug charge
against the Administration that it has ig-
norcd its pledge to reform the currency.
There was no pledge. Practically the ref
ormation proposed by Mr.. SHEPARD and
his friends is impossible. The scheme is as
foreign to the people of the Chicago plat
form, with whom Mr.. SHEPARD proposes
to go, rs 1t Is to the mass of Republicans.
But 1t provided a good enough speech. Mr..
SHEPARD was sufficiently assured in his
new departure to express on Tuesday
his doubt as to whether it would have
been better for the people of the United
States II Mr.. BRYAN had been elected
instead of Mr.. MCKINLEY" BY way of
adding still n little more plausibility to
himself, he said that he would rather have
had Mr.. BRYAN elected in 1896 than in
1900, whatever he may have meant by that
precisely. But let there be a man thor
oughly equipped for the Mayoralty in his
instincts, character. n ability" continued
Mr.. SHEPARD, apparently on a loftier
plane Of public devotion than he ever
reached before, " and that man he what we
call n silver man, and l will weigh 1t not q
pennyworth against him."
Is Mr.. SHEPARD tired2 And what has
wearied himi Does he feel so much like
an outcast that he Is ready to soothe him.
self at the expense of building up the power
IL prestige of the Organized Democracy,
from which he separated like IN honest
man and a patriot some months ago2 Or
is he merely another of the gold Demo.
Gratis who, not being so strong in
devotion to principles upheld a year
ago that they will hew wood and draw
water in the party that represents them,
and, moved by the discomfort common to
human nature, change their politics again,
with specious excuses or open confession OF
error, and turn to promoting the revolu
tionary spirit and the fraud of the Democ.
racy of Chicagoa Or have other reasons
impelled Mr.. SHEPARD to desert the ideas
he professed to uphold in 1887 And why
does Mr.. w. d. BYNUM, the active spirit OF
the national Democrats. go with hint