The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-21
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STATE LEADERS INSTRUCT COMMIT
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Want to Hcip sheeinu out or His HobbIe n
Thoy Can by settling an Example 10 tho
Greater New York OF silence ABOUT National
I~asues-nank and Flo Are I'gly About I.
Ex-senator Hin came up from Normandio-
by.thc-Sea yesterday afternoon and won't to
Albany last evening. Mr.. Hill had nothing to
say concerning his political talks Mt Long
Branch with Senator Murphy. Chairman Elliot
Danforth OF the Democratic State COMMITTEES.
National Committeeman Frank Campbell, and
othors. Mr.. Hill said that no might return to
Now York later in the week.
Chairman Danforth has secured the base
mont OF tho Hoffman House on the Twenty
fourth street sido for campaign headquarters
this fall. In continuance OF what THE sun said
yesterday concerning tho determination OF
the Democratic State Committee to ignore nj
It's meeting in September the Chicago national
platform Of 1896 II was nscertaincd that all
fifty State Committeeman are to DO impor-
tuned to follow this line OF action for its of.
foct upon the Democratic voters in Greater
New York. It Is well known and is admit led
by all the Democratic State leaders that the
rank and file Of the party throughout the State
desire most earnestly that the Democratic
State Committee shall come out in uninis
taxable terms in support of tho Bryan plat
form, and that there is a very ugly feeling over
the efforts to muzzle the State Committee.
Protests are coming In all to the effect that
the rank and file have been surfeited with
policy and that they now feel that some
thing should be done for tho sake Of the prin.
ciples of the Democratic party as contained in
the national platform"
1t is a pretty mess, and the Democratic State
Committeeman, well knowing the wishes Of
their constituents, are In u quandary. But the
Is,h fisht in G ieeaess S SsSi1 YORK kn viii ' have ee a thuD q.
derous effect all over the land, and inasmuch as
communicable hnnect community thu fItnn 10
do is to hide the hideous Bryan platform. In.
asmuch as the Democratic State Committee 10
nominate a candidate for Mayor, the Democratic
State Committee, the leaders say. should see
Of 1896. The sA members Of o the Demoeratio
State Committee are expected from this time
uents. In other words, the Democratic State
Committee Is expected to set the example for
1t was admitted again that Leader John @.
Sheehan Of Tammany Hall does not wish to in
dorse the Chicago platform OF 1896 unless he
Committee Is. expected to put its shoulder to
the wheel, although Tammany in every County
Convention from time immemorial has Endorsed
and reaffirmed the Democratic national plat
forms.
League. This was stoutly denied OF the head
quarters Of the league in the Hotel Bartholdi.
recent resignation OF j. F. Durlacher. One OF
the spokesmen for the league declared:
his u~nceremonious visits to John C. Sheehan.
Durlacher had no authority to visit Sheehan or
anybody else. The officers Of the lea Eue are
quite competent to do their own taking and
make their own visits to Sheehan or anybody
else. Durlacher says that he will organize an
other Progressive Democratic League and that
he has the Knights of Labor behind him. How
ever that may be, If Mr.. Sheehan and his
friends will nominate a silver candidate for
Mayor OF Greater Now York and force him TO
stand upon the Chicago platform, that will suit
us 10 a !, and our mission would be at an end.
II Mr.. Sheehan does not then we know what to
do"
Mr.. Durlacher is described as a conscientious
advocate of Organism, and It was remarked
yesterday that he had gained altogether too
much, prominence to suit Chairman f. NJ.
Saunders and other officers Of the Progressive
Democratic League. Durlacher's friends say
he will be heard from further before long and
that he will expose all the lodges and quirkA
got up to befog the Bryanites.