The times., 1897-09-17
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER II. 1897.
whe New York Platform.

The New York Platform.
If we may give ran credit to the reports
IN New York papers OF the proceedings Ct
the Democratic State central committee,
there is room FOR the fear that, In that
Con.n.nns-caHb. the desiEnauon Of the
Democratic party should be changed.
Under the mandate Of the organization
the state central committee had the
right to nominate and met for the pur-
pose Of nominating candidate for chief
Judge of the court Of appeals Prior to
this meeting two forces We're at work to
drJeruIus ats action. One of them was
the combined. honest force Of the State
Democracy, recognizing the certain ef
feet Of tile impending campaign upon
national i,oltscs in 1898 and 1900 aad
demanding, on shat account, that the
aarty slcesn this year should give out
10 uncertain sorasd, but should reassert
the f4ith and doctrine which became the
supreme law Of the organization for fOur
years from the adoption OF the Chicago
platform.
The other influence, 3ed by william c.
wuBncy. David B. ain. and a few others
OF t5at iIk. has been anxious and urgent
that the onr national issue OF blaletalism
and the fact of the Chicago platform
t5th Should by ignored, in order that the
people - h, betrayed the Democratic party
IN 1895 might be once more placed in
control Of its machinery in Greater New
TarE. and so again endowed with power
20 manipulate The national convention OF
1860
To the cxterU that the State committee
could further this purpose Of the gold
traitor. 1t has crowned them with victory.
Il dominated the candidate Of David Pen
nett Hm, than whom the New York De
nsocracy nerer had a greater beneficiary
nor d more siruous and subtle enemy. It
expelled secretary whose chief offense
had beer has devotion TO pure and uu-
aduterated bilaetalIc Denocracy, and it
deliberately ignored the Chicago platform.
one of the many excuses given for this
line or action was ITS Endorsement by
Senator Jones, Of Arkansas, chairman of
the DeulocTatc rational committee, whose
generalsAip during the late campaign
sluuld nave taught him the lessons or
modesty aud dIffidenee, even If II did not
imDue him with the Christian virtue Of
resignation. 4 member Of the committee
read an extract from letter alleged TO
have been written by Senator Jones to
Senator Murphy. Let Us remark in pass
iug. that this connection is. DIT the very
least. significant. The extract is as
follows:
There couId be nothing more indiscreet
or imp0iitiC than for the State central
cOfuiniltte 10 q assume authority WiIcu It
did not POSSESS, and that IL especially
becomes 10 follow pFecuGeuts ana not
give Ovca sion for cIitlCisn for d charge or
being revolutionary ~ our methods.
The state convention has, as ! under
stand. authorized tine central committee
to Illuminate a candidate for Judge. This
empow eES them To do that, but the State
convention uld not authorize them To
frame "a new platform or either indorse
or condemn the acton OF the State con
TcntIoE, or any national convention. and
tt seems TO me for them to assume such
authority would la Y themselves open 10
criticism, Without presuming To criticiSe
the action OF the State central committee,
over " hlCh, OF course, lave no sort of
control, | venture TO suggest that the
wise and polite thing 1or them 10 do Is
to follow the exact line Of their authority
ana not exceed it III any respect
A. a prominent official authority in
tie D-fnpcratic national organizat tion, the
nynina! chieftianship of which Senator
Jones holds. it rests with him to inform
us what there Is in party law OF ethics To
tIahiMt an expression OF fealty to the
platform or the principles OF the party
ny any one of its organized authorities
ia New York or eIsew here? We must
Fupmit that such an expression as the
letter credits to Senator ones is
both strange and inconceivable. In sci
terms he tells US that the State cen
yention did not confer upon its repre-
sentative, the State cenrtal committee
power to indorss the action of the
said convention. The paradox in which
this would involve Senator Jones, il he
really wrote suoh nonsense, is beyond
belief. Let US POSTPONE that mortify1ns
phase Of the matter to more convenient
season.
AE we have ventarcd 70 remark. in a
previous edition OF The Times. if the
state central Committee can ignore the
principles and doctrine OF the party, that
the Waldorf traitors may be given power
and control over it's action and move