The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-14
Organizations Sudden Nantes
tatiOn of Aggressive Action
Causes Alarm Among the Faith
full in New York.
CALL A CONVENTION
And Will Act as Deeply Inter-
ested Spectators.
While the Silver Democrats AS
sembIe to Nominate.

Albany, N. Y, Sept 14.-Next to the
apparent certainty of the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt for governor by the
Republicans the thing that is worrying
the Democratic leaders more than any
thing else is the sudden coming to life
of the gold Democrats. The positive
announcement that they will meet in
Syracuse on the 9th inst. and remain
to watch the action of the Democratic
state convention with special refernece
to the money question is highly unsat-
tsfactOry to Senator Murphy and his
associates, who had begun to think that
they had laid that troublesome ghost
Ten days ago the politicians in the
silver wing of the party had received
assurances that the nominees should be
satisfactory to them, but they were re-
Quested to make as little noise over the
concession as possible to give the ticket
a show at the polls. Either through dis
trust of the leaders or through mis-
understanding as to just how much
noise it was safe to make, the silver
conference in this city a day or two
after that issued a prOnunciamento to
the effect that silver must receive full
recognition at the hands of the SYRIA
cuSe convention.
That started the gold men, and there
have been held dozen informal con-
ferenceS in this city within the last
three days. The men who repudiated
the Populistic doctrines of the Chicago
platform in 1895 are as strong in their
opposition today as they were two
years ago, and the delegation that they
will send to Syracuse will prove ex-
tremely troublesome to the leaders. The
hope of Senator Murphy and his friends
was to lull the factions into temporary
forgetfulness OF their differences and
get all hands in line for the ticket. By
doing this the leaders would have a
chance to devote their best energies to
the election of senators and assem- bly,
men in the hope of sending Senator
Murphy back to the United States SEN
ate.
That today is the chief aim of the or
ganization and that is what the senator
and his personal friends have been
working for ever since last winter. In
cidentally the election of a Democratic
legislature would tie the hands of the
Republican state administration to a
considerable extent in the event of the
success of the Republican state ticket,
but the senatOrship was the chief prize.
Everyone who remembers the circum-
stances attending the first election of
Senator Murphy knows that when he is
a candidate the Democratic party will
stop at nothing to insure his election.
1t was in the election of the senate in
the fall of 1891 that was to vote for
United States senator in January 1898
that three Republican senators were
Ousted from their seats, official returns
tempered with and false returns can
VaSSed by the state board of canvass
ers; the crime which drove the Demo-
cratic party out of power at the next
state election. The following year
when assemblymen were elected every
Democratic candidate was pledged to
vote for Murphy for senator at the be-
ginning of his canvass; once pledged
he had all the financial assistance he
needed.
The legislature of 1893 was solid for
Murphy for senator from the day of
election with one solitary exception
Otto Kampner of New York. Senator
Murphy intends to go back to Wash
ington if the Democratic party can send
him there, and his friends are picking
the strongest men they can find in the
senate and assembly districts. Every
doubtful district and many that are not
considered doubtful by the Republicans
will be special points of attack. The
Democrats are not making any noise
over their legislative prospects-but the
legislative campaign of 1892 was a re-
marka bly, quiet one.