The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-20

IMPUDENT Sf[VER|TES.
They Are Trying to Secure
Control Of the Next
Convention.
TALK OF DIscIPLINING GOLD MEN
Daily for Governor and Cor
nish for the Senate the
Latest Combination.
TALK OF DISCIPLINING GOLD MEN
Especial to ..rhe Jersey city News.sl

Especial TO Inc Jersey lily NEWS
TRENTON, June 20, 1ssS.-The Demo-
cratic State Committee will meet in this
city next Wednesday for conference ana
for the transaction of whatever business
that may be brought before 1t. Ihat
seems to be the object of the call for the
meeting. AT the same lime it is wei un-
derstood h the committee viii take
steps in the line of discipline, so that
none but the faithful Will AVE any voice
in the deliberations. The faithful means
the simon-pure followers of the Bryan
Democracy. They call themselves the
regulars. and they mean to assert them
selves on all occasions, and to denne a
policy for the great fall campaign Tne
State Committee, almost to a man. IS OF
that stripe, and under the lead of Coienel
Price. the chairman. it is expected that
the result of the conference will be pro-
claimed with no uncertain sound.
The State Committee is composed OF
politicians who hitherto achieved tame
as workers in many a hard fought cam
paign. The greatest warrior OF them an,
of course. is Colonel Price, who has
grown gray in the service of his party,
and whose genius for organization mas
been demonstrated on several occasions
in the city of Newark, n by when ms
party has been enabled to win many VIC
tories. The secretary of the committee,
William K. Devereux, has always peen
a worker in the ranks. His enthusiasm
for BRYAN knows no bounds and conse-
ouently he is well adapted for his present
position. Among the most notable mem
bers are former Judge Byrnes. of At
lantic; Prosecutor of the Pleas Budd, OF
Burlington: Harry B. Paul, of Camden;
former Senator Baker, of Cumberland;
E. F. G. Young, of Hudson; former AS
semblyman Lanning, of Mercer; Surro-
gate David S.. Crater, of Monmouth; for
mer Senator Kuhl. of Hunterdon' CEN
eral Donnely, of Mercer; Senator DAILY,
of Hudson; Louis F. Braun. OF Passalci
former Senator Keys, of Somerset; Tor
mer Congressman Fowler, of Sussex. ana
former Congressman Cornish. OF warren
The name of former Senator Blodgett is
still on the roll, although he resigned
Just before the opening of the last Presi-
Dental campaign. A glance at the per-
sonnet of this committee leaves a very
favorable impression as to its ability to
conduct a campaign. In former CAM
paiens and when the party was united no
better committee than this one ever I'M
dertoek the task of rallying the Demo-
cratic forces. The only pronounced gold
men on the list are Messrs. Young
Keys.
n is not with the committee itself that
fault is found, but with the cause it rep
resents. Some of the h~ot7headed mem
hers. no doubt, viii strain every nerve TO
keep the Bryan flag floating at the mast
head. There are some conservatives, how
ever. who feel that a moderate course
must be pursued in order to bring about
harmony in the ranks and unite the party
once more, thai victory may perch on It's
banners next November. But it is hardly
to be expected that such wisdom will ac-
tuate the deliberations of the committee.
The speeches made at the recent dinner
of the Bryan followers in Camden do not
hold out any such hope. The Bryan camp
is bent on mischief. and as it will control
the Democratic State Convention the out
look is that a ticket and a platform Will
be agreed upon which win ALLEVIATE the
support of thousands of the best Demo-
Gratis in the State who refused to vote
for Bryan in 1896. The situation is, in
deed woeful, and those Democrats who
were trained in the school of Leon ABB
bett and Joel Parker must suffer great
agony over it.
Should Colonel Price and his confreres
Insist upon keeping the Bryan banner to
the front and ignoring all those Demo-
Gratis who revolted against the doctrines
~promulgated by the Chicago Convention,
then the Republicans will have a COM
paratively easy time in running their
CAMPAIGN. Some Democrats hope to
make capital out of the imposition of war
taxes just authorized by Congress. They
say that the poor man must pay the bulk
of all these taxes, while the rich maj is
not at all inconvenience. A rush of
votes for the Democratic ticket is ex-
peeted. and success is predicted owing to
the large number of converts which these
war taxes will have made. This is part
of the stock in trade held by the Bryan
organization.
The logical outcome of the Democratic
State convention, if it is controlled by the
Bryan people, would be the nomination
for Governor of Senator DAILY. He has
stood by the Bryan flag through thick and
thin. and since the holding Of the Chicago
convention he has not taken even one
backward step. It is difficult to see how
1JdiX CUulQ Dt IA q
of silver men. He has no dangerous COM
petitor in his wing of the party, and his
reputation is known in every school dis
triet of the State. He is always ready
to talk and do battle for his cause, and
his silver tongue a eloquent nearly
every day in the year.
It is Bill DAILY here and. Senator DAILY
there, so that in fact no other champion
Of the cause attracts any attention when
the Hudson gladiator is around. No gold
man would stand upon a silver platform,
It would be no use at all then to try to
nominate any man who would not sub
scribe to the Chicago platform. The men
ton of the name of any such man would
be hooted out of the convention. While
it is true then that Mr.. DAILY is the idol
OF the masses who espouse the white met
al cause, yet there are other ambitious
men who are looking to the future. As
an orator and a campaigner, of course
DAILY outranks them all. But they IN
their own way have elements of strength
which, perhaps, are not possessed by Mr.
DAILY.
There is Johnston Cornish, for instance
He has already cut a swath in politics
although a young man. He has served II
Congress and as a State Senator, and his
Democracy today is just as animated as
when he held office. Mr.. Cornish was
asked the other day If he desired to &c
~ ranoraes again when he replied he die