Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-27
Silver and Gold Democrats Of New
York Irreconcilable.
Two STATE TICKETS ARE PROBABLE
Senator Murphy's Re-EIectionJeop-
ardized by the fractional Fight.
STRENGTH OF THE BRYANITES



NEW YORK, January 26, 1893.
1t now begins to look as If there would be
two democratic candidates for governor In
New York state next fall. The split be-
tween the followers of Richard Croker and
the followers OF William Jennings Bryan
| Is growing hourly. The Bryanites openly
assert that they will not for moment
tolerate the failure to indorse the Chicago
platform ct the next state convention
Richar1 Croker. Perry Belmont, ex-senator
David B. Hill, Senator Murphy and a host
of democratic leaders and would-be leaders
are agreed, nc matter what their differences
may be concerning candidates or minor
party policies that speech is silver and
silence golden.
The meetings of the Bryanites of the
state in this city have been secret and in
the main neither politicians nor newspapers
have been able to ascertain what has been
going on. Tammany Hall has been more
interested in a division of the 'spoils of
office" than in the movements of the gang
of irrepreSsibles and irresponsibles. The
men who are behind the movement are
members of the ill-starred Thomas Jeffer-
son democracy, of which the late Henry
George was the leader, and the leading
bmetalists and Bryanites in the other
sections of the state.
run Ol thc DFyVhNeSs
1t is the intention of these ''bolters and
kickers" to call a state convention to be
held twenty-four hours after the regular
democratic convention. In case a man like
Perry Belmont is nominated for governor
in the event that the next state democratic
convention renounces or denounces the Chi
cago platform, immediate action will be
taken by the friends of Bryan concerning
the candidates and the platform. 1t is
probable that the powers that be- in the
democratic party of the state will decide to
make the campaign on state issues. ignor-
ing completely national political matters.
This would probably answer, save for the
fact that a state legislature is 10 be Sc
lected which will name the successor to
Senator Murphy. Ex-senator Hill and
Richard Croker might agree to refer the
| matter OF the political bias or leaning of
the congressional candidates to the con-
gressional conventions, allowing the prin-
ciple of "home rule to obtain. In that
event candidate might be for free sill
yer'' in one district or for the gold stand
ard in another district, his political poll
cies depending upon his personal views
and the resolutions adopted by the different
congressional conventions. But how the
democratic machine can straddle in mat
ter like the selection Of members of the
legislature who will select the United States
senator it is impossible to even imagine:
The BryaniteS announce that they Will
nominate free silver candidates for mem
bers of the legislature in the event that
the regulars will not do what they consid-
er the fair thing by them.
Menace to Murphy's Ambition.
This, 1t Is believed, will be a serious blow
to Senator Murphy. who will need every
democratic vote that can be secured in
the state in case he has hopes of being
returned to the Senate. The fear of Sem
ator Murphy that democratic dissensions
ay endanger his position Is one of the
reasons why the senior senator from New
York state has been so anxious to arrange
E treaty OF peace or at least truce be-
tween Hill and Croker. The political ne
cessties of Murphy. it is now quite gen.
orally admitted, will form a bridge be-
tween Hill and Croker. AS for the Bryan
ties, Murphy Is adopting the old-time pol
Icy Of the politicians Of crossing that bridge
when he comes to it. That he will come
to it pretty soon is known to those who
have charge Of the Bryanite forces in this
state.
The free silver men have nothing in par
ticular against Murphy, as he is believed
to have been the only prominent man in
New York who loyalty supported Bryan in
the last campaign, but they say they will
rot allow him to run with the hares and
hunt with the hounds that there will
be no compromise so far as tine platform
to be adopted by the next convention is
concerned. And Murphy must stand or
/ fall with the platform, they say. Other
candidates. state, congressional, legislative,
county and town, must also stand or fall
with the Chicago platform. 1t is asserted.
New York VS.. the Nation.
AS matters now stand, it is apparent
that a contest must come sooner or later
between the democracy of New York state
and the democracy of the nation In one
way it will resolve itself into a test of
strength between the followers of Croker
and the followers of Bryan. In another
way 1t resolves itself into a question
whether the platform of the democracy of
the nation, adopted at Chicago, shall
govern New York state or whether plat
form framed by the democracy of New
York state shall govern.
The state committee of the democratic
party in New York is for gold There has
never been moment since the Chicago
convention, that individually the gold
standard members of the committee did
not outnumber the free silver members
This Is apparent in every move made by
this state committee during the last two
years and a half. In Saratoga at the con-
vention of June, 1896, the state committee
forced the adoption of gold plank almost
identical with the plank adopted the week
previous at the national republican conven-
ton at St. Louis. In September, at the
Buffalo convention, the state committee
bent like sapling before the storm to
prevent being uprooted and consented to
the Endorsement of the Chicago platform.
But they took eternal revenge on the free
silver men by forcing the nomination of
John Boyd Thatcher, gold standard demo-
CIat. When Thacher refused to bend he
went down before another storm of demo-
cratic indignation and the state committee
nominated a Watertowu Judge of neutral
opinions upon financial topics. The COM
mittee again took eternal revenge upon
the free silver men by refusing to allow
their chairman to resign, though he was
running on the state ticket against the
dummy. which they had rugged up to head
the state ticket This refusal to expel or
to allow to resign from the state committee
men who were candidates on an opposing
state ticket 1.-THE national or gold standard
democracy Of Indianapolis convention) is
probably unprecedented in the history of
American politics. The next session of the
state committee was held last fall when
candidate for the judge of the state court
of appeals was considered. At this time
the state committee did not say a word
about the Chicago platform or Bryan's
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