The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-01
The New York silverites.

Whether they be few or many, the Silver
ties OF New York, who have the courage of
their convictions, occupy in this years cleo
ton q position Of consistent independence
which ought to rally to the support Of their
candidates q considerable outside vote. This
year for the first time at the two party con-
ventions, Republican and Democratic, re-
spectively, the delegates were chosen from
primary rolls made under State authority
in the constituencies to which chapter
179 OF the laws Of this year, the Pri-
mary Election law, applies. The State
conducted and controlled the manner
Of enrolment and supervised the pro-
cedure Of choosing delegates, with this
difference, however, that, while on the Re-
publican side the doors were open to all
Republicans Of every faction and party
antecedents, who consented to declare
that it was their intention to support
the Republican State ticket this year, the
Democratic delegates in New York and
neighborhood were chosen only from out
Of the organization of the local Democracy.
Section 10 Of the Primary Election law
excludes from participation in the prima-
ries of either party any organization cast
ing less than three per centum Of the vote
for Governor at the previous general cleo
tion unless its representatives before
July 1, 1898, should declare their OPP
ton to take part. The Silverites sig
nifled no such option, and took no
part, and, in fact, We're able to take no
part in the choice of delegates to the SYRIA
cuse Convention, and they have been unrep-
resented in its deliberations. Their record
| OF political association is this Prior to the
convention OF July, 1895, they maintained
n separate organization in New York. Fol-
lowing the nomination Of BRYAN and the
adoption OF the silver platform in Chicago,
the New York Silverites became not only
affiliated with, but were absorbed by, what
then remained in this State of the former
regular Democracy. The Silverites and the
Democrats became politically interchange
able, and the separate organization OF the
former was abandoned.
There was no State Convention Of either
political party last year, but the Demo-
cratic State Committee put In nomination
for the only office to be filled on the State
ticket as a candidate for Judge OF the Court
of Appeals, Judge PARKER, who lost no
time in writing a letter to the Silverites In
which he made known the fact that he had
given his support to the Bryan ticket at the
| election preceding, and was therefore quail
fed to receive las he did received the votes
OF all the Silverites.
Tho Silverites of New York have assuredly
lost nothing in numbers by their associa-
ton with the Democrats in 1895 and 1897.
Probably. by the formal acceptance of their
| views and the explicit recognition given
them at a professedly National Democratic
Convention. they have gained many re-
cruits. There are, probably, more than 3d.
900 distinct SilverItes among the voters Of
New York, insignificant, perhaps, when con-
sidered a part of the total electorate Of a
million and a half. but numerous enough to
be counted in an election wherein the ma
jority OF the successful party is not 30 large
that it could not safely be larger.