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candidate for president the democrat whom 1t had thrice elected governor,
 and Wisconsin was represented in Washington by two democratic senat-
 o1s. Both New York and Wisconsin had been carried by the democrats at 1 the preceding presidential election. The 1 importance of these four states secured
 for them respectful hearing at the Chicago convention, though they were all opposed to the platform
 Since 1896, however, the democratic party in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Wisconsin has come under the con- trol of the Chicago platform and theor- ies, and in each in 1898 avoWed support
 CTS of Bryan were nominated for office
 In New York no democrat running for
 office last year dared to oppose the Chi
 cago platform, and there is no poSsibil-
 ity that any democratic state conven-
 tion this year or next will express dis
 sent from it. The delegation from New
 York in 1900 will probably be in favor
 of it; in no event will 1t be committed
 against it.
 Of the 301 votes against the Chicago
 platform at the convention two years
 ago 1S7 came from these four states, and
 a total of 63 votes were cast by these
 other states: Connecticut, 12; Mary
 land, 12; Minnesota, Ii; New Jersey,
 20, and South Dakota, 8. At that time one of the senators from New Jersey
 was a democrat, both senator's from Maryland were democrats, Connecticut
 was in the doubtful column, and Minne-
 sota and South Dakota were waving on
 the financial question. New Jersey and
 Maryland are now republican states.
 Connecticut is as surely republican as New Hampshire or Rhode Island. Both
 Minnesota and South Dakota have now silver governors elected in 1898, though in each state the remainder of the re- publican ticket was successful The declaration of the Minnesota democrats who elected John Lind was that i've hereby reaffirm the democratic national platform and pledge to it our unsWerv- ing support until Its principles shall have become the established governmental policy" and the democrats of South Dakota demanded the free and unlim- ited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i, without asking for the consent or waiting for the aid of any other nation on earth"
 In the states which furnished the 62S delegates who voted for the Chicago platform there has been little defectlon from it, and these among them have now governors who are democrats or who were elected as fusionists on platform that reaffirmed the chicago platform Alabama, Arkansas, Color ado, Florida. Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebras- ka, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. In Kentucky a republi- can governor was elected in 1895, but silver democrat on a silver platform carried the state at the last election. Utah and Montana are both democratic states on the financial question. and there is no belief anywhere that their delegates will not be found for silver in 190c H
 II appears. therefore, that the demo- crats faithful to the Chicago platform are now more completely in control of the party organization than they were in 1896. Since then they have become predominant in the Democratic party in Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dako- | ta, three states which voted against them In 1896. Moreover, the New Eng land states, which presented pretty solid front against the Chicago platform in the convention of 1896, are now in nearly every case under the control of the friends of Bryan. More especially is this true of Massachusetts, Maine and | New Hampshire, which cast at the Chi cago convention 45 votes against the | pla form and only for if
 Meantime the opponents of the Chica- go platform in the democratic party are | gaining nowhere, and the most they | venture to strive for al party cenven- tons is almost invariably nothing be- | yond mere evasion of the currency is- | sue. It is not probable that they will | be able to muster at the national con- | vention of next year more than half of | the voting strength they exhibited at | Chicago in 1896, and even as many as 150 l delegates would be a very liberal esti- mate.-New York Sun.