The age-herald., 1899-08-20
Bryan People Discovered the
 Plot at Saratoga.
NEGRO CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO
Is Deplored By the Better Glass of Blacks-Another John Brown Raid Suggested-Renewed Interest
 in the Garter Scandal,

Washington, August 19.-(Special)-Th democrats here are not satisfied that Gro ker is sincere, and for the present, at least, will regard him with curious suspicion. Many see in his professed conversion a deep game of the tiger and the jungle folk about him. It is thought that the tiger Is merely crouching before springing the anti-Bryan movement at Saratoga was at- tracing too much attention. It was in- tended that there should be no publicity about it. The success of the whole anti Bryan plan depended on silence and secfe- cy. One thing is very certain, the inter- view of Croker has not checked the oppo- stion to the Nebraskan among the men who began their plotting at Saratoga. The journeys to Saratoga were to have been in secret. Some of those who were invited to that resort began to chat about it. The ends of the conference were defeated. The success of the plans of Whitney, German, Harrity, Belmont and others depends upon the Bryan people being smoothed into a feeling of security.
 Discovered the Plot
 The Bryan people discovered the plot at Saratog and became cognizant of the fact that Bryan's friends were being invited to come north. The lines of the campaign against Mir. Bryan have been marked out. The promoters of the Saratoga conference accomplished that much.
 The men who are opposed to Bryan and think that silver had better be left out of the platform are to pretend to come into 
 cannot prevent" Politicians who have been loyal to Bryan in the past who are not out of reach of certain influences are to be bargained with to work in secret to overthrow either Bryan or the silver plank in the platform. There is no use for the Bryan enthusiasts to preach about a re- united party, for there are plans and plots to defat his nomination and if that be im- possible, to prevent the readoption of the Chicago platform, and when all else fails to adopt methods similar to those of three years ago to defeat him.
 In the meantime MT. Croker Is angling for the confidence of Bryan in order to have his delegation seated in the next con- vention when the tiger will crouch no longer but once more spring into the open.
 Against the Conference
 The best class of negroes here deplore the conference of negroes in Chicago, be- lieving that it will benefit the negro in the south in no way only alienate the sympa- thy of the republicans from them and pos sibly do the negro himself infinite harm. There is nothing that the white men who form tha roohS percillious resolutions of the narrow minded and bigoted New England folk. The New Englander has done his worst in the way of agitation. There is nothing more he can do. There Is no legislation which can reach the question. Congress might pass as many bills authorizing the president to put down mobs by the mili- tary, but 1t would require an army in every outlying county, every small town in the country to even have any effect at all. 1diotic women may gain individual noto- riety by accommodating rapists, but it will not help those who have been lynched and may bring others to the attention of the mad mob.
 Then, too, the sincerity of the New Eng land set is begun to be doubted here. The rest of the country sees nothing ahead of 1t but trouble in accepting the lines marked out for it by Vermont and Massachusetts. Another John Brown Raid
 The suggestion Is even made in Boston that some one from that coast should form another John Brown raid. This shows the success of their agitation. It would be much easier now to bring about a race war than in older days when the white man loved his blacks and was loved by them The affectionate bond between the two still exists to great extent, but it is being torn asunder by the cranks of New England Who practically encourage the negro ra- pists and condone his other crimes The New Englander Is the worst enemy the ne- gro has ever had. Largely responsible for their importation to this country, they shipped and sold them to the rice and cot ton fields just as soon as 1t was found they could not be worked in the north to adyan- tage. Ever since then the New Englander has urged them to their degeneracy and de- struction. The rest of the north Is not In sympathy with the New Englander theory of equal rights about the negro The question has become difficult one for the states of New Jersey. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to solve. These states don't want anything to happen which will drive the