The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-12
Bat Is Not Likely to Have Mr..
SeWal on the Ticket.
CERTAINTY OF is To | LEADER
Expectation of Two Democratic
Nominations-Cre Strength
of the Nebraska Man.

4 =
eur.aln 10 InosC puDIic men as the re-
41oIIIlnatIon OF MI. -uchInIey, out ~
| oL-5 seelnS 10 expect the denomination.
| III MI. ArUnur ooWarI, OF batn, Maine,
| rresldent. II Is assumed that II Bryan
| Is renomlnated by The Democrats SOM
Sood Eastern man, preferably with a
Darl," Will be nominated Tor Vice
| rresIaent, but Mr.. SeWall Is generally
| counted out in the enumeration OF the
euglble and available candidates fo4
one honor. J do not see why this Is so,
Tor Mr. SeWall made very good can
dIdate, although he did not, perhaps,
| make as good contributor in the cam
paign fund as the Democratic manag-
ers hoped.
Mr.. Guffey and Mr.. Sibley of Penn
Democrats who are mentioned for the
| second place on the ticket, and Mr..
George Fred Williams of Massachu-
sets is among the comparatively poor
ever, the decision of the question as to
| who shall be nominated for Vice-Pres-
Ident seems likely to be left for the
Democratic National Convention to de-
lermine, since the Democrats of differ
ent stripes will be wrangling up to tina,
time over the first place on the tickle,
and the question of the platform.
TWO DEMOCRATIC TICKETS.
1t already appears to be likely tha,
Chere may be two Democratic tickets
IN the held IN 1900, as well as two Pop
ullot tickets (for Senator Marion a
North Carolina; Butler, and his follow
ing, repudiate the Wharton Baker-Ig-
nauus Donnelly ticket, although the
fopullsts who are not already reab-
aorbed by the Democratic party will
dWlndle under the effects of the pros
perlty that now seems to have come to
stay for two or three years anyway.
But, IF he lives and nothing happens, =
William Jennings Bryan will be re-
nominated by reclamation by the regu-
lar Democratic Convention, and will
write the platform, which will be a re-
affirmation of that on which he stood in
1896, and will name his associate on the
ticket.
Almost all the ablest Democratic
leaders who stayed in the party in 1896
and did not vote against Mr. Bryan, if
they did not vote for him, have been
working for nearly a year to prevent
his denomination. Senator German,
who has been the first choice of most
of them against him, and who may be
considered their leader, Richard Gro
ker, Edward Murphy, David B. Hill,
James Smith Jr., Mayor Josiah Quincy
are the chief men in this movement in
the East, and they have the support of
Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri and
Mayor Harrison of Chicago, both of
whom think that they will be nomi-
mated for the Presidency, or at least
the Vice-Presidency, as German and
Stone or German and Harrison, and
Of other Western leaders for personal
reasons.
AN INNER CIRCLE.
There is an inner circle of managing
men, of which Mr.. Hill is not a mem
Der, which met at Senator Murphy's
cottage at Long Branch last summer
and laid the plans for recognizing the
Democratic party so as to get back as
many of the voters who left it in 1895
as possible without making leaders of
the men who nominated and supported
the Palmer and Buckner gold Democrat
ticket. Personal ambition aside, they
would perhaps have been willing to
tale Mr.. Bryan as a candidate again
ON a new platform, if that had been
possible, but they felt that that would
be less acceptable to the men they want
to attract than a new candidate on the
old platform. Yet they did not decide
to discard Mr. Bryan until they We're
satisfied that they could not manage
him.
Nh. Bryan. they found, thought that
he would lose his position as leader en-
tirely if he gave up at all, and insisted
on the whole of the old platform and
on giving as much prominence as pos
sible to his pet issue, the free coinage
at 16 to 1. He has become, like most
of the men who hove seriously es-
housed that issue, fanatical upon it,
and. regardless of economic or business
conditions, insists upon pressing it.
Returning prosperity, which will de-
prive it of it's main strength as 'tca-
lamity" issue, a remedy for lack of
wages does not seem to affect his view
of its availability, and he believes that
three-fourths Of the men who voted for