The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-03
ON CHICAGO PLATFORM
TIME FOR BITTERNESS AND RE-
VENICE PAST.
CRoKERS' TRIBUTE TO BRYAN SIGNIFICANT
New York no Longer Recognized as the Enc
my's Country. Bryan the Candidate
in 1900 With no Modification
of the Platform.
(James Creelman, in n. Y. Journal)

tJdHleS OfeeIHlaH, Ill N. l.. JouFudlJ
Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 2S.-The most
tremendous fact in the political situation
today seems to be that Ohio is likely to
be the scene of great unihcation III
the Democratic party. With the nomi-
nation of John II. Mclean for Cover
nor, on a platform indorsng Bryan and
reaffirming the Chicago platform, ths
rank and file of the party will be re-
united. Mr.. Bryan will come to Ohio
and lead the fight
Those who formerly were known as
gold Democrats will be found working
heartily for the candidates nominated
by the Chicago platform Democrats and
Populists. Senator Hanna's almost in
credibly brutal and corrupt methods
have made it impossible for self-respect-
ing gold Democrats to support his can
didate for Governor. Thousands of
Republicans have been driven from their
party by Mr.. Hanna. There are fanat-
les among the free silver men who still
whoOp and snort at every sign of recon-
ciliation with the former gold Demo
Gratis and denounce them as agents of
Wall street, but the really able and re-
sponsible leaders are glad to assist in
re-assembling the Democratic forces.
: = T st -s
ALL OF ONE SENTIMENT.
/ have talked very freely, not only
with Mr.. Bryan, but with much more
radical men, like Altgeld. Everywhere
I find the same sentiment, that the time
for revenge and bitterness is past, and
that every man who calls himself a
Democrat must submit to the rule of the
majority in his party or cease to call
himself a Democrat. Let no man in
the Eastern States deceive himself for
a moment regarding the present state
Of facts, or the prospects for the imme-
diate future.
The National Convention will be held
within eight months, and no change can
be effected between now and then. Mr..
Bryan will be renominated, the Chicago
platform will be readopted, the imperial
policy of the Republican party in the
Philippines will be denounced and Il
specific legislative remedy for the trust
evil proposed. The Democratic party is
overwhelmingly committed to this
course, and | fail to find a sign of real
opposition. If Mr.. Bryan is alive next
summer he will be the Democratic can
didate for President. Democrats in the
East had better realize now the utter
futility of attempting TO secure a modi-
fication of the party's financial policy
The free coinage of silver and gold at
the present ratio of 16 to / is an immova-
BILE fact in the Democratic creed.
PLATFORM TO PLEASE ALL.
Many of the Western and Southern
leaders say that they do not expect
Democrat in a strong gold standard
community in the Feast to stake every
thing on free silver, but they do expect
him to Loyalty accept the Democratic
platform as a whole, and if he cannot
fight for any one plank In 1t, at best
he will find a sufficient creed and ade-
quate issues in anti-imperialism, anti
trustism, the income tax, opposition to
government by injunction and official
arbitration of disputes between capt.
tai and labor.
| find in my jonrneying that a great
deal of bitterness has vanished since
1896. Mr.. Croker's significant tribute
to Mr.. Bryan is taken everywhere as a
sign that the plain people or New York,
and of the East generally, have real
lied the genuineness and nobility OF
Mr.. Bryan's character and the patriot
ism of his millions of supporters in the
west anu SOUIM. Il lie effect vi WI.
Croker's utterance through the Jcnr-
nal really is remarkable. The Western
and Southern leaders know that Mr.
Croker seldom takes a stand until he
is sure how the plain people of New
York feel. They know that the Tam
many leader has more than once car
ried the metropolis at the polls against
the combined position or the press,
and they believe he is surer Judge of
the masses in New York than almost
any other man.
In the East and South New York is
no longer recognized as "the enemy's
country"
NEW YORK WILL ACQUIESCE.
Mr. Bryan and his friends are salts
fed that whatever the delegates from
New York State may propose in the
National Convention they will Loyalty
acauiesce in the decision of the ma
iority. That decision can be stated
now with practical certainty, and
Democrats who have been nourishing
themselves on the hope that the ratio
is to be omitted from the free silver
plank had better give up the delusion.
If there is any man VINO will refuse
to support Mr.. Bryan and the Chicago
platform with the added issue of anti
"a h. aIy..