The age-herald., 1899-03-19

one-third of the votes in the next conven- ton, and can force the nomination of some other candidate than Bryan unless the Bry- an maority in the convention votes to dis regard party precedent and to nominate by majority vote
 Figures of the Anti-Bryanites.
 The Post here has just published an arr ticle on this movement and presents the figures upon which the anti-Bryanites rely. The number of delegates will be S94 from the states. and there will be about thirty from the territories, making an aggregate of 924 One-third of these will be 3OS, and the anti-Bryan people already claim to have 314 from the following states:
 New England states, 7S; Deeware, 6; Maryland. 16; Minnesota, 16; New Jersey, 20;. New York, 72 Oregon, s; Pennsylvania, 64; Washington, s; Wisconsin, 24; total, 3l4. Aside from these delegates there will be forty-six from Ohio, forty-eight from llli- nois, thirty from Indiana, twenty-six from Iowa and six from North Dakota Wig orous fights are to be made in these states for the control of the organization, and should either of the large states be con- trolled it would probably give the anti Bryanites more than third of the dele gates, and the supporters of the former nominee would find themselves in an em- barrassing position.
 The Movement Against Bryan.
 
 it is said, the anti-silver democrats are prompted by desire to have a nominee who will permit the silver issue to be less prominent than it was in 1896, and thereby open a way for a retreat from the strong advocacy of free silver These democrats, 1t is claimed, think defeat for the party in 1900 is inevitable If the free silver issue is forced to the front with as much vigor and exclusiyeness as formerly; that the party will receive a blow from which it will not recover for years. On the other hand, they feel that if the party goes down in defeat next year, but with the silver issue sub ordinated, and with a compromise candt- date in the field, the party will be in con- dition to reorganize on old lines, generally with its old issues, and 1t will be easy to abandon free coinage at 16 to l.
 MT. Bryan is well aware of the schemes which ara being matched against him, and so he is forcing the issue at the present time with the democrats in the east His letter to eBlmont was in direct line of this. MT Bryan and his followers here believe that there are enough democrats in the east who favor Bryan and free silver to force the organization of the party on the old Bryan and free silver lines. To this end 1t will be the constant endeaVor to force out of the party every democrat who is not open and above board for free silver Mir. Bryan's friends here are thoroughly alive to the situation and of the danger Wnlcn threatens InSlf candidate. They say openly that rather than not nominate him at all they would disregard the pre- cedent of the two-thirds rule but 1t is pre- vent such an infraction of a time-honored democratic custom that they are now working.
 Mckinley and Roosevelt.
 It is rather significant that the admin istration republican papers of New York and elsewhere are tipping the ticket Me Kinley and Roosevelt for 1900. It is under stood that the managers are responsible for this forecast, and that they dropped the hints first from here. It is stated moreover with positive assurance that the adminis- tration friends will have decided that MT. Hobart must be sacrificed to precedent and that if Roosevelt can not be made to &C., cept second place then to go to the far west for a candidate for the vice-presidency.
 The friends of Colonel Roosevelt pooh pooh the idea of their hero accepting a sec ond place on the ticket with Mckinley. They sa ythe governor of New York is playing for bigger game They say frankly that he will never destroy his chances for the presidency by accepting the vice-presi- dency The days have gone by, they say, when it is possible for vice-president ever to be promoted
 There is no doubt but that the effort will