The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-28
Impossible TO Suppress Bryan and
Free Coinage.
CONTROL OF CONVENTION
GOLD MEN coNcEDE FUTILITY
OF THE STRUGGLE.
Reply to Perry Belmont Re-
garded as Center Shot-Gold
Democrats Concede Bryan's Re-
nomination, and Will Again As
sist in Electing Mckinley.
Special Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Washington, March 24.-The Demo
| cratic contest for the control of the
convention of 1900 has started at an un-
commonly early date. The first gun
was fired by the man who led the first
battle for the reforms of the Chicago
platform, and who is expected to lead
| the second and winning one next year.
1t was fired from a 13-inch gun, and 1t
struck true to the. mark and sent to
the bottom the craft rugged up by New
York gold Democrats to block the sue
ceiss of silver in the next convention.
Bryan's reply to Perry Belmont's invi-
tation is regarded by members of all
parties here as a center shot. Ii not
only places silver Democrats on the
offensive and insures their alertness in
the coming contest, but it has practic-
ally convinced the gold standard DEM
ocrats of the utter hopelessness of their
effort to hold third of the delegates
in the next convention, thus blocking
Bryan's nomination under the vener-
able two thirds rule.
There has been some very brave talk
ing done by the gold men on this sub
ject, as heretofore suggested in this
correspondence. New York gold Demo-
Gratis had not lesitated to say that
they could safely rely on something like
800 delegates who would never vote for
Bryan. The Bryan Belmont correspond
ence and the spirited comments that
have followed it have led to a radical
change in the opinions of these people.
Although only this single shot has been
fired in the anti-convention contest,
they already concede the futility of the
struggle against his nomination But
~ 1,oi,r ,ie1a't hac
not had the effect of curing them of the
same yellow jaundice that they exhibit
ed in 1885, In fact, some of them seem
to have it worse. Ex-Congresslnan. Jo-
seph H. Cultivate of Ohio, formerly
Democratic member of congress, a gold
bolter in 1896 and now holding a fat Of
flee given him by the president for his
course in that campaign, has been in
the city this week. In an interview he
practically gives up all hope of defeat
ing Bryan's nomination. He says: 1T
is not clear to me that the gold Demo-
Gratis will attempt to go to the national
convention. But if Mr.. Bryan is re-
nominated they will certainly take the
same course to defeat him, and they
will succeed as they did before. Mr..
! Cultivate fancies that he sees a dispo-
sition on the part of a great many men
who supported free silver in 1896 to
consider it of far less Importance than
they did during the last campaign.
But when asked if he thought the silver
sentiment of the country was really
waning, he admitted that he could not
say that he saw any tide against free
: silver. His idea. of defections from the
Bryan vote of two years ago is based,
| by his own statement, on his belief that
there are thousands of Democrats who
do not believe in Bryan's silver notions
or some other features of the Chicago
platform, but who voted for Bryan on
the ground of regularity. There are
many signs that this class of Democrats
will refuse next year to be bound down
| to his notion Of what constitutes Dem
! ocracy."
Before closing his interview, Mr..
! Cultivate gave expression to just what
allied him. Like many other gold Dem
ocraIts who have been hopeful of pre-
| venting Bryan's nomination, he has
been struck squarely amidship by the
Bryan letter to Belmont. However, he
endeavors to hide his chagrin in the
following supposed-to-be sarcastic OBJ
servation: He says: 1T is a great
mistake on the part of Belmont to in
wife Bryan to address a Jeffersonian
audience. They should also have in
vited Tom Watson. The Georgia Popu-
| list was just as much entitled to such
consideration as was the NebraSkan.
ReImonE's first reply to Bryans letter
was sufficient, but he did not seem to
see that the sentence had a double
meaning When Belmont said 'indi-
vidual opinions have not been consid-
cred in issuing the invitations to cele-
brate the birthday of Thomas Jeffer-
son. he was politely informing Mr..
Bryan that if he was going to invite
sound Democrats only he would not
have been invited
STILL WORSHIPING CLEVELAND.
The amiable j. Sterling Morton is an
other example of a, gold-clad pierced
through and through by the Bryan
Belmont correspondent Morton does
| not like the Republican party quite as
we'll as Mr.. Cultivate or Mr.. Bynum.
| He has not Jared as we'll, for they both
hold good jobs as a result of their in
! tense loyalty to principle and disloy-
atty to the party in 1896. The Arbor day
sage. according to a, special dispatch
Post, has hopes that the petty ''rump"
party which supported Palmer and
Buckner may be continued in existence.
| He even has visions Of CleVeland's re-
! turn to political life He says: "He may
not want to return, but he may be
dragged back into political life. He is
a good type of the man wanted to
| lead. the eX-Secretafy OIL agriculture
! admits that the country is now Sin
perfect delirium of extravaganza
! in all branches of the govern
ment, national, state and local."
! that "the fixed charges 'upon the
| Individual in a community are now
about all he can earn over and above
! the actual cost of living; and that the
Republican party was elected to secure
currency REFORM and has not lived up
to it's promises" All this seems to
convince Mr.. Morton that the great po-.
litical need of the hour is a one-horse
| Democratic sideshow, to be operated to
assist the Republican candidate and
party to be again successful, and go on
! failing to live up to its promises. He