Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-19
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1899.
CORMAN'S

The friends of Mr.. Bryan are disposed
to laugh at the possibility of any other
democrat being nominated for the presi-
dency in 1900. Notwithstanding the
Palmer-Buckner detection in 1896, they
will seldom acknowledge that conditions
may arise within the next few months
that nay bring some other democrat
prominently to the front as the pros
pective nominee of that party. Hon.
George w. Keeney, president of the AS
ISOLATION of Silver Clubs, who created
something of a sensation a few days
since by expressing the belief that the
silver question would be retired to the
background, has started anew the dis
cussion as to the availability Of Gorman
with the following statement:
German is stronger thar he is usually
considered. There is a strong disposition
on the part Of the eastern and southern
democrats to try an eastern man next
year. and German may prove to be a very
powerful factor IN the result. The south
erners are repeating that the western
combination failed in 1896 and in 1898 and
that the chief consideration at this time
is success. They will, l believe, demand
south and one who will not in himself
revive the old issues upon which we have
met only defeat and disaster.
In the foregoing Mr.. Keeney unques-
tionably makes out a strong case in
favor of Mr.. Gorman.if the facts justify
his conclusions. On the face of things,
Mr.. Bryan has by far the stronger hold
on the nomination, and if his party was
united on the issues which his candidacy
would represent, his nomination might
be considered a %foregone conclusion.
Such is not the case, however, and it is
a mistake for his hackers to look upon
his selection as inevitable.
The only time in recent years when the
democracy accorded a unanimous nomi-
nation to a candidate for the presidency
was in 1883. when Cleveland was nomi-
mated to succeed himself without an OPP
posing vote. There was no division in
his party as to national policies, and a
nomination for a second term was given
him as a matter of course. Tilden in
1875, Hancock in 1880, Cleveland in 1884
and again in 1892, had to fight for the
coveted honor of a nomination.. In
earlier times the same was true of Nc
Clellan, Seymour and Greeley. With the
exception noted, it has ever been the
policy of the democratic party to put up
a vigorous fight over convention honors.
1t is not at all likely that Bryan, rep
%resenting nothing but the lost cause OF
1896, and the interests of but one wing
of his party, will be accorded the nomi.
nation in 1900 without making a roya
fight for it. 1t is probable that Mr.
Keeney speaks by the card when he
refers to the possible candidacy of Mr.
German. Not only will the anti-silvel
wing of the democracy flock to the Cor
man standard, when it is raised, blu
thousands of silver democrats who fol
lowed Bryan in 1896 will cast their 10
with German in the belief that the vet
eran statesman will more thoroughly re
III IL poANy tA u All,
to it's chances for success.
German represents what may b
termed the "old" democracy in contra
distinction to the new democracy rep
esent by Bryan. The old, or unre
generated democracy, has two nationa
victories to it's credit since the disastrou
days of the Buchanan administrator
while the new, or recently purified de
mocracy, is still in red ink with the ma
tional defeat of 1896 and the congress
siona rebuffs of 1898 blurring it's politica
ledger. Those who do not wish to Sc
the party purified into a condition O
hopeless eXpectancy-rectiied out of ex
istence, as it were-will doubtless con
centrate their strength in an effort t
prevent Bryan from getting the nomina
ton next year. They will overlook tn
prevailing belief in the west hi Brya
is the stronger and better man to nom
nate, and probably turn to German a
q party Saviour.
pnP AasASRf, Ana