Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-23
NEW o A DEMOCRATS.

New York will embrace $50 delegates, of
whom 2Ss nave already been chosen. Of
This number 1872 have declared in favor
of the nomination of Bryan, while 126 re-
fuse to pledge themselves to that propo-
sition. The views of the 1852 delegates
yet to be named must determine the at
sumo. 1t appears that Tammany fur
nishes the greater proportion of those
delegates who refuse to commit them
selves to the candidacy of Bryan, and
that it is the purpose of that organiza-
ton to send IN unpledged delegation to
Kansas City, despite the professions Of
friendship SO warmly made by it's &C
credited chief when discussing the future
nominee of the democratic party. mas
much as Bryan's nomination is a fore
gone conclusion, and the democrats of
New York can entertain no reasonable
hope of DETECTING the Kansas City con-
vention from hat course, the refusal of
so large a percentage of the delegates to
pledge themselves to the prospective
nominee admits of but one interpreta-
ton.
The unit rule, which prevails in the ma
tional conventions of the democratic
party, has greater significance to the
New Workers than to the delegation from
any other state. This is due not only to
the size of the delegation, which is enor-
NOUS as compared with the other states,
but to the unhappy experiences of the
past. In the national convention in 1884
there was a fierce contest in the New
York delegation over the candidacy of
Grover Cleveland-John Kelly, the then
leader of Tammany, Bourke Cochran,
senator Grady and others. leading the
fight against the fat prophet, who was
hands of Providence for the future un-
doing of his party. By a majority of
four-if u memory serves us correctly
OR a margin equally Insignificant, the
Cleveland men controlled the New York
delegation and cast it's entire vote
for their favorite. It was a picturesque
scene-and a fair illustration of the bust
ness methods of the democratic party
for Kelly n Cochran and Grady to
fume and froth in paroxysms of fervid
oratory against the man of destiny
while their votes We're counted for him,
and made possible his final nomination.
If the Tammany democrats We're at
heart in favor of Bryan's election they
would not only pledge themselves indi-
vidually to his nomination, and insist
upon placing themselves in the forefront
of his warmest advocates and friends,
but would offer no resistance whatever
to the unit rule in his behalf. Such a
course would have served notice on the
party throughout he state that Bryan
was entitled to the undivided support of
his party. Blu the reticence of the Tam
many democrats means that it is their
intention to knife Bryan at the polls,
or, as the price of their support, secure
pledges as to the disposition of federal
patronage in the event of his election,
which will practically deprive the origi-
nal silver men of that state of it's con-
troll. The vote Of New York city, up to
Harlem bridge, usually determines the
result in that state, and Tammany does
not propose to throw it's strength to
Bryan, either before or after the ma
tional convention, without ample pledges
as to value received, should victory hap
pen to perch on the democratic Flagstaff.