Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-22
POLL OF NEW YORK
Latest Made Gives Mckinley Plu-
rality Of 1860.
WHERE TIE VOTES Are LOCATED
Even Bryan's Supporters Are Large
Iy Against Free Silver.
ATTITUDE OF WALL STREET

! Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, October 81, 1900.
1t may be coincidence, but nevertheless
| 1t is a fact that on the very day that re-
publican paper in this city interviewed
| the Tammany Hall representatives and
found that all but one were in favor of gold
| the stock market scared up four or five
| points The only exception was Repre-
sentative Sulzer. He announced that he
stood squarely on the Kansas City plat
| form, and that he was firm for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver as ever.
| But men like Goldfogle and Cremer and
Hill and Oliver H. P. Belmont, men who
| were supposed to stand on the Kansas City
| platform, declared emphatically in favor
of the gold standard.
To the free coinage men in the city, in
deed to the free coinage men throughout
the country, these declarations came with
all the force of knockout blow. There is
no doubt but that they would have hest
tated to take this stand if their leader W.
J. Bryan, had come out squarely for silver
In his Madison Square Garden speech. He
has been afraid to discuss free silver in
the east, and 1t required the combined
genius of the Cornell College boys for
quizzlng to induce him to even admit that
he favored the plank in the platform which
he forced upon the Kansas City convention
with the assistance of King David of Ha-
wall
there are many among the labor organiza-
lions in this city, are furious is expressing
II mildly Almost to a man they are now
threatening to vote for the socialst-abor
candidates for Congress, and the result will
be the return of several more republicans
from this neck of the woods than even the
republicans themselves have anticipated
The laboring unions have decided to con-
their efforts Pan ant i've
suffers district and to let all the other
districts go by default. They say that thew
VIII see to 1t that his majority is not de-
creased by the courageous stand that he
mas taken. 1t is only fair to add that in
taking this poll it was found that Repre-
sentative Cummings out of town and
that Representative Muller was ill and
could not be seen.
Free Silver is Doomed.
Not even in 1896 were the free silver men
In such desperate straits. 1t is admitted
on all hands that their cause is doomed.
Even If a democrat is returned from Mas
sachusetts he Will be a gold standard dem
ocrat who will vote with the republicans on
all questions of currency. AS for Brook
!yn. the Brooklyn democratic organization
has had the nerve to come out openly in
favor of the gold standard, and the demo-
cratic organization sounds the praises of
gold In terms so pronounced that it reads
like republican doctrine. There is only one
congressman canOlOate on the democratic
side of the fence who is likely to be re-
turned from New Jersey, and that is Allan
McDermitt, who has about 10000 majority
to play with in Hudson county. And the
democratic candidate in Hudson county is
out for the gold standard openly He
boasts of 1t on the stump and openly an
nounces his intention of voting with the
republicans on currency propositions.
with the democratic party torn by accusa-
tions of treachery to the platform, with the
candidates for Congress openly repudiating
the Kansas City platform, it will be seen
that Organism has received its death blow
In this state. Many of the more radical
Bryan men are going over to Debs. while
many of the more conservative democrats
are getting disguised and will vote for Mr.
kinley.
the reason that many fake bets are be-
ing reported, but the stock market is an
infallible barometer. Four years ago at
this time there a great slump in the
stock market because many business men
feared that Bryan might possibly be elect
ed. Today stocks are booming and bound
ing, the utmost confidence prevails in the
money markets, bankers are extending
their loans and are paying no more atten-
ton to Bryan than they are to Debs.
Imperialism a Weak Issue.
AS for the Imperialism issue, it is really
the weakest issue the democrats have this
year, so far as vote-getting possibilities in
this state are concerned. More men are
driven away than are attracted by it.
That Bryan never had a chance in this |
state is demonstrated best by the fact that |
a conference of leading democrats was held |
in this city last spring. This was during |
the days when Judge Van Wyck was talked |
of as a presidential possibility, and when |
Admiral Dewey was anxious for presi- |
Dental nomination. Men like Lamont, |
Whitney, German, j. r. Mclean and David |
3. Hill were present at this conference. |
A fter a careful review of conditions If
agreed that Mckinley was too strong with |
the business interests Of the country and |
that it would have been impossible to beat !
him with conservative candidate. 1t was |
agreed that If Bryan was turned down. |
that he would loom up as a presidential |
factor in 1904, and it was agreed that the |
best thing that could be done would be to !
eliminate Bryan from democratic politics |
for all time to come. 1t was agreed that |
Bryan must be whipped and whipped COM
pletely. 1t was argued that the net result |
Of this campaign must be the striking of |
the death knell of free silver and all that |
the Nebraska school of politics represents.
This, 1t may be said on authority, was the |
real reason why the monied democrats did
not beat Bryan at Kansas City There
never was time when Lamont and Whit ,
ney and German could not have secured a |
third of the democratic delegates and made
the nomination of Bryan impossible under
the two-thirds rule. But it was universally |
agreed that this would only mean a post
ponement Of the day of fate and another
battle with Organism four years from now.
In the light Of recent events it is now
said here that 1t would seem as though |
Bryan would have been better off POLITICAL
ly If he had been beaten at Kansas City
and man like Hill had been forced to
take the nomination. Bryan then might
have been presidential possibility in 1904.
But If he receives less electoral votes than
he did four years ago, and this is regarded |
here as among the possibilities. 1t would
seem as though he was not likely to dupIi-
cate the unfortunate experience of Henry
Clay by becoming candidate for President |
three times.
AS a prominent democrat said to your
today:
take 1t all in all, the outlook for the
democratic party in the future Is Anything
but bright. If Bryan is beaten and the I
democrats come into control |
Of the party machinery the Bryanites will |
sulk. And II Bryan and his friends remain
in control of the destinies of the party it |
begins to look as though at least quar-
ter of a century must elapse before the |
democrats can hope to elect a President. |
Tammany Hall remains regular in spite. of |
the fact that Croker and his democratic
club are really for Mckinley and Roosevelt
policies so far as the nation is concerned. /
But the office pickingS here In the city are