Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-10
THE FIGHT ON BRYAN
Pow erful Influences Trying to Eimi-
nate Him From Democracy.
LED BY CLEVELANDS SUPPORTERS
Republicans View the !nternecine
Struggle With Satisfaction.
THE PROBABLE OUTCOME


Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
NEW YORK. November 8, 1900
1t Is apparent that powerful forces are
trying to swing the democratic party back
to the position which 1t occupied during
the old Cleveland days. w. R. Hearst, who
Is at the head of the National Association
OF Democratic Clubs and his syndicate of
papers led off with a proposition for a
newer democracy the morning after the
election. Mr.. Hearst's democracy in view
of the money that he spent during the re-
cent campaign is not questioned by the
| Bryanites themselves. He Is endeayorinR
TO mold the League of Democratic Clubs
in accordance with his ideas, and the Anti
1mperialist Clubs are also out with .trum-
pet calls to duty" asking for a reorgani-
cation of the democratic party with i'm
perialism the issue and free silver elimi-
mated. But it is the Cleveland Olney-,ior-
man Whitney Hill-Harrison combination
that the Bryanites. 1t may authoritatively
| be stated, fear most Of all These men are
practical politicians, and they will have
the advantage Of proceeding from the DO
sltion of being regular democrats The
bryan men are not afraid of former Secre-
| tary of the Treasury John c.. Carlisle In
fact, they take pride in pointing to the
fact that his pet candidate, J. Sprunt Hill
was beaten by 1000 votes in a congress
Captain William Aston Chandler 1O,uUo piu-
| rality. AS for George Foster Peabody, an
other reconstructiontst he is known merely
as the political sponsor of the Palmer and
| Buckner movement in 1896. movement
| which Is said to have cost $40 a vote for
| every vote polled. Though chairman of
| the gold democratic national executive
| committee in 1896 he supported mckinney
| in 1900, and is classified as a republican.
| James H. Eckles, former controller of the
| currency, follows his eX-chief in denounc-
ing the Bryan brand of democracy, but he
was also a pronounced advocate Of Ackin-
| ley in the recent election.
Fears Cleveland Voted for Bryan.
One of the most ardent Bryan men in this
city was heard to remark on the night of
| election:
THE one thing that I regret most Of all
is that four years from row eX-President
| Cleveland will probably be around boast
| ing that he voted for Bryan and thus pre-
| SerNi- < the appearance of regularity, just
| as David B. Hill during the last campaign
| boaSted that he voted for Bryan in 1896,
| though 1t was well known that he voted for
Palmer and Buckner for the reason that
| there were only four votes cast for the
| gold standard candidates, and taree of
those only could be accounted for. If we
could ony have smoked Hill out in 1S9o
and Cleveland in lyS would be wiling
| to lose both campaigns AS a matter OF
| fact one will now know how Cleveland
voted, and he will be able to pose
loyal democrat and head the New Jersey
delegation in the next convention, just as
| Hill was one of the New York state lead
! erS In this convention.
! 1t seems to be the consensus of opinion
among republican and democratic leaders
| here in the east that the republicans gained
a greater victory in the last election than
! they aware of themselves. The prop
! sition to reorganize the democratic party
( goes to prove th.s For reorganization
means that another. fight will be prec,pi-
! t3tpE CONSERVATIVE
wings III the party besides which the Gid
fights will pale into insignificance. Had
! Mr. Bryan been defeated by about the same
electoral vote that he received in 1896. ow
! ing to the large increase in the popular
! vote. the Bryanites would have been great
! ly discouraged. AS matters now stand.
| however, 1t leaves the radical and the con-
! servative 50 closely balanced that there
apparently are still dark days ahead for
Miss Democracy and her friends. If The
/ Organizes had made electoral gains, ii is
/ even possible that the forces of disorder
mig have gathered so much strength that
i they might nave made things Lively for the
| republican candidates in 1sU4, but just at
! present the conservatives who are trying to
! obtain control of the party machinery will
undoubtedly make things SO Lively Tor the
| Bryanites that they VIII have little no
| time to devote to the common enemy, the
| republicans.
| Bryan Ready to Drop Silver.
Those who best know and understand MIR.
| Bryans currency views here in the east
| say that Mr.. Bryan himself will not now
| advocate the free and Unlimited coinage Of
! silver at the ratio Of Ii 20 /, without wait
! Ing for the aid or consent of any other ma
! ton on earth They assert that AIR. Bryan
{ Is 50 much Of a jefferson democrat in his
views that he Is Always wiling to bow to
the will of the majority And as he has re-
peatedly GATED attention to the fact that
revcr in the history Of the world has The
people Of any nation voted for the gold
standard l.t- did think it possible thar
the people of the United States wound vote
that way last Tuesday. Now that they
have decided in favor of gold Dionometai-
llSn. Mr.. Bryan, it is Gained. Wlil take
the position that It would be wrong and dis
honest t" the creditor classes in Europe and
this country not to keep our faith with
the nations of the world and pay our debts
In the same kind of money that the con-
! tracts cal for. All contracts from on
will be on a god basis and inaSmuch as 1t
Is nominated in the bond that We must pay
in gold Mr.. Bryan, it is said. will favor our
Keeping our obligations no matter how
mrcl. he may think the people will suffer
in consequence. This does not mean that
, Mr.. Bryan will necessarily give up his fight
foe bimetaliism as an ideal. an object to be
attained at some time in the future after
due notice to the creditor classes; but 1t
does mean that even if he had the power to
establish free silver at a ratio Of l6 to he
would not now do 1t without due notice to
the creditor classes that after a certain
dat this would be made the American pol
Icy.
Mr.. Bryan. 1t has been explained by
frieEds, has always viewed the subject of
free silver from a moral standpoint rather
| from the view point of economics. He has
always contended that 1t was wrong and
unjust to the debtor classes for the govern
! n.enr to force them to pay In gold when the
traditional policy OF the country has been
| to give the debtor the option as to which
kind OF coin he should elect to use In meet
ing his obligations. 81 Now that the gold
standard has been srnade.ft the law of the
land by the vote of the people of the coun-
try, 1t Is claimed that the Nebraska man
will Just as stoutly resist any change to a
bin,etallic policy without hAmple notice to
the nations of the world.Qs
bar. bryan aW Educator.
M. Rryan's ASSOCIATES here In New York
say that they have Gpme 10 look upon the
Nebraska man not in the light of an execu-
tive, but in the light of "A great educational
force. They regard him as the expounder
OF the Constitution. just as Daniel Web
ster was the eXpoupder of the Constitution
nifty years ago. They Insist that he Is
pleading against white Industrial slavery.
| just as Abraham Lincoln pleaded aga INST
black slavery. This is, undoubtedly an ex-
IRENE view and the sentiment Is quoted
merely for the sake of showing how danger