The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-05
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS ARE
WORKING TOGETHER FOR Sue
CESS OF THE PARTY
NOT A HITCH Has OCCURRED
PLATFORM WILL BE WORDED so
AS TO MEET THE WISHES OF
ALL ELEMENTS
MR.. BRYAN AND MR.. TowNE
Two Gentlemen Who VIII Go Fish
ing While Republicans Are De-
IiberatinS at Philadelphia
Travelling Men Recognized.

NEW YORK, June 4-lf the proceed
ings of the state convention of the Demo
cratic party tomorrow are as harmoni-
ously conducted as was the meeting Of
the state committee tonight the pro-
gramme laid out by the leaders will slide
off very easily. The committee was in
session but a few minutes. Ex-senator
y. B. Hill moved that James Norton, of
Troy, be named as temporary chairman,
and 1t was so decided without a dissent
ing voice. Secretaries were selected; the
roll of delegates was adopted as a tenn
porary organization and the committee
adjourned.
The convention will meet at II O'Clock
tomorrow morning. After the usual
speeches and committee appointments
the convention will adjourn until p m.
The committee on permanent organiza-
ton will report the name of Elliot Dan
forth for permanent chairman, and MIR.
Danforth will speak for about ten min,
Utcs. The committee on platform will
then report, and the egates-at-large
and by districts will be named.
1t is altogether probable that the plat
form presented and adopted will be as
radical as the most ardent admirer of
William J. Bryan can wish. The Chicago
platform will be nearly, if not absolutely,
lndor cd. An antitrust plank, drawn by
CcmptroIer Coler, will be one of the
features, and attention may be called 70
the fact that bill drawn by Democrats
and aimed at trusts has been on tha
Statute books for two years, and never
enforced by a Republican administration
The delegates at large are expected to
be: EX-SenatOrs Murphy and Hill, Rich
ard Croker and Augustus Van Wyck
Mr. Van Wyck's name was handled in
conversation in the corridors tonight in
an unfavorable manner, his connection
with the ice trust being used as an argu-
mont against him To these criticisms
the Kings county delegates answered,
saying that Mr.. Van Wyck desired cleo
tion as vindication and that after selec-
ton he would withdraw in favor of
James Shevlin.
Ex-senator Hill has been selected for
chairman of the committee on resolutions
and is busy on the preparation of the
platform tonight being assisted in that
enterprise by ex-senator Murphy, Perry
Belmont, J. F. Capron and Elliot Dan
forth. They hardly got down to work
before a committee of Chicago platform
Democrats paid them visit. The COM
mittee asked that the platform be SO
worded as to give plainly an Endorsement
to the issues of 1896. They were not ad-
verse to new issues, but they did not
want the issues Of the Chicago platform
discarded. They were told that the plat
form would give satisfaction to all
The new state committee IS said to be
favorable to ex-senator Hill.
At midnight the leaders were still In
conference. The silver delegation, which
called early, was told to call later in the
evening, and hear the revised platform
read, when any objections they made
would be considered.
The name of Augustus Van Wyck was
taken from the list OF delegates-at-large
and that of Norman Black, of Buffalo,
substituted.