The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-04
DAVID B. HILL SURRENDERS
CONSENTS TO INsTRUCTING NEW
YORK DELEGATES FOR BRYAN.
At Conference Last Night the Pro-
gramme Was Announced. hin
Finding That the odd. Are
Against Him Among the Leaders

Special Dispatch TO the Post-Int diligence
NEW YORK. June : David Bennett
Hi has bowed the knee. 20 Richard Crok-
er and there will be no fsht ir tAe Demo
cratic state convention IN the Academy of
Music Tuesday. between lin and Croker
forces over instructiuE the Now York
delegation to Kansas City for Bryan. This
announcement was made AT the Hoffman
house tonight after two hours confer
euce in the rooms Of ex-senator Edward
Murphy There were present at the con-
ference besides Murphy. Hili Frank Camp
bell. chairman Of the Democratic SKATE
committee John r Carroll. temporary
leader; Senator Thomas F Grady and
James Shelvin. Senator Patrick Henry No
Carren and eX-Supreme Court Justice
Augustus Van Wyck. brooklyn
Croker issued "a mandate a week ago
that the state convention must .ndCrse
Bryan and instruct The delegates at large
TO Kansas City and the district delegates
from the state for Bryan Hin said he
was willing the state convention should
say a kind word for Bryan. bur the dele
gates must go to Kansas CITY uninstruCt-
ell. Murphy. with his nine delegates from
Rensselaer, and hfty-sevcu 4 sjNty-three
delegates from Kings was n Hirs back
hut 1t has been suspected Tor three ar four
days that Murphy and his delegates were
Roost. At the conference this fact was
established. and HIN soon learned enough
to make him throw up mis- hands and
promised the convention VIII be a Bryan
convention sn every respect except, posi-
bly,. as 10 PLATFORM
The delegates at large are to be IIin
and ex-Justice Van Wyck. though Il was
said HIN may hold to the threat his friends
have made for him that II he was 10 he
~ ,t..l Ilr.4a ~,
he would stay at home This threat was.
again in the air tonight, but how anthem
tic IL may he was not ascertaincd
Concerning the platform TO be adopted
by the convention there may be friction.
It was discussed at the conference. 1t
Is Hill's idea the platform should be
mass Of labvrinthian subterfuges should
sound Organism. and yet not really so,
and should Jingle bimetallism something
after the fashion Of Hills famous Elmira
speech But the real friends Of Bryan In
the state demand reaffrmation Of the
Chicago platform OF 90. There is threat
hanging over the Democratic state con-
vention Two weeks ago Chicago plat
form. Democrats held a convention and
adjourned to meet again Wednesday.
should the regulars refuse to tndorse
the Chicago platform, Chicago platform
Democrats are to send a contesting dele
cation to Kansas city. conference
OF Bryan men Is TO he held at the Grand
Union hotel Monday evening. at which
II IS hoped to patch up all differences In
light Of the results Of today's conference,
AZ which i'm surrendered unronditionally,
It is thought all danger Of a split is past.
wharton Baker. candidate for president
the middie-of- the-road Populists. called
up N I'M today and reiterated what he
said in Cincinnati--that his nomination
would take from Bryan 100000 PopGiists
n n
more that his nomination meant the sure
defeat Of Bryan at the polls. and finally
tina, II made Bryan's nomination at Kan
sas CITY exceedingly doubtful I'm and
Barker had very interesting consuita-
ton. but neither would discuss H.