Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26
PLANS OF THE DEMOCRATS.
Bryan's New Platform Seems TO he
in Favor among Certain
Following.

There is democratic authority for
the statement that Mr.. Bryan has net
surrendered the leadership of his par
ty. Those in the confidence of Mr..
Bryan claim that the populistic wing
of the democratic party will put him
forward as a candidate for governor
Of Nebraska, in the belief that if he
is nominated and elected he can be
nominated for the presidency in 1904,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
This statement is coolly or contemp-
tuously received by democratic news
papers in Chicago and throughout the
east. They concede that Nebraska hav-
ing given republican ma jority in 1900
when Mr.. Bryan was eXerting all his
influence, and having given an in
creased majority last November, after
Mr.. Bryan had dictated the platform
on which the state democracy went
to the people, the state must hereafter
be counted as certainly republican.
They argue also that, even if Mr.. Bry-
an should become a candidate for gov
ernor and should be elected, the fact
could have no influence in the demo
cratic national convention of 1904.
This is not the view taken by the
western or populistic-de democratic news
papers. They favor Mr.. Bryan's plan
of campaign, which involves special
effort to secure the control of congress
in the elections of 1902. This would in
dicate that Mr.. Bryan, who first sug,
gested the plan in his Commoner, con-
templates a three-corned presidential
fight in 1904, and believes that the peo-
pie will fail to elect a president, and
that the election will go to the house
There fore the anxiety as to the elec-
tions of 1902.
But Mr.. Bryan's platform of inde-
pendence for the Philippines and tariff
for revenue only, in place of our pres
ent protective tariff, and a revision OF
our financial or money system, does
not meet with favor among the Hi
nois or Ohio or New York democrats,
and certainly the eastern wing of the
party is striving not only against Bry-
anism but against Mr.. Bryan himself.
Mr.. Bryan pretends to believe that
there are thousands of republicans
1902 and that by their aid the populists
or the populistic democrats would have
enough members of the Fifty-eighth h
congress to hold the balance of power
and become an important factor in the
election of president by congress in
1904.
If there is no election Of president by
the people. congress will select a pre- ST.
dent, each state in the house of repre-
sentatives having one vote. the com
pie Xion of that vote being determined
by the majority of the delegation from
that state. In the Fifty-siXth congress
the democrats and free silverites had
maiorities in 20 states, including New
York, and the republicans in 25.
In the Fifty-seyerth congress the
republicans have majorities in 26 states
and the democrats, populists and sill
verites in IS states. Illinois is repre-
sented by II republicans and II dem
ocrats. The democrats and populists
are evidently planning to unite in the
congre Ssional elections of 1902 and
elect a majority of the delegations
from Illinois (in which they will have
to gain only one member). Maryland,
New Jersey, New York West Virginia,
Wyoming, Indiana and Kansas. If they
secure control of congress the popu-
listic wing. if defeated in the conven-
tion of 1904. can with safety intrigue
to throw the election of president to
the house.