Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-23

From the Philadelphia North American.
BUFFALO, June II.
Norman E. Mack, editor of the Times,
and democratic national committeeman
for the state of New York; Mack, who
for six years has been the very embodi-
ment. the absolute personitication OF Bry-
anism; Mack, who has been as impregna-
BILE to the shafts of those who bitterly
assailed the "montrOus doctrines of the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms as
he has been answering in his loyalty 10
Democratic, principles as enunciated IN
those platforms;" Mack, who has fought
David B. Hill and also Tammany with the
consummate skill of master politician
and with all the subtle venom of a caustic
pen-Mack has trekked into the camp or
the enemy. His banner floats side by side
with the banners of Hill and Tammany.
His Wanted loyalty to Democratic prin-
ciples as enunciated in the platform or
the National Convention vaunteth no
more. Organism is ground in the dust
beneath his heels. The acid has been re-
moved from his ink-wells and sweet honey
feeds the nib that sings the loving praises
of the one-time hated foe. John G. Mill
burn laughs in his sleeve. William +.
Mackey CRASHES his teeth and has taken
to the habit of notwithstanding in
public.
Commended and Condemned.
''You are, as of DID, loyal to your party3
you are working for a united democracy,
purrs Miburn, as he fondles the wrinkles
in the national committeeman coat
sleeve.
You have gone back on your friends;
in supporting Hill you are supporting
man who should be driven out of the
democratic party" says Mackey. A
united democracy? Yes! But not at the
price Of a union with Hill!'
Mackey, late democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor, and formerly the
most loyal friend and supporter of the
democratic committeeman, no longer
floods the latter's library with the aroma
Of imported cigarettes, but visits are in
terchanged between Macks palatial home
in Delaware avenue and the pretty, vine
clad house where President Mckinley
died.
The attitude Mack would assume was
an item that received more than ordi-
nary attention from those who projected
the reunion of the various democratic
factions of the state under the leadership
of Hill. If there was one man in the
state who had the power to sway the
Bryan democracy for or against such
movement, they argued, that man was
Mack. He was the one individual leader
in New York in whom William Jennings
Bryan placed implicit faith. He was
position of the democratic press and the
democratic leaders in Western New York,
in 1896, stood sponsor for the Bryan doc
trines. and fighting almost alone, sue
ceeded in inducing Erie county to pile up
80 900 votes for the apostle of free silver.
He was Mack who, in the state conven-
ton in 1900 outgeneraled Richard Croker,
and while submitting to the election of a
gold demOcra..c delegation to the national
democratic convention succeeded in get
ting the convention to instruct that del
egation to vote for Bryan and free silver.
He was Mack who was Bryan's personal
representative in the conduct of the cam
paign in New York that year, and, finally,
he was Mack who, more than any one else,
held the love and generation Of those
democrats who faithfully followed the
lines the Nebraskan had induced two dem
ocratic national conventions to lay down
TO- party guidance.
Mack won over to the Hill-Tammany
movement, figured the projectors, potency
could not attach to any movements the
Bryan Democracy might hatch. Whether
they were right in their conjecture re-
mains to be seen. He has been won, but
his accession to the Hill-Tammany forces
has drawn him personally to the verge
of what promises to be one of the most
bitter controversies in the political his
tory of Western New York.
Inc COnAlAAudAAOAA o. AAE AAeANh ACeNACA SAAAR
in Western New York is, of course. de-
pendent Upon his success in the approach
ing campaign. That in this fight he will
be opposed by almost a majority of the
followers of Bryan seems probable, in
view of the position taken by William F.
Mackey, Wallace d. Thayer and others.
To offset this detection it is presumed
that Mack is to have the united support
of the Hill-Sheehan forces, whom he has
fought for years with a persistence and
vigor that from time to time has en-
gendered an excessive acrimony. He drove
the Sheehans out of the county. in po-
litical sense Time after time "Blue-eyed
Billy" Sheehan has returned to the as
saut, and each time has he been relent-
lessly pursued and beaten by the irwin
chile horde that followed the leadership
of the national committeeman.
Organized Surprise Party.
Two years ago Mayor Diehl, Frank Rey-
nolds and John w. Fisher in the course
of night turned over to Sheehan the