The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-14
NEW PARTY
 IS FORMING Real Object of Hearst
 Propaganda. 4 BOLT FROM ST. LOUIS
Socialism and Paternalism
 the Prospective Greed.
Hearst Bryan, weaver and Bri.ban@ in the Portentiaas auartetse whseh is Labersas fer the Amaisama-
 lion of the Discontentea.

Brooklyn Eagles Stan representative at Albany tonight sends the following
 Information of undeniab1e accuracy Is in the possession of the Parker lead CTS of this State that the Hearst-Hry- an radicals are preparing to bolt the St, Louis convention in the event. which now seems certain of conaerva- tive ascendency in that body.
 The plans formulated by the radicals call for the organization Of third party, to be dominated by Editor Hearst and Mir. Bryan. who have been working in double harness sfnen 1900 to preserve the remnant of organized Bryanism represented by the Democrats ic National Committee.
 Officials of the Bryan committee are unquestionabIy connected with the project Chairman Jones is himself charged with sympathetic Knowledge of 1t. His son Is the manager of Hearst boom in Oklahoma. Treasurer Dunlop has been and is now the man, ager of the Hearst forces in Illinois. Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Min- nesota. Secretary Walsh directed in person the campaign which onded in Hearst instructions in South Dakota and Iowa, and is responsible for the adoption of the Pettigrew resolution declining in advance to pledge tho South Dakota Democrats to support the national nominee.
 A majority of the national commft- teemen are believed to oppose holt. but the minority contains the oficiais. who will make the arrangements. in- ciuding those for temporary organiza- ton of the convention.
 Beaten in two conventions yesterday -those of Indiana and the District Of Coiumbia--in each case by majorities of more than two to one--the Hearst men took immediate steps to organize con- tests. In Indiana they made record of all protests and rulings intending to claim that the rights of Hearss majority were Ovefffdden
 At Washington, having but Is nf the 0s votes iR the district convantion. tho Hearst men left the hall and held an- other convention for the purpose Of sending contesting delegation to st. Louis. A Hearst contest has been or- ganized In New Jersey under similarly extraordinary circumstances. Hearst,s agents are now visiting the interior counties of New York for the purpose of organizing a protest against the seating of the Parker delegation mana ed at the Albany convention Of April IS, which did not contain slnsia Hearst delegate.
 These contesting Hearst delegations. already organized and organizing. rep- resent an aggregate of 13s delegates as follows:
 New York. IS; New Jersey. 24; Indl- ana. 30; Washington, c.
 The Hearst men claim 10 of the 20 regularly elected delegates in Kansas, and they have carried four States and one territory. having q total of s4 more votes. as follows;
 Rhnda Yaland bs co,.f&. Iowa, 26; New Mexico. 6: and Nevada, 6.
 The Hearst Strength.
 The present Hearst strength, real and fictitious, Indicated by these figures, is ZOE delegates. The Hearst contestlnR delegates already outnumber the ac- credited Hearst delegates more than two to one.
 There is not the faintest gIimmer of hope that the combined strength of Messrs. Hearst and Bryan in regularly credentialed delegates can reach ar, the number necessary 10 give to them a veto power in the National Convention. The reafhrmation of the Kansas City plat form, which would require asmatority vote, Is therefore. clearly impossible. Tho chance for radical combination for tho nomination with disgruntled leaders of ths conservative East has been greatly diminished by the subjugation of Tam many.
 The object of the Hearst Bryan leaders Is therefore no longer limited to Iegiti- mate fight on party creeds or policies. but is chiefly one of party dernoralization. Coming conventions will demonstrate this condition.
 Mir. Hearst and Mir. Brisbane represent the dominant paternalistic and soclaiistic spirit of this new political movement Mir. Bryan and Mir. Weaver represent the money experimentalists of the country. A platform produced by the collaboration Of these Democrats would probably de- clare for Federal ownership of railways, telegraph. mines. etc, and municipal own ership of other public utilities and re- affirm in some composite form the plat form of the silver monometalists of iS96 and 1soo, and of the Weaver greenback- CTS
 Abandoning the Democracy, these Dem ocrats. now in possession of political machine organized by Mir Hearst in every section of the country. would ex- pect, with such a platform to attract the discontented clements and lay the foundation of a party which might emerge to power through the disintegrat- ing ines of both Democracy and Repub- ncanisnn.
 There are Democratic leaders here who say that while Messrs. Bryan, Weaver and Brisbane may be acting in good faith iu this matter. they will be obliged to abandon 1t at the last moment by the Indecisions of MT. Hearst With the country in a prosperous condition and with conservatism sweeping everything before 1t ia the Democratic party. no such movement could thrive without a vast organization and a vast expenditure of money. The Democratic leaders here lnds himself face to face with new cash political obligations mounting high into lac millions. he will change his mind and .cIire to ioufnS lism.