New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
NO PALMER -BUCKNER MAN
MR. BRYAN'S ULTTnATUn.
Says Vote for That Ticket Would
Make Nomination I'm possible.

! The developments in the Bryan Democratic
/ sphere and hemisphere yesterday included a
declaration from Mr.. Bryan that no man who
voted for Palmer and Buckner will get the
Democratic nomination for President this year.
and another pledge to his friends that he would
stand by the nominees Of the ST. Louis conven-
tion no matter who they may be, and no matter
what the platform is on which the convention
decides they shall stand
Would the fact that q man voted for Palmer
and Buckner prevent him from being a Presi-
dental candidate this year?" Mr.. Bryan was
I asked.
You're trying to build the platform and the
issues before the convention is called 10 order.
said the Nebraskan. Then he added: 1T would
not prevent him from being the candidate OF a
Palmer and Buckner convention"
But would it prevent him from being the can
didate Of the regular Democratic cOnvention?"
1t certainly would" said Mr. Bryan with en-
phasis, after pause NO man who voted for
Palmer and Buckner viii be the candidate OF the
Democratic party this year. In making this
I statement, l am stating the case I'm a general
way and am not referring To any possibility Of
any possible candidate Don't make it appear
that / am referring in any manner to Judge
Parker. l know nothing about Judge Parker's
attitude toward the ticket in 1896. You may say
as emphauCally as you like, however that the
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mate any one who voted for Palmer and Buck
ner The question al the St. Louis convention
will be not what the regular Democrats are go
ing TO DO, but what the men who have been
helping the Republican party and al the same
time vociferousy asserting their Democracy go
ing 10 do? 1 have no doubt that the rank and
hle OF the party viii control The St. Louis con-
vention and will write platform in accordance
with Democratic principles"
Mr. Bryan has made il entirely clear to his
friends in this city that in no circumstances
VIII he bolt the ST. Louis convention platform
or candidates. one OF his New-York advisers
said last night:
Mr.. Bryan has twice been houored with the
nomination for President. He viii stand by the
party but he viii take good care that the So
called reOrganizers. for whom a better name
would be reactionares, will noegain control Of
the convention That is why he has started his
campaign OF education early. He is in prime
condition for a fight, and during the next six
months ne will go over the length and breadth
OF the United States preaching the doctrine of
human rights as ne sees it, He will be the COM
mandng figure or the st. Louis convention. be-
cause he Is the level, while the men who
would drive him out of the organization are, in
Tammany parance lot OF genteel crooks"
Ihe Bryan men expect 10 organize the ST.
Louis convention by selecting the temporary
chairman, who will be a Bryan man. The tenn
pordrN chairman VII name the committees. and
the chairman Of the committee on resolutions
viii he a Bryan man. II the plans succeed The
committee VIII then be composed largely of
Bryan men, and Bryans ideas viii be drafted
into the platform. After the committee reports
the platform IL will take fight to change it, and
THAI is where Mr.. Bryan is ready for his OPP
ponents. If they want 10 demand that the
party swing back 10 the basis Of action OF 1892
when the Cleveland men were i'm control" as
said yesterday. they will have to admit
that they want patronage more than adherence
TO latter day Democratic principles as expressed
I'm the platforms of two national conventions"
Mr.. Bryan will to-day be the guest Of ]. W
Cox. Of No. II East Thirty eiShth-st To
morrow he viii go to Hanover. n. H, to make
a address to the students of Dartmouth Col
lege