The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-17
FORMER BOILERS LEAD
NOTABLE CHANGE IN DEMOCRATIC
SENTIMENT.
Large Proportion of the Delegates 70
the st. Louis Convention VIII BE
Men whose Opposition to Free
silver and Organism Aroused
the Bitter Hostility Of the
Rank and File of the
Party In 1890.
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Washington Special to New York Even
1t Would be interesting II some one
would take the list CT 994 delegates
who sit in the st. Louis Convention,
and ascertain how many of them boitcd
the nomination OF Bryan in 1896, either
by voting for the Palmer and Buck
ner tiGket or BY giving direct rs support
boilers will certainly be very large.
Their presence and influence IN the
Democratic State Conventions this year
is one of the notable signs of the times.
II is clear that the Democratic Party
has forgiven those who left Its ranks
in the free silver campaign, although
would never do so. 1t realizes that they
were right, and that II was wrong, and
It purposes to rectify the. error.
bolt :" of 1895 has not frequently been
eoualled in this country. One would
have supposed from the street CONVEX
sations of those days that any Demo-
cIat who deserted Bryan could never
again have political fellowship with
the Democratic Party on any terms.
Old Gen. John NJ. Palmer was almost
Democratic neighbors. He had origin
ally been Republican. and his depar-
ture from that party had cost him some
friends. His abandonment OF the reg
ular Democratic organization deprived
him a second time of his supporters.
with the result that he was left almost
alcne. ana LnlS loneliness the DemO-
Gratis of his neighborhood delighted to
emphasize. 1t is said that his declining
years were made unhappy by the Bit
terness of the attacks to which he was
subjected William ID. Bynum who
had been a Democratic Congressman
from Indiana, was prosecuted by his
own party associates most relentlessly.
They would not allow him to have an
office under McKinley's appointment.
They attempted to set up the dogma
that any man to be a Democrat must
the Democratic oficeholders on bi-par-
tisan boards. who had been appointed
by Mr.. Cleveland, were not Democrats
at all. and must at the earliest oppor-
tunity be supplanted by the Simon-pure
article.
Gold Democrats Forgiven.
But the Gold Democrats have been
forgiven. Bourke Cochran. who made
speeches for Mckinley. is now the de-
mocracy's great champion in the House
exMayor of Chicago, who was at the
Indianapolis Convention as a chief bolt
err will lead the regular delegation from
Delaware young Thomas f. Bayard ac-
cepted a Gold Democratic nomination
iii 1896 for Congress against the Bryan
vigorously. This year they are both
going to st. Louis, probably in the
same train, to help select a candidate
state St. in the Union aid the Bryan move
ment injure the personnel of the party
more than in Delaware: 1t drove out
an exceedingly high class of able and
public spirited men, and allowed an ex
tremely cheap crowd to come to the
front. The translation was pathetic.
George Gray, the last of the Old Guard
Senators. was then the taget for un-
limited abuse. TODAY, the Delaware
convention instructs it's delegates to
present his name for the Presidency.
Illustrations of this return to SANITY
might be indefinitely multiplied. All
the Cleveland Cabinet except Hoke
Smith--and he left the Cabinet on that
issue-failed to vote for Bryan. Every
one of them this year will support the
regular ticket and most Of them are
active in the pre-conveution plans.
William r. Villas of the first Cleveland
Cabinet. is a delegate from Wisconsin,
Carlisle and Lamont have for several
wears been identified with the New York
De mocrats. Olney is a candidate FOR
the Presidency. Judson Harmon's name
NAV be presented as a dark horse by
Ohio; this was seriously proposed at
tho recent State Convention. A good
share OF the delegates from ohio to st.
Louis were boilers in 1895,
The Men Who Went Back In 1900.
1t may be suggested that many OF
these men went back In 1900. While
this Is true II should be remembered
that they went back in a different at
titude from that in which they go now,
Their argument then was; we are