The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-26
NO ENDORSEMENT or BRYAN.
Hearst Wen Combine Win others 70 Keep
tina tAut 0f Platform.

BCFFALO, Sept. 25.-There will be no
Endorsement Of ". J. Bryan as a candidate
for President or Of his Government owner
ship theory in the platform to he adopted
by the Democratic State convention to-
morrow.
The Bryan men tried hard tonight to
get the subcommittee that is building
the PECULIAR platform to be adopted here
to put i'm such an in dorsement of Bryan.
They presented the draft printed in this
Mornings papers which Harry W. Walker
brought here. That declared that Mr..
Bry an should be nominated for President
in 1901.
The ub-cOmmittee Of plato m builders
is made up OF Bourk Cochran, who is chair
man of the committee on resolutions,
NUrmap j.. Mack. Thomas F. Pearsall,
Franklin Mott. John Lynn and f. g. Suther-
land. nv.
Mr.. Mack is supposed to.be a Bryan man
and il against Hearst. Mr.. Mott il OPP
posed to Hearst and Mr.. Cochran has de-
nounced his theories but is swallowing
him IA a candidate TO suit Mr.. Murphy.
Neither side can be said to control this sub
committee.
When it came TO acting on the Bryan
resolution, however, the Hearst men COM
bined with some of the others and voted
against indorsing Bryan as a candidate for
President. As a sop to the Bryan men, and
in the belief that possibly it would keep
Bryan men from voting against the ticket,
it was decided 20 have a mention OF Mr..
Bryan in the platform. 1t will consist Of a
recital Of some of4fr.- Bryan's good deeds,
and will then indprse him as a good citizen
and an example for his countrymen.
The Bryan men are much disappointed.
The Hearst men are very well satisfied.
The Bryan men ave been telling the plat
form architects that il Mr.. Bryan was
Endorsed for President he would certainly
come here and work for Hearst or any
body else that might head the ticket. But
the Hearst men couldn't see it that way.
Mr.. Bryan may come or stay away now.
They believe, however, that they have pre-
vented any detection of the ~simon-pure
Bryan vote.
The. platform makers ave been at it
hard tonight. Late this evening it was
decided to have a plank favoring local
option in the matter OF municipal owner
shin ? and operation. This the Hearst
men have expressed themselves as sat
i-fied with. 1t agrees with what was in
the platform of the Albany conference,
too. There will be nothing more radical
than this.
There will also be an attack on wicked
corporations and trusts savage enough
70 satisfy h Hearstites, and yet with
nothing like socialism in il. There will
be a demand that bad corporations and
law.
One of the interesting matters in connec-
ton with the discussion Of the platform
wa a discussion of the resolutions against
socialism adopted by Tammany in April.
Mr.. Cochran brought this-into the meeting
Ii was Mr.. Cochran who decided that 1t
would be best to v these resolutions at
his elbow to help him in writing the plat
form ON which Tammany expects Hearst
to run. There vas no purpose Of putting
these resolutions into the platform. 1t
was oniv % avoid ombarrlssHnents later on.
u was decided by a vote Of the committee
TO have nothing to say against socialism
in the platform. On the other hand it was
decided to ha, nothing socialistic in it.
An attack IN the present excise law
and a demand for a new one will be in the
platform. The Independence League
doesn't go into the liquor tax. There will
also be a plank calling for tariff revision.
The Higgins administration will, OF
course, come in for denunCiation along the
same old lines. Extravaganza and corrup-
tioh, the platform will say, have reigned
NJ! Albany and there will be the same de-
mand Aha was made two years ago
namely. hat the books be opened.
~Asscmhlyman Tompkins from New York
appeared before the committee and asked
that the platform call for the election of
United Sfates Senators: by direct vote of
the people. That ia one Of the planks in
the Independence League platform, but as
every one seems to favor it. il was decided
10 have a good strong plank calling for this.
Mr.. Tompkins also wanted a plank pro-
mbiting banks and trust companies from
mixing in politics. There may be some
thing said on this. hut it is doubtful. There
will be nothing fierce about the platform.
Every effort has been made to use it in
tOning down the candidate that seems to he
in view.