The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-08

the trouble. but as is so often the case,
national politics is being mixed up with
local politics.
Harmony Dinner Planned.
The first dinner was in reality
planned by the National Democratic
club Croker s old club on Fifth ave
nue.. which is perhaps the most repre-
sentative Democratic club in the coun-
try today. and it was the intention TO
have the dinner an old fashioned char.
mony dinner to be attended by Dem
ocrats from all sections of the country.
1t can readily be understood that din
ner where Leader Murphy OF Tam
many Hall might be brought into con
tact with Mayor Mcclellan of the city
might meet William Jennings Bryan,
where August Belmont, the treasurer Of
the National Democratic committee,
might be forced To take in 10 the din
ner William II. Hearst; where Mayor
Thomas l.. Johnson of Cleveland might
be forced to walk arm in arm with
Thomas +. Ryan of Virginia, the head
of the Equitable Life Assurance socie-
ty; while interesting, might not be en-
tirely harmonious. As final result of
the miXup, II would appear that there
might be three Thomas Jefferson Demo
cratic dlnnersIone at tho National
Democratic club, which will be attended
by Judge Alton p. Parker and his
friends; one at the Brooklyn Demo
cratic club, where William j. Bryan
will be the guest of honor, and one
given by the Independence Leaguers.
ar which Mr.. Hearst will be an honored
guest, and at which d. M. Delmas, the
silyer-tongued orator OF California. who
presented the name of William r,
Hearst as the choice of California for
President at the time of the holding
Of the ST Louis convention, will make
his debut as a metropolitan aftcr-din-
ner speaker. Mr.. Delmas will be re-
membered as the attorney who has won
so many friends and so much renown
during the past few weeks as the Sc
nior counsel for the defense IN the
Thaw murder case. II he speaks his
address will undoubtedly be worth go
ing miles 10 hear, and his oratory will
probably rival the oratory of tho Ne
braska man at the eastern end of the
big bridge, though it may be taken for
granted that interest politically VIII be
focused on the Bryan dinner. Certain
it is that the dinner of the conserva-
tive Democrats at the National Demo"
cratic club on Fifth avenue Will be-
come of little relative Importance.
Judging from the. petty quarres that
have already been caused by the prom
Use Of these dinners it might be in
ferred that the hour of the "inevi-
table conflict between the HcarstItes
and the Bryanites has arrived. But Is
this in reality the case2 1t would APP
pear as though Mr. Bryan at least does
not think so, He is too old a hand at
politics to select the political club of
NJ 6 ,1rI,
battleground-the point Of vantage
from which 10 conduct war against
Hearst and the Independence league.
For If there is one man above all 9TH
ers hated by the independence league
men, not only of the city, but Of the
State and Nation, it is Senator McCar.
rem, who has been repeatedly accused
Of taking S250,000 of Standard Oil
money and throwing Kings county to
majority, OF all the places in the
world Senator McCarrcu 8 Brooklyn
club Is about the last place where one
might expect 10 find Bryan. A moro
likely hypothesis is that Mr.. Bryan has
not the slightest idea what his enter
tainment by the Brooklyn Democratic
club at this time means. He probably
hoped to dodge the pitfalls of Manhat-
tan politics by going across the river
TO Brooklyn. and the very words Dem
ocratc club appeared TO indicate
that everything would be all night. In
all human probability he will be the
most surprised man when he wakes up
to find that flying from the bull of
Manhattan politics he has tumbled INTO
the river of Brooklyn politics, How
ever. BRYAN has a way of Lighting on
his feet and coming out unharmed, no
matter what the complication that may
arise. He may bc said TO have as
MANY political lives as n cat. and it is
doubtful whether even praise from SEN
ator McCarrcn Will hurt him. though
if there is ANYTHING in the word that
can hurt Bryan it would appear TO be
praise from this particular quarter
Bryan or Hearst,
The problem OF the dinners swings
round these questions; VIII Hearst
run against Bryan for the presidency! 4!
VIII Bryan run against Hearst for the
presidency! As for Judge Parker and
/ the conservative Democrats, no one APP
payently stops To consider whether they
will or will not have a candidate Con
/ seryatiye Democrats appear almost as
! scarce during these latter days as anti
! Roosevelt conservative Republicans, 1t
! is true that Grover Cleveland, the New
! York Times and the New York Even
| ing Post have once again brought out
/ the tariff. But the trouble here IN the
! East, at least, is that the people APP
pear more interested in the fate OF the
/ railroads: whether the rebate evils can
be brought TO an end; than in aca,
! demic discussions as to whether tho j
per cent average schedules of ihe Will
son bill are TO be preferred TO the l6
per cent schedules Of the Mckinley
bill. In Republican and Democratic
circles alike charges of ''grstting ,
and counter charges of "graftiug' APP
pear to attract more attention than any
old-time discussions of finance or the
/ tariff. Indeed. the average Democratic
/ radical and the average Republican
radical would appear to be Joining
hands to make ii appear as though tar
iG reform and free silver were only
tricks and devices of the politicians to
hide the real things s-grafting-graft
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