| Show HOW TAMMANY VlfWS IT POLITICAL SITUATION FROM NEW YORK STANDPOIlT STANPOI Christian Schlock Gv s His Ideas O What tha Next National Demo Cltc Platorm Should Contn Christian Schleck a member of tle Arion society of New York which vis Ied Sal Lake and Its resorts ester day In is well known In pollticalclreles the metropolis and an inluenUal member of Tammany Hall Before Hal boarding the train for the east last nIght 3rr Schieck Schltk was asked about na tonl politics and saId In substance Tammany Hal believes In party and will stand by the nominee of the next national Democratic convention no mater whom he may be or what sort of n platform he stands 1nnn sort The platform will not contain the same free and unlimited coinage oC 511 ver at a ratio of 16 to 1 plank that It did 1n 1896 I dont know what measure will be substituted for I or It the con venton will consider the currency question at all I Is too far ahead tQ phopheay with any degree or accuracy as vast changes are lableto occur In a rears time but whatever the cOIen do lion orts done that Tamman will Free silver has many adherents In the east but In Ness York Its a sure enough deed duck and Tammany knows i mind Talmany has enough Sagacity to see that there are more potent factors In the next campaign I than currency agitation and will use us mnuence to give those factors a prominent place and relegate silver to the baclqround Ol thInk the next platform will savor largely of the outcome of the Spanish war and on that issue alone the Democrats Demo-crats could carry every state in the Union The war was successful In one wayit aCCmplglEd most of its ob I ject the browbeating of a thirdrate powerbut the inexcusable neglect of troops in tha southern gsn the than I sands ot valuable lives that were lost through the gross negligence and il I compctence political ofcers and the r tenlon of the undignified late unla I merited secretary oC war In spite of I universal protets must all be accounted I ac-counted for and will be at the polls 1 year frO this November I This Filipino war will prove the biggest stumbling block I to Iteoubilcan auccns The Tenth Pennsylvania i regiment I i regi-ment was in San Francisco while I I was there and they are unanimous in declaring the merciless slaughter of the I ignorant inhabitants an unholy and i contemptIble proceeding The carrying I on of this system of terrnaton in the interests of humanltys farcical In I sentiment and barbarous in practice The hunoes or brave men who i I have beet their lives and health in that i treacherous clr te beau e the admin Istraton has seen fit to srlfce them to a ImH of false pride have 10t ben forgotten by their friends and relates and they wont be In the near future either The Philippine question has been bungled hopeless from the stat and weli remember It next summer when we elect our delegatis to the con I venton |
