| Show FIUHT AGAINST BRYAN t Judge King Describes political Con ditioiis In the East I CAMPAIGN FOR GORMAN TAMMANYS FIGHT AGAINST BRYAN A SILVER 9 Eastern Schemes Will Be Upset and Bryans Name Will Be the Only One Mentioned In the Convention Democratic leadership In the House ouse I + I There Is a strong effort being made all over the country to head off the renomination of Bryan and to divert the Democratic party from antlimpt rJallsm and silver said exCongress man W H King yesterday who returned re-turned yesterday morning from Washington Wash-ington This movement is fathered by the leaders of Tammany hal and William n Hearst in New Tork Judge King saw many members of congress at Washington and in New York whom he had known during his term He said that there is a quiet but determined effort to change the cure of the Democratic party Prominent Promi-nent politicians throughout the west and east have been enlisted in tne movement and they are dojng much talking about it The leaders of Tam jnany hall Croker Belmont Purroy Guggenheimer George B McClellan jr and others ae opposed to Bra and free silver and are for Imperialism They have decided on exSenator Gorman Gor-man of Maryland as their man for ill I Democratic nomination for the prfsi i ilency and they propose to run him If he can be nominated upon an antU I trust platform I secured most of this information from Congressman Sulzer of Nov York a member of Tammany hal and on of the most pronounced silver men In the state Not only that but I wa asked to do as much as I could in the same direction In Utah Coming out on the train I met Congressman Brook shire of Indiana On Sunday he made the same argument He Is one of the prominent politicians who is working in line with the Tammany Ieacr These men maintain that Gorman < s a conservative man and that with him New England states opposed to the ad ministration might be won over But the scheme will fail for these men do not understand that the Democratic Demo-cratic sentiment of the west and tlP south which is almost unanimous for Bryan and silver and against impel ial ism cannot be severed Congressman Sulzer also informed me that th masses of Tammany hall were for Bryan I think that Bryans will bathe ba-the only name mentioned in the national na-tional convention When the New York leaders come to realize this they will quit their efforts So far as I could see the trend of I opinion is for a reaffirmation of the Chicago platform with strong planks against trusts and imperialism The New York leaders would have silver ignored but I dont think that they will succeer However there need be no fear that Tammany hal will not support Bryan when he is renominated He may be opposed in the convention but Tammany Tam-many wH support him heartily just as It did before Tammany hall never bolts nor SUlKS I think that Congressman Richardson Richard-son of Tennessee will be chosen as the Democratic leader In the house Bailey of Texas could have the place but ho sticks to his statement that his resignation resig-nation at the end of the last congress was genuine Were It not for the fact that reelection to the leadership would interfere with his candidacy for the senate from Texas the place would be forced on him The fight of the New York Jolirnal and San Francisco Examiner Ex-aminer against him has had little ff feet lectThe two opponents of Richardson are Bankhead of Alabama and De Ar mond of Missouri The latter is a very able student and statesman but they do not think that he has sufficient diplomacy di-plomacy and knowledge of practical i polities to make a good leader The withdrawal of Congressman Payne and Sherman of New York from the contest for the speakership of the house was undoubtedly dictated by Senator Platt the Republican boss of that state He wanted to make peace with General Henderson of Iowa whom he saw was bound to win In this way he may secure mote power in the house and thus become more important import-ant in the next national Republican convention I Is understood that Sherman Sher-man will have the chairmanship of the committee o Indian affairs with its immense patronage I Congressman Payne is after the chairmanship of the committee on ways i and means a are also Hopkins of Illinois and Dalzell of Pennsylvania I is undertoo at Washington that Hopkins Hop-kins withdrawal from the contest was under the promise of having the place I Plaits differences with the administration admin-istration have been practically healed He will be for McKinleys renomina tion for he has gotren out of the ice wagon and crawled into the band wagon wa-gon |
