Show f POPULARITY OF BRYAN Citadelof the bid Men Carried by Storm 4 1 TOUR THROUGH NEW YORK OXC COATTJfUKD OVATIOX FOR THE BEjIOdtATIO CLtXDIDATE Spontaneous Enthusiasm of the Masses Tom Platt and His Ma 1 cl1neVJ10 Iw Frank PIackJ Xcvr York Silver Republicans Proml to Be Called PixrJiHnnH of Bryan Review of the Situation the Empire Stated State-d Correspondence of The Herald NEW YORK Sept IThe gold men of New York have been accustomed so long to consider the Empire state one I of the certain gold regions of this country I coun-try tfaac they are not wiling now to admit that it has become doubliful with the chances favorable to silver Such however is the case The observer ob-server nowadays can see dozens of straws that show a silver wind Not the least significant of these is seen in the Intense enthusiasm that has been met by Mr Bryan at every polnrt in the state where he has stopped It is the pride of New York that lit can furnish as great demonstrations as are to be found in the country The p party organizations have been so built up that it Is possible to bring out ttou sands of persons in every part of theE the-E = on Important occasions The great rank and file of the two parties i always ready to give loyal assistance 1 assist-ance to the machine But the demonstrations for Bryan I have been greater than any In the history his-tory of New YQrk In little hamlets of scarcely a thousand population thousands thou-sands have greeted and cheered him Half of the citizens of Buffalo forgot Cleveland their feHow townsman and gave him a rousdng reception Even r the gold papers anxious as they are to belittle his candidacy shown by their vicious misrepresentations of his Ii Madison Square Garden meetinghave lY been compelled to print such paragraphs 14 para-graphs as these The vast audience which Mr Bryan addressed at Celoron on Lake Ghautau qua last night was one of the greatest A great-est pathecngs that has ever heard him w i i speak The Celoron auditorium has a seating capacity of 8300 but it is claimed that the admittance register showed more than 13000 persons had passed through the gate when it was brkeia by the inward rush of those who I fought for entrance Every bit of available avail-able space was filled At least 2000 I persons were in the main aIsles packed like sardines in a box with only those s near the entrance in the rear able to move Outside the building the jam was something wonderfu and surprise is expressed today by many of those wo were there that a panic or fatal I t crush did not occur The gotfl papers haw sad that the crowds were merely curiosity people A rw c writer who has been ihirougii the state i < with Mr Bryan however states that the enthusiasm was such as he never I saw before in the state When it is understood that all these demonstrations I demonstra-tions have been made without the ac tie crooperaitio < clf the Democratic rf machine one can begin to understand r the hold that Bryan has taken on the hearts of the workingnien and farmers far-mers I The gold men have some old objects object-s lessons before them which they should l heed now They should remember the I shock given them in 1886 when Henry i George was the union labor candH3ate for mayor of New York When George announced his candidacy I candi-dacy it was jeered at by the socalled better element in the city The newspapers II news-papers could not regard it seriously Abram S Hewitt the Tammany candidate can-didate paid his chief attention to his r Republican opponent Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt now president of the police commission com-mission The campaign of George was not os tentadous His chief work was done in Cooper Union where he made a number num-ber of speeches He had no organization t organiza-tion behind him except that of the labor la-bor unions Yet when the returns Y were all in it was found that he was second in the race with GS100 votes against 90532 for Hewitt and 60435 tfor i RooseveK The result was a shock to thf > Republicans and to Tammany The union men came forward Egai in 1892 With the same disregard if of labor as they have evinced this year l the Republicans nominated Whitelaw r Reid for vicepresident The Tribune had been one of the most inveterate lilt foes of the typographical union and union sentiment was turned against t the Republican electoral ticket New York county gave Cleveland 78300 plurality plu-rality i i This sentiment is working again for I Bryan Arrayed against the Democratic t Demo-cratic candidate is almost every man that union labor has had cause to fear and hate Hanna the Republican 0 whole thing wrecked the Seamans union of the great lakes and his right hand man is the notorious Payne who has just put down the Milwaukee street car strike More than that the Democrats have declared against the most serious menace to union labor that is government by injunction Figures in Brooklyn Buffalo and 1L other large cities would give significant results in line with those in the George and Reid campaigns and would show that union labor almost holds the balance j bal-ance of power in New York state Allied with the laboring men this year in an independent movement are the farmers who have generally been loyal partisans Bryan has been traveling travel-ing through thp districts which have a was given Republican majorites and his receptions have amazed the McKinley men In every Republican farming county in the state heavy Republican Re-publican defections are reported The Republican leaders are beginning to recognize the fact that they cannot expect to bring a tremendous majority to the Harlem river this year and are preparing for an attempt to do their effective work in the Greater New r York district More humiliating confession of the doubtfulness of New York state than the nomination of Frank S Black for governor could have been made by Tom Platt Succeeding the talk for over a year that the Republican machine ma-chine could elect whomsoever it might nominate and that it intended to nominate nomi-nate a man who had been proved worthy by long and faithful service under the easy boss the action is a singular confession of weakness Mr Platt did not dare make an open J f fight with one of his henchmen Nor would he nominate one of the opposition opposi-tion candidates He was forced therefore there-fore to take up a man who was not offensive to the opposition The inoffensiveness inof-fensiveness in this case lays in the fact < that the candidate is an unknown People who remember the Tatlock incident a few years ago when everybody every-body in Salt Lake was inquiring Who is Tatlock can appreciate the situation situa-tion here when it Yas announced that Black had been nominated Men met each other and asked Who is Black They had scarcely heard of him before A local paper summed up the < situation in verse saying Alas Alack Who is this BlackS Black-S Whos just been nominated Upon our word Weve never heard Of him and were belated I 1I i Black Black Whos Blade f iWere on the rack I I I J u 1 l Now who in all this nation Can tell mayhap About the chap Who got the nominationS nomination-S Black Lets go back On memorys track Can this Black be the boy Who once began As congressman And franked his wash to Troy That must be he Ha ha tehee Of nerve he has no lack Ye gods What fun That they should run That postagesaving Black The incident of the franked wash is duly verified The Albany postoffice people discovered the trick a few days ago That was about all the New York newspapers knew of him Few of them had ever heard of him sufficiently to put aside matter for a sketch of his career The fact Is Mr Black was one of the congressional freaks who wenifi in on the Republican landslide of 1894 He had been a common lawyer in Troy but was suddenly made prominent by the murder eft Robert Ross in Troy on election day He was made counsel for the committee on public safety and took a leading part in the matter He was then nominated for congress and on sympathy for his part in the Ross matter and on the general tide of Republican Re-publican fortune he was swept in An effort is being made by the Republican Re-publican leaders to ocwwince people that Black was nominated because of the SPeech he made as temporary chairman of the convention They would like Co bring forward an idea that their candidate is magnetic and thus stir up a little enthusiasm among their followers But Black was selected by Platt not by the delegation This country has never seen before a convention so completely com-pletely in the control of one man This year Platt crushed out all his enemies ene-mies He put down Warner MIller in Herkimer and left that ambitious statesman permanently outside the breastworks He killed the Union league forces in New York and Brooklyn Brook-lyn swept away the opposition in Buffalo Buf-falo and carried enough outside counties coun-ties t make his grip secure When he announced that he would not accept the gubernatorial nomination nomina-tion nO one dared to vote for him in the convention When he named the II committees and approved the platform I both were sustained I Then come the nomination of candidates I candi-dates He allowed the contest t g on for two baLlots without interfering The next morning he showed his power pwer over the convention He called together to-gether twenty state leaders of the party men who are powerful in their own districts and who hold state reputations utations He told ten that Aldiridge and Fish the leading candidates must be put aside as the fight had grown too bitter fO either to mae a satisfactory satisfac-tory nomination Then he asked for 1 opinions as to who would be the best nominee The conference divided fifteen fif-teen saying that Congressman Odell should be named and five voting for Black Mr Platt thought a moment and said Mr Black will be a good man The news spread afoourc the convention conven-tion and as prearranged on the second sec-ond ballot that morning fivesixths of the delegates stampeded to Black David B HU in his palmy days never had such control over a state convention Matt Quay cannot boast of such control in Pennsylvania Senator Sen-ator Gorman has over been so successful suc-cessful in Maryland In fact Platt of New York has reached the acme of bossism He holds the Republican party of the Empire state in has hand Black is a machine candidate Th better element is disgusted One of them summed his ideas up in one terse query So he said dryly the yellow dog this year is Black The Democratic convention which will be held September 16 will undoubtedly un-doubtedly endorse the national ticket and probably the platform as well The Shepard Democracy in Brooklyn has already endorsed both Tammany has endorsed the ticket and seems like Iv to he for the platform at the convention con-vention These two organizations control con-trol over a third of the delegates The silver sentiment has spread over the northern and western counties One after another has endorsed ticket and platform I is possible that the platform would be endorsed even if Hill and Tammany were against this measure But it is believed that they will gracefully submit to the plain will of the Democracy of the state The Democratic candidate for governor gover-nor is likely to be John B Stanchfield of Elmira law partner of Senator Hill He was the Democratic leader in the last state af CTiblv and made an excellent ex-cellent record in his opposition to the Raines bill and other obnoxious mea ures HP is a poh ician and campaigner cam-paigner of great ability a man of the common people very popular and able He came out for the national ticket before be-fore the New York delegation returned from Chicago and endorses Bryan and the platform A strange element is found in this campaign I bodes ill to the Republicans cans I is the reluctance of bolting Democrats to forget old animosities and openly support McKinley They will fight Bryan and free silver as far as possible without voting for prohibitive prohibi-tive tariff but that far they will not go goOn lOn the other hand bolting Republicans I Republi-cans seem proud to be called partisans of Bryan They rejoice in their advocacy 1 ad-vocacy of the Democratic candidate i They are loudest in his praise Seeming i Seem-ing penitent because they had not been so before they become overwhelmed with enthusiasm I think the bolting Republican who will not vote for Bryan is yet to be found What is the reason of this Why is I it in a year when party lines have I been broken when old partisans refuse to vote their regular tickets for the i first time in a quarter of a century I that one candidate repels and another I draws support The explanation lies in the attitude I of the Republican leader Hanna has undertaken the same tactics with the I American people that were successful I in St Louis He is trying to browbeat brow-beat them Instead of conciliating those Democrats who want to defeat Bryan he has treated them with scant courtesy i McKinleys letter of explanation attempts at-tempts to ram protection down the throats of the gold Democrats under the plea that it is an issue of supreme importance Harrison Hanna Candidate Can-didate Black in fact all the Republicans cans follow suit They attempt to I push tariff to the front with the result re-sult that they keep no Republican sil the Demo I ver men and alienate bogus I cratic sold men I The Democratic attitude has been precisely opposite The national platform I I plat-form conciliated Republicans on the I tariff and Populists on the income tax I Its provisions embracing the broadest I I principles of Democracy could alienate j alien-ate no silver man Besides all silver I elements have been recognized in the 1 campaign and attention has been paid i I to the issue that is really supreme I will be found therefore in all the doubtful 1 i i doubt-ful states that Bryan will get the full 1 i silver vote and that McKinley will get I but a small percentage of the gold I I i I I Democratic vote to offset his losses E Y I |