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Show ST. LOUIS MAY I WITNESS BOLT I Bryan-Hearst Factions I Squirming. I New York Platform to Be H Made Basis for a Walk-Out. H Hearst Newspapers J oin Bryan in His Attack Upon Parker's Alleged Principles-N Succlnl to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, April 27. Bryan's -H Chicago attack upon the New York platform has stirred things up among Democrats. It is now positively asserted that the Bryan-Hearst combination In the St. Louis convention will be inevitably alienated if an attempt is made to force upon the convention an "objee-tionably "objee-tionably conservative" nominee, ac-cording ac-cording to emphatic statements made In the Democratic cloakroom by a Rep-rcsentatlvc Rep-rcsentatlvc allied to the Hearst forces. This statement, put forth without qualification, spread rapidly among the Democrats of both houses and caused grave uneasiness among those who pro-fess pro-fess to regard the nomination of Judge Parker as assured. This Representa-tive Representa-tive declared that he and a pronounced Parker I te had called on Mr. Hearst, who, in response to a point blank qucs-tlon, qucs-tlon, refused to say that he would sup-port sup-port the candidate named at St. Louis, but asserted that upon the platform would depend party unltj. It is as-sertedthatthe as-sertedthatthe edltorcandldate do-cllned do-cllned absolutely to commit himself further, and this reticence Is regarded as ominous by Democratic politicians In Congress. A prominent Democratic Senator de-clared de-clared that It was generally accepted that the platform adopted by the New York Democracy and stamped with the approval of the Parker-Hlll-Belmont combination unquestionably would bo the basis of the platform adopted by the Democratic party at its national convention. pjpa Platform Approved by His Friends. He urged that Parker, because of his indorsement by his own State and the steady Increase of his support through-out through-out the country by reason of that In-dorsement, In-dorsement, would be the nominee, and It was reasonable to suppose that he would desire to "stand on a platform approved by the Interests behind the candidacy. For these reasons," he con-tended, con-tended, "the Democratic national plat-form plat-form will be an elaboration and in-dorsement in-dorsement of tVs New York State plat- jH form." Hearst Democrats, however, point out that Mr. Hearst, through the edi-torial edi-torial columns of his various newspa-pers, newspa-pers, scathingly denounces the Albany platform, and declares ''that platform was conservative and is a notice to Democrats that Its authors are desl-rous desl-rous of conserving nothing but the good will of the un-Democratlc Institutions at the price of the surrender of every principle that entitles the paiJy of the H people to Its name." He editorially Indorses the soothing. harmony producing description of the work at Albany made from the rostrum of the convention, when It was char-acterlr.ed char-acterlr.ed as "a platform of platitudes and a candidate who stands for any-thins: any-thins: or nothing." and significantly adds that the Republicans would like to see that platform the creed of the national Democracy. Hearst Editorial Attacks. spects to the Albany platform by say-ing say-ing that "there Is not a franchise grab-ber. grab-ber. bond swindler or political lackey of a predatory" syndicate paying divi-dends divi-dends on watered Btock that does not regard the Albany platform as an ad-mlrablo ad-mlrablo example of sane, safes and conservative Democracy. From the standpoint of practical politics, it is as great a failure as from the standpoint of honest Democracy." He declares that the Republicans and the men who bolted the Demo-cratlc Demo-cratlc party in 1S9G and 1900 are alike charmed with the Albany platform. and that the only men who are indlg-nant indlg-nant at it are the honest Democrats, to 1 whom the principles of their political faith are more than conventional words. "To them," he points out, "tho Democ H racy means something, and It does not H mean the washed-out truckling tissues of pretence which the Belmont-Hill 1 combination has biven to the country 1 as tha expression of the party on New As Mr. Hearst declare.! today that upon tho platform adopted at St. Louis depends Democratic unity, tht prospect of the transfer of the New York plat-form, plat-form, which he so roundly denounces. to the national convention as Its state- H ment of principles causes genuine 1 alarm among the conservative Demo- H crats in Congress. They fail to see how without stultifying himself, he can sup-port sup-port a candidate standing on such a B platform, and expresses the fear that under such conditions the Bryan- H Hearst combination will bolt the ticket. B |