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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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. There was a protracted contestin the Committee on Resolutions, and the Stateswhose committeemen opposed the free - silverplank had a majority of tlie members of the con-vention. As on many a previous occasion inpolitical controversies, the great State of NewYork held a pivotal place. If the delegationfrom New York had stood firmly against silver,under the leadership of ex-Senator David B.Hill, it could have turned tlie scale and carriedthe convention—at least to the extent of omittinga specific free - silver plank. But Mr. RichardCroker. rather than ex-Senator Hill, controlledthe majority of the New York delegation, andrefused to allow Mr, Hill to serve on the resolu-tions committee, while making it plain that theTammany influence was for Mr. Bryans free-silver plank. Mr. Crokers recent utteranceshave shown tliat lie is al)Solutely without anyopinions or convictions whatever on the silverquestion, the expansion question, or any otljernational issue. Tammany is not a political oi;-
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>^ From a drawing by E Fredericks. Hon. David B. Hill.UNPRECEDENTED DEMONSTRATION FOR HON. Courtesy of the New York yourual.Richard Croker. Hon. William Siilzer. DAVID B. HILL AS HE ENTERED THE CONVENTION HALL. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 1P>9 ganization in the true sense, but a business asso-ciation whose object is to profit through theinfluence that comes from exercising municipalauthority in New York City. There is no rea-son to suppose tliat Tammany cares much to seeMr. Bryan elected. There is a good deal of rea-son to think, on the contrary, that Tammanythis year, as in previous Presidential years, willtake a strictly local and practical view of thecampaign. The Party and Its Leaders. Tlie South, for peculiar reasons unre-lated to the questions discussed in theparty platforms, will this year, asusual, support the Democratic ticket. Tliere isno conclusive reason, however, for supposingthat Southern Democrats care very much aboutthe issue of imperialism, or that they areclamor

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