Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-11
Mcdonald Much Talked of as
the Coming Man for
the Presidential
Nomination.
The Republican Harp Hanged on
the Willows Down by the
Cold Streams of
Babylon.
Tho Cheese Makers Delivered Over
to Patent Monopoly.
Political Demonstrations.

give him excellent opportunities for
| observation as to the drift, tendency
and bearing Of political currents has
been giving his views to Gath, the king
of newspaper correspondents. From
a large number of comm ments, all
shrewd and sagacious few samples
are here collected. Speaking of the
feeling there fer presidential nominee,
he says, referring to the
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
The rank and file of this city, which
controls the democratic party in New
York state, rather looks toward the
west for the candidate, and
MCDONALD Is MORE TALKED ABOUT
here than any other western man. The
boys argue that Hancock has few
chums at Governors Island snd few
in New York; that he does not 60 to
see them, but gives his time to these
military fellowships. They say it never
was lucky to
RUN DEFEATED MAN TWICE;
that he ought to bave beaten Garfield,
and that he is getting too heavy for the
exercise of the duties of the Office, and
has ratGer q sluggi.h mentality, and is
too well fed. To put it in the words of
a newspaper, he Is an estimable man,
who weighs about 400 pounds
REPUBLICAN DIsCoURAGEMENT.
Referring to the apathy of despair
which hovers over the republican
camp like the fogs of an east wind, he
says: The republican party has hard
ly place to begin again. They couldn't
have carried the country IN 1880 with
out an extravagant use of money.
Their business men are not disposed
to give them any more money. The
murder of Garfield led to
BITTER DIssENsIoN INTO THF PARTY;
Arthur's ADMINISTRATION is not doing it
any good; the star route trials have
very much hurt it. l, therefore, an
ticipate remarkable democratic VIC
tory. believe that the
REPUBI ISAN PARTY is WEAKER
in the state of New York to day than
it WAS the day Cleveland was elected
There is less harmony now, less inIti-
atlve, less h8pefulness, among the re-
publicans tha. they have ever had in
my recollection of them of twenty
three years. You can feel the tendency
in the air. When you meet men
| day after day who are drifting eff from
the party they followed 80 long you be-
gin to feel that it is general. / don't
see any candidate that they can do any
thing with. They have
| EXHAUSTED THEIR LEADERS
The men who should be leading them
| have been repudiated because they
were too prominent-too much lead
ers. The one maa power, after all, Is
| the power that the politicians and the
people do respect, and when
PARTY HAS l. ST COHESION
and repudiates its leaders because they
are too absolute, that party is ike an
army which will not fight the en- 2ny
because 1t is down on the general in
| command. When an army reaches
| that state of Insubordination you will
not get victory from it,
OF the great western editor, who has,
through his widely read Chicago Trb-
une, made protectionists Of the
rank and file of western republicans,
this is said:
Eve had Joe Medill at this club-the
L0tus-iast week, and he said people
| had asked what he came to New YorG
for. He said he had come to New
York to offer the
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION TO THE EAST,
| BECAUSE said he, whenever we think
We have any hope Of electing the pre-
ident We want to pick him from the
west; bat this year we are all unanim-
| ous in the west that the east can have
the candidate Of the republican party"
THE GENERAL SUMMING
up of the the situation is thus expressed:
wouldn't be surprised to see the
democratic candidate carry thirty
| states. Look at the last election in New
York state. Although Cleveland got
nearly geo 900 majority, he could have
got loo, 0O0 more if all the men had
gone and voted that way"
CoNKLING SPEAKS HIS MIND.
At dinner of the Saturday Night
Club Resc9e Conkling made speech
Gen. Grant had just spoken on the sub
ject of Mexico, aud th : relations of the
| country herewith. C0nkling referred
to the pleasuI he felt in listening to
Gen. Grants words. Seeing the soldier
statesman upon this occasion, the speak
er was led to contemplate the many
things that Gen. Grant had done for his
country. The ex-senator's mind car
ried him back to the Chicago corven-
lion at which an unsuccessful attempt
had been made to nominate Grant for
president. 81 believe as firmly as | be-
lieve anything" said the speaker earn
estly, "that the results of that conven-
ton have held this
COUNTRY BACK TEN YEARS
Yes, that days work has cost this coun-
try in progress fully ten years" Mr..
Conkling said that the
DIM Gratis WERE AB1UT TO TAKE 0NTRoL
OF THE COUNTRY.
AlIuding to the growth and resources
Of Mexico, Mr.. Conkling said it might
| be that the ex-p-esident of the L nited
States would be recognized as the lead
er of the great movements to help the
republic of Mexico develop Its resources
and to biiDg about the natural COM
| mercial union of the two countries.
t'But l do not know as ought
to use the words, s'the leader"
"said Mr.. Conkling sarcastically," the
| word '1eader" is term of opprobrium,
an epithtt. nowadays. To be lead
| er now Is to be q boss, and there is no
end of men who think it desirable to
deride snd pull down bosses. The so
called fight sgainst bosses in the par
ticular form that 3 certain class of
men give to
RAID UPON SUPERIORITY.
Point out to me boss, and / viii show
you q man who by virtue of his ability,
deserves TO be boss" In concluding
his remarks he said that many Of
those who were influential is shaping
the affairs of our government were
"merely playing pushpin over the rot
and rubbish of low trickery politics" !"
Mr.. Conkllng's remarks elected no
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