Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-09-09
THE PREsIDENT,s POPULARITY.
C0ngressmen who are Learuing Some
thing frOsN the People.

cLEvELAND BOUND TO BE THE CANDIDATE IN
SS-DEMocRATs EXPECT HIS POPULARITY
70 ENABLE THEM TO HOLD THKIR MAJORITY
IN TIE HOUSE.
A STAR reporter was talking this morning
with Gen. Clarke, the clerk Of the House Of Re
presentatives, who has met great many mem
oers OF Congress and politicians Of all degrees
At the springs and during his travels this
summer, besides keeping up q pretty general
correspondence with the democratic mem.
Ders during the recess. He says there will
not oe word OF opposition to the administra-
uon nom the democratic politicians this fall
Antne opposition and grumbling that was heard
IN the halls of Congress last winter has died
feeling Mr.. C1eveland's management Of affairs
tha, as aroused among the people, TO help them In
at would astonish you to talk with these
men, ne said. ''They have been among their
people and learned something. The strength
th,nn Mr' n nC,eve,and among the people is some.
@pottician. @ Democrats and republicans are
alike for him, and his party critics aren't say.
nsgs mug ,er moro , nave met great many promi
them. and they all say the same thing. met
par party OF New York business men. bankers,
nence. You ought to hear them talk. Several
or the most prominent told me that they had
been republicans all their lives, snd had
voteo for Blaine at the last presidential elec-
ton, put that they were going to vote for Cleve-
land In Ss. They did not care. they said, who
nomihAUeo MIN, ne would get their votes, and
the votes Of thousands like them would go for
him. They predicted that if the democrats
failed to nominate him-if he got no nomina-
tion at all-the people would elect him. They
ciaimed that what they said was no more than
was said by the majority of the men they met
In business life. But they were not the only
ones heard express themselves with this wild
enthusiasm. 1 heard it everywhere I went.
tatiye Matson says he was aston.
ished when he got home. The people
In Indiana are all for Cleveland. He could
carry the state to-day, Matson says, by twenty.
seem TO like him; there is something catching
about his way OF saying and doing things.
When he is pigheaded and stubborn and makes
ms mlstakes they excuse him or laugh at it and
that he has got mighty strong hold"
fou think, then, that the democrats will re-
nominate him?" asked the reporter.
.,oy ,Iney cant help themselves. They'll have TO;
hear word TO the contrary among the demo.
cratic politicians either"
- -"How about the next House?" asked THE
STAR man.
..! think we will hold our own. think we
Will lose some and gain Others. There is bare
chance, growing out of the popularity of Mr.
cleveland, that we may increase our majority
nations, but I understand that generalIy
pretty strong men are nominated in theil
places: 1t Is principally in the south and west
tnat OLD members are being defeated"
what Is the reason Of this?"
OI SO many changes, you mean? I find that
most OF the opposition to members in their dis
trlctS has grown out of the offices. Men who
mel with the strongest opposition in conven
tfon. There Is hardly an appointment they
have secured that has not hurt them"
Nv nat did Mr.. Matson say about the Indiana
senatorshlp?' asked the reporter.
He said the chances were ten to one in favor
of McDonald.''