St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-14
VsiO 6sa u lHIVVu VIII
A Randall Lieutenant Says
the President Is Not q
Democrat.
Flattepy Turned His Head and
He Went Back on His
Friends.
He Imbibed the Idea That He
Could Not Be
Beaten.
1t Has Taught the Party That
It Must Nominate a
StalWapt.

prised at the result of the election. This
gentleman did not speak for Mr.. RAN
dali, but it is safe to say he voiced the
sentiments of the great Democratic COM
moner.
81 am not surprised at the result"
said he. IF Mr.. Cleveland had shown
himself TO be as good a politician as he
| is statesman, he would have had a
walk-over. l venture to say if Gov. Hill
had headed the ticket we would have
swept the country. Mr.. Cleveland is
not Demobrat; he is nothing else but
| a Mugwump. His defeat will strengthen
the party, while his reelection would
| have weakened it.. Four years ago
Mr.. Cleyeland's nomination was made
| possible by Mr.. Randall's withdraw
ing and throwing his support to that
| candidate. If Mr.. Randall had thrown
his delegates to Hendricks, Bayard or
| Thurman he could have stampeded that
convention and nominated one of those
| candidates. The late Daniel Manning,
| who had charge of Mr.. Cieveland's
! forces, knew this very we'll, and for
| that reason made deal with Mr.. Ran
| dali for the latter's delegates. The
agreement entered into at that time was
that Mr.. Randall should be the sole dis
| penser of the federal patronage in the
| Keystone state if Cleveland were elected.
The campaign was conducted princl-
pally by Manning, Randall and Cor
man. To these three men Cleveland
owed his nomination as well as his cleo
ton. 1t is needless to go into details to
prove this assertion.
AFTER his election Mr.. Cleveland
offered both Manning ana Randall cabi-
| net positions. The former accepted, but
the latter did not. Mr.. Randall told MIR.
Cleveland that he thought he could do
better service for the party on the floor
of the house of representatives than in
the cabinet. The president thought so
too. Everything went along we'll for
the first year. Mr.. Cleveland listened
to the advice of Manning, Randall, Cor
mau, Mcpherson, Whitney and other
able leaders of the party, and the presi-
dent grew very rapidly in popularity
with the people. The press Of the
country lavished praise upon him; the
Democrats felt jubilant over the rec
| ord he was making, and even the
I Republicans were forced to admit that he
| was a good president. This flattery
| turned his head. In a very short time
|ehe turned his back on Randall and Cor
! man, and | can say for a certainty that
/ he also ignored Mr.. Manning's advice.
He sought new counsel in Scott Car
Isle, Singerly, Mills. the Breckinridges,
he listened to Manning, Kendall, Cor
man and Mcpherson the Republicans
were being removed from office as fast
as the work could be done. Had he
listened to these leaders every Republi-
can would have been out OF office as fast
as his commission expired. But instead
ef5that Mr. Cleveland catered to the
MugwumpS, and a mere handful of
them had more influence over him than
the entire Democratic party.
''Just take this city for example. Mr..
Randall had all the Republicans re-
moved from Office ard Democrats put in
their places. They were good Demo-
Gratis of the Randall type. No sooner
had Cleveland turned his back on Mr..
Randall than all these local officehold
land threw Randall overheard and made
Bill Scott boss of Pennsylvania.
Then at the state convention all these
former followers of Mr.. Randall fought
him, and made it possible for Mr.. Scott
to control that body as well as the
organization of the state. Mr.. Cleve
land did the same thing in New York
and other states. [ do not blame the
New York Democrats for not sup
porting Cleveland. The president de-
served nothing better. After wait
ing for twenty-five years, remain
Jag loyal to the party. and spending
their time and money to get into power,
they were entitled to the Offices when
Mr.. Cleveland went into the White
house. Nobody will deny this. How
:; Il I'm,
fused to remove the Republicans, but
went further and appointed Republic
an as postmaster. OF the $700,000 of
patronage in New York the Republic
ans have been given half, and some
men appointed by Lincoln and Grant
still remain in office. If Mr.. Cleveland
had proved himself true to the Democ-
racy he would have been reelected by
an Overwhelming majority. AS it was.
every man that voted for him felt that
he was not voting for representative
Democrat. and when party votes
under protest it lacks enthusiasm and
cannot expect to WIN.
.Why did Mr.. Cleveland object to Gov.
Gray, of Indiana, running on the ticket !
with him? If the governor had been |
would have gone Democratic bya large |
majority. Why did Mr.. Cleveland wish |
to experiment with new men at the head |
of the national committee? He should |
have been satisfied to let the same men |
run the party machinery that wore run
ming it four years ago. Senator Cor |
man is good Democrat, and he would |
have taken charge of matters if Mr.. |
Cleveland had not said NO. Cleveland |
imagined he could not be beaten. He |
was not going to put himself under obi |
cations to German, so he put Mr.. Brice /
in the saddle. l knew from the start
that Mr.. Brice was no match for Senator I
Quay. Senator German or Mr. Randall |
would have been.
This defeat will do the party good |
1t has taught the party that in the fut-
IRE it must nominate Sim0n-pure DEM |
ocrats for offices and not cater to mug |
wumps. The defeat will strengthen the |
party very much. The trusts and cap /
italistS, who have control of the Repub- |
lican party, will run it for the next four
wears to suit themselves. They will see |
that their interests are cared for. The |
party won Oh the high-tarlff platform, /
and it will not dare to reduce the taxes. |
If they do they will make several East
ern states Democratic, and if they do |
not several of the No. thwestern states !
will fall in line. No matter what they |
do they will be in hot water four years |
shence. Blaine will be president in
reality, and predict that he will have |
the Republican party completely de- |
moralized inside of four years. The !
Democratic party will run MIR. Hill or |
Mr.. Randall for president, and Coy. |
Gray, Secretary Villas, Gen. Palmer Or |
Don Dickinson for vice president four |
years hence. and sweep the country.
There will be no triangular mayoralty |
fight in New York city then. The De- |
mocracy of that state would unite OH a |
stalwart Democrat like Mr.. Hill OF Mr..
Randall