St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-17
PERSONAL POLITICS
In It's Relations to Gov.
Church and President
Cleveland.
Mr.. Day a Supporter and
Friend Of the Admin
istpatiOn.
The Little Game Of the Ex-
Governor With Cald-
well.
The Fine Italian Hand Shown
UP in the Crafty
Scheme.

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and after election, we wonder, what
they will do for news. It's politics,
politics, even now, until you can't rest.
But that is what a presidential year
means. Even if the contest is as one
sided, as the present one, there seems
to be room for plenty of discussion.
The newspapers must have something
| to talk about. There are rUmorS that
Cleveland will not be renominated, and
columns of space are devoted to this
subject. There are also rumors that
there is man, on the Republican side,
who can and will beat Cleveland; and
so it goes. There are all sorts of wild
stories, that both parties are so broke
up among themselves that rather than
two parties, there are more or less than
one hundred. Coming to home matters,
there are absurd tales about how Da
kota Democracy is going to slaughter
Cleveland. Every man in the territory,
who has been an applicant for an office
under his administration, and has failed
to get it, is Immediately put down
AS sAGIN CLEVELAND;"
and, computing in this way, there are
some Republican papers in the territory
who make out very clearly that Mr..
Cleveland can never be re-nominated.
They argue something in this way: M.
| III. Day is a Democrat; he was candi-
date for an office under the Cleveland
administration, and, failing to get it, is
! therefore not Cleveland man; Mr.. Day
is member of the national committee;
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| Cleveland. and as result Mr.. Cleye-
land will never be the president of these
United States again. Their reasoning
is very clear and plain, and, accepting
all their promises, there's no way of get
ting around it. New York state, sup
posed to be the pivotal state heretofore,
| sinks into inSignificance now that Da-
kota is in the field. But let US examine
these premises a little. 1t might be
questioned first, whether MI. Day was
ever really a candidate for any Office
under Mr.. Cleveland. One thing |
| know, that he was never q candidate to
| such an extent as not to be ''hand and
| heart" for the man he believes stands
| the best chance of election. l have
heard him say that he
WAS FOR CLEVELAND,
'first, last and all the time" and no
Democratic administration than he... =
Mr.. Day being interviewed at Wash
| iugton on this subject short time ago,
said:
1.-THE Democratic party is organized
and ready for business. We know whom
we will nominate, and we are already in
the field. We have the administration,
and that means something. We have
been organizing with definite ends in
view for more than year. The Repub-
| 1icans do not know whom they will
| nominate, and are torn with internal
| dissensions and do not know what they
intend to clio until within a few weeks of
opening the campaign. They cannot
contest. If they do, they will be terribly
| surprised. Cleveland will sweep the
country"
In the second place, it may be
questioned whether, if it were true that
Mr. Day is not pleased with the admin
istration, he could secure the defeat Of
Mr.. Cleveland, by holding aposition on
the national committee. What is this
| national committee? What has it to do
with the nomination and election of Mr..
Cleveland, anyway? We have been
| laboring under the impression, all
along, that it was the people that were
going to nominate and elect Mr.. Cleve-
| land and not any member of the ma
| tional committee from Dakota. 1t is
true that Dakota is great territory, and
that Mr.. Day is an influential Democrat,
| and that he could probably have infiu-
| ence with the other territories, but it Is
not vet accepted in political circles, that
even if we granted all this in full, that
| it would affect Mr.. Cleveland'S admins
tration very much. From this ground
| the Republicans Of the territory go to
great lengths to prove that the party in
the territory is about to be sundered
into [ don't know how many pieces,
and that Mr.. Day has a great deal to do
with it. What are the facts? They are
very simple and soon stated. Gov.
Church is favorite of President Cleve-
lands; Grover Cleveland is said to be
man of rare Judgment, and it
is said that he seldom mistakes
men: his choice of Gov. Church
seems to indicate this, for our governor
has been very wise and discreet in his
political moves, at the same time show
ing up an aggressive front that has
startled the old gang and digging up
the corruption of his predecessors in Of
flee and exposing it to the light. much
to their discontinue. Did President
Cleveland make mistake in appointing
Gov. Church? If so, why has he not
recalled him? If President Cleveland
is to have the support of the Dakota
Democracy he must show himself to be
consistent. If the Dakota Democracy is
to vote for President Cleveland it must
approve of his administration. If they
do not approve of Gov. Church how are
they going to approve of President
Cleveland? It is an Inconsistency that can
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administration or be against it. There
can be no doubt as to what President
Cleveland'S position towards Gov
Church is. Not only does he continue
him in office, and in this way indorse
him, but there is not a man in the terri
tory who pretendS to be Democrat
who does not know that he has in
dorSed him much further than this
that he has placed all the
TERRITORIAL. APPOINTMENTS
in his hands. This does not mean that
he will expect him to indorse every
man for federal appointment in Dakota;
but in cases where there is dispute.
President Cleveland puts so much con
fidence in his governor that he refers
such matters to him. There must be
some head that is held responsible. and
Gov. Church is that parsonage. This is
the point exactly. If President Cleve-
land so thoroughly trusts his lieutenant
and reposes SO much confidence in him,
at the same time that he is unworthy of
it all, and the people of this territory
know and believe this. how can
they consistently support the admin
istration. This is no zone man. gov
eminent; this is, at least, supposed to
be democracy, and if there is any man
who does not believe it, let him go to
Washington and try it for himself. L
have been there and know whereof /
speak-and so have good many more.
No one man can pretend to control the
patronage of this territory autocratic-
ally. If they think they can let. them
try it. Let Gov. Church, for instance,
recommend beyond recall some man fer
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