Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-28
AFRAID OF THE RESULT.
John Sherman Thinks His Party has
Mads 50 Many BIunders that
Victory N,xt Fall is Doubtful.
The National Democratic Committee
Meets at Washington and Prepares
for the Coming Campaign.
Committees Appointed - Work Assigned.
Vermont h publ oRus Met In State
CONFERENCE.-The Republican
Candidate.
Sherman Iat6ryiewsd'
special to the Gazette.

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option lhs Il pu3lic'Gs have lost thei.
opportunity Of csrryiCg Virginia.
WASHINGTON, June y Senator Sher-
nan WIS Atlle cspitOl to-day attending
SO usual t. ls Congressional duties. l.
answer 70 artql.sE for his oDiI Ga Of the
CuuVea5ion euu is Gets, Mr.. Sherman
said: ~ dom; know sh2t ought 10 an
sWer ycu- questions, IS ny ueme was
presented GEd discussed before i, hut
| perusps II W u.G NOS BE out Of place now
| that | 5m free again for NE TO say some
thing for the good Il the party growing
out Of the convention. Tae COZ
venIion Itself YVES very aole
| 5ydy AMI Wss evidently
master Of Itself, ard not e-siiy STAN
peded. The platform i5 the best slate
neat Of pfi1Cipts by & political patty
ever 1ead. 1t Is concise, contains NJ
evasion, but IL & mally anlOunCeneLt Of
the orjects nrd aims OF the R=puOHczGs.
There sre TWO c. three o'heI things about
the CONVENTION that are worthy Of com
msnt. The exclusion # the regular cee-
ton from Virginia, upoa TIE prefix.
| mat they we're not elected scc0rdLg 10
| the rules Of the National mmigJee, was
AN ACT OF GgOss WRONG.
MsdoQe and bis del CATION Feprcsenre5
nine-tenths OF the K publfc.as e. Vrr-
giala, lnc,ddiCg Ncr3 ,la@ 80 600 C0Aiej
crate soldiers ia the whole coUn ies.
| they lad gradually obtained control OF
tha larger majJri'y Of the whole counties
| which are now represented By several
Ssefp 1o1S in Congress. Tle da.eg2'es
f5sYiden Themselves IE,0 district
feonvertiols eud eec'ed district dele
g&tes precisely IS Was done
in Lows, Ksntucky sad Connecticut, and
ia neatly every r publican s ate; TINS. WAC
| formerly the universal rule aGd II was not
chsnged by The seton OF ether the LAST
national convention Or Of tue nalional
committee. This very question erose in
Iowa and in DINER states and il WIS uni
f0rmly decided that Il was immGtersl
where The district dele gates convened, Du;
they must be selected by the district &C
coIdiDg 10 the mod prescribed for mem
bers OF Congress, AID rot necessarily 10
be Convened,
IN THE DISTRICT.
As c mater Of fact in many CT TIE ststes,
Snd even il Ohio, district conventions ere
cfbs1l~ teId outside q the dis
tfiet for the Convenience Of
The delegates. To require the Rspu)-
cans ia the mountainous C uutjes q
Virginia. mostly thiuly populated, = con
vsGe inside of the district, would ihvJlge
crest K oense snd trouble, and CGuld IS
well De dore by the same delegates at taG
time and plbce OF the state Convention.
Mzpy Of the CONVEX tions held UUde: the
direction Of Mr.. Wise after he h,d boltsd
from me sta,c convention, were mere
shadows and farces, and bis dele
gates &C mitted &c the nstional convention
were mere shaUs representing nobody.
II The convention nal understood the real
facts in Virginia it would not nave ice
cd lhe MsE0ne delegates. In tny p.uioG
this Injustice will
SET BACK TIE CAUSE
cf the Republicans ia that sta.e for many
years. The R publican parry in TIE pas.
SIX years hss been more indebted 70
MshoGe than TO most rEy nan in the
Uaited S..tes. By his boli Independence
we were able TO hold for
cwo years the Senate oft1e Ul:ted State.
All that is vital g d resp cable OF the & :
publican party in Virgins has been butt
TO under his control. RidcleDtrser ard
Wise were brought cut ~ hin. When
Wise Was candidate for Governor l vert
TO sasist him, and l, therefore, fur Tie
first time was led to appreciate the grea,
executive abiiity, hberslitY snd energy OF
Mshone. He not Only gave vig7r, bur
furnish d sll the m9Ie7, too, for the cao-
vsss, and his treatment by the CoLyentit n
WIS :arsh,
UNJUST AND CRUEL,
Another difficulty the convention eE-
couniered was The shadow Ct : candidacy
which Has not eRncunced. Blaine has
CREST following IN the Republican party.
For reasons satisfactory to himself be de-
clined to be & candidate, and ys. his fol-
lowers made him a candidate from
the beginning OF the convention
This rejection CT M3hoQe, every
attempt TO organize and eye-y bsllot were
affected by his suPpres sed Candidacy. Il
he hsd been openly nsmad a candidate
sni taken the chances Ike the rest & Us
it would have appeared that he Guild nol
have been nominated, not on accoun
OF the opposition to him, bat
for prudential reasons. His followers
insisted thet every Caodi late
should successfully encounter the f Ia
expecting each would f3il to get the re-
qared majority Of al the votes so hat 40
one would be lei. 10 obisct to
TEE NOMINATION OF BLAME.
TneY were mol Wl.llng 70 suoH hin = o
this test. The votes OF his folio wer5
were, whether by design or net, carefully
distributed, some tc vote for nm on each
ballot and Others to vote go
as to prevent an sgres ment
zad this created irritation aud bad blood
Hereafter in future conventions no votes
should be counted except fo- persons
openly ard frankly announced as csndi-
dates. The theory of tne nominations
made was that the doubtful stsIes were
to furnith the candidates, and upon this
theory the p rsons living in R3ru0-
lican states were Disseminated agsi. 81
The New York delegation practically dc
ta.ed both nominations aud did not con-