Bent County register., 1888-09-15
Panic Among Clevelands
Managers.

'''p"S tue fottclioHist forces every
where and their confidence In the
approving verdict of the people in
November on the one hand and the
sympathy amongst the rank and file
and admitted diseord and panic
amongst the leaders of the Cleveland
Tree trader campaign on the other.
The enthusiasm of the protection.
lists is everywhere manifest. From
the unexampled daily delegations of
tens OF thousands of citizens throng.
ing to greet General Harrison and
giving him their personal pledges OF
support, to the countless thousands
that have greeted everywhere the
great campaign of protection to
American labor since his return from
abroad there are everywhere evi
dences of popular enthusiasm.
On the Cleveland free. trade side
we find the New York Herald, Gin
cinnati Enquirer, Philadelphia Times,
Henry Natterson's Courier.J Journal,
Henry Georges Standard, all free
trade and all earnestly supporting
Cleveland, complaining of the apathy
OF the managers of Cleveiand's cam
paign, and almost intimatlng treach-
cry. 1t has been stated on the most
reputable democratic authority that
Colonel Brice, the Chairman of
Cleveland's national executive com.
mittee, csndidly admitted that they
could not face the people on the
tHritf question in the manufacturing
states
Henry Watterson, who wrote the
Cleveland platform, has admitted
that le wrote to Cleveland asking
him whether he is with us or not in
the fight.
The New York Herald and Phila-
delrhia Times have given most en-
phatic endorsement 10 the critici, ms
of the managers, IN order, as they
say, TO rouse them from their apathy
or force change of managers.
The great free-trade orator, Frank
Hurd, of Ohio, who has gone west to
make speeches for Cleveland, is
quoted as saying thai Cleveland can
not win in New York, New Jersey,
and Connecticut, and must look to
the northwest for electoral votes
enough to secure his election.
Don Piatt, editor of Beltord's
Magazine, q democrat of national
reputation, is quoted by Henry
George as saying in conversation
with Colonel Tracy of the New
York Star, a Cleveland free-tradn or
gan, that from information received
from the agents of Belford, Clark &
Co who have been instructed to in
qnire INTO and report upon the con
dition of the country politically, l
have learned that We have at present
lost Connecticut and New jersey be-
yond doubt, and that we will lose
New York unless something is done.
To this Colonel Tracy replied; 1t
is of no use, we need not try to blind
ourselves to the fact that we cannot
stand up against the cry of free-trade.
A ludicrous features of this confu
sion and panic amongst the manipu-
lators of the Cleveland canvass is
that while Colonel B,ice and Sena-
tors German and Barnum, who were
given the reins of management be-
cause they were practical politicions,
are ANXIOUS to suppress the tariff IS
sue they find 1t utterly impossible to
get up any side issue, and while the
New York Sun is calling on the
managers to call back the free. trader
Hurd, free-trader George is calling
on Cleveland to cut the balky horses
in his load from the traces and put
men in command of his canvass on
whom he can rely.
Meantime the mugwumps are pip.
ing feebly that unless some one be-
sides Hill is nominated for governor
they will be awful mad, and Hill
men laugh and say that Cleveland
would be slaughtered if Hill is not
given the nomination.
1t is little wonder that Cleveland's
letter of acceptance is delayed in the