Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-18

speaker and an untlring worker, MIR.
Cleveland, II will be remembered, did not
make any speeches and kept closely in the
governors mansion at Albany. MIR. Hen
bricks on the stump and at public recep-
tons represented not only the second but
the hrst candidate. Now, republicans say,
there will be neither the head nor the tail
OF the ticket on the forum, and there will
be no direct statements made to the people
by the two democratic candidates. They
hold that MIR. Thurman can not take an
active part in the campaign because he is
too old and has not the physical strength;
that II he should attend the big political
meetings and attempt TO make speeches he
would impair his health and risk his life.
Besides, his voice is 80 weak he could not
be heard a sufficient distance TO make him an
effective orator. President Cleveland, of
course, will continue to refuse 10 go out
through the country and take an active part
in the campaign. and so the democratic can
vass will be made through letters, inter
views and friends, so far as reaching the pub
lie is concerned.
This morning had a talk with General
Kennedy of Ohio, a member of the house,
who knows Judge Thurman thoroughly and
personally and who has kept run of him
closely for many years. Speaking of Mr.,
Thurmau's infrmities General Kennedy
said II have doubts that MIR. Thurman
will attempt to take an active part in the
campaign. He may make. speeches indoors
at some Of the principal meetings in the
country, and he may be placed on exhibition
by hispaity, but so far as his taking the
part of an active speaker and attempting. to
influence votes by his oratory or argument is
concerned, 1t is preposterous to talk about IL.
MIR. Thurman is physically so weak that he
can do little more than muster locomotion.
He walks around the streets of Columbus a
little, but he participates in nothing that
would tax his physical constitution. Will he
strengthen the ticketi No, not a bit. He
will, in my mind, not oven bring out the full
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reputation of being a very good man, and has
many warm personal friends, but he docs not
arouse enthusiasm, and his name will not be
the shibboleth that his party expected IL to
be-. OF course there will be a long and loud
yell over the name Of Thurman for awhile,
but 1t will soon die away, and then he will be
to his party what he really is to his country,
a kind remembrance, n sort of tradition. 1t
is foolish to talk about Thurman carrying
Ohio. We will have ten or twenty thousand
majority with any man we may put on the
ticket.n
Major John NJ. Carson, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, was the chairman of the Washing
ton CORRESPONDENTS who visited st. Louis
last week. He expresses the opinion that the
visit of the newspaper men to st. Louis be-
fore the delegations began to arrive in large
numbers had a great deal TO do with the Sc
lection of Judge Thurman for the second
place on the ticket. Major Carson says that
when the Washington men arrived the only
delegates present were those from the Pacific
coast, These were all for Thurman, and
naturally the newspaper men circulating
among them heard a great deal of Thurman
talk. The result of it was that they tele-
graphed out to their papers statements of the
Thurman strength among the men who had
already arrived. These dispatches came to
the eyes of the incoming delegates
and they were more impressed with
the Thurman boom than they would
otherwise have been. Consequently as they
arrived near the convention they supplied
themselves with bandana handkerchiefs in
great numbers, and did not allow their
previous prediction to drive away the
enthusiasm which every democrat has felt,
at one time or another in his life, for the Old
Roman. The natural sequence of all this
was that there was a great furore, and all
her delegates desiring to be in the procession
behind the band shouted Thurman so
heartily and waved his bandana to such
good effect that the chances Of each
individual aspirant for the nomination grew
smaller by degrees and beautifully less'' as
the hour for the nomination arrived. Mr..
Carson thinks that the real sentiment of the
convention was decidedly for Gray, but that
owing to the Thurman excitement Thurman
men had things all their own way, and
Gray's supporters could not stem the Tide.