The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-06
IT IS ALL ONE WAY.
Cleveland is BossinG the Democratic
National Convention.

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Sr. Lours. June Alt will be Cleveland
and Thurman.
| Unless all signs fail the Old Roman will
be nominated with nearly the unanimity
that is certain to be exhibited in the renomi-
nation of Grover Cleveland. But to-day the
field is by no means clear for him. Gov.
Gray is still in the race, and the Hoosiers are
bowling themselves hoarse over him. But
he will be withdrawn before midnight, and
by daylight tomorrow the slate will be made
up to be rushed through. Delegates are ar
! irving by every train. The hoitels are filled
to overfowing Many buildings are decora-
ted, and wherever the eye rests flags are float
ing idly in the breeze. Most ofthe delegates
are all ut sea. Congressman Bill Scott has
his hands on the lever and he is the the en-
gineer that all the boomers talk with.
THE PLATFORM.
Mr. Scott expresses himself frankly to-day.
He says the ticket will be no friction, and
the convention will probably adjourn by
Wednesday evening. Just as this conven-
ton has but one candidate for the Presiden-
cy-Cleveland--so it has but one plank in its
platforn-the reduction and removal of pro-
lection as urged in Cleveand's message. The
shape and form which this will take was
reached late last night, when the plank pre-
pared at Washington was shown TO few of
the leaders. 1t is a compromise between the
Harrisburg and the New York platforms.
For the first time in the political history of
half of a century of tariff agitation the
Democracy of Pennsylvania finds itself
farther along the path towards free trade
than its party The Democrats of Pennsyl-
vania bolted whole the Mills bill, every line
covering blow at some one of its industries.
The Democrats of the country reject the
name but accept the principle of the Mills
bill
The plank as it stands now takes three
positions. 1t reaffirms the attitude of the
party four years ago demanding revision
and reduction of the internal revenue. 1t
will not denounce the latter as war taxation
only. as did the platform of 1884. Neither
will it propose to continue internal revenue
taxation unchanged. as did the Presidents
message. In the next place the platform,
having crossed the Presidents position in
his message on this point will affirm approv-
al of the tariff message and the administra-
tons policy and, lastly, it will demend the
passage of legislation carrying out this mess
age, and this legislation will be described in
terms which fit the Mills bill as nearly as
may be, but the bill will not be mentioned
by name.
CONVENTION OF THE DISAPPOINTED.
1t is hard TO believe that a great party,
holding nine-tenths of the offices and half
the votes of the country, is to meet to-mor-
row in its great National Council. Gather
ings of far less Importance, of merely local
interest. ordinarily draw far larger crowd
and fill a town with far more visible and vo-
cal signs of their presence and enthusiasm.
There is absolutely no comparison, for in
stance, between the crowd drawn here by
this Convention and the thousands whom
the Grand Army encampment gathered here.
1t would be mistake TO attach too much
importance TO the absence of anything spec
tacular in this convention. The circumstance
reflects in a curious way the party candidate !;
for Mr.. Cleveland, whatever else he has
done or left undone, has never been spec
tactilar, and his party addressed itself
TO the work of a denomination in his
own dull heavy way. Of course, the per-
functionary character of the nomination ac-
counts for part of this. But there are other
reasons which take the snap out of this Con-
vention and make it so dull ratification
meeting 1t is an assemblage in which the
unterrified and fierce Democracy is replaced
by the Great Disappointed" In running
over the list of delegates one finds many of
those whom Cleveland refused to appoint to
office, and it is the irony of fate that they
are now assembled TO nominate him. What
is there for Henry Watterson to throw his
hat in the air over, except the Mills bill?
He wanted to preside over the Convention,
and Pat Collins will but he, too, has his
disappointment to nurse. The Indiana del
egation is raw over the grievance of seeing
Thurman put in the field at the eleventh
hour and apparently by The administration
for Vice. President Part of Ohio is quite as
mad at the prospect for having TO vote for
him. The Californians are enthusiastic, but
that is the way they have in both parties. In
all the other delegation headquarters the at
mosphere is as exaiarating as vapor bath
and as full of enthusiasm.