The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-05-31
THE PRESIDENT MAKERS.


The Binghamton Republican puts an
idea into type that seems fair inference
upon taking a view of the whole political
field at the present time. 1t says: "The
whole country will stand back this year
and see New York and Indiana hold the
presidential election"
Senator Sherman cannot CLEAN much
comfort from the following observation
by that close observer of matters political,
the Birmingham (Ala.) Age, Dem:
Mr.. Sherman, as was expected, has de-
yeloped considerable strength in the
south, if promise of southern republican
votes can be called strength. But poor
Sherman never was able to get more than
lukewarm support from his own people.
His southern delegates will flock to the
first magnetic man that pops up, be he of
Maine or any other state.
A general unity of motion in democratic
procedure of late is noticed by the Gin
cinnati Eng uirer Dem, which that jour
nal accepts as indicative of strong hand
at the helm. The Enquirer continues:
That is what the party has long needed,
and all that it has needed, to insure most
brilliant national success. There will be
states carried for the democratic electoral
ticket this fall which have never voted for
that party since the war.
In an article on presidential prefer
ences the Albany Journal (republican)
thus alludes to Judge Gresham:
The Gresham movement has not as yet
struck New York with peroeptible force,
although the leaders of the party in the
state recognize his availability as dark
horse.
Blaine may be "forced to volunteer
says the Philadelphia Inquirer
Chauncey M. Depew seems to have
firmly planted his standard in the office Of
the Hartford Courant, Senator Hawiey's
paper.
Speaking of booms in the concrete, the
Philadelphia sRecord democratic this
year,, says:
A boom is not good for anything unless
it be spontaneous. The booms for Sher-
man, Harrison, Allison and Blaine are
pump handle booms. They go just to
the extent they are made to go, with the
feeling in favor of Blaine that he ought
to have a second trial if he should want it
The Gresham boom and the Cleveland
boom are the only booms that flow with
out pumping. Judge Gresham is not his
own candidate. He is the candidate OF
his friends and admirers.
Senator Hoar has got his discharge
papers from the Sherman band and
joined Judge Gresham's forces, if the
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Traveller speaks by the card. The senator
is reported by the correspondent as say
ing that Judge Gresham is the strongest
candidate in the republican party, and he
proposes to vote for him IN the Chicago
convention.
The San Francisco Examiner dem.
has taken up the cudgels for Allen G.
Thurman and says that the proposal &c
nominate him for the presidency i;
an inspiration. "The name of Thurman,
says the Examiner, "would round out the
ticket and make it admirable throughout
The people believe in the old statesman
They know that his rugged honesty has
won him an honorable retirement from
the senate and they love him for the
enemies he has made While Cleveland
was winning the hostility OF rings anG
bosses, Thurman was CALAMITY acquiring
the hatred OF corporations and trusts. AL
the predacious combinations in the
country Joined in the charge upon him
They succeeded, and in driving him from
Office they intrenched him immovably il
the popular heart"
The editor of the Abbeville Is. O.
Medium has challenged either President
Mcbride, Professor Davis or Professor
Patton, of the South Carolina College OF
Agriculture, to meet him in a ploughing
match, to come off in November next on
the fair grounds in Columbia. 1t is I'M
derstood that one of the three college men
will pick up the gauntlet. The contest is
to he public one, and vast multitude
is expected to be present to see the con
testants turn somersaults over hidden
roots and hear them swear at the mules.