The Butler weekly times., 1890-01-08
TARIFF VOTE REFORM.
The Probable Democrat Watch
word i'm 1890.
President Cleveland Urges Ills
Party tn Assume the Aggressive IN
Behalf Of IL Free Ballot and
Fair Count" as Well aS of
Tariff Reform.

Washington. ID c., Jan. 2.--The
Washington correspondent Of the
Nv York Press is authority for the
statement that Senator Vest Of Mis-
)nti has already entered the field as
oIse OF Mr. Clcyeland's managers for
1892. III dispatch to that paper
the correspondent says: Senator
George Graham Vest Of Missouri
chairman of the senate committee
which had been sitting on the dress
ed meat controversy, returned from
New York last night. 1t has leaked
out here that his mission to the me.
tropolis had to do not only with
beef, but with politics.
The senator had long interview
with ex-President Cleveland, during
which he endeavored to ascertain
the attitude of Mr.. Cleveland as to
the presidential nomination in 1892.
The correspondent has learned from
an exceedingly authoritative source
that the ex-president assured sena-
tor Vest that he was deyoting all the
energies at bis command to the
cause of ballot and tariff reform.
Continuing, he said that if he had
any friends IN the south he desired
them to assume the initiative i'll
pushing the fight for II free ballot
and fair count. In his opinion,
should the democratic party do SO,
al outrages upon suffrage perpetra-
ted not only i'll the south, but else
where, would surely be crushed.
1t is not known whether senator
Vest expressed lis approval of The
OK residents advice, although the
correspondent was Informed that
the Missoutian called upon Mr.,
C.eseIand at the request of certain
democratic leaders in his and other
80 thelu states for his views as 10
what should be done to insure the
triumph Of the democracy three
years hence 1t is known. however,
that Alr. Vest told the ex-presiaeut
that IL strong feeling existed i'll this
section favorable 10 his re nomina
ton. Democratic clubs for the
purpose of promoting his candidacy
were being quietly organized all over
the south. Recently he had visited
a number OF the states and wherever
he had mentioned the expresident's s
name it had been received with eli
th4 h4siasm.
NOTHING TO FEAR FROM HILL.
Mr.. Cleveland anxiously asked
what effect David B. Hills visit to
the south had had Senator Vest
replied that the governors Insulting
allusion to the ex-president in his
Atlanta speech had disgusted all who
had heard or read it, and that he
had nothing to fear from Hill as a
rival in the south. The senator add
ed, however, that the man who
would be most likely to worry him
was William c. Whitney of New
York, and advised him to keep an
eye on the ex-secretary of the navy.
Mr.. Cleveland questioned the SEN
ator as to whom the south would
favor for the vice presidential candi
date. MIR. Vest replied that Isaac
p. Gray of Indiana seemed to be
the favorite. He added that the
democrats i'll his section believed
that the presidential nominee should
be chosen from New York, for with.
out that states electoral vote il
would be impossible to win.
In parting with the senator, MIR.
Cleveland sent message through
him to the democracy of fha south
urging that it at oace assume the
aggressive for ballot and tariff re-
form.