The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
oLEvsLAno's PROSPECTS.
His Nomination In 1899 Not So Sure as /
Was Q Few Months Ago.

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His Nomination In 1899 Not So Sure as 1t
Was . Few Months Ago.
II it were not that no other sail ap-
pears in sight we should begin TO doubt
the likelihood of the Democratic party's
fortune again being intrusted to the
barque Grover Cleveland. We do doubt
the probability of the hopes of that par
| ty ever again being confided to any ves-
| sci that floats the free-trade flag to the
fore. Free trade is going out of fashion
! in America. Democratic States like
| Virginia and Louisiana are renouncing
it Its advocacy is confined chiefly to
ill-tempered and ill-conditioned monde
scripts who are ''at outs" with the Re
publican party and not at ms" with
the Democrats; spurious Original
thinkers whose originality consists
solely in protesting the Republican
faith and deriding the Republican
doctrines: these, and some feeble
minded persons who still '1ook to the
East" and especially to England, as
the source Of all knowledge, now form
the advance guard of American free
traders. This, however, is depression.
We wish to talk about Mr.. Cleveland
and the Democratic party.
We suppose that the Democratic party
will nominate somebody to the Presi-
dency in 1899; we are pretty sure that
Mr.. Cleveland would like 1t to nominate
him, and, until very recently. We felt
pretty sure that Il would nominate him.
Westill think that it may have to NOM
mate him, but it is becoming plain that
1t doesn't want to. Whom else can it
nominate? There is General Palmer,
to be sure, and he would get the votes
of the solid South because he abused
General Sheridan when that distin-
guished officer, then having headuuar-
tiers at Chicago, ordered his troops to
protect the city, which had been devas-
tated by fire, from further devasta-
ton by thieves and murderers. But his
claim upon a Democratic convention
would be weakened by consideration of
two facts: First the South will go
solid for anybody nominated by the
Democratic party. 1t would use all its
peculiar methods quite as effectively, if
not quite as enthusiastically, for the
election of Mr.. Simeon Coy, of Indiana,
as for that of General Palmer, of Illi-
nois- And. second, the memory OF the
Palmer-Sheridan affair can not be re-
vived with profit to the Illinoisan in
any Northern State. We hardly think
that Mr.. Cleveland considers Mr.. Palmer
as very much of rival.
SELL NJ ;,
with the Democrats who manage con-
ventions. Mr.. Dana il against him.
Mr.. Pulitzer is against him, Mr.. Hill
is against him, and it would seem as If
the gentlemen who pull the Demo-
cratic wires in Chicago are against him.
He never was liked by the Democrats OF
Indiana, and if anybody thinks that
Indiana is not grooming "a dark !
horse" by the name of Isaac P. Gray. |
or If anybody thinks that Isaac p. !
Gray is not very hold as we'll as a
very tricky quantity, then anybody is
very badly mistaken. Neither Indiana .
nor Illinois want Cleveland. Each .
State has man of its own for the con-
sideration of the convention. New .
York, as we have seen. is far from
being unanimously for him, and Mr.. /
Hill may be considered as entered for /
the race against him. So that Mr.. .
Cleveland has no solidity in any one of .
the three great States of the North con-
,erning the possibility of carrying of
which the Democratic party so much as
lreams
This takes the nominating power back
70 its old sourCe-the solid South in
Democratic convention assembled. And
The South. as vet, has shown no an
ipathy to Mr.. Cleveland. The leaders
If that section will be shrewd enough
% nominate Northern man. and Mr..
Mills, of Texas. is for Clevelaud; so is
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Arkansas. and SO
5 Senator Eustis, of Louisiana. Has
General Palmer or Colonel Gray or Gov
.rnor Hill any such powerful triumvir-
tie supporting him? Besides which,
Ir. Gray would like the Vice-Presi-
lency if the Presidency be unattain-
bile; the Indiana delegates will do as
lie says. Suppose he says 'Clevelandr'
an any other man go into the Demo-
ratio convention with the four great
states OF the South and the most de-
'ateable State of the North at his
Inter Ocean.