Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-21
THE NEXT CANDIDATE.
Evidence of Rapid Destruction of Presi.
dental T;mber-A Representative of the
People, Not of the Politicians, Wanted rs
Chief Mn aisfrnte.


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Chief Mn nRistrnte.
rFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WAsHINGToN April 20.-It seems it is never
too early to begin a canvass for another
Presidential nomination as soon as one cam
paign is past Harrison had not been in office
six months before Republicans began to pre-
dict that he would not be in the field for the
nomination in 1892 though nothing had oc-
Cured on which to base judgment of the con-
dltions which would surround that event. The
same prediction was made in regard to Cleve-
land by the Democrats early in 1886. and yet
when the campaign of 1883 came on there was
no other candidate in the field, and even those
Democrats who had cursed him deepest we're
the loudest to howl for his denomination.
just now everybody is sure that Harrison
Will not be factor in the next campaign. The
Republican leaders will have none of him. He
is dead duck shot with his own little gum ac-
customed to the destruction of ducks and other
small game. But how will it be in 1892? Let
the Republican leaders and the Presidential
asplrants dispose of each other ever so finally
and completely, somebody must be nominated,
and is it not probable that the conditions which
CONFRONTED the party in 1888. and which resulted
in the nomination of Mr.. Harrison. will obtain
again in the next campaign, and the geograph-
lcal location of the man and the jealouses and
rIvalries of the other candidates result IN the
cholce OF the grandson of his grandfather?
Candidates Already Disposed Of
{ CANDID ATEs have already begun to kill each
other of. Foraker has been disposed of
finally and forever, and neither Sherman nor
Mckinley drops a tear. Sherman has recently
given Alger a deadly thrust, and Alger re-
spends with a stab under the fifth rib of the
Ohio icicle. Adherents of rival candidates cut
Mckinley in his ambitious race for the Speak
ersLip of the House of Representatives in the
rear that success in such a contest would put
him in position to make his calling sure in
the greater race of 1892. Every honest and
the borders of his phylacIeries and make the
Department of Agriculture what it ought to be
has excited the sarcasm and the ribald jests of
friends of other candidates for the great and
useless office of President.
Over on the other side of the fence the work
or slaughter is even more yenomous and con-
spicuous. Hill is maligned and belittled by the
friends of both Cleveland and Whitney. Hill
and Whitney are engaged in a murderous war;
fare on the mere possibility of the nomination
of Cleveland.
An Example of Political Animosity.
THE determination to kill Cleveland inspires
the most novel methods. One day the
New York Sun. which bates Cleveland with
hatred as cordial as the love of David and
Jonathan. tells story of Cleveland's running
all to fat, that he takes on flesh at the rate of
% pounds month"; that he has to employ an
athlete to rub off the alarming accumulations.
The following day the World, whose hatred of
Cleveland is only exceeded by its hatred Of the
Sun, fakes an.iinterview with the suppositi-
tious candidate, in which the latter is made to
say things that can have no other result than
to stir up Dana to say the most horrible things
of the eX-President that can be put into Ian
guage, and the following morning Mr.. Dana
proceeds to say these things, seizing on what is
plainly a fake" for the purpose of administer
ing to the poor man such fiagellation as in
another day would have called for imIne-
diate account at the point of the pistol. And
SO Cleveland is beng disposed of.
Men almost cease to be human when engaged
In these contests, they develop SO much OF the
nature of the tiger and the anaconda
1t appears, however, that in politics the more
man is trampled upon the more he rises. On
this theory Senator Quay would just now ap-
pear to be the logical candidate for President
OF the Republican party, and Cleveland must
seem to be the certain choice of the Democrats