Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-15
BARNEY INTERVIEWED.
Governor Gibbs on Political Pros
poets and Probabilities.
The Combination OF circumstances Which
Caused Recent Results-War Speeches
Dead Letter.

LEIIE ) questioning cOutetuiHB &c ie-
cent elections, said: Recent election re-
suits were caused by n combination of
circumstances and hard work on the part
of many Democrats, and farmer lectur-
ers, TO show the condition of the country
and the reasons therefor. Every intel
ligent farmer and laboring man Is be-
coming a student OF economic questions,
and losing all interest in dead issues.
Every labor and farmer organization is
becoming a political debating club and
have quit cheering war speeches. This
political activity makes election results
more uncertain. There has been less
progress in the last century in the science
of government than in any other science.
The next twenty-five years will show
more than the last hundred years. Gov
ernment has been too much q matter of
precedent. The effect in 1892 as to how
the recent vote will stand in the next
presidential election Will depend alto
gether on the action of the new congress.
The farmers in the Northwest have
signified willingness to join hands with
the agricultural South in trial OF the
Democratic party. If the Democrats
make faithful effort to reduce expenses
and taxation, and to increase the per
capita circulation of money, and uomi-
nate man for president In harmony
with this policy, the new recruits will
stick. The next Democratic nomination
viii not be made "on SENTIMENT but
'to win. - Neither the Democratic
party or the country will stand q nomi-
nee who is opposed to the free coinage of
silver, or in favor of @ contraction OF the
circulating medium. Such q nomination
Will produce a political revolt liz the
South, equal to the one recently expert
enced in the West. Whether he comes
from the West or the East, the Demo-
cratic party will make the next fight I'M
der new man, go Us not to enter the
campaign on the defensive. l feel sure
that before the campaign opens Mr..
Cleveland will so advise the party, as he
fully appreciates the fact that the dis
trlbution of patronage, his position on
silver coinage and other things, have
created local antagonisms that would
prevent him from polling q full party
vote and lose him close states,
The x-officeholders OF the South can I,
from gratitude or any other sentiment,
force Cleveland g nomination on the
West or he East. When the new con-
beers will be new men, with their own
ideas of who can win, and there is
springlng up in every precinct in the
country weII-posted Democrats who Will
have o say so or break a trace chain, and
the nomination won't be made or the
nominee elected without their help. Re-
cent events prove that leadership aud
brilliancy amount to nothing unless ac-
cOmpnuied by craftsmanship in harmony
with opinions o. the masses, who have
started out to break down barriers. The
next Democratic platform Will have TO
be favorable to the reasonable demands
of the people, and the nominee will have
TO announce that he stands on it from
top to bottom, or recent events will sig
Nifty nothing.
with Mr.. Cleveland as the nominee
we cannot boiler ''turn the rascals
out, - or in our platform demand z free
coinage of silver.
The daily press sometimes want one
thing and the ''boys ut the forks of the
creek want another. Nearly all the
dailies IN New York were for Nh. Cleve-
land the lasI time, and we lost the state
and the country. Washington city poll
tcians have before now nominated
man and seen both him and the party
slaughtered. In the next Democratic
national convention there will be more
non office holding ana farmer delegates
than were ever seen there before. No
man or set of men are as great as the
party when the privates organize "to
win.
The nomination is too far off to be dis
cussed at any length, but the fact that
MIR. Cleveland made no speeches for the
party in the last campaign indicates, to
any mind, that he didn't intend to let
his name be used. He is too shrewd q
politician not to have understood that in
case of victory The Democrats would
turn to Palmer, Hill or Pattison to lead
them to victory. MIR. Cleveland made a
good president, but he certainly knows,
II his friends don It, that the great Dem
ocratic party has more than one man in
It's ranks smart enough 10 be president.
The alacrity with which his friends rush
of TO make boom for him, on the
strength of victory he didn't help win,
means u tough old fight in the party I'M
less he represses them
The recent election surprise shows how
little conf ience can be put in either the
Judgment or power of political bosseS''
under the new regime. a man may be
o fine president IS Mr.. Cleveland was
q nd still not be an available candidate.
However deplorable, yet il is fact that
small things have sometimes prevented
great men like Clay aud Webster from
being nominated or elected president.
For instance, in Indiana there was great
opposition TO Mr.. Cleveland because
il was charged that he had mistreated
Hendricks when living, aud refused the
courtesy of attending his funeral when
dead. In Virginia and the South it was
charged that he snubbed Winnie Davis
for fear OF public opinion in the North.
Unless the new congress and the party
10 conciliatory and conservative, in these
fays of surprises, if is possible that the
hext president may not be chosen by the
electoral college, as three states may
elect former members who re not Re-
publicaus or Democrats.