, 1891-04-24
CLARKSON'S CACKLE.
Interviewed in Boston on the
Political Outlook.
Republicans 0utgeneralled in
New England.
The Kind of Man Republicans
Must Have to Win

Boston, April 23.-The Herald has a
long interview with nresident-elect Clark
son of the Republican league. Clarkson
says in part: The failure Of the Young
men to participate in politics is the weak
ness of the Republican party in New
England. l believe New England De
mocracy has out generated its Republican
opponents IN that respect. They have as
leaders the sons of the founders of Repub-
licanism. The Republican party must
utilize their young men. The labor ques-
ton will figure in the next campaign and
ought to. The wealth should be more
evenly distributed"
DO yeu interpret the Cincinnati con
v%eution as favorIng Blaine instead of
HARRISON"
II was not at the convention, so | can
not assume to Judge of its sentiments, -
was the rejoinder.
1t is said you are personally out for
Blaine as against the denomination of
President Harrison. suggested the re-
porter.
Il AVE no personal choice TOR presi-
dent" replied Clarkson. Time will
indicate the man. If the silver question
is settled the situation will be greatly
cleared. The seat of Republican power,
the West, will never consent to see the
treasury of the country dwarfed to a gold
basis. The West will not consent to any
candidate or platform that will not repre-
sent the double standard idea, and the
greater part will not consent to a platform
that will not represent silver as money by
the coinage of the American product.
With such a position on o and with
a position for the revision of banking laws
SO as to make our banking advantages
favorable to agricultural communities.
cities and towns, and with the purpose to
provide good money and enough OF it, the
Republican party will hold the West as
solid for the party ASH was in 1888, while
Mckinley will carry New York and the
doubtful states. The next Republican can
didate Tor president must be a man broad
enough to cover this broad land. and able
to administer Justice on all differing iu-
terests with true regard to all national in
terests. President Harrison has made a
faithful executive in every public sense,
and is lacking only in'that personal pOpu-
larlty which gives a man the power of
electricity in politics He has demon
strated his qualities fully, and his pure
intellectual ability is o second to any
American living today. not ever to his
phenomenal secretary of state. Whoever
is the Republican candidate must be a
a man who can maintain the solidIty of
the party in the great agricultural region
west OF tie Mississippi. The candidate
must not only be near TO the people, but
must net be far from the farm. All 20.
litical parties will go more closely to the
farms hereafter than they have in the
past fifty years. The farmers are going
to assert themselves in public affairs and
tor the good of the race.
Clarkson said be believes Cleveland will
be the next Democratic candidate. If
his personal views on the silver question
do not quite suit the South aud West, he
will make them suit. He feels that the
gold people will trust him anyway, and
as tie Western and Southern Democracy
believe in him as a man of destiny, he
can successfully hypnotic them on the
silver question, and | think be is doing 1t.
ITO win in 1892" said Clarkson, I'VE
must bring Ut the Republican newspaper
circulation to meet that of the Democratic
party in its programme. t. the circulation
of millions of arguments directly to the
house of the voters.