Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-05-30
A Dissolution OF pastcss ship.


Mississippi that Cleveland can carry
lie declares that the people Of that Sec
ton are getting heartily tired and sick
of the domination Of Wall street and are
determined 10 establish the fact that
this Is a government Of the people and
not Of the moneyed interests of the
country. There is a world of
political Significance ia utteranees
Ike these, which are constantly
falling from the lips OF prominent South
ern Democrats. IL is daily becoming
more evident that the time is fast
approaching when there will be con-
siderable Of an upheaval In the Demo
cratic party. Old lines Of policy within
| its ranks will be discarded and many
| saehems who formerly led it, various
| tribes will be relegated to the rear.
New forces are moving to the front
forces which have the power and appar-
emily the inclination TO control things.
Ever since the war southern men, not
| daring to put forward candidate of
heir own have coined drives" with
New York, permitting that state TO have
| the candidates upon condition that the
South should control them so far rs It's
interests were In any way concerned. As
result OF this combination New York
has had every Democratic presidential
candidate since the war. In 1865 it
| presented Ioratio Seymour; in loa2
Horace Greedy; in 1876 Samuel J.
Tilden: in 1850 Winfield :. Hancock;
and in 1854 and ISIS Grover Cleveland.
OF course all this has been very delight
full to the Bourbons of New York, and to
the members of Tammany Hall, who
| practically own the Democracy of that
state, but it has not been altogether sat
isfaetory to other sections of the coun
try, for 1t practically closed the door of
the presidential possibility TO every
Democratic leader who was 80 unfortu-
nate as to reside outside of the Empire
State. OF course very many of
them drifted that way and took
up their abode in this Dem
ocratie political elysium in the
vague hope that the party nominal
ing lightning might descend upon them;
but all could not do this-such are the
binding force OF circumstances, which
| often restrain the action even of Demo-
cratic statesmen. Besides, with single
exception, those who did secure the
party nomination found in it no balm of
t'ilead for the bruises incurred in the
struggle for it. They discovered that the
lame OF Democratic nomination was
but an empty and mournful dream;
Il hollow moekery and wasting
delusion. But there was great section
OF the country whose Democrats, though
| unable to do much for the cause, were
able to make themselves heard with con-
siderable distinetness. The great West
was always dissatisfied with the New
Y ork and Southern alliance, and was
always putting the anxious query, but
where do we come in?" A question to
which the profoundest Democratic
craftsmanship was unable to give any
satisfactory answer.
The southern Democrats, too, began
to tire OF this political combination, and
when in lSss Cleveland WAS defeated by
the electoral vote OF his own state while
the Democratic candidate for Governor
was elected by plurality of l9,l71
their rage and disgust knew no bounds.
They declared that they would no longer
tamely submit to New York dictation In
their party affairs. They asserted that
the South had men of its own who could
make good deal better run and whom
they believed could be elected. Carlisle
and German they believed to be the more
than peers of any leaders whom the New
York Democracy could bring forward
Cleveland they declared could not carry
New York in 1855 owing to the
treachery of Hill, and what son was
there to believe that he could do it
when the hard feelings engendered,
between himself and the Governor had
been intensified by four years of back
biting and strife and had become thor
oughiy embibed by their friends.
Besides, they claim, the ex President
would be obliged, should be run again,
to encounter the active hostility of
prominent and powerful party organs
that supported him in 1ssS.
Again 1t is said that MIR.
Cleveland cannot go into national con-
ventien with delegation from his own
state behind him, and that this fact alone
will be sufficient to force the Democratic
party TO go outside OF New York for n
candidate. There can be no doubt but
what up to within very recent time
Southern Democrats were fully deter
mined to make desperate fight to
secure the nomination Of candidate
from their own section at the next
national convention of their party. The
recent utterances of Mr.. Reagan
and other Southern leaders, however,
Indicate change of plan. The of
year political upheavals in the West
have given them hope of securing
strength in that section, and they have
apparently determined to choose West
cru man for the party standard bearer.
This plan has been strengthened by the
formation Of the Peoples party" at
Cincinnati. Thia the Democratic party
views in the light of an annex and with a
Western candidate counts upon it to Sc
cure them several states in that section.
In this. as in many other well-laid
schemes of former days, the Democratic
party is pretty sure to find itself badly
| of in its calculations when the returns
come in. The West, by persistent mis-.
| representation, was mislead once regard
ing the tariff bill. but 1t has now learned
the truth regarding it. and practically
tested its great benefits. The policy of
reciprocity is also sn exceedingly pepu-
lar one in that section and will give the
Republican party great strength there.
The new party recently formed at Gin
cinnati is chiefly gathering together
OF elements that have been met
on the Political field before with
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