Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-18
The Boston Globe Presents a
Candidate for President.
MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR.
If New York Democrats are Unable to
Unite on One Man the Bay state Will
Push Forward Her Favored
Son for First Place.

IS IN IIt CO4ulllu VI uOUUl4 al STATES lOr 49,
Hon. William E. Russell put her there
Twice in succession he has received plump
plurality of the votes OF her citizens for the
highest Office in their gift. Every Demo.
crat believes, and every Republican appre,
hends,- that ne can carry the state again in
1892
His reelection as governor q year hence.
if he lives, is felt to be distinct probable
ity, even by Republicans; by Democrats il
IS looked upon as a moral certainty. AS the
candidate of the Democratic party for pres
ident OF the United States Republicans and
Democrats would unite in the confident eI-
pectation that he would carry the fifteen
electoral votes Of Massachusetts into the
Democratic column. State pride alone
would turn the scale, already inclined to
the Democratic side, heavily in his favor.
1t must be fully and frankly conceded
that New York. with her decisive thirty
SIX electoral votes, has the first right 10
name the Democratic candidate IN 1892. If
she goes to the national convention pre-
pared to present the name of any one OF her
citizens as the united choice of the Empire
state Democracy. that name will and ought
to be enthusiastically adopted by the united
Democracy Of the nation. There can be no
question whatever that the standard-bearer
of the Democracy must be a New York
statesman, if the Democrats of that all
important pivotal state are agreed upon his
name.
If, therefore, the Empire states delega-
ton to the next Democratic national con-
vention goes there ready 10 speak as one
man for the one man Of their preference
not with the merely apparent unanimity
that is enforced by the unit rule, but by the
spontaneous and hearty accord Of Demo-
cratic sentiment ard opinion throughout
New York-every consideration will impel
the Democrats CT all other states 10 jubi-
lantly accept that preference.
But if New York snail not be found ready
to take any such unanimous action, it will
become The plain duty Of the Democrats
from other states 10 step in and select a
candidate who, being entirely free from New
York eGtanglementS, can with reasonable
certainty count upon receiving the full
Democratic vote of the Empire state, and
appeal with i strong probability of success
10 all the doubtful states.
Such Z candidate the national Democracy
can summon 10 its service, in such a contin-
gency, in the person of Hon. William f.
Russell. already twice elected Democratic
governor of Massachusetts, and uudoubt-
cdly able to secure its fifteen electoral votes
If he should be the nominee of his party for
the presidency.
Assuming for the purpose of examining
Governor RuSSellS strength as possible
presidential candidate, that New York S
delegation goes to the national convention
divided in its preferences, what other DEM
CcraIic leader can be named IN any state
from which the Democracy can prudently
make choice of its Staudard-bearer, whose
chances of election would be any better or
nearly SO good as those of Governor Rus
sell Of Massachusetts,?
As a matter of practical politics, if New
York Democrats do not unitedly present
the candidate, there are only few states
from which the party can take its national
leader with any assurance of victory.
Massachusetts is one of those states, and
we look over the field, East and West, in
vain to find another name that has anything
like the magnetic and victory-compelling
qualities which are associated in the minds
of the people with that of the gallant young
governor of the Old Bay state.
New Jersey has no such name to ofer
neither has Connecticut, nor Rhode Island,
nor New Hampshire. We fail to recall any
Indiana name of equal availability. Iowa
suggests the name of BoieS, 4 leader I'M
queStionably strong and popular and enjoy
ing, like our own Governor Russell, the
prestige Of a repeated success in hitherto
steadfast Republican state. But Governor
Boics was a Republican ten years ago, and
it would not be in accordance with party
usage TO place the national standard in the
hands OF so recent a convert.
Provided, therefore, that New York fails
to exercise her unquestioned and uuqueS-
tiQuable right to step forward and by her
,oNn unanimous choice name the next
Democratic candidate for the presidency
and everything We urge in Governor Rus
sells favor is, of course to be taken with
that express reservation in favor OF a New
York candidate. if he can be unitedly pre-
scented from that paramount Democratic
State-we submit that William EuStiS Rus
sell of Massachusetts is the Democratic
IF t,ol n,-- fCr ion
would be equivalent to taking bond for
success. His selection would make Demo
cratic victory foregone conclusion over
any Republican who could be pitted against
him.
The necessity of the occasion is admitted
on all hands to be an Eastern man, accept
able to Eastern Democrats and to the great
body of independent voters who are drift
ing year by year in larger numbers to the
Democratic side, and whose final desertion
of their old Republican Affiliations would be
OF a wholesale character, il a young, pro-
gressive and liberal nominee like Governor
Russell were offered TO their SURFACES.
The South would hail Governor Russell's
candidacy with loyal acclaim. The South
looks naturally to the East for leader who
can command the Eastern electoral votes,
without which national success Is impossi.
BILE Here in the East the main battle will
be fought, and Governor Russell can GER
tainly secure the necessary Eastern electo-
raj votes easier than any other man who
can be named outside of New York, and
easier than any who can be named in New
York unless New York names him with
hearty uuanimity. And in Indiana and Iowa
Governor Russell would surely be stronger
than any ether Eastern man who can be
barring New York's possible united
choice, and as strong as any man who could
be named in the West.
More than enough electoral votes can be
secured in the Eastern states to elect a
Democratic president next year. The total
electoral vote of the country in 1892 will be
Az. so that 223 will be necessary to choice.
The South will give the Democratic nomi-
nee 159 electoral votes, and he will need be-
sides these to secure sixty-four from other
suites. The Eastern sound money states
could and would give these sixty-four cleo
toral votes, and more, to William Eustis
Russell of Massachusetts. He would carry,
beyond reasonable doubt New York 1857,
New Jersey Q0), Connecticut (6) and Mas
sachusettS l5). and that would give him
SiXty-SeVeu electoral votes, three more than
the number necessary, plus the South's l59,
to elect him. 1t is probable that Rhode
Island az and New Hampshire a. would
also go 10 him; they are both pretty good
Democratic states as it is, both being repre-
scented in the coming congress by Demo
cratic delegations. and their New England
pride would impel them strongly to Gov
ernor Russell's support
OF Massachusetts We entertain no doubt
whatever. She has not had a president of
these United States since John Quincy Ad-
ans, and her fifteen electoral votes would
surely so to her favorite son. William z.
Russell. in the event of his nomination.
On January g, 1892, Governor Russell will
no btr-rU nj ha