The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-24
Clarkson on Presidential Candidates.

BosToN, April 23.-The Herald has long
interview with President-elect Clarkson.
of the Republican league. Clarkson says
IN part: 1.-THE failure of young men to
participate in politics is the weakness of
the Republican party in New England. 1
believe the New England democracy has
out generated its Republican opponents in
that respect. They have as leaders per
sons who were founders of the Republican
ism, The Republican party must utilize
their young men. The labor question will
figure in the next campaign, and ought to.
Wealth should be more evenly distributed"
''Do you interpret the Cincinnati conven-
ton as favoring Blaine instead of Harri-
son2''
Twas not at the convention so | cannot
assume to Judge its sentiments was the
reioinder.
| 1T is said you are personally out
for Blaine as against the denomination
of President Harrison" suggested the re-
porter.
81 have no personal choice for Pres1-
dent" replied ClaIkson- Thine will indi
cate the man. If the silver question is
settled, the question will be greatly
cleared. The seat of Republican power,
the west, will never consent to see the
i treasury of the country debased to 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 position on money and with posi-
| tion for the revision of the banking laws
so as to make our banking advantages
favorable to agricultural communities,
cities and towns, with purpose to provide
good money and enough of it, the Republi-
can party will hold the west as solid for the
party as it was in 1885 While the McKin-
ley bill will carry New York and the doubt
full states, the next Republican candidate
for President ought to be a man broad
enough to cover this land and able to ad-
minister Justice on all differing interests.
President Harrison has nude faithful
executive in every public sense and is lack
ing only in popularity, which gives man
the power of electricity in politics
He has demonstrated his qualities fully
and his powerful intellect is second to
no man living to-day, not even his phe-
nomenal secretary of state. Whoever is
the Republican candidate, he must be man
who can maintain the solidity OF the party
in the great agricultural region west of
the Mississippi. The candidate must not
only be near to the people, but must not
be far from the farm. Ali political 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 for the good Of the race u
Clarkson said he believed Cleveland will
be the next Democratic candidate If his
personal views on the silver question do not
quite suit the south and west, he will make
them suit He feels that the gold people
will trust him anyway, and as the western
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man of destiny, he can successfully
hypnotic them on the silver question, "anc
I think he is doing it,
ITO win in 1921 said Clarkson, 1--WE mus
} bring up the Republican newspaper circu
lat1on to meet that of the Democratic part,
in it's programme to circulate millions O.
arguments directly to the houses of vot
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