New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-24
-, SERTOUS UORD NTH ROSUELL.

4 SERIOUS UORD WIN HONUELL"
Roswell Flower! Step this way moment.
TIE TRIBUNE wants a word or two with you.
TIE TRIBUNE has watched what is called your
career with more or less interest ever since
YOU appeared at Syracuse in 1882 as candidate
for the Democratic nomination for Governor
There were several other candidates, you will
remembers there were General SlOcum, ErastuS
Corning Homer A. Nelson, Allan Campbell,
Grover Cleveland, Perry Belmont and Waldo
Hutchins, ana of all of them, if you will recall
the situation, you and Grover Cleveland were
the least known. THE TRIBUNE remembers
wondering in ailanguid way why you or Grover
Cleveland should be in it at all. They said
YOU had lots of money, which explained your
being there, but there was no explanation for
Grover Cleveland except that Henry Richmond
and few Buffalo Democrats thought it was a
good time to have Buffalo candidate. The
general impression waS-pardOn our frankness-
that neither Of you had any business to be
running for Governor. Grover Cleveland rs
YOU no doubt remember, got the nomination.
To everybodys surprise, except his Own-fOr
he was a firm believer in what he called his
bull luck"-he was elected by an enormous
majority. Everybody wondered then what kind
of Governor he would make. We'll, there
have been worse. He certainly made a con-
siderable mark. But he came up with such
suddenness that when he did UNEXPECTEDLY say
or do a clover thing THE TRIBUNE rather won
dered who put him up to it, That was nine
years ago, though, and he. too, has had a career
since then. And THE TRIBUNE, which lives
TO find out things it did not know before and
is not unwilling to confess it is frank to say
that on the whole his being a candidate for
Governor was not absolutely ridiculous.
And now, Roswell, you are a candidate your
self Indirectly, you are pitted against Grover
Cleveland again. For he wants to be PIesi-
dent of the United States one more term, and
if YOU are elected he won't be for the men
who are running you will use your selection to
defeat his nomination. Roswell, what do you
want to be Governor for? What have you done
in these nine years to show that you have any
fitness or capacity for public affairs? And
especially, why should Democrats and Mug
wumps-who think Grover Cleveland actually
represents something which they believe in, and
represents it with what seems to them original
ity. force and earneStness-why should they vote
TO make you Governor with the chances of your
being very weak Governor, managed by very
bad men. and shove Grover Cleveland aside?
Another thing, Roswell. You have been max
ing some speeches, or say speech lately. II
is not at all discredtlbIe to you that you de-
liver it from manuscript, and it is also 10 be
said that among peop'e who are familiar with
the style of speeches prepared for statesmen in
Newspaper Row the belief is general that you
wrote it yourself. But really, haven't you made
mistake in combining yourself to a single issue.
and that issue the location of the Worlds Fair /?
You have lived long enough in New York to
know that when any scheme, municipal, State
or National is proposed which includes tho
handling of large sums Of money and involves
tho possibility of its falling into the hands of
the close political corporation that rules this