Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-25
YOUNG MEN WANTED
President Clarkson Says They Are
the Mainstsys OF the Future.
PRES. HARRISON WARYLY EULOCllED
TIE Candidate for 81. Must be Repre-
s<atAtiss sMsn-Cteseianda an Under
sstimat ted PelitieaI Iriekstsr
The Oatlook.

BosIoS, Mass, April 2i.-"The fail
ure OF young men to participate IN pol
itios IS weakness of the Republican
party in New England" said j. :.
Ciarkson, president OF the National
League. to Boston Herald representa-
tive yesterday. 81 believe the New
England Democracy has outgeneraled
ITS Republican opponents IN that re-
spect. They have as leaders the sons
of the founders of Republcanism. The
Republican party must utilize their
young men. The labor question will
figure IN the next campaign, and ought
To do SO. Wealth should he more even
ly distributed. Something Is ready for
correction when one man can pile up
his millions in 8 few years while an
other has 4 hard time To make living.
| The increase of wealth should be more
evenly distributed"
Mr.. Clarkson defined reciprocity as
optional free trade. and said that the
Republican party iavors limited reclp-
rocity and the Democratic party uni
versal reciprocity. He thought the Nc
kinley bill would grow IN popularity
when fully understood and fairly Illus
trated to every community.
''Do you interpret the Cincinnati con-
vention as favorng Blame instead of
HarrlsonT'
II was not at the convention. SO
cannot assume To Judge OF Its senti-
ments." was the rejolnder.
He Has No Personal Choice.
-, "a ha ltx-~
Tor Blaine as against denomination OF
President Harrison, suggested the re-
porter.
Il have no personal choice for PresI-
dent" replied Mr.. Clarkson, with de-
Liberation. "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 10 see the
Treasury of the country dwarfed TO a
gold basis The West will not consent
to any candidate or any platform that
Will not represent the double standard
idea. and the greater part will not con-
sent TO q platform that will not repre-
sent silver as money by the coinage of
tile American product. With SUCH a
position on money, and with the posi-
ton for a revision of the banking laws
so as to make our banking advantages
as favorable to agricultural commune
ties, cities and towns, and with the pur-
pose to provide good money and enough
of 1T. the Republican party will hold
the West as solid for the party as 1T was
in 1888, while the Mckinley bill will
carry with it New York and the doubt
ful States for the Republican party.
The Candidate Must He Broad.
"The next Republican candidate for
! President" continued Mr.. Clarkson,
must be man broad enough to cover
| this broad land, and able to administer
| justice on all the differing interests
with true regard to all National in
| terests. President Harrison has made
a faithful executive in every public
sense, and is lacking only in the per.
| sonal popularity which gives man the
power OF electricity IN politics. He has
| demonstrated his qualities fully, and
| his pure intellectual ability is not second
| to any Amer,cin living today, not even
| to his phenomenal Secretary of State.
Whoever is the Republican candidate
must be man who can maintain the
solidity OF the party in the great agri-
cultural region west of the Mississippi.
| The candidate must not only be near
| the people, but must not be far from
the farm. All political parties Will 60
| more closely to the farms hereafter
| than they nave in the past fifty years.
| The farmers are gong to assert them
selves IN public affairs, and for the
| good OF the race"
Cleveland n Shrewd Politician.
Mr.. Garrison said he believed that
Mr.. Cleveland will he the next Demo
cratic candidate. Ii 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 any way, and, as the Western
and Southern Democracy believe in
him as "a man of destiny" he can sue
cessfulIy hypnotic them on the silver
| question, and | think he is doing 1t.
Ex-PreSdent Cleveland is one of the
smsrtest politicians that his party has
ever had, and the Republican party has
always underestmated him IN tsis
respect. To WIN In 1892, said Mr.. CLARK.
son. we must bring up the Republican
| newspaper circulation to meet that of
the Democratic party IN IFS program, to
| circulate tens OF millions of arguments
directly TO the houses of the voters.
Ciarkson Accepts His ONCE.
CINCINNATI, April 24.-The Hon. J
NJ. ThurstoD, ex-president of the
league, received the following tele.
gram from Presidentelect Clarkson
yesterday:
BosroS. Mass, April 23.-To the
Hon. John NJ. Thurston, President
Republican League of the United
| States: / am IN receipt of your mes
sage and accept the presidency of the
league, and will Immediately take w
1T, work. ask the Executive Commit
| tee or such members of il ss may con-
venIently attend, to meet At head
| quarters in New York on "Wednesday
noon next. We shall then begin the
preliminary labors with the intention
of accomplishing by the long winter
months come form of active Republican
National organization in every neigh.
borhood of the United States. Your
convention has put the Republican
| party m motion for victory for itself
and the Republic in lsq2. thank my
comrades Of the league for the trust
they have reposed in me. and shall Try
IN common with them. TO do what
can in tie work now before Va all.
j. ;. CIARKsoS.