Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-24
THE POLITICAL POT.
Ret ClarksOn's Views of the
Situation.
BENZ. Harrison Lacks Personal
Popularity.
The Republican Party Must Cater to
Western Interests.
Depew Says Harrison VIII Be Re
elected-Cleveland's silver Policy
and Other Matters.
Associated Press Dispatches.


Associated Press Dispatches.
CINCINNATI, April 23.--Mr. Clarkson
has telegraphed his acceptance of the
presidency of the national Republican
league, and called a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee for next Wednesday
at New York.
The new executive committee is COM
posed as follows Alabama, R. w. Aus
tin; Connecticut, Edward l.. Lindsey
Delaware, Phillip Walter; Georgia, r.
d. Locke; Idaho, George N. Roberts /;
Illinois, James @. Edwards; Indiana, G..
w. Mitchell; Iowa, Frank d. Jackson !;
Kansas, +. G. Little; Kentucky, w. d.
Riley; Louisiana, T. G. L. Hening
Maine, J. H. Manley; Maryland, Geo.
L. Wellington; Massachusetts, J. Henry
Gould; Michigan, Edward P. Allen
Minnesota, T. f. Byrnes; Missouri,
Charles E. Peace; Nebraska, John L.
Webster; New Hampshire, M. y. Pratt i;
New Jersey, Louis T. Derasse; New
York, James A. Blanchard; North Da-
kota. A. B. Kuptill; Ohio, Horace NJ
Deal; Pennsylvania, X. Freeman; Ten
nessee, L. X. Torbett; Vermont, Ham
ilton S. Peck; Virginia, G.. A. Paris !;
Washington, ID. G. Van Houten; West
Virginia, S. B. Elkins; Wisconsin, A.
B. Shaw; New Mexico, Elbert X. Fawn !;
District OF Columbia, A. M. Clapp.
CLARKsoN INTERVIEWED.
BosroN, April 23.-The Herald has
long interview with President-elect
Clarkson OF the Republican league.
Clarkson says, in part:
'The failure of the young men to par
ticipate in politics, is a weakness of the
Republican party in New England. l
believe the New England Democracy
has out-generalled its Republican OPP
ponents in that respect, They have as
leaders the sons OF the founders of Re-
publicanism. 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 con-
vention as favoring Blaine instead OF
HarrisonY" was asked. is,,-. -
81 was not at the convention, so can
not assume to Judge of its sentiments"
was the rejoinder.
''It is said you are personally out for
Harrison?" suggested the reporter.
II have no personal choice for presi-
dent" replied Clarkson. thine will
indicate the man."
THE SILVER QUESTION.
eff the silver question is settled, the
situation will be greatly cleared. The
seat OF Republican power, the west will
never consent to see the treasury of the
country dwarfed to gold basis. The
west will not consent to any candidate
or platform that will not represent 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 American products. With
such position on money, and with
provision for the revision OF the banking
laws so as to make them advantageous
and favorable to the agricultural COM
munities; with the purpose to provide
publican party will hold the west as
solid for the party as it was in 1880,
while the Mckinley bill will carry New
York and the doubtful states.
WHAT HARRISON LACKS.
"The next Republican candidate for
president must be a man broad enough
to cover this broad land, and able to ad-
minister justice ON all the differing in
terests with true regard to all national
interests. 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 of politics. He has
demonstrated his qualities fully, and
his pure intellectual abilities are not
10 1sxys~ %cIo
not even to his phenomenal secretary
ofstate.
"Whoever is the Republican candi-
date must be a man who can maintain
the solidity of the party in the great ag-
ricultural region west of the Mississippi
The candidate must not only he dear to
the people, but he must be from a
farm. All the political parties will go
closer to the farms hereafter than they
have in the past fifty years. The farm
ers are going to assert themselves in
public affairs, and for the good OF the
race"
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE.
Clarkson said: II believe Cleveland
will be the next Democratic candidate.
If his personal views on the silver ques-
ton 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 man of
destiny, and think he is doing it,"
TO win in '92," said Clarkson, 1--WE
must bring up the Republican newspa-
per circulation to meet that of the DEM
ocratic party, in its programme to circu-
late millions of arguments directly to
the houses of the voters"
CLEvELAND's SILVER POLICY.
Treasurer stephens Repudiates Part Of
the Recently Published Interview.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 23.--State Treas