The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-24
Sons OF the Founders Of the Repub-
lican Party Are Demo-
cratic Leaders.
j. s. Clarkson Says He Has No
Personal Choice OF Presi-
Dental Candidates.
The Leader Must Re Electric. However
and Harrison Is not Electric,
Though Blaine Is.

boston, April 23.-rhe Herald has lone
interview with President. elect Clarkson. of
the republican league of clubs. Clarkson
says in part: "The failure of young men to
participate in politics ia tho weakness of the
republican party in Now England. be-
lieve the New England democracy has out
generated its republican opponents in that
respect. They have az leaders the sons OF
the founders of republicanism. The re-
publican 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 conyen-
ton as favoring Blaine instead of Harri-
SOM"
| III was not at the convention, so | cannot
| assume to judge of it's sentiments" was the
| rejoinder.
III Is SAID you are personally out for
Blaine as against the denomination of Pres
ldent HARRISON" suggested the reporter.
II have personal choice for president, -
replied Clarkson. "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 to see the treasury of the country
dwarfed to a 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 platform that will not represent silver
as money by the coinage of the American
product. With such position on money.
and with position for the revision of the
banking laws SO as to make our banking
advantages favorable to agricultural COM
munities, cities and towns, and with the
purpose to provide good money and enough
of it, the republican party will hold the
west as solid for the party as it was in 1888,
while the Mckinley bill will carry New
York and the doubtful states. The next re-
publican candidate for president must be
man broad enough to cover this land and
able to administer justice on all differing
interests with true regard to ali
national interests. President Harrison
has made faithful executive in
every public sense and is wanting only in
that personal popularity which gives man
the power of electricity in politics. He has
demonstrated his qualities fully, and his
intellectual ability is not second to any
American living to-day, not even to his phe-
nomenal secretary of state. Whoever is the
republican candidate must be a man who
can maintain the solidity of the party in
the great agricultural region west of the
Mississippi. The candidate must not onlv
pc near the people but must not be far from
the farm. All political parties will 60 more
closely to farms hereafter than they have
in the past fifty yenrs. The farmers are
going to assert themselves in public af-
fairs and for the good of the race
Clarkson said he believed Cleveland
VIII be the next democratic candidate. IF
his personal views on the silver question do
not quite suit the west and south he will
make them suit. He feels that the gold
people will trust HIM any way and as the
western and southern people believe in him
as man of destiny, nc can successfully
hypnotize them on the silver question. and
think he is doing it.
ITO win in 1922 said Clarkson. I'VE
must bring up the republican newspaper
circulation to meet that of the democratic
party in Its programme, to the circulation
of millions OF arguments directly to the
h ouses of voters'