Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-10
HENRY wArrERsos's aUEssEs.
The Democratic Issues and Ticket for Next
Year.

The Democratic Issues and Tfcket ior No~'
Year.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July s.-ln al
article on Presidential possibilities,
Henry Watterson makes the following
guesses and suggestions regarding 'he
Democratic ticket for next year: T..
sThe Democratic party Is not SO poor
ly of Tor Presidential ticket next year
as some people affect to think. An
affirmative and irresistible issue In the
reform of the revenue system ana the
reduction of the war tariff TO peace
| footing, we have to stand on, and, ike
wise, negative, but equally irreslst-
| ible. issue in the excuses OF the last
Republican Congress, and in the Interior
plans and purposes Of the Republican
party. .o
"But a ticket; what about a ticket'
| II those who make themselves unhappy
on this point would only stop and think
they would discover that this Is not so
grave a matter, for personalities have
never cut very great figure In our ma
| tional politics. The most popular Amer
lean who ever lived, Henry Clay, was
beaten by man who had been thought
of for President twenty-four hours be-
fore he was nominated, and who had no
personal entity at all. The most popu-
| far and magnetic of our modern polite
| ians. James G. Blaine, was beaten oy
Grover Cleveland. The individuality OF
| the strongest man gets rather thin oy
the time it is flattened out over the
whole country. Pierce, Lincoln, Hayes
and Garfield are examples of successful
afterthought nominees, TO say nothing
of Tilden. -.
When it comes TO final case OF
necessity, we may be quite sure that
"the Lord will provide" as He always
has done. In the meantime, let US run
over some of the possibilities. Here Is
a good fat ticket, round and rosy, like
little buttercup. and safe at both ends.
For President-Grover Cleveland of
New York: for Vice President-Horace
Boies Of Iowa.
Or this one:
For President-Grover Cleveland of
New York; for Vice President-Isaac
p. Gray of Indiana.
Or this one:
For President Grover Cleveland, of
New York; for Vice President-William
r. Morrison of Illinois.
All this, with the understanding that
New York is solid for Mr.. Cleveland.
In the event that it is not, and that In
consequence we shall have to leave New
York out and seek a candidate else
where, we must come west. Here the
field is rather speculative than positive,
though we have one man who, next
after Mr. Cleveland, embodies all that
the Democratic party stands for, and
embodies it with the first order OF
ability and a character of sterling in
tegrity. How would this do:
For President-Jobn G. Carlisle, Of
Kentucky; for Vice President-RoSwell
2. Flower, of New York.
Or this:
For President-John G.. Carlisle, of
kentucky; forVice-President-Leon Alb
bolt, of New Jersey.
Or this: For President-John G.
Carlisle, of kentucky; for Vice-Presi-
dent-Thomas M. Waller of Con-
necticut.
Or this: For Presidcnt-Arthur P.
German, of Maryland; for Vice-PreSi-
dent-Isaac p. Gray, of Indiana.
Or this: For Presdent-George Gray,
of Delaware; for VicePresident-Isaac
P. Gray, of Indiana.
1t is true that Mr.. Carlisle lives at the
s zen br eRd 9t 9Th rs eaeiHaas and coyns
Brigadier. He is known from one END
of the land to the other as a conserVa-
tive statesman of transcendenta Dlllties,
calm. enlightened, and upright, ana
singularly Just in all his mental FORCES.
Nobody can doubt that he would make
a good President, and give the country
q safe, sound, enlightened administra-
ton.
But suppose neither Cleveland nor
Carlisle is available, how would this do:
For President, James E. Campbell, OF
Ohio: for Vice President, Leon Albeit,
of New Jersey.
Or this: For President, Horace Boies,
OF Iowa; for Vice President, Thomas M.
Waller, of Connecticut.
Or this: For President, William Is.
Morrison, of Illinois; for Vice President,
Roswell p. Flower, of New York.
Or this: For President, Isaac P. Gray,
of Indiana; for Vice President, William
T.. RUSSELL of Massachusetts,.
eff none of these tickets will answer
as a cont ination they can be separated,
and any one of the Vice Presidential
suggestions can be advanced to the first
place. If we can find nobody In the
West: II Campbell is not reelected in
Ohio. nor Boies in Iowa; and il, in con-
sequence, we have to go East, there is
Pattison, of Pennsylvania, and Albeit,
of New Jersey, and Waller, OF Connecti-
cut What is the matter with any one
of them? Why, gentlemen, the woods
are full of Democratic possibilities.
Those we have named are not even hid
in the bushes. We can see them hourly
as they pass to and fro among the sweet
midsummer foliage. But there still
others hid away back in the foliage.
Provoke US, and we will develop them. !"