The record-union., 1891-04-24
POLITICAL POINTERS.
GENERAL CLARKSON'S VIEWS ON
THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.
The Republican Party Must Encourage
Young Men to Participate
in Politics.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oS

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
Boston, April 23.-The Herald has a
long interview with President-elect
Clarkson Of the Republican League.
Clarkson says, in part: "The failure of
the young men to participate in politics
is the weakness of the Republican party
in New England. ] believe the New
England Democracy has outgeneraled its
Republican opponents in that respect
They have as leaders the sons of the
founders of Republicanism. The Repub-
lican 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 lstead of
Harrison?"
II was not at the convention, so I can
not assume to judge of its sentiments" I"
was the rejoinder.
1T is said that you are personally out
for Blaine, as against President Harri-
son." suggested the reporter.
Il have no personal choice for Presi-
dent" replied Clarkson. Thine will in
dicate 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 never consent to
any candidate or platform that will not
represent the double standard idea, and a
greater part will not consent to a plat
form that will not represent silver as
money by the coinage of the American
product. With such position on money,
and with position for a revision of the
banking laws, so as to make our banking
! advantages favorable to the agricultural
communities, cities and towns, and with
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 Republican candidate for
President must be man broad enough
to cover this broad land, and able to adj
minister justice on all differing interests
with true regard to all national interests
President Harrison has made faithful
executive in every public sense, and is
lacking only in personal popularity
which gives man power of electricity in
politics. He has demonstrated his quali-
ties fully, and his pure intellectual abil-
ity is not second to any American living
to-day, not even to his phenomenal Sec
retary Of State. Whoever is the Republi-
can candidate must be man who can
maintain the solidity of the party in the
great agricultural region west of the
Mississippi. The candidate must not
only be near to the people, but to the
farm; All political parties will go more
closely TO the farmers hereafter than they
have in the past fifty years. The
farmers are going to assert themselves in
public affairs, and for the good of the
race"
Clarkson said he believed Cleveland
would be the next Democratic candidate
'If his personal views on the silver uues-
hn n,,I
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, he can successfully hypnotic
them on the silver question, and I think
he is doing it. To win in 1892" said
Clarkson, 1--WE must bring up the Repub-
hcan newspaper circulation to meet that
of the Democratic party in its programme
to the circulation of millions of argu-
ments directly to the homes of the yot-
erS."
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE CoMMITTEEMEN.
CINCINNATI, April 23.-The new Exec
utive Committee of the National Repub-
lican League is composed as follows ::
Alabama, r. w. Austin; Connecticut,
Edward L. Lindsey; Delaware, Philip
Walter; Georgia, r. D. Locke; Idaho,
| George n. Roberts; Illinois, James c..
Edwards; Indiana, George w. Pitchell;
Iowa, Frank d. Jackson; Kansas, +. c.
Little; Kentucky, w. ID. Riley; Louis
lana, f. G.. l.. Hening; Maine, j. II.
Manley; Maryland, George ii. yelling
ton; Massachusetts, j. Henry Could
Michigan, Edward p. Allen; Minnesota,
Il. f. Byrnes; Missouri, Charles f. Peace;
Nebraska, j ohm l.. Webster; New Hamp-
shire, M. j. Pratt; New Jersey, Louis
t. Derasse; New York, James A. Blanch-
ard; North Dakota, A. B. Kuptil; Ohio,
Horace NJ. Deal; Pennsylvania, j. Free
man; Tennessee, l.. X. Torbett; Ver-
mont, Hamilton S. Peck: Virginia, G.
w. Harris; Washington, B. C. Van Hou-
ten; West Virginia, Stephen b. Elkins;
| Wisconsin, a. q. Shaw; New Mexico,
Elbert j. Fawn; District of Columbia, A.
NJ. Clapp.
FLORIDA SENATORSHIP.
TALLAHASSEE (Fla.), April 23.-An-
| other sensation was caused in the Demo-
cratic caucus tonight by charge that
Representative Newlan had offered, over
his own signature, 500 cash to John l..
Bryant if he would influence one of the
jefferson County Representative to de-
sert Call. Newlan emphatically denies
the report. A committee has been APP
pointed to investigate. There was no
choice in the caucus tonight,