The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-15
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.


POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT
TURN Cleveland loose In the close States
and the Republicans will win hands down.
Cleveland Leader.
SENATOR Hills tears over the loss of
Rhode Island have not impaired briny
flavor to the political atmosphere.-Wash
ingtOn Post.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE sailed for Eng
land on Wednesday. Before going he told
an interviewer that he would return early
in the fall-'In time to help re-elect gallant
| Ben Harrison"
THE number of delegates Cleveland will
get from States he cannot by any posslbil-
ity carry bids fair to be impressive. He
| seems strongest in Kansas and Pennsyl-
vanIa.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
SENATOR ALDRICH notes the fact that in
Rhode Island where there was the most
discussion the Republican gains were
| greatest. This should serve as IL pointer to
| Republican managers in the coming presi-
| Dental campaign.
CONTEMPLATING the growing weakness
| of the ex-President's knees. as manifested
! In his Chattanooga letter. the Pittsbnrg
ChrOnicle-T elegraph comes to the conclu-
| sion that it is Mr.. Cleveland who needs
| Instruction from Mr.. Muldoon. not MI.
| Blaine.
The New York Commercial Advertiser. a
Democratic organ. remarks with some as
perity: Grover Cleveland ought to lind
| some friend who is friendly enough to tell
him the truth about hinself-wbich is that
| he 10 not altogether aud incomparably the
| greatest statesman In the world"
THE New York Mail and Express notes
this result of the late cleo IA real
hopeful mngwump will grant you that Mr..
Cleveland's visit to Rhode Island did not
weld Immediate results The iiol.wor,
shipper will remind you of the necessity of
political education. and ask you to Tx your
| eyes on-say 1872"
IT Is said on good authority that at the
Republican State convention al Albany, on
April %. the Presidents administration
will be cOmmended and that there is little
doubt that ex- Senator Platt. Chauncey Nj.
Depew. ex-senator Warner Miller and
Senator Hiscock will be selected as the big
| tour to 30 TO Minneapolis.
THE next presidential election will be
held on Tuesday. Nov. s. and the electors
thcn chosen will meet at the capitals of
| their respective States on Tuesday Jan. To-
1893. to vote for President and q Vice
president. The electoral votes will be
counted by Congress on Wednesday, Feb
| 8. and the new President Will be inaugu-
rated on Saturday. March 4.
' u
frank enough to acknowledge what every
body knows. The Metropolitan. New
| York weekly. thus rebukes its brethren:
| Its the old post-election story-money did
| it. That's what the Democrats are saying
| to excuse their defeat in Rhode Island.
| Why not tell the truth-there were more
Republican than Dem Ocratio voters"
AFTER Rhode Island. WHAT Well, Ken
| lucky is good place for Republicans to
| make q stand. no matter how much race
| prejudice they find there. The Repu blIcan
| platform of that State declares: I'VE OPP
| pose and utter our protest against the free
| and unlimited coinage of silver" Against
| this the Democrats have declared In favor
| of BANDS polioy.-Philadelphia Press.
To the papers now engaged in assuring
| their readers that undoubtedly many in
| dependents who voted tho Republican
| State ticket at the recent Rhode Island
| election will support Cleveland next fall"
| an anti-Cleveland New York paper retorts
| Democratic candidate this epring they
| might have secured an opportunity to vote
for Cleveland next fall.
| IN few days the Tammany Hall general
committee will meet to select committee
| TO arrange for transportation and all the
| other adiuncts in connection with the
| Wigwam's journey to Chicago to attend
| the national convention. The leaders are
1 already run to death with applications
| them. Tho TammaDy delegation this year
| will be the largest ever sent to national
| convention.
JUDGE GRESHAM'S reputation for attach
ment to correct political doctrines would
| suffer exceeding damage if it should prove
true that. under any circumstances. he
| would accept a presidential nomination
- d. IL ~ 81.
| His acceptance would indicate a sad under
| mining of his mental balance. Gresham is
| too genuinely a great man to have it said
! that his Judgment had been Slapped by too
much brOOding upon coveted presidential
hOnOrs.-BOston Transcript.
| REPLYING to the question as to whether
he thought Mr.. Cleveland would be the
nominee at Chicago. Secretary Elkns is
reported as saying 1T certainly looks
| that way. although n party must be poor
indeed when 1t can find only one man to
name as the result OF three national con-
ventions. Cleveland was beaten while in
office and at the height of whatever power
and popular confidence he had. He GER
| tainly cannot be more formid n Bile to Har-
rison to-day than he was in 1885,"
| A WAsuINGTON correspondent quotes a
| prominent Democratic worker ss saying:
Should Mr.. Cleveland be nomna he
| will be the platform. which means anti
free coinage and tariff revision on FREQ
trade lines. In that event there will Ger.
tainly be a third candidate in the feld W no
| will run on free.cOinage platform. This
would introduce fresh complication
| which would be likely to result disastrous-
ly to tho Democratic party. The outlook
is any thing but encouraging, and l am full
| of forebodIng."
Mr.. ROBERT OULD, prominent Demo
crat of Richmond. Va. said to u Washing
ton reporter. If any ono thinks David B.
Hill hasn't much of o following in Virginia,
let him come to Richmond and interview
the rOck-ribbed Democrats down there
Every county In the Rio hmond con gression-
| al district is antI-Cleveland. On Thursday
We will organize Hill club, SIX hundred
strong. with such men as Judge Waller
| Staples. Col "A. :. BufoTd. Hon. II. X. Pol
lard and Col. TaZewell Ellet taking n
leading part. We are all for Hill because
lie is o Democrat, and we dore on him for
! the enemies he has made.