St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-04
CAMPBELL FOE CLEVELAND
The Chairman Talks Of Logic and
incidentally Roasts Tammany.


Chairman Campbell was seen and said:
''The presidential situation confronts
the party with condition, not a theory
The condition is that, by Identifying
itself with great cause, the party has
been moving with astonishing rapidity
to national success. 1t is drawing TO it
the earnest. intelligent, honest people
of the country. This movement has
been the result of the sagaeity, the firm
ness, the courage of Grover Cleveland,
who gave to his party a cause and to
great cause party The tariff policy
of the country is fnextrieably Joined
to his name. He is the logical
leader in this yet unwon fight.
We have already met with one seri-
ious check in our career. There is no
use i'll denying that the election of Mr..
Crisp was a severe disappointment to
the sincere tariff refOrmerS OF the cOun-
try, using that term TO distinguish be-
tween those who are IN accord with Mr..
Cleveland and those of the RandalI-Gor-
man-New York Sun school. 1t was
taken as distinctly triumph of the re-
actionist wing. This may have been
miScOnceptiOn, but it is fact. The
election as speaker of man who was
never in the forefront of the tariff fight
the support he received from what is
certainly known as 1.-THE proteetionist
wlng," justified this impression. Now,
if this action is to be followed by the
defeat in the national convention of
of that other man whom Mills reeog-
nized as his leader; if any IMAM be
chosen who has not been from the start
earnest, open and courageous in
leading the fight, the impression
caused by MIR. Crisp's election
will be converted into certainty;
the meu who are Democrats because
they expect the party to perform Its
mission; the independent element i'm
our party on whom its ties sit lightly;
the same element in the country which
is being drawn to us because they begin
to believe the party is sincere, will feel
that the Democratic party is incapable
of sustained advocacy of principle and
will leave us to a deserved fate 1t will
cost us four New England states and
render our efforts useless i'll all the
Northwestern states. The conclusion
will be irresistible that Mr.. Cleveland
has been slaughtered in his political
home by his own partiSans because he
was honest, sincere. brave in carrying
out the pledges of his party on the tariff
and the reform of the civil service. On
the other hand, his nominationywill at
once settle all doubts as to the attitude
of the party Oh the tariff, the currency
and the civil service, even if we have
no platform he is at once candidate
and platform. 1t wonld be the mad
ness of the moon to ignore these con-
ditionS.
"Yes, | have read Chairman Mnrphy's
interview. Admitting all he claims of
fact relative to Mr.. Hill to be true.
the difference between myself and Mr.
Murphy is only one of proper elasslfi-
cation; he thinks the facts stated proye
that Mr.. Hill is statesman; think
that they show him 10 be merely a poll
tieian in the common, not the correct.
sense of the word. Unless | greatly
mistake the temper OF the Democracy OF
the West. and in the last six weeks |
have felt its edge in good many of the
states, the party will not approve of
dictation as to the party'S candidate.
In fact there is no historical reason why
it should. 1t fought TIlden in re. and
he carried New York; it supported Han
cock, and he lost that state; it bitterly
opposed Cleveland in 'S4, and he carried
the state: it acQuiesced in his nomina-
ton in 'SS, and he lost the state"
William Jay Whipple, of Winona
ana member of the state central COM
mittee. was seen, and disposed of the
question Summarily. There is but one
element in the presidential question:"
he said. with Mr.. Cleveland we can
carry the Northwest; without him we
can't. 1t is simply Cleveland and VIC
tory, or any other man and defeat"