The National tribune., 1892-07-14
POLITICAL
Notes Relative taithe Coming Presi-
Dental Campaign.

Gen. James Gaven Field, who has been made
the candidate for Vicespresident on the Peoples
| ticket, was born in WalI5ut. Va, on Feb. "a
1926. He traces his ancestry back to the Fields
! from whom are descended. also the four famous
brothers, David. Dudley, Stephen j., Cyrus W.
and Henry NJ Field. AFTER attending a CLASH
cal school for time he became a teacher, but
in 1s4s joined the train of the Argonauts. and
for two years lived in California. In 1850 he
was elected one of the Secretaries of the Con-
vention that framed the first Constitution oil
that State.
He returned to Virginia in the same year,
and in 1852 was admitted to the bar, where he
achieved considerable distinction. From 1860
to 1865. he served as attorney for the Com
monwealth in his native County, Culpeper.
He was also in active service during the war,
holding the rank of Brigadier.General in the
Confederate army, and losing leg at the bat
tie of Saughter's Mountain. In August, 1877,
he was appointed by Gov. Kemper to fill the
unexpired term of Attorney General Daniel.
and at the State election of that year, when the
Republican party of Virginia was too de.
moralized to put ticket in the field, was
elected Attorney General without opposition,
receiving 100, 9s2 votes.
The Executive Committee of the Iowa State
| Temperance Alliance has issued an address to
the temperance people of that State declaring
that the Alliance must part company with the
Republican party. The action of the recent
State Convention of the Republican party
makes this change of relations necessary. The
action referred to was the tabling Of resou-
ton declaring the party's adherence to its
| former position on the prohibition question.
| Complaint is also made that prominent anti
Prohibition Republican, A. B. Cummings, was
chosen Elector at-Large by the largest vote OF
| the Convention.
The Rev. G. B. Snedecker, ell-known
Methodist Minister who lives at Abingdon,
ILL.,. in an interview recently had this to say
about Mr.. Adlai E. Stevensons war record:
SIN 1864 I and Stevenson, with others, were
drafted. Mr.. Stevenson hired a man to go to
the front in his place, and there was also one
| sent in my place. l see that Mr.. Stevenson
says that he was in the army for IL days.
Well, ! think / can explain that record. When
the draft was made Stevenson was appointed
by the disloyal people to 60 to Springfield to
see that the drawing was fairly done; he made
some objection to the manner in which the
drawing was done, when the officer said for
him to get up OIL the box and be blindfoded
and see if he could do any better Stevenson
mounted the box, and. 80 the story was told,
the first two names he pulled out of the box
were my own and his. He was then satisfied
and let the drawing 20 on. At that time he
spent some 10 or Is days in Springfield, and
that was the nearest he ever was to the war"
The question as to who will be Chairman of
the Democratic National Committee has devel-
open in interest as the days passed. Last week
William F. Harrity, Pennsylvania Secretary
of State seemed to be the favOrte candidate.
Now it has come out that he will not fill that
arduous and responsible position. When ques-
toned about the action of the Democratic
City Executive Committee, the various ward
committees and other organizations, in recon-
mending him for the Craftsmanship, Mr.. Har-
rity said to reporter:
~ am sure that the action of the polit-
ical organizations Of Philadelphia in rec
ommending my selection as Chairman
of the Democratic National Committee was
prompted by kindness and friendship, but
it was taken without consultation with
me- l had no idea whatever that such
move would be made, and l certainly would
have advised against.it if consulted about it.
In connection with the subject of the chair
manship can only repeat with emphasis what
j have already stated. that am not only not
candidate for the craftsmanship, but have,no
desire whatever to I'll the position.
my official, professional, and business en-
gagements are such that could not accept the
position if rendered. ! certainly would DO
stood. shall be ready to render any assist
ance in my power in the coming campaign, the
outcome of which / expect to be successful,
but my name should be dismissed from further
consideration in connection with the chair
mansbip."
Richard Croker has written to W. J. West.
lake, President of the Portage Cleveland &
Stevenson Club, that Tammany Hall will at
the ensuing election prove her devotion to
Democratic principles by the sturdy support
which she will give to Cleveland and Steven.
son. and which will be the means of placing
them in the White House. The Tammany
Committee of Twenty four met in New York
last week and Endorsed the Democratic Ma
tional platform. pledging its united support to
the party's candidate.
s. P. Sheerin, Secretary of the National
Democratic Committee, has issued a call for
meeting of the committee at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, July 20, at $40 p. m. The
purpose of the meeting is the election of Off
GERS and the organization of the committee for
the campaign.
Mayor Grant and W. C. Whitney are max.
ing preparations for the reception to Cleveland
and Stevenson in New York July 90 to re-
ceive the official notification Of their n0mina.
tion by the Chicago Convention. Mr.. Steven
son has been invited TO receive the Notitica-
ton Committee at the Manhattan Club, and
there Mr.. Cleveland will probably hear the of
fetal news also. Mayor Grant has the details
of the reception in charge.
Gen. Bidwell, Prohibition candidate for Vice.
President, was one of the original California
pioneers, and tradition has it that they were
not exactly teetotalers declares the Boston
Journal. Bidwel had big vineyard in Butte
County. He raised grapes there and they
were wine grapes. He had winery and
ill-house, and for 90 years the individual who
now leads the Prohibition ticket was next to
the largest wine and brandy producer in Cali
fornia. It was in this business that he accumu-
lated the millions which will 60 to lubricate
the wheels of the Prohibition machine this
Summer For the first time probably in all
it's history, the Third Party now has re-
formed distiller at its head. For Gen. Bidwell
did reform. He reformed to please his wife;
and he now sells the products of his 15O-acre
vineyard in the open market, instead of con-
verting them into spiYituous fluids on his own
premises for what becomes of his grapes in
other hands he does not consider that he is
responsible. 1t is an inspiring or chilling re-
Fiction, according as youelook at it, that big
fortune gained in the wine and brandy trade
is going to be used to pay the rent of Prohibit
ton Headquarters, and hire Prohibition ora
tors and Prohibition torchbearers during the
campaign. Some peopleiwill like the notion.
Other people won't.
The Republican party in Arkansas knocked