The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-18
Tho Cleveland Three.

As the management OF the BLAINE boom
was In the hands OF THOMAS c. PLAT. MAT
THEW S. QUAY. and JAMES S. CLARKsoN. and
as the HARRISON campaign was managed
by NEW. DEPEw. and MIcHENER, so the for
tunes Of the fat Mugwump candidate at
Chicago rest with a triumvirate composed
Of WILLIAM c. WHITNEY. HENRY WILLARD.
and WILLIAM RowDEDow GRACE: and may
Heaven have mercy on their souls!
These are the CLEVELAND Big Three In
the sense that they arc the chief promoters
Of big person who desires the Democratic
nomination for President Of the United
States. AS a mere matter OF avoirdupois
their candidate probably outwdghs the
whole three Of them together.
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY Is Democrat:
and nobody has denied it. He was men,
Der Of Mr.. ChEvELAND's Cabinet. and lent
to It's record about all Of the administrative
distinction 1t obtained. He was Mr.. CLEvE-
LANDS smartest adviser and his social
patron. He is very rich. very shrewd. very
generous. very self-sacritlcing. very lazy.
and getting richer all the time. All street
railroads are mostly his. The considera-
tions which impel him to redppcar In poll
tics as an active agent In the attempt to
boost into high Office again the heavy gen.
tleman for whom he has already done so
much. are Of such delicately altruistical
nature that We take Off our hat and wave it
to the Hon. WILLIAM COLLINS WHITNEY.
Mr.. HENRY WILLARD is business man
and railroad promoter and Spectator.
whose only interest IN politics. so far as
has yet been observed. has n big business
end to it. He is great Mugwump leader.
in the sense that no has by the nose or by
the collar good many conspicuous Mug
wumps. He Is the Boss Of the Ercning Post
the second Boss. as 1t is surinised. coming
next alter ROwDEDOw GRACE, Of the Nec
York Times. tho first Boss OF LARRY" GOD
KIN OF the First ward. and the Boss Of the
Hon. CARL SCHURz. amateur Mugwump. We
have never heard Mr. HENRY WILLARD de-
scribed as Democrat. but he knows what
no Is doing. and he knows what he is after.
He is gambling on CLEVELAND this time.
The Hon. WILLIAM RowDEpow GRACE is
not Democrat. but an anti-Donocrat. He
Is the professional grave digger OF Now
York politics. His genius for political diva
CATION and subtorrnneous intrigue has
been directed for years toward tho over
throw of the Democratic organization In
this county and State: and II he has failed
up to date. the fault Is not RowDEDow's.
He has done his level best to turn over to
the PLATr Republicans the control OF the
city and the State. He would like very
much to run the foreign relations OF
the United States Government dur
ing the four years beginning on March
L 1893. particularly our relations with
certain OF tho South American republics.
He would also like to See the present i'm
prcgnab!e and victorious organization OF
the Empire States Democracy superseded
by ROwDEDow GRACE machine. with
RowDEpow himself az tho Boss thereof.
These motives sufficiently explain tho pres
ent willingness of the Hon. WILLIAM Row.
DEDow GRACE to invest largely in preferred
stock OF the Mugwump corporation.
Such Is tho CLEVELAND Three. 1t Will be
observed TINT 1t Is composed Of Mugwump-
cry and Democracy in the proportion OF
exactly two to one.