The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-05-07
CLEyEIAND'S NOMINATION,

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Indications arc multiplying that il
would be extremely unwise to nominate
Mr.. Cleveland for president, nj ChIca-
90. The fact that he lost in 1883 with
an enthusiastic party and all the ma
chincry of the government at his back
that he ran behind his party ticket in
seventeen states; that he has offended
and driven from his support thousands
of his former partisans by his opposi-
ton to the free coinage of silver; that
the democracy of his own state have
openly and unanimously expressed their
preference for another, aud endorsed
that other rs their candidate; that his
friends in New York, backed by the
New York gold ring and Wall street
money power have organized 4 bolt
against the regular democratic conven-
ton, in his behalf, is having It's effect
upon people who think more of their
party and its success than they Ito of
any nan in il.
The following news items and cdito-
rial expressions show only too plainly
the drift of well informed political sen
timcnt:
PROGRESS OF THE ALLIANCE.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., NIay2.-Rcpre-
sentative Lester, of Georgia, has Just re-
turned from a visit to his state. While
ut home Mr.. Lester took occasion to
study the political situation, and he re-
ports the farmers alliance making
alarming progress. Mr.. Lester is a
democrat, but he insists that his party
will have to exert itsclfto the utmost to
carry the state this fall.
"'Thc people of the state want free
silver, and they demand several other
things endorsed by the alliance said
Mr.. Lester. ''Thcy are becoming dis
satisfied with both the old parties.
Georgia is considered strongly demo-
cratic, and it has always been so, but
it looks now rs if the alliance would
carry it at the coming election. Unless
something is done to check the growth
of the alliance, | sincerely believe the
third party will be able to secure the
presidential electors from Georgia."
This opinion is supported by that of
several other members of the Georgia
delegation in congress.
MIR. CLEvELAND's NOMINATION.
LOUISVILLE, KY, May 2.-Henry
Watterson, in Il letter from Washing
ton reviewing the political situation,
concludes as follows:
81 believe and | hope that the disap-
pearance of Gov. Hill from the field is
now beyond conjecture and that when
the apprehension caused 10y his alleged
methods is allayed the clear sense of
his party will exercise itself and that
sndS months hence all democrats will
sffs as plainly us Is now seen By demo-
Gratis who are advised of the true situa-
ton ,that the nomination of Mr.. Cleye-
land would he an act of suicide and
because of TWO simple, conclusive
reasons:
"First. He would lose the state of
New York as surely and rs disastrously
as it was lost by Judge Folger, when
100, OOO republicans stayed away from
e)~oDLd INV" ate to Mr..
Saturday, April 80, 1892, 70 ntr-Erd
in Wellington, of consumplion-I~
Bryant, wife ofyIohrf6Hlaimed and
evaprTfa rTcws upon silver coinage we
could not hope To gain votes III asingle
one of the republican states of the
northwest and would surely risk the
loss OF such states as West Virginia,
Virginia and North Carolina"
FROM IL NEW DIRK HERALD.
Well, the every unexpected happens
constantly, especially in American poll
tics. Indeed, il has already happened
in Mr.. Cleveland's case, and il is about
as impossible, unless the signs of the
times are all adrift, for that gentleman
TO lead his party IL victory us for
Colonel Ingersoll to preach in an or
thodox pulpit.
The third party has been growing
quietly and rapidly of late. 1t keeps
well under cover, but il seems to be
very infectious. Georgia and Alabama
are honcycombcd by it. North Caro-
lima has more than n hundred thou
sand voting members. Tennessee runs
as high as one hundred and twenty-five
thousand. 1t has spread through the
northwest like a fire on n dry prairie.
That party will vote against Mr..
Cleveland 20 n man. 1t is almost
fiercely hostile TO his financial policy.
Their ballots cannot be disregarded, as
there is no Use in going into a fight
under n man who hasn't one chance in
II hundred of winning.
Common sense generally prevails in
the choice OF II candidate, and it is not
difficult to see the folly of naming 4
leader who has already shown his in
ability to lead.