The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-30
THE BOOM OF MIR. CLEVELAND.

THE BOOM OF MIR. CLEVELAND.
It seems to be pretty generally con-
sidered that Mr.. Cleveland is enjoying
at the moment what is ordinarily known
as a boom. About the buoyancy of the
boom the Morning Wump expresses
grave doubts, but less cynical friends of
the hypnotist of Lakewood claim that
he has indicated himself in few short
weeks as the most successful practi-
toner Of the mesmeric art in the coun-
try.
The Boston Herald, for example
thinks that by the time the Chicago con-
vention meets, Mr. Cleveland will have es-
tablished direct psychic currents be-
tween himself and at least 700 out of the
900 delegates. Yesterday there was
Col. Brown incoming about Albany who
was so completely under the mysterious
influence as TO express himself willing to
put up $4,000 on a wager that if his
favorite medium got the nomination he
would carry New York sure. The day
before yesterday Don M. Dickinson took
his turn talking, and told the world in
general and Detroit more particularly
that hypnotism as an issue would carry
$4,000 more votes in New York than
Hillism.
All these things indeed are very graft
flying, but there is another side TO the
shield. The morning Hump is probably
correct in its distrust of its one time
favorite, ungrateful though its course be
in falling away from him. The mischief
of hypnotism is you can't estimate it;
it works on individuals, and especially
ON their tongues, with the result of much
colloquy to every convert, great whistle
but comparatively little steam.
The star-eyed goddess disapproves
pointedly of the introduction of any such
issue into the canvass as would be
brought by the stuffed prophet of the
osophy. cleveland isn't sound on
tariff reform, writes Watterson; "Cleve-
land is an possibility" The Chicago
Herald, as powerful Democratic paper
as there is in the West, brands the cir
cular letter sent out by the anti-Hll
organization in New York to "promi-
nent Southern Democrats" urging the
nomination of Great Grover at Chicago,
as "a most foolish piece of business"
"Mr. Cleveland's failure so far" it says,
"to repudiate publicly these boilers and
disorganiZers and their revolutionary
aud foolish methods, is the occasion Of no
little surprise to his party friends"
And in New York, the Sun, which has
always been Cleveland's bitterest enemy,
indicates with good deal of shrewd-
ness one line which will be followed in
the attack upon hypnotism. For a rum
ming mate to the professor from ''No
Mans Land" it suggests the Hon
Michael Dennis Harter, who represents
the Fifteenth Ohio District and the
Golden Club" in the present Congress,
and who says he will not vote for any
citizen who is in favor of free silver
coinage"
A more direct invitation than this TO
the silver men to sit down on Cleve-
lands candidacy could not be
imagined. Though checked for the
moment they control the Demo-
cracy and, while they have in
general proved fairly amenable aud
sensitive subjects" as knowing that
the mesmerizer, while he possessed the
full confidence of their opponents. was
not really against them, yet this spring
they are ill-natured, and nothing is more
likely than that they make their ultima
tum "any man but Cleveland When
Bayard got himself into difficulties by
the writing of his anti-silver letter he
put the blame of it most shrewdly upon
the man who had "inspired" him.
Hypnotism is recognized as a valid de.
fense in the courts, and so long as the
hypnotizer dares not come out into the
open and either admit or deny the soft
impeachment, so long the free coinage
millions have valid reason for turning
upon him.
These things being as they are. the
success of the unknown power intro
duced into the campaign by the Lake
wood experimenter must be counted
prcblematic. lie may succeed in his
uncanny effort but the weeping H'unp
Is probably right in its secret wish that
he had courted success by more open and
Democratic means.