St. Paul daily globe., 1892-03-12
WAT1ERSON WISDOM
The Kentucky Leader Calls
on Ex-President Cleveland
to Withdraw.
He Sees No Hope for Victory
With a Candidate From
New York.
Senator Carlisle Eligible and
Equipped to Attain High
Eminence.
The Choice Of a Winning Lead
er Practically Lies in
the West.

CHICAGO, March 11.-Hon. Henry
Watterson, in an authorized interview
today, virtually called upon Mr.. Cleve-
land to withdraw from the race for the
presidential nomination. Mr.. Waiter
son said the nomination of the eX-preSl-
dent would be suicidal for the Demo-
cratic party. Hill, too, he believed, had
dug his own political grave in New
York state, and he regards the conflict
there as practically irreconcilable. The
party, he says, must come West Tor It's
candidate. or seek him in either OF the
three states of Massachusetts,. PennSyl-
vania or Maryland In practically call
ing upon MIR. Cleveland to withdraw,
Mr.. Watterson rather scored the eX-
president. The Kentucky editor read
the interview after it was written and
indorsed it as correct.
Three questions were propounded to
the distinguished Kentuckiau. The first
and second related to Mr. Watterson's
we'll known views upon the tariff and
silver. The third and most important
question, that of the presidential noml-
nation, Mr.. WatterSOn answered last.
He said: have never INDUCED in my
self very much in hero worship, and any
good Democrat whom the national con-
vention may see fit to nominate will suit
me. If had to put man in the White
house he would be Mr.. Carlisle. re-
gard him as the
Best Equipped Democrat
I,Fo IIn &c oh
He is sound to the core aud has the
courage of his convictions. He was
making great eXpoStiOns in Democratic
lore, ana leading Democratic tariff bat
ties. when Cleveland was mayor of Buff
falO. He would make an eminent pres
ident. Him aside, anybody will suit me
if he does not come from New York,
because the factions there have made
the nomination of any New Yorker i'm
possible. Gov. Hill has killed Mr..
Cleveland, and in doing SO he has, |
think. killed himself. The nomination
must come West or go to Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania or Maryland. If we could
not elect Nh. Cleveland in 1888, when he
was in the White house and when we
had all the outer forms and shows of
harmony in the state Of New York,
what chance would we have against the
present vehement opposition?
Mr.. Cleveland made us good presl-
dent. In great affairs he has many OF
the elements of great man. am
most sincerely his friend. But | must
contest, and sometime, l feel like re-
senting, the notion that he is our sole,
our only and most original Moses in the
matter of tariff reform, Mr.. Cleveland
allowed three years of his old admins
tratiOn to pass before be declared him.
self. When other Democrats were
struggling with the demons of darkness
he was passive and silent. When he
did speak out he spoke we'll; but he
was so skeptical of the Issue he had
himself precipitated- that he sent Mr..
German and the late William l.. Scott
to st. Louis with cut-and-dried plat
form,
Ignoring His Own Measure,
ignoring the Mills bill, and reasserting
as the party law the straddle we had
made in Chicago in 1884. do not mean
to impeach or criticiSe Mr.. Cleveland in
the least. He is as good tariff reform
Ell as anybody. but he is no better than
half dozen who have an equal claim
with him to the public confidence. In
the face of the New York iSchism it
seems to me his nomination would be
sheer suicide, and / have so much re-
Spect for his sense of dignity and honor
that | take it for granted that he will
IN due time Withdraw his name.
''Do you think Senator Palmer is too
Old?" "Why, what is the matter with
Gladstone or Bismarck? No, certainly
not. He is an excellent man, and, if
there are no Sinkholes i'll his record,
would makean excellent candidate. S1.
would Gov. Boies, of Iowa. So would
Gov Russell or Gov. Pattison or Mr..
German, if we decide to go East. The
woods are full of admirable poSsibili-
ties"
In reference to hint that he himself
might be a candidate. Mr.. Watterson
sarcastically remarked: when there
has been a foreign war, and have had
the opportunity TO sink my Confederate
record under Union commission and
do prodiges of valor on the tented field
or words to that effect-come to me,
and will talk to you about it." To
night Mr.. Watterson left for Louisville.