The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-03-18
WATTERsoN ON CLEVELAND
RATHER ROUGH ON THE NEW YORKER
His Silence, Mr.. watterson Says, is Injur
ing the Party.

luOIlHtu interview al Jne hlcnelleu
Hotel at Chicago last Friday virtu-
ally called upon Mr.. Cleveland to
withdraw from the race for the
Presidential nomination. Mr.. Wat
terson said the nomination of the
ex-President would be suicidal for
the Democratic party. Hill, too,
he believed, had dug his own polit-
ical grave in New York State, and
he regards the conflict there as
practically irreconcilable.
The party, he says, must come
West for its candidate or seek him
in either of the three States of Mass
achusetts,. Pennsylvania, or Mary
land. In practically calling on Mr..
Cleveland to withdraw, Mr.. Wat
terson rather scored the ex-Presi-
dent The Kentucky editor read
the interview after it was written
and endorsed it as correct.
Three questions were PROFOUND
ed to the distinguished Kentuckian.
The first and second related to Mr..
Watterson's well-known views upon
the tariff and silver. The third
and most important question, that
of the Presidential nomination, Mr..
Watterson answered last.
He said: Il have never INDUCED
myself much in hero worship, and
any good Democrat whom the ma
tional convention may see fit to
nominate will suit me. I'll had to
put man in the White House, he
would be Mr.. Carlisle. | regard
him as the best equipped Demo-
crat in public life. He is able and
honest. He is sound to the core
and has the courage of his convic-
tions. He was making great expo
sitions in Democratic lore, and lead
ing Democratic tariff battles when
Mr.. Cleveland was mayor of Buff
falo. He would make an eminent
President. Him aside, anybody
will suit me if he does not come
from New York. "
"Why SOP"
because the factions there have
made the nomination of a New
Yorker impossible. Governor Hill
has killed Mr.. Cleveland, and in do.
ing So, he has, l think, killed him.
self. The nomination must come
West or go to Massachusetts,, Penn.
sylvania or Maryland. If we coulc
not elect Mr.. Cleveland in 1883
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
should we have against the presen
vehement opposition? Mr.. Cleve
land made us a good President
In great affairs he has many ele
ments of a great man. [ am mos
sincerely his friend.
"But | must contest, and / some
times feel like resenting, the notion
that he is our sole, our only anC
original Moses in the matter of tar
off reform. Mr.. Cleveland allowed
three years of his old administra
ton to pass before he declared him
self. When other Democrats wer
! strugglingwith the demons of dark
! ness, he was passive and silent
When he did speak out he spok
: well, but he was so skeptical of tn
issue he had himself precipitate,
that he sent Mr.. German and tn
late w. i. Scott to St. Louis witt
a cut and dried platform, ignoring
: his own message, ignoring the Mill
/ bill, and reasserting as the part
}, law, the straddle we had made il
t Chicago in 1884. I do not mean t
: impeach or criticise Mr.. Clevelan
j in the least. He is as good TART
raformer as ANYBODY, but he is n