Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-15
A CLEVELAND DAY.
That ts the Way 10 Look. On Me eeusss-
The Probable Platform.

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This is Cleveland day In the sens,e. aud
unless the appearance Of things political
changes very materially and very unexpectedly
tomorrow viii also be Cleveland day. This
conclusion has been reached after consultation
between some Of the brightest politicians
on the democratic side of the upper House
AMI is due 10 the fact that Cleveland viii have
in the Chicago convention thoroughly organ
lied body 81 friends At Chicago A. az Mime
spolis. organization Is bound 10 tell. and many %
the democrats who are not enthusiastic Cleve-
land men insist that the eX-Pre-idsni j. the only
democrat who hs- an organization worthy Of the
name. Of course there will be a great many
votes cast for ''favorite sons" but these are in
the main nothing more than complimeH;sr aud
II Is believed that any attempts 60 center them
any other candidate than Cleveland would nes,-
essarllv be a failure Even earnest adhcreuts q
Hill admit that Cleveland has n majority Of the
delegate. but they claim that he will find q
next 20 impossible to secure the necessary two
thirds. Against this il is argued that the ma
lority candidate. with the exception % NBn
Ruren. has always succeeded in gct;lng the
nomination.
ISSUES IN rHE PLATFORM.
II is understood that the ISSUES 10 be raised
by the convention in its platform will be those
OF tariff reform aud local control Of aft elec-
tions. The tariff question is the same Old
question IL four wears ago. COM
phcated somewhat 10y the Mckinley bill but the
FEDERAL elections issue has some new aud
tremclv interesting features in IL. The conV.n-
non vii insist upon the right Of the people 20
administer the election laws their several pre-
cincts and under the authority OF the states.
Finance will not be touched upon at any
great length an the platform; IN many respects
the uttcrances of the convention will very
closely rcs,mble those i'm the republican plat
form. OF course the sherman act Of 1890 will
h,-denonnced. because the most Of the demo-
crate believe that legislation to be opposed 70
the honest dollar.
THE SILVER ISSUE.
The party leaders here are satisfied that the
republicans will attack the party records at two
main points. and one of these will be silver.
The republicans will CLAIM that free
coinage means a depreciated dollar and
this will be met by great
deal Of democratic argument. Considerable
campaign attention will be raid To those
actions which are sometimes dcnominaied
southern political outrages, and ~ an answer
TO whatever may be charged in this particu-
lar democrats viii reply thaS there
have been none such since President
Cleveland was inaugurated. Tins
may be an admission that there were outrages
prior 10 that time, but the democratic are con-
tent TO have il 50 and will do their best to pre-
vent the raking up of what they call ancient
history.
One Of the campaign documents upon which
the democracy viii place n great dead OF de-
pendence is Senator Pasco's speech delivered
during the force bill debate IN 1890 Tins
speech quotes figures a. show that the sup
pressed or silent vote is very much greater in
the republican states than in those states
where the democrats have the majority.
very warm campaign Is being generally
looked forward 10. and every democrat on the
Senate side nj least seems 20 be intent secur-
ing every possible scrap of ammunition.