Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-03-12
WATTERSON'S FIAT.
Cleveland Must Withdraw from
the Presidential Race.
WOULD LIKE TO VOTE FOR CARLISLE

But Thinks the Nomination Must Come
West or Go to Russell, Pattison or Cor
man-Nothing the Matter with Palmer
or Boies - The Ex-President Mean
while Pursues the Fleeting Blsck-Head
Duck-Dougherty Against a Big Hall
at Chicago-Political Field Notes.
CHICAGO, March 12-Henry Watterson
calls upon Grover Cleveland to withdraw
from the struggle for the presidential
nomination. The editor of the Louisville
Courier Journal thinks the Democratic
party would commit political suicide if it
were to place Cleveland at the head of the
ticket. He believes that Hill has done his
personal grave digging in New York, and
regards the chasm between the ex-presi-
dent and the senator as being far too wide
to bridge. Mr.. Watterson left Chicago for
Louisville last night.
Carlisle is Watterson's Man.
a have never indulged myself much in
hero worship" said he. "Any good Demo
crat whom the national convention may
see fit to nominate will suit me. If had
to put man in the White House he
would be Mr.. Carlisle. | regard him as
the best equipped Democrat in public life.
Placing him aside, anybody will suit me
if he docs not come from New York. The
factions there have made the nomination
of any New Yorker impossible. Governor
Hill hos killed Mr.. Cleveland and in doing
70 has, / think, killed himself.
Cleveland not the Only Man.
aThe nomination must come west or go
to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania or Mary
land. If we could not eject Mr. Cleveland
in 1888, when he was in the White House
and when we had all the outer forms aid
shows of harmony in the state Of New
York, what chance would we have against
the present vehement oppositiop2 Mr
Cleveland made rs good president. In
great affairs he has many of the elements
of great man. / am sincerely his friend.
But | must contest, and sometimes feel
like resenting, the notion that he is our
sole, our only and most original Moses in
the matter of tariff reform.
Was TUdy About Tariff Reform.
Mr.. Cleveland allowed three years of
his administration to pass before he de-
clared himself. When other Democrats
were struggling with the demons of dark
ness he was passive and silent. When he
did speak out he spoke well, but he was so
cipitated that he sent Mr.. German and
the late William l.. Scott TO ST. Louis with
cut and dried platform, ignoring his
own message, ignoring the Mills bill and
reasserting as the party law the straddle
we had made in Chicago in 1854 do not
mean to impeach or criticise Mr.. Cleve-
land in the least. He is as good tariff
reformer as anybody, but he is no better
than half dozen who have an equal
claim with him to the public confidence.
Woods Full of Good Men.
I'm the face of the New York schism it
seems to me that his nomination would be
sheer suicide, and | have so much respect
for his sense of dignity and honor that L
take it for granted that he will in due
time withdraw his name"
"Do you think Senator Palmer is too
old?"
why, what is thematter with Gladstone
or Bismarck? No; certainly not He is an
excellent man, and if there are no sink
holes in his record would make an excel
lent candidate. So would Governor Boies,
of Iowa. So would Governor Russell. or
Governor Pattison or Mr. German, if we
decide to go east. The woods are full of
admirable possibilities"