The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-02-17
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POLITICAL GOSSIP.

4 tHok
Cleveland cannot be elected
The Boston Herald is ofrhe opin.
ION that Senator German is work
ing for the nomination OF Mr. Cleye-
land.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch SAYS:
"Gov. Boies stands out more and
more clearly as a representative Of
the best and healthiest in poli,;caI
life. He is a Democrat to whom
democracy is something more than
jest"
Ex-senator 10. Brown, of Geor-
gia, who never did endorse Cleve.
| lands Ian, tariff reform policy. think.
mn ought to be Nominated. He
says the precedent is against run.
nlng Cleveland because he was once
defeated.
Southerners like Senator Hill.
methods, says the Atlanta Cons.itx.
tson. He believes with our own
General Bedford Forrest that the
best way to whip the fight is ito ei.
thar fust with the most men?" This
is practical politics as we'll as prao.
tical warfare.
A political unpleasantness is re-
ported among the Republicans Of
washington, headed upon the ad.
m,nlstration side by Col. Winston.
OF Spokane, United States district
attorney, and on the other by Mr..
Hunt editor Of the Seattle Post In.
teu'gencer, and John H. McGraw.
OF SEATTLE, hitherto Blaine men but
now supposed to have leanings to.
ward Alger. Mr.. Whist On is now
on visit to relatives in North Car.
olina
Representative Burkett. State
Alliance lecturer of Mississippi. V no
wants the Legislature to invite Mr.
Hill to Jackson to make a speech
says OF his Presidential preference :
"bcles, OF Iowa, or Palmer, of ILL.,
lnois, would be acceptable to Miss
lssippi. But for the gold standard
views of Russell, Of Massachu sett.
ne would make an excellent show.
Ing. My individual preference.
however, is Hill and Gray, because
believe that to be the strongest
ticket that could be presented by
the Democratic party"
"Mike" Mcdonald, one of Chi.
cago's Democratic bosses, is in New
I ork and gives the following opin-
ION On the political situation for
what 1t is worth: "Out West neither
Mr.. Cleveland nor Mr.. Hill is IA
much talked of as other names are.
we will support any good Demo-
crat, but the Democrats here in
New York are split up over Cleve-
land and Hill. Give US any other
good Democrat. Who would / sup.
gest! Either ex.Secretary of the
Navy William c. Whitney or Ar
thur z. German would suit me-"
Says the St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat: "Alger, in the convention Of
1888, obtained "a votes on the frs.
ballot, ll6 on the second, l22 ON
the third, 135 on the fourth, and
l42 on the fifth. after which his fol-
lowing gradually and steadily sbrunk
to the end of the voting. which came
on the eighth ballot. Harrison and
Sherman are the only men who led
him. This exhibit may encourage
Alger to try his luck in the conven.
lis n of 1892"
Ex-Gov. Wetmore, of Rhode Is
land, will not enter the United
States Senatorial contest against
MIR. Aldrich. He has beer request
ed to act thus on purely national
grounds by such men as Vi,e-Pres-
dent Morton, Chauncey NJ. Depew
and others, because Rhode Island is
regarded as a doubtful State, and
nothing must be done to split the
chances Of the Republican party in
he coming April election.
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