San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-18
The 1ailY Eight.
SATURDAY, JUNE is, 1892.
Convention Echoes.

SpcClul correspondence uIODe DenOTCdJ
j 5. Clarkson was sorely hi:. Fol
three administrations the aforetime
editor of the Iowa State Reg .ler has
been coming steadily forward. Firs,
he was only the Iowa member of the
National Committee. Then he was
Secretary of the committee. Next he
became one OF the select circle, the
inner council where the fine work lie
done, the Executive Committee.
More than year ago Senator M. s.
Quay, when charges were flying
about, went to the President and
suggested his willingness to resign
the chairmanship of the National
committee. Perhaps he expected that
the President would say, "stay and
the administration will stand by you
Ii he did he wac disappointed. The
Presidents reply was that he thought
the interests Of the party would be
subserved by q change. Mr.. Quay
resigned. Mr.. Clarkson reached the
highest place ia party management
the chairmanship of the National
Committee. He organized his literary
bureau. He promoted the Republican
League. He prepared for such q
campaign of education and organiza-
tlon as American politics had never
known. In February he went to Mr..
Blaine, and representing that party
'exigency required . definition of his
positions that other candidates
might know what to depend upon, he
forced the writing of the famous letter
of deelination. Promising an answer
within q week, Mr.. Blaine put it off,
day after day, until Saturday night.
And then, after 8 O'Clock In the eve
ming, he penned the declaration that
he was not . candidate and that his
name would not be presented to the
Convention. For three or four month";
Mr.. Clarkson was much sought after
man. He was quoted far and wide.
He was interviewed. He delivered
set speeches. Invitations to which q
dozen men could not have responded
flowed In upon him. But the career
was the career of the rocket Clark.
son entered into the anti Harrison
conspiracy. One of the first things
the Iowa delegation did upon arriv.
ing at Minneapolis was to decide by a
large majority that Mr.. Clarkson
should not be reelected to the
National Committee. The Harrison
managers heard of it. John Z. New
and Louis T. Mischener went at once
TO the Iowsns aud begged them In
the name of the President to put
Mr. Clarkson back on the committee
r. c. Kerens and Powell Clayton
demonstrated with the Iowa delegates
and told them the humiliation OF
Clarkson would be sure to react badly
upon the Presidents support In other
quarters The delegation reconsidered
its determination. Clarkson was re-
elected to the National Committee
and Iowa rebuked the conspiracy In
which he was chief by voting twen-
ty for Harrison, five for Blaine aud
one for Mckinley. Utterly discredi
ted by his own state and saved from
defeat for the National Committee by
the intercession of the Harrison people
Mr.. Clrkson now stands on q pair of
stumps instead of the very lively po
litlcai pins which made him nation
al character q few months ago. He
ia temporarily charm of the COM
mittee at the request of the President.
but it is with the understanding that
he gives way to J. N. Huston, of In
fians, of Chris Magee, of .Pennsylva-
MIA, Is soon as the President shall de-
eide which OF the two he prefers TO
hava charge of the campaign.
There were two especially promis-
Ing young warriors in the thickest of
the fray They retreated with their
faces to the foe. One carried trophy
which in part made good the depres.
sion Of defeat. Senator II G. Hans.
brough, of North Dakota, was almost
an original anti Harrison man. He
had reason TO be. When Dakota
came into the Union, Hansbrough
was her first Representative. The
northern Senator was Gilbert A.
Pearce. The latter was at once
placed upon the best OF footings at
than his share of the patronage. He
had the Presidents ear In all North
Dakota matter. Hansbrough found
himself at a disadvantage. When
the time came round for renomina-
tion Hansbrough was beaten with
Pearce against him and the admins
tration not friendly. Pearce's sena-
rorial term soon came to an end. He
stood for reelection, and the admins
uration was tor him. Hansbrough
won. Pearce moved out of the state
which had honored him and became
the editor of the administrations
organ in the Northwest, the Mime.
apolis Tribune. With numerous rea-
sons for feeling the administration e
unfriendeness. Hansbrough devel-
oped as almost the original anti-Har
rison man. He fought relentlessly tc
the finish. His state delegation, two
thirds of it, sustained him and put
MIN back upon the National Com
mittee. But the trophy which the
senator brought out of the battle wa!
the silver plank in the platform