St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-17
CLEyELAND,s LETTER.
How 1t Is Received by Two Chica-
go Editors.

go EUltOrS'
Chicago Herald Dem.).
Translated into plain English this
means that in Mr.. Cleveland'S opinion
the fact that he Will not be presented
by his own state should not bar him
from the field, and that individual
delegates from his state should be per-
mitted to cast their votes for him if he
can induce any to do so, no matter what
action may have been taken by the
state convention concerning preSlden-
tial nominations, or what rule may have
been adopted by the delegation on the
unit question. Thus it appears Mr.
Cleveland is ready to override for his
individual advantage a decision for
which he and his adherents stuDbornIy
and successfully fought in the Chicago
convention of 1884.
The late Daniel Manning was then
"boss" of the state. Under his skill
full manipulation one-third of the state
delegation, led by John Kelly, Bourke
Cochran and L. F.Grady, having openly
ballots for Grover Cleveland because he
was not their choice nor the choice of
the people they represented. were COM
PEELED, nevertheless, to. cast their bal
lots for him, or, rather, their ballots
were counted for him against their
will and against their vehement
and long maintained protest. Mr.
Cleveland approved then of sup
pressing everything except major
ity rule in the state and i'll
the party. Now he is ready to override
party discipline, destroy the ladder on
which he climbed to the nomination
eight years ago, and seize for himself
the liberty he denied to his fellow Dem
I1ck noti NJ
ocratic convention. He accepted twenty
four votes under the operation of that
rule, without which he could not have
been nominated; and he knew that
every one of them was cast for him
against the will of the twenty-four dele
gates and of the people who elected
them. There is no protest from New
York state this year. The state delega-
ton is unanimous. But it is not for
MIR. Cleveland. Therefore he will ''go
to the people"
Chicago Times (Dem.).
Mr.. Cleveland does not follow the
scriptural Injunction: Let your speech
be yea, yea, and nay, nay. Nor IS he as
clear and picturesque as the carrier who
was Peg gotY's friend and little David's.
and touching his hearts desire chalked
is wlllin'."
Mr.. Cleveland says yes, but with an
elaborateness of phrase almost john
Sonese.
Yet many good Democrat who adj
mires Cleveland, and would be glad to
see him again the nominee of the party,
and notes with alarm the growing can
didaey OF Hill, will rejoice in the sub
stance of the Bragg-Cleveland CORE
spondence. 1t is TO such friends an
assurance less that Cleveland would
accept such nomination if it fall to
him, an assurance hardly needed, than
encouragement for them to proceed in
the knowledge that Cleveland, notwith-
standing the New York position against
him, is to be actively candidate. They
had commenced to drOop, if not to
waver The silence of Cleveland him.
self and the absence of aggressive work
in his behalf had chilled them. They
were beginning to doubt whether Cleve-
lands name would be mentioned in the
Chicago convention. The bugle call is
not as stirring as the note that Hill is
sounding through the mountains of
Tennessee and on the plains of the
Southern Mississippi, but it will inspirlt
many dropping follower. These
friends of Cleveland will recall that
Tilden was named against the active
opposition, the positive menace, of
Tammany, and nevertheless carried
New York. They will remember, too,
that at Chicago in 1884 Cleveland was
menaced in like manner by Tammany,
but succeeded in carrying the state, and
that only when the powerful OrganiZa-
ton of Manhattan was professedly
Cleveland's friend was New York lost
to the Democracy. Cleveland was strong
in the South. But against his cold and
formal letter to Bragg is the personal
appearance of Hill in that region, an
open and avowed candidate, talking di-
rectIy and adroitly to the people, and
carrying everywhere with enthusiasm
the banner of his party. If he make a
winning impression upon the South his
progress toward triumph will be great.
If, on the other hand, the majority of
the Southern states stand for Cleveland,
HIPS ambition will necessarily be post
poned.