The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-15
which his oath of Office will impose upon

Though the outlook appears exceed
ingly favorable for Cleveland the Mug
wump press are somewhat uneasy.
They are not quite certain that Cleveland
will have two-thirds of the convention.
and they fear that if he has it not at the
start he will never get it inasmueh as the
opposition is very bitter and prefers al
most anybody to the ex-President. Fear
of Hill coming up as formidable candi-
date is gone, but the spectre of the willy
German haunts them. German has not
taken sides in the fight that has been
waged between Cleveland and Hill. He
has had an idea from the beginning that
dark horse might win, and he has been
carefully grooming himself. German is
man closely resembling Hill in many
ways and there is no reason why he
should not be almost as accountable to
Hills followers as Hill himself. At the
same time he has conciliated the Cleve-
land men by giving him the Maryland
delegation on the first ballot though of
course he has taken good care to see that
they will be for him if ever the time
comes when he wants them. If Cleve-
land should not be able to get the neces-
sary two-thirds German will probably
step forward as compromise candidate
and offer himself as Democrat friendly
to both factions who can harmonic the
party. This prospect the Mugwumps
are beginning to view with so much
alarm that one of their chief organs, the
New York Post, has taken early occas-
ion to give notice to the Democrats that
if they nominate German the reform
ers'' will have nothing to do with them.
CHEAP MONEY AND PLENTY OF 1T.
With some amendments we do not see
why Peffer's grand money manufacture
ing and loan bureau should not take i'm
mensely. There are great many thous-
ands OF people who do not have money
enough and would be greatly pleased to
get more. Peffer's scheme provides for
more. To that point it is in line with
many thousands of peoples wants
and aspirations. The great weakness of
the Kansas statesman's scheme-and if
not remedied we fear it may be a fatal
one-is it's failure to devise plan by
which all these people who want money
can get it. The mere fact that there is
plenty of money somewhere is not going
to bring happiness and contentment now
admiration of the financial proves of
PETER to people. These things will come
only when some of it gets into their
possession. To be sure PETER has fixed
it so that people who own real estate
can get hold of some of these dollars that
he proposes to have manufactured. But
compared with the whole mass of the
people who want money the real estate
holders are comparatively small nun,-
Der. Besides, the real estate holders, il
their property is good for anything, do
not have much difficulty now in getting
fair loans on their holdings at moderate
rate of interest Peffer's bill in it's pres
emit condition is therefore likely to ap-
peal TO NOBODY very strongly. 1t can
easily be modified, however, to remedy
its shortcomings. Let PETER amend
his bill SO that as fast as the money is
ground out it shall be distributed among
the people who think they have not
enough already. Strike out the real
estate provision and establish loan bu-
reaus all over the country, to which the
impecunious may come and fill up their
pockets. The real estate provision is
calculated to give rise to the cry that
PETER is legislating for the classes and
not the masses. which will surely dis
credit the Kansas statesman. He NAV
get the farmer vote with his present
measure. but by broadening as we sug-
gest we do not see why he should not
scoop in the pretty nearly unanimous
vote OF the country.