Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-17

votes short This figure is not allowed by
Cleveland's opponents, but neither die
Harrison's opponents allow 1t, yet 1t wa
there. Now, can the minor candidates com
bins? If they could do 20, either ~ tacti
clans or as personal opponents Of Cleve
land, they might hold q choice off for somt
time. But there are but two positive can
didates against Cleveland-Hill and Boies
Boies has the whole support of his State
The Boies men want the Presidency, ant
nothing short of it, and this brings up the
question whether the South will support Sc
recent Republican as Boies
The alleged strong managers at Mime
apolis, with good candidates In sight, failed
to come to any agreement, and Harrison
swept the floor up with them, his solid
| Indiana delegation checking the whole con-
| vention. Now, what State is going to
picket this convention? May 1t be Iowa?
They have shown the determination of COM
| ing here already and opening their head.
| quarters, just as the Indiana men did at
Minneapolis Some of them argue so far
from Boies' Republicanism being to his
detriment, that he is
The Logical Candidate OF the Hour,
and as Cleveland has moved the Demo-
cratic party 20 years ahead Boies will give
them 80 years movement more, SO that the
prejudices of the war in the North will en-
tirely fade out They say this is the heroic
time of the Democracy to make the conces-
sions in fact which they have long made in
spirit, and meet the day in which we live
and extinguish sectionalism.
Yet Boies is but a boy compared to Cleve-
land in celebrity. 1t takes the most intel
igent country in the world whole genera
tion to absorb a single name. Cleveland
has had eight years of advertising, and
Boies has only had part of year. His
family did him a cruel disqualification in
spelling his name. 1t sounds like boys,
with affectations His locality is more CEN
tered into the heart of the country than
either party has yet presumed to CO. The
representative agricultural State of the en-
tire Union is Iowa, in that it has no prepon-
derating cities, and its entire civil citizen
ship is subordinate to the farms, while the
transportation question appears in q COM
petitive yet concentrated form in Iowa, so
many trunk lines from East to West cross
ing it and the Mississippi being at its east
and the Missouri at its west. As Chicago
takes on the metropolitan character, Iowa
becomes the new Ohio of the land. Once it
was the banner Republican State of the
whole Union, but Puritanism antagonized
the habits of both the soldier and the tor
elgner. The soldier went to Kansas and
Nebraska, and the foreigner stayed home to
vote for Boies and an end to the interfef hence
of one stomach with another. So q majes-
tic majority has been given away for sump-
tuary legislation.
Hilps Work Exactly Like Boieg.
Hill, on the other hand, has attained his
main advantages in New York precisely as
Boies has done, by taking the platform that
no man shall nominate any other mans
drink, whether it be Cruel, water or whisky.
The m otto of the prohibitionist is that mo
tub shall stand on its own bottom and we
shall be the keeper" By having enough
moral issues any party can fire away its
majority.
Those who want to beat Cleveland might
barely do it by rallying around Boies. In
New York there is no objection to Boies,
for he came from that State and from the
vicinity of Buffalo, which produced Cleve-
land. Boies is as genuine . farmer as Gen
eral Palmer, and while Palmer is said not
to make money out of his farms, Boies
makes them pay. If Hill would join the
West and bring up the South, Mr. Cleve-
lands nomination might be blocked, and as
there is no ill-feeling between him and
Boies, Boies might get it. Indeed, our
people think SO fast that already one thinks
he feels in the air the Boies atmosphere
prelude to some such movement as set Illi-
nois 100 years in advance by nominating
Lincoln.
The most evident fact in all the West is
Chicago, with her 1000, 900 inhabitants
Illinois was nearly an unknown State till
1860, or chiefly remembered for having
at Alton, and for having been noticed BY 1
Dickens in his description of Cairo. The
nomination of Lincoln, the passing of the
bill, and the getting of the
Worlds Fair in Congress mark three great
steps in political power and every one of
them was gained in the field of politics.
Greater politics overarches business
Douglass and Lincoln, opposing but kindred
men, created material and spiritual Illinois.
One Combine That Could Be Made.
The States west of the Mississippi river,
from Minnesota to Texas, are in the fore
part of the second American century, and,
with the exception of Joe Lane and posi-
ply John C. Fremont, have never had Q
Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate.
IF tide of unison could run through these
States, and they could loop on to New !
York, Maryland and some other disaffected
States, Mr.. Boies might emerge as the rep
'esentative of a new zone and idea in the |
world, for nearly all the great questions
which divide parties are Western ques-
ions. The power of the courts the disci- |
,lining of railroads and transportation,
liver and levee improvements, grain, dis
illing, brewing, milling and public lands;
he mines; the currency itself, have become
Western questions Far beyond Iowa is
he silver issue arising among the mountai n |
anges.
Nothing stands in Boies' way but Bour-
'onism, which will not forgive a man for
aving been right when it was wrong, and
,leveland's popularity. GATH.