The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-25
Is GROVER SHELVEp7
It Now Seems That He May Not Be In
the Convention.

It Now Seems That He May Not Be In
the Convention.
The signs of the times all point to
the defeat of Grover Cleveland 1t
even looks as if he would not be in the
convention at all. He is no doubt the
most popular democrat in the country,
and with so much as a fraction of the
delegation from his own state for him
he might win, but barred ont from a
single vote from New York he is likely
to be ruled off the track in advance.
The recent interview with Mr.. Springer
was evidently prepared with care, and
designed as the initial movement on
the part of at least a portion of the
Cleveland forces toward some other
candidate. Mr.. Watterson, a still more
pronounced Cleveland man, is out in
the same strain. 1t is just possible
that there will be popular uprising
which will sweep over all the barriers.
but it surely does not look that way
now, Frank Hurd's gallant espouse of
the lost cause to the contrary notwith-
standing.
The truth is that Mr.. Cleveland's sec
ond nomination was a. mistake. The
great mass of the party liked him, and
that almost to adulatiOn, owing to the
fact that he was the first democrat to
reach the white house since buchanan
left it in disgrace; but a good many
politicians were SO sore that they were
not mourners at his funeral. Four
years ago there was no one to take the
lead in an open and formidable opposi-
tion. Now there is. David B. Hill has
had the nerve to take the field in per
SON His candidacy lacks dignity and
tone, but not vigor. He says in effect
to the democracy of the country in q
somewhat off-hand, slangwbang way:
This man Cleveland is no good. He IS
played ont. In me you see Barkis
whose other name is the Young Napol-
con of Politics.
The contemptuous way in which the
ex-president was thrust aside in his
own state has angered his friends
against Hill, but it seems to have also
unnerved them. OF course Springer is
Palmer man, but Watterson has no
favorite son to champion Mr.. Car
Isle, of his state, is really out of the
question Watterson's lowering of the
Cleveland flag is more significant than
Mr.. Springer's, albeit both were stout
in their support of the ex-president
early in the campaign In fact. both
made haste, after the result in 1899 was
known, to proclaim themselves in favor
of Cleveland for president.
Mr. Watterson does not conceal his
anxiety to defeat Hill, but Mr.. Springer
is careful not to offend the Hillites.
He is for his friend Palmer, as a matter
of course, but not as against anybody
| in particular. He is not sorry, prOba-
bly,, to have a good excuse for leaving
| the Cleveland camp. When he de
clared himself in 1890 Gen. Palmer had
not been elected to the senate AS
presidential factor he had not arrived
! To be released from too-previOus OBJ
/ legation can hardly be other than sat
isfactory to Springer.
The democratic pot will soon bubble
and boil. 1t bids fair to brew broth
that will ''outslabr that of the three
witches, with Hill cast as Macbeth and
Cleveland as Banquo, Palmer hoping
to play Macduff at the wind-up.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean
N-The eastern democratic papers.
which are frantically trying to prevent
their party from passing q free silver
bin in the house. are partly responsible