Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-09

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man.
II have heard a score of senators say
that whereas Arthur and other presi-
dents could deny mans request in
such way as to make the man o friend,
Mr.. Harrison is SO unfortunate as not to
be able to grant a request In such q way
as to attach the beneficiary to him. This
is matter of temperament and moth
ing else. We all agree, Democrats as
well as Republicans, that Harrison has
made good president. He is man Of
remarkable insight and analysis. He
has the power Of sustained labor and
study. He has been clean and strong.
His chief weakness has been i'm his per-
sonal contact with men--his strange In
ability to get on smoothly with them.
"One thing I admire him for Is his
frank stubbornness about this thing. He
knows his weakness, but defies it. To
those who have advised him to make an
effort to change he has said that he Is
too old dog to learn new tricks, and
that as he is so must he continue. He
said he would despise himself LIZ he were
to try to change the habits OF lifetime
for the sake of winning few more
friends. What senators complain most
of in the president is his abruptness. He
has way of dismissing them or drop
ping subject in which they are very
much interested SO suddenly as TO be
rather shocking. He doesn't mean to
give offense, but does just the same. He
is just as abrupt to members Of his fam
lily, but they know him.
San instance Of this was told me q
day or two ago by friend Of the presi-
dents who was at dinner recently In
the White House. Two or three MEM
bers of the family had little converse
tion about an official matter. They had
their opinions about it and were not
afraid to express them, though their
opinions did not harmonize with those
of the man who sat at the head Of the
table, The president evidently thought
the ladies of his household were trying
to give him some advice, for he said,
The people elected me president, not
my family"
Then the conversation was changed to
another topic.
"Filling the offices is the 'bane of every
man who occupies the presidential
chair" continued the senator, "and
will tell you that in the senate cloak
rooms we have come to the conclusion
that on account of the friction and trou-
BILE arising from this source the day Is
near at hand when the presidency will
be one term Office. Either the consti-
tuition will be changed so as to prohibit
a second term, or it will become the un-
written law that man is not TO have
two terms, just as it is now the unwrit-
ten law that there shall not be third
term"
"But you haven't told me whom the
Democrats will nominate for president
at Chicago2"
II can't tell you. In the senate cloak
rooms, where we presume to settle 30
many big questions, we haven't any sort
of an idea on this point. All the surface
indications point to Mr.. Cleveland. But
here again comes in this same thing of
friction about the spoils. II Mr.. Cleve-
land were as popular as he is with the
masses of his party, and had never been
president, he would surely be nominated.
No power on earth could stop it. But
the leading men of the Democratic
party are afraid he has 30 many enemies,
men who became angered at him while
he was in the White House, that he can
not be elected. Added to this, they say,
is the bitterness between the Hill and
Cleveland factions in New York. AS a
result Of these conditions we have large
numbers of the party throughout the
country crying for Cleveland, while the
leaders in Washington are trying to
agree upon some other man. How 1t
will all como out is more than finite man
can foresee."
''One trouble about agreeing upon a
man to beat Cleveland with is that so
many Of the men who want to defeat
Cleveland want to be president them
selves. AS soon as one Of their number
begins forging to the front the others
begin tearing him down. In this way
the field is kept divided up, with not
much hope of uniting it anywhere. The
masses of the party stop shouting for
Cleveland long enough to hear the lead
ers tell them Cleveland can't be elected.
Then they ask who can. And when a
Babel Of voices answer them that this
man can, and this man can't, they be-
come confused and go back to their idol.
That is the way 1t is going now. In the
cloakrooms I hear Democratic senators
shaking their heads and saying it looks
much like Cleveland.
Senator Hills friends are not nearly
80 hopeful as they were, and hear that
the Hill strength will be thrown to SEN
ator Palmer, of Illinois. Senator Brice,
of Ohio, says Palmer can be elected.
But just as soon as the Palmer move
ment begins to make headway German,
Morrison, Carlisle and others go over to
Cleveland In order to head Palmer of.
The ticket most talked about in Wash
ington just now, in opposition to Cleve-
land, is Palmer and Flower. The cham
piors Of this ticket argue that it could
carry Indiana and New York II any
ticket could, and possibly Illinois, IL Is
also said that Senator Hill has deter
mined to defeat the nomination of Cleve-
land at any cost, and that If he can't do
it with Palmer he will try new combi-
nation.
''Until recently ex-Secretary Whitney
has not been very warm for Cleveland,
but he has recently announced return
to his old allegiance. Washington OBJ
servers take this as meaning that the
New Workers who are not followers of
Hill have concluded that the nomination
Of the ex-president is inevitable, and