The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-20
CLEvELAND's WEAKNESS.

If the Republican party could name the
Democratic candidate for president to be
| nominated this week at Chicago they
| would surely name Grover Cleveland.
The executive quality Of Cleveland. like
| that of Harrison, is fully known; both
men have been tested; and the nation
knows exactly what an administration
| to expect from either Cleveland or Har-
rison. On this ground the Republicans
know that Harrison can endure compar-
ison with Cleveland without fear and
without reproach. There is no point of
just comparison in which Harrison
does not tower above Cleveland as
man of superior executive equipment
and administrative accom- plishments.
In logged industry he is at least
the equal of Cleveland: in ugly
honesty he is his peer; in power
of written or spoken words Harrison is
easily the better man; in the capacity to
do something; to push forward public
business and steadily execute the progress
sive policy of the party the record of Presi-
dent Harrison is full of light and color
compared with the pale cast OF Cleveland's
hating and inefficient administration.
On the subject of the currency Mr.. Har-
rison is as strong with the people of the
doubtful states Of the East SIS Mr.. Cleve-
land and be is stronger with the people
OF the doubtful states of the West, where
Mr. Cleveland's mono-metallic policy is
not popular. On the subject Of the
tariff Mr.. Cleveland is far weaker with
the people of the great manufacturing
states Of New York and Connecticut than
he was in 1883, because he has exceeded
the Mills bill of lsss and stands today
upon the advanced Mills revenue policy
of absolute free trade and an income tax.
With entire candor the Republicans be-
lieye that Cleveland is weaker today in
New York and Connecticut than he was
in lSSs. This view of Cleveland's weak
ness is confirmed by the fact that Mr..
Cleveland has not single delegate from
his own state of New York in the national
convention OF his party that meets tomor-
row al Chicago. Not a single one Of the
thirty-four districts of the Empire state
elected a Cleveland delegate The whole
for Hill but is solid anti-Cleveland
There is not the slightest pretense that
the delegation from New York, when il
breaks from Hill, will give a single vote to
Cleveland. The New York Democracy
that is opposed 10 Cleveland say that
Cleveland is weak in Virginia and West
Virginia; that this year he changed
pbofa sIaod f-oo, a De-,orr.,;,
Republican state; that he was almost
equally successful in Connecticut and the
Nirginiss in 1SsS. In ISS4 with Mug
wump support and the alienation OF the
Conkling contingent, but without omen
Tammany hostility. Cleveland barely
carried New York; in lSSS, with a united
party, he lost it. In ls92, with the Hill
and anti-Hill factions arrayed against
each other, it cannot be said that Cleve-
lands chance TO carry New York is any
better than in lSSS.
That Cleveland is exceedingly weak
with "the soldier vote" was made mani
fest in 1855; that he Is s far weaker candi-
date ~ the West than an old soldier, like
General John NJ. Palmer, or Colonel Morri-
son, Of Illinois, there IS no doubt. The
weakness of Mr.. Cleveland in the doubtful
states at the East and the West is already
seen and conceded by WaIterson. Vest,
Blackburn. Brice, Curtis, Springer. Mills
anu carlisle, who appreciate that the oppo-
sltion 10 Cleveland by the Hill Democracy
Is TOO bitter and savage 70 make his nomi-
nation an act Of prudent politics The
South wOUli r-efs- clav,Y,,1 ~. -,
South can hardly AFFORD to disregard the