St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-26
OUR GUESS FORT.

"Some mysterious power" the Wash
ington correspondents say. worked a
wonderful change in the situation over
Monday night and brought the silver
Democrats into line. What was this
power that operated so secretly that the
Sharp-eyed and keen-nosed specials at
Washington could not detect it's source
and vet had voltage enough to swing
such men as Morgan into line with their
party? 1t would be interesting to know
for certain what it was.
If we reject the most probable solu-
tion-the sturdy insistence of tbs presI-
dent OH unconditional repeal. with the
certainty of break in the party lines if
opposition were persisted in TO the last,
coupled with conviction that the silver
Democrats had done all that they could
do to uphold their viewS-then we must
look below the surface for the cause.
and we offer our guess as being as good
as any ones, and no better.
There are two senators who have their
eyes firmly and pasSionately set on 1896.
They are David Bennett Hill and
Arthur Pue German. Nothing IN the
course of either casts the least doubt on
this statement. There is ground for far
more than suspicion that both these
men thought in 1888 that their prospects
would be rather brighter should Cleve-
land be retired. In 1892 Hill was a pro-
nounced candidate for the nomination.
and German came to Chicago wrapped
in mantle of mystery which hid an
anxious willingness to be named.
But they we'll know that both cannot
be named, and each has tried to use the
other to further his own plans. In this
German has been rather the more astute
of the two. There is reason to believe
that he suggested the acrobatic feat of
HIPS facing both ways Oh the coinage
question and making his fatal Southern
tour. German would use Hill to kill
Cleveland, and then use Hill to kill
HILL Had he the opportunity. Hill
would put German to the same use, no
doubt. They both understand each
other.
The rise of the silver question afford
ed both of these adroit players in the
fascinating game OF politics an admira-
Bile field for their skill. Germans play
was to defeat unconditional repeal, thus
triumphing over Cleveland. and bring
about settlement by means of some
compromise which would attach the
silverteS to him, and assure him their
votes in the next national convention,
while it would be accepted by the rest
of the party as the only way out of the
difficulty. 1t was to this he was '.steer-
ing" events.
Hill bided his ii me. tie is more dis
posed to theatricals than manipulation.
He would prefer to carry point by a
bold dash than by sapping and mining.
He repeated his little trick of talking
both for and against silver, and then let
matters drift until the crisis approached.
He felt the pulse of the public, and
found it beating fiercely for repeal and
impatient Of the obstructionists. Then
he proposed closure, holder move in
the federal senate than in that of New
York. The public applauded and hailed
him deligerer. He cauVassed the sem
ators for support. Report said that he
had all but two, and one of them was
German. MIR. German rakes no chest.
nuts from the fire for any one but
Arthur Pue.
The president sent word that no CON-
promise would have his assent. That
laid out Gormau's plans. Then it was
closure or surrender. If it were closure
Hill stock would go booming. Better
surrender than that, we can surmise
German as deciding. So the compro-
misers gave up; repeal Will be passed
without closure, and German and Hill
are yet neck and neck for &c." Ii
any one has better guess, the entry
lists ara oman