Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-05
A MUGWUMP GUESS.
Party Reorganization to Be the
Next Thing Attempted,
THE EAST AGAINST TIE WEST.
The issue 10 Be on Financial Questions.
Silver or No Silver 10 30
the Burning Watch
word.

washington Dispatch to the boston
Transcript. Mugwump Supporter OF Mr.
Cleveland
Washington. Feb. 27.-Thc Peculiar
construction Of The cabinet, which is adj
niitted 10 be Of wholly personal selection.
without reference 20 political cEpediency
or geographical lines, has caused a wide
range of speculation among the polit-
clans as to the logical result In q party
aud administrative scnse The shrewdest
Of the old leaders of the party. who
feel that they have been ignored, as
they have not been consulted. are pr3phe-
sylng that the methods which have been
adopted by Mr. Cleveland mean either
party reorganization or destruction. The
general belief among the more progress
sive party men IL that it means Il recon-
structiOn on new lines, In orler 20 bring
the Democratic party abreast OF new
conditions.
The attitude which the financial and
particularly silver questions has assumed
In national affairs has completely over
Swallowed the tari6 aud all other issues
between parties. Therefore this subject
will necessarily be the paramount one,
and, from what Is known Of Mr.. Cloyc-
lands views, no proposes to make this
the initial movement Of his ndinmistia-
ton. The party leaders from the South
aud West declare That II the new prcsi-
dent insists upon forcing his views on
the silver question on the Democratic
| party. it will inevitably result In COM
plete ohlitouton Of party lines lenving
the ultrn Democratic and Republican
silver Advocates of the South aud West
ON the one side and the anti-silvCr Dem
ocruts aud Republicans of the Eastern
/ and Middle states ON the other.
There are many Republicans OF more
| advanced views who supported Mr. Cleve-
land. who believe that the Republican
purity az an organization. bus fulfilled It's
/ mission. aud must reconstruct on an en-
| tirly different line Of fundamental priu-
| ciplcs aud methods before it can rclabl-
| litate It's forces on national lines with
any prospects Of national success These
| profound party thinkers call attention 70
! tie cnrccr of the Wing party. IL began
| los distinguished service tO the country
| on the line of battle against slavery
| ANA turi0, under mutchless leaders Ike
! Webster Clay and Clayton The ram
! cOroua partisan struggles which followed
! the frgo.,rade hcrcsy, led by the Southern
| lirc-catcrs. resulted, nficr the summary
! methods Of the Jackson administration
| and reputation of thr people, In the
/ disutcrprItiOu Of party lines in 1850
| and 90, leaving the slavery and anti
| slavery issue still To be fought over. The
! Wing party expired i'm this struggle,
leaving the ncwly born Republican party
! 20 carry on the contest against slavery
and consequent war for the prcaerya-
ton Of the Union. The Republican party,
composed of old-line Wigs and pro
! ErcssyC Democrats, made for itself an
! Incompatible record. II not only pre-
| served los force of arms the Integrity Of
the Union, but it wiped out every vestge
of slavery wherever II existed, aud plac-
ed the country in It's industrial, financial
ana business Interests ON the most adj
! fnnccd plaue of devtlopu emit
Tho United States government and
people. In Witnessing n change of party
control within tho present week nced
ru tr~0ment tO convince thcm that the
Republican party rctiiCs with FOIL
sense of having brought American msti-
tuiiOna In public and private affairs TO
their highest stage. The president elect
fully realizes this responsibility, aud IL
h his purpose not TO permit tie country
10 take nuy steps backward through n
restoration of Bourbon notions of pOliti-
cnl doctrines or governmental methods.
This "a the meaning of the theory upon
which Mr., Cleveland organized his cab
iuet. " Il should result in a rcorgani-
cation Of parties, bringing together the
best clements Of the two existing par
tins. as Lincoln did IN his election aud
administration, Il viii be the logical re-
suit of the policy which Mr.. Cleveland
has iunuguinted,
Tho lines are Ecng so drawn on the
financial question that the outcome must
! Inevitably he mn arraymCnt OF the South
and extreme West against The Eastern,
Middle aud somc of the Mississippi Val
ley Statcs on this question. A prominent
Democratic senator from the West, in
nllGding 80 the present condition of the
Democratic party on silver, admits that
some important political movements af-
iecting parties win tnnspire In the CON
test next year for the control of the
popular branch Of congress He predicts
that the administration policy on silver
VIII encounter Ia the iffV-third congress
the Same bitter and unyiclding antagon-
ism that it has in this. This would there
fore force the administration, IN the cam.
paign OF 1894, 10 20 directly before
the people, which would result IN one 81
the most desperate political battles which
the country has ever experienced
This gentleman added that the Popu-
lists viii join their forces with the silver
lies and attempt 10 control the situation
IN favor Of free silver, and thus defeat
the anti-silyer policy of the admiuistrn-
tion, If President Cleveland should sue
coed IN establishing a second currency.
tllus preserving the material interests of
the country against the cnlamitous con-
sequences of this constant agitation for
the unlimited coinage of silver ana n
dcprecaicd currency, he win place his
name before the cOuntry In an attitude
above all party lines