Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-04
He is to Be Pushed for Presidential
Nomination.
SILVER REPUBLICANS His SUPPORT
The Money Question to Be Made
the Paramount Issue.
THE WORK BEING DONE

The public are probably hardly prepared
for the announcement of Don Cameron
as candidate for the republican presiden-
tial nomination. Perhaps it is too early
to announce him as such yet, and perhaps
he and his friends prefer not to have the
matter talked of at this time, but at the
proper moment 1t is proposed to bring him
out with a very considerable backing. This
Is not matter of idle talk, but is Sc
rious and earnest business as far as Cam
eron and his friends are concerned In
spired with confidence that the republican
nomination for the presidency next time
Will be equivalent to an election plans
looking to the procurement of that NOM
ination are already being talked over and
Cameron is in thorough sympathy with the
proposition of -being himself brought out
as a candidate.
silver Men the Chief Asitators.
The proposition grows out of the silver
question, and it's chief agitators are the
silver men. Cameron may or may not
have had this in mind when he made his
speech during the special session in favor
of the free coinage of silver and protection
combined. but that speech is the basis of
MS contemplated candidacy. 1t may be
that he does not want it known yet that
he has the bee i'll his bonnet, and he is not
the man to curtail his independence and
at this early date put himself in the
straight jacket of caution which avowed
candidates have to wear, but he is said to
talk the matter over freely enough with
those who are in the secret and who are
working for him. 1t is calculated that
he Will have the support in the next re-
publican national convention Of the dele
gates from the silver states, including most
of those from the south, and that If ne can
get those from Pennsylvania he will be
in q fair way to control the convention.
The Money Question to BE Paramount
The silver men are bent upon making TIE
money question the paramount issue of the
next presidential campaign, and for that
reason are anxious to have the tariff en-
tirely cleared up before that time. Most OF
tie democrats concur in the desire that the
tariff shall not hereafter be more than a
secondary issue. 1t is in consideration of
the prospect of the money question being
to the front in the next national campaign II
that Reed and others mentioned as preal-
dental candidates have talked In a concilia-
tory way OF the restoration of silver as a
money-under safe conditions. The silver
republicans take the ground that they must
secure the nomination of some one more
friendly to silver than any OF the candidates
prominently in the public eye at this time
ana they have begun at once to lay their
plans to that end.
Teller Thought of, but Unavailable,
They have felt 1t necessary to select some
one to unite on and work for from this time
forward. Teller would naturally have been
their first choice, but he is so peculiarly n
silver man above all things else having no
claim on eastern support, that 1t was OBJ
vious that he could not hope for the nouh-
nation at the hands of the republicans and
they nave no desire to run an Independent
ticket II they can avoid it. They have
therefore, struck upon Cameron, an eastern
man. intimately associated with the eastern
commercial interests. and incidentally a sill
yer man. as one suitable for their purposes
Western Silver States to lie Held.
They say that the western silver states
will be safe enough to the republicans at
this falls elections by reason Of the prom,
ises that will be made that the republi-
cans will commit themselves to the restora-
ton OF silver, but that the only way those
states can be secured in '96 will be by put
ting this promise In the platform and by
nominating man who will make it good
These western silver men are in earnest and
are going seriously about the work they
have planned out for themselves
Cameron will be pressed as their candi
date for the nomination as against Reed
Mckinley or any one else.