Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-16
SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 10, 1894.
Wilson, Crisp, Cleveland.

There were some notable paragraphs
n our telegraphlc columns yesterday.
Speaker Wilson was reported in an In
terview transmitted by cable from Lon
don 10 have declared decidedly that Presi-
dent Cleveland had no thought Of again
being n candidate for the presidency. Al
though the nomination law OF the repub-
1io is that no President can receive more
than two terms. yet the attempt to seat
General Grant in the presidential chair
for third term has had the effect OF
making the public restless whenever. for
amy reason. an incumbent President is
supposed 10 be willing TO tempt fortune
IN this matter Coming from Mr.. Will
son. this declaration Of the Presidents
purpose may be said to be authoritative.
There Is no man except the President
himself whose word would carry with 1t
40 much weight Mr.. Wilson'S declara-
aion will settle the question 1t refers
20. and Mr.. Cleveland will henceforth
rease TO be regarded as even a posi-
Die nominee Of the next Democratic Ma
iionai Convention.
Chairman Wilson made another impor-
tant declaration in his London interview
when he said, as we understand him.
that the new tariff was not to be at
tackled as n whole. or revised as a whole
by the Democrats In Congress; that Its
errors were in details only. and these
would be corrected. We quoted Governor
Flower yesterday as having declared that
the new tariff ought not 10 be revised
within less than twenty years. Tariff
sinkering." ex-President Harrison de-
rlares, Will come TO an end II the Re
publicans carry the November elections.
However, neither OF the two parties has
yet committed itself on this subject But
surely 1t may be truthfully said, that the
businessmen are sick of tariff tinker
ing.9 and that the business interests Of
the country could hardly weather such
another storm as that through which
they passed during the long and weary
months which were consumed in perfect
Ing the existing new tariff "Tarin
finkering' is dangerous tinkering.
What Chairman Wilson said as to Reed
and Mckinley ought TO be qualified by the
remark that inasmuch as both these as
pirants seem TO have united their for
tunes with those of the Mckinley tariff.
both will he defeated of nomination II
the new Democratic tariff shall prove TO
be q success. Possibly, this is what Mr.
Wilson meant when he predicted that
that nomination would fall upon some
4 such conservative man as Senator ALI
son.
4 Mr. Crisp made at Augusta, Ca. eve
lining before last. q strong speech. In which
The cut out work for Democratic ora
4tors all over the land. He may be re-
BEARDED as an administration man-one
1who speaks for Mr.. Cleveland. In his
REVIEW of the situation Mr.. Crisp said
hhat the votes in the national House CT
! Representatives on the silver question
had been a disappointment to him. as
4 he always believed In the free and I'M
SHIFTED coinage Of silver. Nevertheless.
Mr. Crisp did himself vote to make the
tonnage ratio 20 to !. His declaration
above mentioned Is not lessened In I'm
portance by this fact. but increased In
Importance. 1t may indicate the willing
Noes. Of the administration TO agree to a
1 compromise on the silver question.