The sun., 1894-10-27
Is MFR. Cleveland for the PopuIists2 ?

Mr.. CLEvELANp's stubborn refusal To say
ore word for Democracy in this state, or to
atrrncthen by single act the imperlled
cause of the party to which he owes all OF
political good fortune that has come to him
in life, must be due to something more pos
tive and definite than personal apathy or
selfish indifference.
A declaration in favor OF the Democratic
State ticket and Of the regular Democratic
candidates for Congress would cost him
nothing. In q previous campaign, when his
own interests were at stake, he has been
known to contribute O,OO0 cash.
Il ID not the principle OF non n-interference
In State politics by a Federal Executive
that restrains him now. His own letter
from the White House In behalf Of Mr.. FELL
LOWS for the merely local Office OF District
Attorney, is precedent enough to justify
him in any amount of political activity in the
present crisis, even to the extent Of going
uron the stump for HILL and Democracy.
Why, then, is the President silent when
every consideration Of duty, nay, even of
honor, requires him to speak,
The Populist or Peoples candidate for
Governor Is CHARLES b. MATTHEWS Of Buff
falo: for Lieutenant Governor, ROBERT c.
liESsoN Of Penn Yam; for Judge Of the
Court Of Appeals, THADDEUs b. WAKEMAN
Of New York. The Social Labor candidate
for Governor Is CHARLES II. MATCHETT of
kiEts; for Lieutenant Governor, WILLIAM
+. STEER Of Albany, and for Judge, FRAN
CIs GERAU of Kings. For Mayor of this
town the Populists are running JAMES Nc
CALLUM and the Social Labor organization
is running LUCIEN SANIEL. f. w. CHAM
pEHLATS is the Populist candidate for Re
ccrder; ESoCH X. THOMAS is the Social
Labor candidate. Some of the men
whom the Populists want to send to
Congress are ALBERT f. UNGER in the
Eighth district, ABRAHAM SUsMAN in the
Ninth, CHARLES SoTHERAN In the Tenth,
EDWARD F. ZIMMERMAN in the Eleventh,
GEORGE ToMBLEsoN in the Twelfth, JOSEPH
FISS in the Thirteenth, EDWIN V. WRIGHT
IN the Fourteenth, Dion w. BURKE in the
Fifteenth, and EDWARD B. FOoTE in the
sixteenth. The Social Labor party has put
up JOHN NAGEL in the Eighth, DANIEL DE
LEON In the Ninth. CHARLES G. JECHE in
the Tenth, FRANCIS II. KoENIG in the
Eleventh, WILLIAM KLINGENBERG in the
Twelfth, WILLIAM F. WEsTERFIELD in the
Thirteenth, ISAAC BENNETT in the Four
teepth, and EDWARD HENCKLER in the
Fifteenth. Most of these names are unfa-
mil:ar to the majority of New Workers; it
dnes not follow that they are not we'll
known to the President.
These men represent in the present can
vass the ideas which have received so pow
erful an impetus from the published writ
ings and speeches of GROVER CLEVELAND.
Over and over again, in unmistakabe
terms, the President has manifested his
sympathy with the Populistic and Social
istic attempt to array class against class in
the community; to exasperate the less for
tunate citizens of this republic against their
more prosperous fellow citizens, and to use
the taxing power Of the Government to pro-
mote those ideas concerning the repres-
sion of wealth and the redistribution
OF property, which find practical express
sion in the income tax as first
step. In the platform of the New York
Peoples party there are phrases and even
whole sentences which read exactly as IL
they had been written by Mr. CLEVELAND.
We have not the Social Labor platform at
hand, but the probability is the same thing
Is true Of that. On the question of the tax
alton Of incomes there is no doubt as to the
opinions OF the candidates mentioned above
The POpulists form the only party that has
ever demanded it, To a man they are for
the tax which Mr.. CLEVELAND recon-
mended as wise, just, and easily borne"
unless, indeed, some individuals among
them are already so far advanced in Social
ism as TO regard the CLEVELAND income tax
ss an inadequate and too timid measure OF
conhscatiOn.
Is this the true explanation OF the Presi-
dents otherwise unaccountable refusal 10
say one word or do one thing for Democracy
and the Democratic candidates in New
York = II cannot be that he is for the Re
publi-sn ticket. Is he for the Populists and
tie Socialists: