The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-18
GROVER AND BENNY
A PREDICTION THAT THEY
WILL BE THE NEXT
NOMINEES.
4 DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TALKS

lttCtaHS are Against hAh~~Ao as SCSUs~
ed the Confidence of the People, he
and Harrison Have won one Time
Eacn. now for the Presidential Rub
ber.-Other Candidates Discussed.
William e. Curtis in Chicago Record.
A very prominent Democratic Sena-
ter, who takes more interest in politics
p than III legislation, discoursed for an
hour or more last night in party of
friends upon the situation, and predicted
that Harrison and Cleveland would be
the nominees of their respective parties
at the next election and contest the
Presidency for a third term-a sort of
Presidential rubber.
'Mr. Cleveland" he said, sis by far
the strongest man in the Democratic
party to day. although majority of the
politicians are against him. He has sue
ceeded in securing the confidence of the
people to a degree that has been enjoyed
by 40 President since Abraham Lincoln,
and although his present administration
has been marked by a succession of mex
cusable blunders, the public charges
them to his subordinates and to the lead
ers of the party in Congress rather .han
TO him Poor Gresham has gone to his
grave with the odium of the mistakes
in our foreign policy, when the Presi
dent is responsible for the whole bust
ness Secretary Carlisle is blamed for
the financial plumbers that have been
made, where's he has never signed
letter Of any Importance without first
showing it to the President. The blame
for the failure to carry out the free trade
policy of the Democratic party has been
laid upon German and other Democratic
Senators, when everybody knows that
the bill they supported in the Senate was
prepared at the Treasury Department
and the President was consulted about
every paragraph. When he thought it
was going to be an unpopular measure he
kicked it in the stomach and in the face
aud threw it over into their side of the
yard, but he had just as much to say
about its preparation as they did. Secre-
tary Olney is the man who stood up dur
ing the railroad strike against the advice
of the rest of the Presidents advisers,
and carried through policy that La
mont, Gresham and Carlisle feared
would make him very unpopular among
the working people. If it had turned out
that way Olney would have been con
demned and perhaps kicked oat of the
Cabinet, but the public and even the
strikers themselves saw that the govern
ment was right, and it has turned out to
be one of the most popular incidents of
the administration. The President gets
oil the credit.
"And for the same reason he is going
to be nominated for third term. 1t Is
his manifest destiny. First, because he
lis bound TO have it so, and second, be
cause other aspirants who are wise
enough TO measure the possibilities must
realize that no one else can be elected.
During the last two years the Democrat
ic party has been going down until it
has almost reached the bottom OF the
bottomless pit, and if New York, Mar
land and Kentucky go Republican this
fall. as / understand is probable, there
will be no prospects for the Democrats to
elect their Presidential candidate in 1896.
1t will be forlorn hope, and Mr.. Cleye-
land will be compelled TO accept fourth
nomination, whether he wants it or
not.
''To secure statue for future opera
items Billy Russell will probably come to
the convention with an Endorsement from
the Massachusetts, delegation, but he has
no more chance Of the nomination than
you or I. Since the election last fall Mr..
Hill has concluded not to enter the con-
test, and Mr. Whitney will never consent
to be candidate except upon a GER
tainty. If the sun was shining on the
Democracy this year, if everything was
happy and the goose was hanging high,
William @. Whitney would be the next
President. But he ia no gam Ter, he
viii take no chances. He is a fair
weather candidate. and will never make
the race unless he his absolutely certain
of winning
'sThe present situation in Maryland
would not justify Senator German In
seeking the nomination, although next
to Whitney he would be the strongest
candidate before Democratic conven-
ton There is no man in the United
States who has stronger hold among
the politicians or greater degree of
their confidence than Mr.. German, but
bhht ID bSAiAS5 AAatsAV va AAAhA W
his own party in his own State will pro
badly lose us that State and take him
cut of the list Of eligibles. There is no
use discussing Southern men. The
South will not furnish a Presidential
candidate during this generation.
''If Cempell could carry Ohio this fall
he would be an available and agreeable
candidate, but he will be defeated by
$4,000 or so, 900 majority.
''Gov. Matthews will have the Indiana
delegation, but that is not enough to
nominate him.
eff the Illinois delegates will unite on
either Morrison or Stevenson they will
have powerful influence in the conven
ton, but understand they cannot agree
either on the financial or any other ques
taeH.
"Then comes Horace Boies, of Iowa,
who stands nearer a nomination than
any one in the list except Cleveland,
and if it were Democratic year would