The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-09-13
REASONS FOR REFUSING.
Democrats Who Are Dodging the Nom
nation for President.

OcmOCfbS8 W no Are DO0Gtng the NOmA-
nation for President.
1t is noticeable fact that all the
democrats thus far mentioned as cam
didates for the presidential nomina-
ton, when questioned about it, mani-
| fest the shyness, coJness and bashful-
ness of school girl They are evil
IDENTIFY pleased with the compliment
implied and have some difficulty in
suppressing their happiness, but not
one of them wants to start his boom
yet awhile. They are long-headec
enough to know that early booms
hzzle out speedily, that the arst one in
the field is usually the first one to GO.
and that the best chances are reserved
for those who keep in the background
until convention time. This IS tho
reason they are all swimming round
the gilded bait with pleasant YET
anxious faces, watching each other
1ealously, but not one of them grab
bing for it. They know the danger OF
the hook concealed in the bait.
Mr.. Cleveland scouts the idea of
third term. Whenever it is mentioned
he hbists sail on his catboat and goes
fishing for soup, and meanwhile what
he is really thinking out there on tbs
briny deep no man knows, not eveR
Whitney. The most he will say is that
no one is urging him. 1t makes him
tired when Mr.. Watterson says he
would not carry a school district in the
United States, but II the conventioe
should offer him the third term nomS
ha al . IL
bluefish takes his hook. Adlaf
Stevenson, when asked about his
boom, smiles, disclaims all knowledge
of such thing, and straightway HES
him to Alaska, where no one can talk
to him upon such dangerous subjects
Secretary Olney, when informed there
was a really true" boom for him,
broke out into laughter and rushed
into tennis with renewed vigor, play
ing that noble game like a young, gid
dy thing. When Farmer Morton, Of
Nebraska, was down in Virginia the
other day some of the politicians whis-
pered in his ear that the next delega-
ton from that state would vote for
him in convention. Morton smiled a
sickly smile. realizing it would not do
to start boom in Virginia, as she has
passed the time of being the mother
of presidents. He replied to his tempt
ers: Gentlemen. am holding the last
office l shall ever hold" Though he
does not know it, his prophetic soul Il
right Standard Oil Wall Street Null
ti-millionaire Whitney, who can easily
put up million subscription to the
democratic fund, scouts the idea and
declares he would not accept the nom
nation if rendered to him on a silver
plate.
And so it goes Every man of them
has his little boom hidden away, which
he expects to fly at the right time, but
he does not want it afoat now when
it would not last much longer than q
soap bubble. Thus it is that every one
of them pooh-poohs the idea of a nom
ination, and yet, at heart, they all
want it, and they want it badly, even
though not one of them of them feels
sure that democrat can be elected
None Of them, however, would refuse
the chance of nomination on that ac-
count, for the man who runs is consid-
cred the leader of the party, even
though he leads only a forlorn hope
The great, sweeping victory of last
November infused business and bank
ing circles, the manufacturing and the
railroad classes with confidence that
the commercial dangers to be appre-
hended from any further malign dem
ocratic influences were indefinitely
postponed. They feel so still, and
they will not imperil that restoration
of confidence by turning the country
over to the democratic incumbents
again. All these gentlemen with their
little hidden boOms know this, but It
will not prevent any one of them upon
whom the convention calls from send
ing up his particular boom, even
knowing it must collapse.
Tribune.