The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-08-03

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| must take your choice between electins
Cleveland and resigning as chairman so1
| the committee. Il you stay In you must
work. If you step out / will take your
place, and VIII elect Mr.. Cleveland. .
4 Murphy and those behind him did not
want to give up the reins OF power. This
Mr.. Whitney very well knew. He knew
they were thinking Of the future, that the
| life Of their machine and the working out
of their various personal ambitions de-
pended upon retention of the party lead
ership and organization. Thus 1t was
| that Hill, Murphy and the state crowd
were brought into line. There had never
been any doubt as to what Tammany
would do. Croker and Whitney were
warm friends, and Tammany was as eager
to elect Mr.. Cleveland as it had been to
| defeat his nomination at Chicago. Hill
and his followers were in this way set tC
work without a single promise being
made them. The Windsor Hotel dinner
which Cleveland attended was a mere
concession to the appearance of things. II
was not vital or intrinsic at ALL It was q
| mere advertisement to the world of the
| success of Wnirney's matchless diplo-
macy, Of his masterful play upon the am
bition and the selfshness of human ma
ture.
Therefore when President Cleveland ta-
booed the Hill crowd in New York in Civ
| ing out the offices, no promise was broken
No pledge was violated. Better politics
| might have induced more concil:ation
But it was nothing for Whitney and
| Cleveland to quarrel about.
/ am able to say on authority that il
Mr.. Whitney shall change his mind and
j ysch IN Ioo Fn, nxy{
! years nomination, he will have the sup
port Of President Cleveland.
Mr.. Cleveland would be base migrate
if he were to fail to do everything reason
able within his power to compass the am
bstion of Whitney. Everyone who knows
anything of the inside workings of the
1892 campaign knows that Mr.. Cleveland
could not have been nominated at Chi
cago without Whitney's generalship. He
might have been elected without Whitney
| at the head of the campaign, but that is
by no means certain.
Mr.. Whitney's personal sacrifices in the
1892 campaign were tremendous. No one
will ever know how much money he spent
in the first place. Mr.. Whitney will never
know, nor does he care. He is of the tenn
permanent that stops at nothing but sue
cess, no matter how great the sacrifice or
the effort required to WIN it, I have
heard his contribution estimated as high
as $780, .000 1t could not have been much
less, for whenever there was money gap,
Mr.. Whitney was the man VINO stepped
in and stopped it. The gaps were fire.
quent and wide. s!-4
When the fight was over and the vic
tory was won, he asked nothing but a
chance to rest. He refused to be secre-
tary of state or anything else. He de-
clined to have a word to say about who
should Or who should not be placed in
office. He washed Wis hands Of the whole
business, and soon went away to the old
world for recreation.
People were surprised, but said MIR.
Whitney was only hiding his time; that he
had cast his bread on the waters and that
he would bob up as an aspirant for the
successorship. Well, the time has come
in which he should show his hand if he
has one to show, and again he wants moth
ing. His friends go to him by the score
ami tell him he could have the nomina-
tion if he would only move his hand and
set few wheels going. He reso,uteiy de-
clines to do 1t. It is certain as that the
sun shines that if Whitney is to become
the nominee it must be brought about by
the party itself, not by such combination
and effort and manipulation as produced
the nomination pf MIR. Cleveland three
years ago.
why did Mr.. Whitney contribute his
energy and his money to the Cleveland
cause in 1892 without hope Of reward ?
Why is he wholly without ambition for
presidential sonoTs? These are questions
which everyone is asking, and the answer
is most interesting. Mr.. Whitney Is both
young and vigorous. He enjoys life and
wants to live long time. He knows ais
we'll as any man in the country knows
that the presidency is a slaves life. There
is no peace in it. Mr.. Whitney says there
never was a happy president of the Unit
ed States. Cleveland is not happy, and
VIII not he till he gets out Of the White
House. Harrison was not happy in Wash
ingtOn, though he appears willing to come
back and try it again. Arthur was not
happy, and Hayes only moderately SO. Mr..
Whitney believes that ne who becomes
president of the United States must de-
termine to sacrifice himself on the altar
of duty. He consigns himself to physical
drudgery and mental torment during the
term of Office, and loses the power to be
Whitney loves life and it's good things
too well to immediate, himself for the sake
of a longer biography when he is gathered
to his fathers.
But still have to tell why he plunged
himself into the battle Of 1892 1t was be-
cause he loved his party, because he loves
his friends and could not SIT silent and in
active while they were IN danger of de-
feat There is no man in the Democratic
party more loyal to that organization
than Mr.. Whitney. There is none any
where that will go farther or do more for
his friends.
1t IS this quality in him, this predomi-
mating characteristic, which is likely to
force him into the campaign Of next year
Probably he would be perfectly content
to take up the fight for the party for sue
cess at the polls if he could be assured Of
let off for another long vacation when the
fight was won. That he would prefer this
to his own candidacy, have not the
Slightest doubt, and l know Mr.. Whitney
pretty well. But at the same time one
must believe the same duality would force
him to accept leadership ii the party were
to press him into service as its candidate.
1t is not because Mr.. Whitney fears, the
Democratic party will lose in 1896 that he
declines to be candidate. He has a
strong faith that his party will succeed.
He believes the commercial and Industrial
conditions N the country are fast making
for democracy's good. He believes local
conditions in New York are promising a
return of democracy to power In state and
city at an early day. He believes the