Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-29
MIR. Cleveland Said to Be Looking to
the Future.
MEANING OF RECENT APPOINTMENTS
Trying to Win Over Moderate
Silver Men.
THE NEXT CONVENTION

There has been much comment on the
gratitude shown by Mr.. Cleveland in the
matter of appointment for men who stood
by him in the last Congress and who fell
behind the breastworks He has given fat
places to several, and other appointments
are understood to be on the way. This is
cited as an evidence of his gratitude. Some
politicians take different view of it, be-
lieving that it is something more than
gratitude. They think that it has reference to
future services expected rather than to the
memory of those already performed. Hav
Ing during his career. heretofore, made
himself solid with a certain element out
side professional politics by exhibition
of firmness and independence OF practical
politicians" and place hunters they believe
that he is now trying e little practical poll
tics himself. They argue that he would not
lose much sleep trying to find places for
statesmen out of a job, merely because
they had formerly stood by him, If he in
terded to himself retire entirely from poll
tics at the end of his term. They believe
that he deserves to be the architect of the
democratic party of the future, and that he
Is bending mis- energies entirely in that d.
rection.
Mr.. Clevelands Ambition.
1t may or may not be, they say. that he
Is ambitious to again get the nomination
for the presidency, but they satisfied
that he aims at naming the next demo-
cratic candidate and forming the party
policy. Some think he wants to hold to the
office Others think that it is the policy of
the rarty only that he wishes to influence,
and that he feels that he Will be more in
fuential to accomplish this by standing be-
fore the people as one about to retire with
out the possibility of further personal am
bition The men he has selected as the
recipients of his favors are not those who
may be expected to be content to retire
into the seclusion of bureau offices, but
men who will be amb:ti to come to the
front in politics again and will seek to
tain their influence at home. II is known
that In discussing the merits of men he
has had this in mind and has referred to
1t. Moreover these men whom he holds at
tache1 to himself come from sections whose
influence may be felt in the next national
convention in aid of the east in holding con-
troll against the silver men of the south and
west. The eastern delegates cannot alone
prevent the nomination of a free coinage
man on radical silver platform, but with
little assistance here and there in the
south and west they may hope to get the
platform and the candidates to suit them
as heretofore. Mr.. Cleveland. as does
every one else, realizes that for the next
two years there Is going to be a mighty
fight to fix the character of the party and
he is credited with preparing himself for
the fight so as to figure as the champion
and victor for Sound money" The ap-
pointments he has made and Will make
may figure in this, and more than this
even, the recognition by him of the policy
OF taking care OF your friends may
strengthen him where he is weak.
Trying to Win Over the Silver Men.
There are evidences. too, that he is not
only trying to hold the firm sound money"
men of his party together and to encour-
age them to work actively for the cause
which he has made his, and which he is
devoted to above all other causes, but he
is trying to win over the less radical silver
men and strengthen that partisanship
which holds men to their old party ties
even when the men and policies put to the
front are not quite acceptable to them.
In this he is trying to combat the idea
which the most radical silver men now
hold and advocate-that the issue is one
greater than party. To this end he is cred
tied with adopting some diplomacy quite
new to his disposition. There are few men
in Washington or anywhere in the east
who think that Mr.. Cleveland has any
disposition friendly, even to the smallest
degree, toward silver standard money;
yet his friends in the west insist that he
is misunderstood, and is, in fact, a BIZ
metallist. They insist that there is no rea-
son in the world why n silver man who is
not crank on the subject should object
to Mr.. Clevelands policy. In support of this
declaration of his friends, Mr.. Cleveland
has several times recently taken occasion
in speaking with men from the so-caled
silver states to say that he wished to see
silver restored to its proper place as a
money metal, and that he expected to see
this. He is even quoted as saying that he
favored and would have signed the Jones
bill. which was formulated just before the
close Of the session, if Congress had adopt
ell 1t.
He is represented as erdeavoring to make
1t appear that it is only the most radical
plain of his attitude toward the white
metal