The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-07
WHY THIS COYNESS +?
RepasIican Presidential Aspiran's are
Lying Low Just Now.

Tho question is being asked, why
are candidates for the republican nom
nation for the presidency SO few when
republican prospects are supposed 20
be so bright? If the party i TO nave
a walk-ovcr in 1896, if nomination IS
10 be equivalent TO an election. IL might
naturally be supposed that every re-
n,hlican state at least would have It's
candidate. if not two or three OF them.
I,ut the list continues to be a very shors
one. albeit John WanEnaScr has DEM
o,,strated with how little trouble
nu.hinsr man may find place on IL.
and the friends of Gov. Norton OF New
York. have made it plain that a pretty
modest endowment of ability. some
what blunted by age. may be a sulta-
bic equipment for candidate. ne
trouble seems to be that the pracucai
politicians of the party are "iyinc
| low or are continuing themselves 10
declarations Of hostility rather than OF
interference To this or the other candi-
date. These gentlemen will doubtless
be heard from at the proper time, ana
all the more surely because nothihg
recommends an aspiring statesman
quite so much to the pubic at the pres
ent time as q disposition to thwart the
bosses.
Perhaps. however. the causes OF the
covness Of republican. candidates lie
deeper than the cautious attituac o.
the machine made party leaders nc
issues of 1890, or at least the dominan
issue. are not quite apparent yet
the democratic party il 70 split on the
money question, that would almost
certainly involve split in the rcpuo
lican party. too. All the silver fanat
les. populists and state socialists arr
not original democrats by any means
and IL the sound money men OF th'
republican party are TO have the ocne
q, Of the cooperation of democrats
like views. a kind OF combination VII
10 formed which the bosses will b
quite powerless 10 manage. FOR ~ VII
be a combination which VIII INSIST o
honesty in other matters besides IN
currency. and will hardly seek its nat
n ural leaders among the party hacks
5 With national honor and prosperity
; stake on the result of an election,
: good many familiar issues viii have
/ take subordinate place. or be pa>se
y over altogether With them may sin
y into insignificancc some familiar nam'
l. which stand for dead rather than II
inn questions Politicians have "a
n ceased to puzzle over the bcwilderir
ii difference between 1899 and 1904. al
II have pretty generally failed TO gra
N the idea that so sudden and complete
IS reversal Of n popular verdict argues
81 certain mobility Of the popular vo
n which BODIES no good for the exlstil
Of party organizations -Doston icra
Senator Frye stated in rece
speech that 7 ON Reed had more TO
&C with the passage Of the Mckinley u
.. than McKiilcy had. and there w
80 none Of Reeds friends present 70
er him with an AK. This shows the
"a sources of malice. Mr. Reed took
= the woods after the adjournment
&c congress- in order 10 he away from
na dangers Of campaign talk. But fr
al. who prctcnds to be his friend, does
acl much harm in ono speech as he CO
M do himself in n whole stumpng tou
'eo Kansas City Times
adj The calamity shriekcrs are s.
IA. ing low these booming days-Bcs