St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-07-06
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Republican Presidential Aspirants Are
Lying Low Just Now.

Republican Presidential Aspirants Are
Lying Low Just Now.
The question is being asked, why
are candidates for the republican nom-
nation for the presidency so few when
republican prospects are supposed to
be so bright? If the party is to have
a walk-over in 1896, If nomination is
to be equivalent to an election, 1t might
naturally be supposed that every re-
publican state at least would have it's
candidate, If not two or three Of them.
But the list continues to be a very short
one, albeit John Wanamaker has DEM
onstrated with how little trouble %
pushing man may find "a place on 1t,
and the friends of Gov Morton, of New
York, have made it plain that pretty
modest endowment Of ability, some
what blunted bysage, may be suita-
BILE equipment for candidate. The
trouble seems to be that the practical
politicians of the party are lying
low" or are confning themselves to
declarations of hostility rather than of
preference tothis or the other eandi-
date. These gentlemen will doubtless
be heard from at the proper time, and
all the more surely because nothing
recommends an aspiring statesman
quite SO much to the public at the pres
ent time as disposition to thwart the
Perhaps, however, the causes of the
coyness of republican. candidates lie
deeper than the cautious attitude of
| the machine made party leaders. The
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issue, are not quite apparent yet. Il
| the democratic party is to split on the
money question, that would almost
certainly involve q split in the repub-
/ 1ican party, too. All the silver fanat-
/ les, populists and state socialists are
not original democrats by any means,
1 and if the sound money men of the
republican party are to have the bene-
fit of the cooperation Of democrats of
like views, a kind of combination will
| be formed which the bosses will be
| quite powerless to manage. For it will
be a combination which will insist on
honesty in other matters besides the
1 currency, and will hardly seek its nat
1 ural leaders among the party hacks.
| With national honor and prosperity at
| stake on the result of an election, d
good many familiar issues will have to
take subordinate place, or be passed
over altogether. With them may sink
| into insignificance some familiar names
which stand for dead rather than iv-
1 ing questions. Politicians have not
ceased to puzzle over the bewiidering
difference between 1892 and 1894, and
have pretty generally failed to grasp
Y the idea that so sudden and completes
I reversal Of a popular verdict argues q.
i certain mobility Of the popular vote
i which BODIES no good for the existing
party OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Herald
Senator Frye stated in o recent
n speech that Tom Reed had more to do
with the passage Of the Mckinley law
than Mckinley had, and there We're
none of Reeds friends present to hit
him with an AK. This shows the re-
sources of malice Mr.. Reed took to
n the woods after the adjournment OF
n congress Iii order to be away from the
n dangers Of campaign talk. But Frye,
who pretends to be his friend, does as
much harm III one speech as he could
lido himself in d whole stamping tour
Il Kansas City Times.
II The calamity shriekers are sing
J, ling low these booming days.--E'os oston
Herald.