The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-08
MARTHA WAsHINGTo.
WHY THEY REFUSE.

IL is noticeable fact that all Demo
Gratis thus far mentioned az candidates
Tor the presidential nomination, when
questioned about it, manifest the shyness
coyness and bashfulness of school girl
They are evidently pleased with the COM
pliment implied and have some difficulty
in suppressing their happiness. but moi
one of them wants to start his boom
yet awhile. They are long-headed enough
to know that early bo0ms fizzle out
speedily, that the first 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 near
convention time. This is the reason why
they are all swimming around the gilded
bait with Pleasant yet anxious faces,
watching each other jealousy, but not
one OF them grabbing for it. They know
the danger of the hook concealed in the
| bait.
Mr.. Cleveland scouts the idea of a
third term. Whenever it is mentioned he
hoists sail on his catboat and goes fish
ing for soup, and meanwhile what he is
really thinking out there on the briny
deep no man knows, not even 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
school district in the United States
but If the convention should offer him the
third term nomination he would take IL
as quickly as a bluefish takes his hook
Adlai Stevenson, when asked about his
boom, smiles, disclaims all knowledge OF
such a thing and straig'htway hies him
to Alaska, where no one can talk to him
upon such dangerous subjects. Secretary
Olney, when informed there was really
true boom for him, broke out into laugh
ter and rushed Into tennis with renewed
vigor, playing that noble game like a
young, gddy thing. When Farmer Nor
ton, of Nebraska, was down in Virginia
the other day some of the politicians
whispered in his ear that the next dele
cation from that state would vote for
him in convention. Morton smiled a
sickly smile, realizing that it would not
do to start a boom in Virginia, as she
has passed the time of being the mother
of presidents He replied to the temp
ters: Gentlemen, I am holding the last
office 1 Shall ever hold" Though he does
not know it, his prophetic soul is right.
STANDARD Oil-WaM Street-Multi.million
aire Whitney, who can easily put up
a million subscription to the Democratic
fund, scouts the idea and declares he
would not accept the nomination If ten
dered to him on a silver plate.
And so 1t goes. Every man Of them
has his little boom hidden away, which
he expects to fly at the right tlme but
he does not want 1t a1oat now when
1t would not last much longer than
soap bubble. Thus it is that every one
of them pooh-poohs the idea of nomin-
alton and yet at heart they an want It,
and they want it badly, even though |
not one of them feels sure that a Demo- |
crat can be elected. None of them how
ever, would refuse the chance of nomin-
alton on that account, for the man who
runs Is considered the leader of the party,
even though he leads only forlorn hope.
The great sweeping Republican victory
of last November infused business ana
banking circles, the manufacturing and
the railroad classes, with confidence that
the commercial dangers to be apprehend-
ed from any further malign Democratic
influences were indefinitely postponed
They feel so STILL and they will not i'm
peril that restoration of confidence by
turning the country over to the Demo-
cratic incumbents again. All these gentle
men with their little hidden booms know
this. but 1t will not prevent any one of
them upon whom the convention calls
from sending up his particular boom,
even knowing 1t must collapse