Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-04
SENATOR GORMAN
he May Come Out Strong as a
Presidential Candidate.
SCARCITY OF DEMOCRATTC TIMBER
Cleveland May Want the Nomina-
tion Again Himself.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The opinion is being quietly expressed by
a good many democrats that Senator Cor
| man Will come out strong as a candidate
| Tor the Presidency before the next demo-
cratic national convention. The statement
| is ventured, with q few significant mods
| that the situaticn is more favorable to his
candidacy tran ever before 1t is said that
| he holds this opinion himself, and that he
| Is Keeping very quiet, sc as not to flush the
game too early.
Dearth of Democratic Caudfdote.
This idea gets encou1 a cement from the
fact that candidates for the democratic
nomination appear to be woefully scarce
Ihere is list of republican candidates al
most as long a city directory There
are dozen or more of them so conspicu-
ously available as to make their chances
appear about even in the race. But with
the democrats the situation is different
There appears to be such a scarcity of
| available men among them thai hardly
ever is name mentioned, and instead of
speculation to the prospects of this lead
er or of that, the question which most Of
ten recurs is: Where shall we find can
didate?" It is remarkable thing that with
the naucnal convention but year off this
should be the case
TheNthree things that seem to be respon-
sible for it are, that the party have not re-
covered from the encouragement of
weak in the east that there is no conspIc-
uous leader in that section, and they hes
itate to turn for a candidate to the SOUTH
where their most prominent men are TO be
found; and, most serious of all, that they
have yet to settle the policy of the party
before they can tell anything about cam
didates. They have yet to discover whether
they are one party or two.
Uncertainty of MIR. CIeveIand's Inten-
tions.
On tbe fteorxy hat Mr CIevaIopd &c bg,,
self candidate the situation may have
sc me significance if viewed in the light
of the last two democratic national con-
ventions. Before both those conventions,
hut most conspicuously before the meeting
OF the last, there was a similar silence as
to candidates almost up to the time of
the meeting of the convention There was
practically no attempt the part of the
opponents of Mr.. Cleveland to agree upon
any one to make the fight in convention,
and by the time the contest began the
Cleveland forces were so strong and well
drilled that nothing could prevail against
them.
If, as many believe. Mr.. Cleveland wants
to be renoninated for the fourth time this
silence to other candidates is just the
thing for his interest
If he is not intending to be a candidate
himself there is no doubt whatever that
he wants TO name the candidate, or, at
least to designate the sort of a candi-
late who shall lead the party, or what is
left of it after the national convention.
Whichever object he has in view the
continuance of the present situation Is
favorable to his plans, and the longer time
goes without any man appearing conspicu-
ously in the fore the more difficult ii will
be to make a successful fight against the
administration wing of the party.
The. Administration Candidate.
There is no need that the administration
candidate should appear. Mr.. Cleveland
stands for him, whoever he may be, and
the longer his identity is in doubt the bet
ter. That Mr.. Cleveland will be the candi-
date of his people is not the most improb-
able thing The talk of Carlisle, Whitney
and Olney as administration candidates is
not generally regarded of serious con-
sequence for several reasons 1t is prob
able that If he does not want the nonina-
ton himself. Mr.. Cleveland would like to
see 1T go to one of two younger men in
whom he has great confidence. If New
York could be induced to present the name
of Secretary Lamont, 1t would, doubtless,
be in that direction that the admnistra-
ton influence would tend. Otherwise. it is
not improbable, as intimated in some quar-
tiers, that Russell of Massachusetts will be
brought out.
May BE n Break.
The prospects of break in the convention
and the failure of any one to get the
necessary two-thirds for nomination are
more pronounced at this time than are
the chances of any ore now in mind to
carry OH the prize. IL Is very generally re-
garded possible that the democratic con-
veEtion will nominate two sets of candi-
dates. Divided the party is on the sill
Yer question, it looks at this distance as
If il might be impossible for either faction
to get two-thirds of the convention, and 1t
is doubtful which will have a majority of
the delegates, though 1t is generally be-
leved that the silver people will have this
majority.
Secretary Smith a Possibility.
The suggestion is made that, embarrassed
by the two-thirds rule, the administration
people, in order to capture the southern
delegates, will make the bold move of offer
ing the presidential nomination to the
south. If this is done it Will be by the
practically unanimous agreement of the
eastern sound money delegates, and the
man selected for their candidate will prob
ably not be Mr.. Carlisle, but Secretary
Hoke Smith of Georgia. The offer TO break
down the barrier that excludes a southern
man from the White House might go
long way toward Ieconcing the southern
silver men to the selection of a sound