Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-06-05
THE EPOLITICALFIELD
BLAND AND eoiEs ARE IN THE RACE
FOR PRESIDENT.

NAAANNA|N
Convention-Maine Republicans Loyal
TO Reed-It Is Asserted That He would
Not Accept the Vice Presidency.
NEW YORK, June 8. - The Journals
Washington correspondent says:
Free silver, 16 TO l. and the overthrow
Of Carlisle In Kentucky, and incidentally
the disappearance Of any chance of third
term for Cleveland, Is the subject on ev-
cry lip
Democrats already begin to talk of a
ticket at Chicago. Nowhere is IL doubted
that free silver sentiment will rule at the
convention. The only question ls, "How
far will u gOY" Will 10 be inveterate and
60 the silver limit and declare for the free
coinage Of silver, Is to II Or will it mod
ify the silver expression so as TO prevent a
fplit, and, while meaning free silver, 10
to /, 30 couch the expression thereof as TO
leave an excuse for a self respecting gold,
bug to stay with the party These are the
two queries now racking statesmen as
they converse
The general view Is that middle ground
will be avoided and that a platform of ut.
ter free silver will be the outcome.
Free silver, 10 TO 1, IL is expected, win
be set forth with emphasis at Chicago and
be the war cry Of an unterrifed Demoo.
raoy In the campaign TO come So much
for platforms.
When candidates are mootsd, promi-
nence is given 10 the names OF both Bland
and Boies. Zach Of the free silver centuri-
Gus has his adherents. Among mere look.
ers on who care for neither faction SEN
timent appears equally 60 divide. Some
say Boies, some say Bland. Each will
have vigorous following at Chicago. The
free silver news from Kentucky and else
where has vastly advertised and promoted
the claims Of both gentlemen.
Some there be who argue for Boics that
he has carried Iowa and would again.
Some even argue that free silver Repub.
licans, such as Dubois and Carter of the
senate, would support Democrat of the
Boies tribe II Teller were named for vice
president.
This Is to be discounted, as It Is the
Dubois Carter Teller plan and hope should
they bolt at all, to put up platform, Free
silver, 10 to /, and protection" this latter
with big p, They would hardly go In
with Boies or any Democrat who was for
low tariff
Say They Need Bland.
BANDS supporters argue that Missouri
is now Republican state That situa-
tion must be faced they say, and they
need Bland to face It with Being a ma
tive Kentuokian, they say Bland would
run like a scared wolf on the Dark and
Bloody Ground, and being a Southern
man, they argue he would win back
Maryland, q feat beyond the reach of
Boies. So the argument wags. But on
every hand Bland and Boies are heard
from.
Tha ,,o1d .Aonan.a TN....z--.A. -.
picked up some courage and declare that
they will utilize the two-thirds rule TO
prevent the nomination of an avowed free
cUinage ticket. The talk Of compromise
is also heard among the leaders Of the op-
posing factions. In this connection the
names Of Colonel William X. Morrison of
Illinois and Campbell Of Ohio are heard.
Each has the confidence of both elements
of the party. In their behalf 1t is asserted
that their great popularity in their own
states would make them among the strong
est candidates the Democrats could name.
1t Is claimed that Morrison especially
would command the confidence of the
eastern Democrats to a greater extent
thany any other western man In the party.
One Of the whispers of politics, and one
generally blown about, Is that Cleveland
will have q letter read In the Chicago oon-
venblon. lt Will say that he, has never
been for third term, doesn't want and
wouldn't take a nomination. It will also
deal at length with finance as a question,
declare uncompromisingly for gold, tell
the Democracy that destruction awaits 1t
II 1t persists In Its free silver 16 TO / course.
Knowing men and those who should
know say that this letter has already been
written and will be probably In the hands
of Villas In Chicago to be read as nomina-
tions are made and before any balloting is
had.
1t is not understood to be a bid for a
third term. but wiseacres declare that
Cleveland looks forward to the possibility
OF a nomination four years from now, In
1900, and that this letter is intended to
pave the way. They point to his letter
on tariff at the end of his first term and
declare he will now try to do with letter
on finance, declaring for gold what he
did eight years ago with tariff as the in
spiration.