Connecticut western news., 1896-06-04
THE POLITICAL FIELD
BLAND AND soIES ARE IN THE RACE
 FOR PRESIDENT.


 FOR PRESIDENT.
 Free Silver to Rule at the Chicago
 Convention-Maine Republicans Loyal
 to Reed-It Is Asserted That He wouli
 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 a third term for Cleveland, Is the subject on ev- cry lip.
 Democrats already begin to talk of ticket at Chicago Nowhere is it doubted that free silver sentiment will rule at the convention. The only question is, How far will 1t goa' Will it be inveterate and go the silver limit and declare for the free coinage of silver, 1o to l? Or will 1t mod fly the silver expression so as to prevent split and, while meaning free silver. 16 to 1. so couch the expression thereof as to leave an excuse for 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 platform of ut ter free silver will be the outcome
 Free silver. 16 to 1, 1t Is expected, will be set forth with emphasis at Chicago and be the war cry of an unterrified Democ- raoy in the campaign to come. So much for platforms.
 When candidates are mooted, promi- nenoe is given to the names of both Bland and Boies. Each of the free silver centuri- ous has his adherents. Among mere look CTS on who care for neither faction sen timent appears equally to divide. Some say Boies, some say Bland. Each will have a 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 Boies that be has carried Iowa and would again. Some even argue that free silver Repub- lioans, such as Dubois and Carter of the senate, would support a Democrat of the Boies tribe If Tell CT 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, Is to l. 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.
 Bland's supporters argue that Missouri is now Republican state. That situa- tion must be faced, they say. and they need Bland to face 1t with Being na- tive Kentuokian, they say Bland would run like a scared volt on the Dark and Bloody Ground, and being a Southern man, they argue, he would win back Maryland, a feat beyond the reach of Boies. So the argument wags. But on every hand Bland and Boies are heard from.
 The gold standard Democrats have picked up some courage and declare that they will utilize the two-t thirds rule to prevent the nomination of an avowed free coinage ticket. The talk of compromise is also heard among the leaders of the op- posing factions. In this connection the names of Colonel William R. Morrison of Illinois and Campbell of Ohio are heard. Each has the confidence of boi h 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. It 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 letter read In the Chicago con- | vention- It will say that he has never | been for a third term, doesn't want and | wouldn't take a nomin ation. It will also | deal at length with finance as a question, declare uncompromisingly for gold. tell the Democracy that destruction awaits 1. if it persists in Its free silver to 1 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.
 It is not understood to be a bid for 6 third term. But wiseacres declare that | Cleveland looks forward to the possibility of 8 nomination four years from now, ir 1900. and that this letter is intended tc 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 hs did eight years ago with tariff as the in. spiration.