Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-07
WHITNEY HAS LOST HOPE.
The Disconsolass Warwick Views tho Effect
Of clevelandism.

New York, July GA special from
Chicago to the Mail and Express says:
The seed OF 1892 has ripened into a
devastating harvest for the Democracy
| in 1896. 1t was sown in this city and
| II IL now being reaped here. AS one
reviews the personalities and the pur-
noses that dominates the crowds
Fastening to the Democratic national
convention that opens here on Tues
day. one cannot help recalling the
| hone expressed by President Harrison
after the communistic triumph through
the country in 1892 that the army Of
the discontinued then holding frequent
and threatening sessions in foreign
cities would not find a domicile on
American shores.
That army is encamped in Chicago
on this anniversary day of American
patriotism. and its ranks are hourly
increasing. 1t is bent on running a
dividing line through the nation, the
man without dollar being on one
side of 1t and the man who has earned
and saved a dollar on the other side.
This is the living. irrepressible issue
of the day as presented here, whether
we care to recognize it or not, and 1t
is being pressed by the men who are
as desperate in their methods and de-
termination as they are needless of
results to the nation.
No man more than Grover Cleveland
is responsible for the growth of this
sentiment. and the political promi-
nence of its most radical spokesman.
1t was his voice, in 1892, that made the
Homestead strike its text for arraying
labor against capital through the
country, picturing the man of enter
prise as public enemy, and profigate
and the irresponsible as the down.
trodden benefactor of his race. Cleve-
landism in that campaign went hand
in hand with the name and cause Of
Altgeld of Illinois; of PETER of Kan
sas, of Waite in Colorado, and of all
the lesser Municipalities that typified
the blind, restless and unreasoning
spirit through the land. 1t meant. or
pretended to mean, the same thing
and it's triumph at the polls was the
result of the same false and almost
criminal teachings that brought the
Western states to Populism, and placed
this great commonwealth of Illinois
under the control of man who revels
in mob rule. and who put the seal of
executive pardon on the crimes Of con-
victed anarchists.
1t seems another demonstration of
the irony of fate that William G. W nit
ney, the man who manipulated the
alliance between C.evelandism and
Populism in 1892. is today the leader of
the forces that are to be overwhelmed
and repudiated by the element which
cost him so much to create and en-
courage only four years ago. The
kingmaker of 1892 is the object of re-
vilement in 1896 Even his right to be
here as counsellor is questioned. be
cause he does not come with creden-
tials from his state.
| Nothing more singular and unusual
about this singular gathering will oc-
| cur than the arrival of Horace Boies
| from Iowa, this forenoon to take per-
sonal charge of his canvass in the
| nomination. and the coming of eX-
Congressman Bland. this afternoon,
for the same purpose. These men are
on the ground in response to kilograms
from their supporters, and their com
ing means that leadership is wanting
in the house of the white metal.
| Boies would have nothing to say
when he reached the Palmer house
and went into conference at once with
his chief lieutenants. He and Bland
are the leading silver Candidates and
| appear to have about the same num-
| Der OF votes. Bland is the favorite
with the radicals. and unquestionably
will have their support. Boies is fig
uring on Eastern support on the
ground that he does not represent the
extremists. The labor element in the
party is fighting him desperately. how
Fever. and I hear that they have also
discovered that Bland made a speech
| in Congress indorsing the calling out
of the federal troops in the Chicago
strike.
Matthews of Indiana, brought his
boom here. today. His state is solid
for him, and, tonight, a train load OF
Matthews shouters are to be let loose
in the hotel corridors to shout for the
| Hoosier Governor
The gold standard delegates have
not yet decided what attitude to take
regarding the nominations. Not many
of them will bolt the convention. if any
do at all, but it is no secret that they
do not intend to support the ticket al
the polls, and hence they show little
| concern about the candidate. 1t is
probable that they will put a candidate
of their own in the field as a place OF
refuge for their followers, but, OF
course. with no hope of nominating
him.
Senator Hill tells me that he looks
for long convention and many wran-
giles. Whitney shares this opinion
They are going to fight every inch OF
the ground until they are routed from
the field. Just what tactics they viii
employ is not yet divulged, but q
large proportion of the national ad-
ministration is here and many are yet
to come. The influence of office will
of course. be eXerted to the utmost
but up to the present time Cleveland's
subordinates have had an irritating
effect upon the silver men, and theil
presence intensifies the antagonism t.
the gold standard cause.
Not enough Of the delegates have put
in an appearance yet to make it pos
sible to outline the course which either
the gold men or the silver combination
will pursue. Many of the so-called
leaders are here the New York mer
being by far the most cOnSDicuous