Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-26
PROMISING I PROMISING PROSPECTS, PROSPECTS,.
Republican Dissension May Assure
 a Democratic Victory.
How Platt, Quay, Clarkson and Manley Propose to Turn Down McKin- iey-History of the A.
 F. A. Revolt.


 There will not be 8 riot in the repub- lican national convention at St. Louis, but there will surely be what Lord Dundreary called "a wumpus and wow"
 One man of all the candidates has nanifestly been the popular choice of the republicans of the country. This fact was not apparent to the people un- til recently. It was foreseen by the republican bosses fully two years ago.
 Mark Hanna, of Ohio, has probably known something of the annoyances which result from waleful babies. Therefore, because Quay and Platt are always wide awake, he has called them political babies. He is likely to find that they have long since passed the teething age, and that they have learned the curves Of all the leading political pitchers in the republican league.
 Platt, Quay, Clarkson and Manley got together in the Arlington hotel in this city nearly two years ago, and nobody could find what they were after. Two months later Platt announced that ex- Vice President Morton would be a good candidate for the governorship of New York. The boom was started, and when Mir. Morton returned from Europe he yielded to the solicitations of his friends, was nominated and elected
 Very soon thereafter Clarkson stated that Senator Allison, of his state, would be a candidate for the presidency. Ali son kept quiet, and Clarkson kept talk ing. The result was that last year Ali son was nominated by the Iowa state convention, and thereby forestalled the possibility of any Mckinley effort in Iowa. It was good politics and wise foresight to have made this move. Ii it had not been made, Iowa might not to-day be so safely anchored to the Allison boom.
 The original conference and agree. ment Of the bosses was made more ap- parent when the Reed boom was launched, and the New England section was furrowed, narrowed, planted and watered for Reed crop of delegates.
 The republican bosses were saga, cious. They were forehanded. They knew that the other fellows were sub. seiling, and they went to work on counter mines. The result has been that the republican party to-day is g series of selfish factions struggling foI supremacy in national affairs.
 Finding that they were likely to be baked and baffled in other sections the bosses made candidates of Senator Davis, of Minnesota, Senator Cullom, o1 Nebraska. The manufactured tidal wave of the manufacturers swept owe two of these candidates, and partiall submerged the other, so that the manufacturers candidate boomed merrily along in spite of the arch plot ters and big bosses. Nevertheless the political manipulators kept on saving wood.
 There was new force and a strange clement working in the republican party It was the American Protective association. It was for Mckinley, and its force was felt everywhere. Nobody saw this and appreciated it sooner than the bosses. They did not know how tc counteract it, but they studied the problem carefully, and at last reached the solution. The national advisory board of the 4. P. A. issued a circular stating that while governor of Ohio the manufacturers candidate twas guilty of discriminating in his appointments in favor of Romanists as against Amer
 
 members of the American Protective association"
 How the bosses found it out, and how they managed to put the facts poten tialIy before the leaders of the A. r. d., must for the present be a matter ot conjecture. The fact has been aecon plished, and at last there seems to be chance for some of the favorite sons The republican managers were forceo to go to a secret society in order to accomplish their object, and that fact will play an important part in the en- suing campaign. It is one thing to get nomination; but it is an entirely different thing to secure an election The republican managers have sac rificed principle for the accomplish ment of an. end. The people understand t.
 It is an open secret that the A. P. A delegates from Michigan, Wisconsin. Nebraska and Ohio will obey the in structions of the secret order instead of the instructions which they have re. ceived from their party conventions. When this shall become apparent, in every county, in every township, and n every quarter section there will be intense republican dissensions and bit CT quarrels.
 The democratic party this year will battle with an enemy weakened with internal acrimony and vituperative foibles. With & good ticket and con- servative platform, there is no reason why the democratic party should not nchieve great victory at the polls in November next. The next president should be democrat. The democrats should control the next house of repre-.