The San Francisco call., 1896-06-17
A MERRY DEMOCRATIC ROW.

Although the st. Louis and Sacramento
conventions have monopoly OF the atten-
| tion of Califo rnians new developments of
trouble in the Democratic party's National
organization are not to be lost sight OF. A
new explosive in the shape of Boies inordi-
| nate jealousy OF Teller has been hurled into
the camp, and there is great confusion and
loud swearing as the consequence. The
| old mossbacks continue to insist that
| Boies presumes when he essays to put
| him self at the head of the procession ;
that he devoted the energy and strength
OF his middle life to abusing Democrats;
| that he is a Democrat only because the
Republican party refused 10 measure him
by his own estimate of his greatness, and
that while his conversion to Democratic
principles may be all right his apprentice
ship has not been long enough to make
HIM a capable boss for the whole job.
The anti-Cleveland ring of the party in
Iowa is so hungry for Office that it is max
! ing altogether too much of Boies for its
own good, but that fact has not been dis
covered yet, except by those who had oc-
casion TO face his tactics and his inordi-
nate egotism when he was r publican
DOSS III d way. n year MI
Boies announced that he should re-
fuse to serve as a delegate to the
National Convention. Later on he
concluded that he might be induced to go
if the party thought it could not get
on without him. After few months he
expressed a desire to go, and finally he
announced that he must not only be q
| delegate and head the States delegation,
but that he should be candidate for the
| nomination. He Is now in that peculiar
frame of mind which makes man feel
that divinity ordered him in the begin
ming to accom- pIish work that could not
be accomplished by any other mortal;
that indeed, if he were to die all wisdom
would die with him. This is the evolution
OF Boies ambition in one short year.
But his unfolding Oh economic lines is
equally marvellous. A year ago he advo-
Gated the opening of our mints to the free
coinage of silver, accom- panied by press
ing invitation to the other nations to join
the United States in a mon etary confer
ence. Some months later he advocated
the free coinage of silver independent of
| other countries, but retaining the parity
and interchangeable character of the two
metals.
Now he says, that as between the gold
| standard and silver mometallism with no
gold at all in circulation, he prefers the
latter. These are the several changes of
views on the money question which Mr..
Boies has INDUCED in twelve months. He
has been fairly consistent, however, on the
tariff question by giving up tariff for
revenue only" whatever that means, for
out and out free trade.
Out of this evolution of political and
economic principles there has come bound
less am bition, wide and deep self-conceit
and bitter hatred for every one who hesi-
tales to give preference in all things The
rumor that Senator Teller might he in
duced to accept the Chicago nomination
and the retilled boom for Bland have so
I'exasperated the Iowa man that he froths
at the mouth If the possibility of selecting
either one of them for the party's
tigurehead is suggested. Boies gave
a sketch to an Iowa newspaper the
| other day of the kind of a man
whom the Chicago convention should
nominate, which tallies so we'll with his
own estimate of himself tnat very pretty
exhibition of mud-throwing may be seen
all along the road that Presidential aspir-
ants are travelling Chicagoward. The latest
charge against Boies is that every time he
has been elected to office it was because of
a com bine with the ultra free whiskeyltes
on prohibition issue, which makes him
a psalm-singing hypocrite. But anyway
there is very pretty and very merry
war raging in the anti i-CleveIand wing for
and against Boies.