Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-03-11
NATIONAL POLITICS.
MANDERsoN's IDEA.

Omaha.-Gen. MandersOn has returned
from Washington. He said: "Those who
keep their fingers on the pulse of the po-
litical public say it is growing more and
more certain every day that neither Mr..
Reed nor Mr.. Mckinley can be nominated
by the next convention of the Republi
can party. In that event it is felt sure
that the nomination will 60 to Il western
man. Among the western men the con-
test will doubtless be between Senator
Allison, Senator Davis and myself"
aOLDITEs Will. STAY AWAY.
Washington.-Neither Senator German
nor Senator Brice will 60 to the Demo
cratic national convention at Chicago.
This decision of two of the foremost lead
ers in the party has given rise to con
siderable discussion as to the effect which
their absence will have upon the Demo-
cratic platform.
1t has been the case in the past that no
matter how the majority might be dis
posed to act upon questions of national
interest, the shrewd managers, like Cor
man, Brice aud Whitney, have been able
to bring the rank and file of the party to
their way of thinking. Their calm and
conservative counsels have prevailed -ex-
cept in the one instance when carefully
prepared tariff plank was smashed and in
its stead was put an and.out free trade
declaration. But this was done, it will be
remembered, in the hope that it would
discomfort and embarrass Mr.. Cleveland
As the presidential nominee of the party.
It was inserted in the platform by his
enemies and not by his friends.
At Chicago the great fight will be over
the financial plank of the platform. The
silver Democrats will 60 to the conven.
declaration, believing that in such n
course lies the only plan of political sal
walton for the party. If the sound money
Democrats, like German and Drice, re.
main away, the task will be much easier
than tho silver men had anticipated.
There will be no holding the delegates in
check. New York and Pennsylvania will
be against silver, but these couple of
hundred votes may have difficulty in
stemming the silver tide. 1t is safe to
say that every southern state, with the
exception of Maryland, will send silver
delegations to Chicago. The administra-
tion is making mighty efforts to bring
Georgia into the anti-silyer line, and may
succeed, while there ars also hopes that
some of the Virginia delegates may be
against free coinage. But even should
these endeavors be successful, the fact
still remains that in the south, and also
in the states west Of the Mississippi and
the Missouri rivers, there will be an over
whelming preponderance in favor of all
yer. II is even predicted that the delega-
tion from Ohio will not be- dominated by
the fnsncial ideas of Mr.. Brice, but will
be for silver.
1t is just possible that the sound money
Democrats see the outcome, and they are
not willing to be caught in the whirlpool.
If there was any sympathy between the
president and the majority of the Demo
cratic leaders, the lattor might 70 out to
Chicago and mako the fight. As the case
now stands, however, if any obstacles are
interposed against silver at the conven.
tion they must come from the direct and
personal friends of Mr.. Cleveland. All
the other Democrats have already served
notice that they fud themselves uuavod.
ably detained athome.