The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK AS
VIEWED BY WASHINGTON COR
RESPONDENTS.

THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK AS
VIEWED BY WASHINGTON COR
RESPONDENTS.
Washington, April 20.-The fog is lift
ing. The c~ertainay Of McKinley's NOM
ination has started the band-wagon
crowd. With the exception of Colorado
and, possibly Montana and Utah, thu
the Western Republicans are ready to
surrender to the Napoleon Of "Protecs
ton"
The Southern Democratic scheme now
is to deadlock the convention and pre-
vent the nomination of a gold candidate
The silver faction counts confidently on
a small majority, and a deadlock is pref.
cradle to a bolt. If the deadlock scheme
works the silver faction will hold a sept
arate convention and nominate Boies and
Blackburn, or Bland and Tillman, on a II
to / platform. But silver men can b(
found who doubt the election Of thu
ticket. It will lot sweep every state
west of the Mississippi and South of thu
Potomac by a good deal.
Will the deadlockers come up to theil
expectation? That's the rub. Mr.. John-
son, treasurer Of the national silver party,
says that "the gold faction will control
both the old party conventions. It will
show it's power at Chicago by adopting
the two-thirds rule. The silver votes
necessary to pass it will be forthcoming,
in the usual way, on the pretext that 1t
can be used to deadlock the convention OF
compel the gold faction to submit to the
nomination of a silver candidate. In the
end there will be unconditional surren-
der.,'
If Doodle is at the bottom of the Nc
Kinley movement, Doodle may defeat him
at st. Louis.
The gold people, the business men,"
the bankers, the railroad people, the cor
porations and big trusts, it is said, don't
want IN tariff legislation this rear or
any tariff changes next year,. This may
give Cleveland a show.
The money necessary to do it can be
raised on Wall street in two hours.
Speaking of the national silver move
ment, Mr.. Johnson said that the dele
gates will go to St. Louis on the 22d
Of July from every state in the Union.
The Peoples party, he apprehends, will
demand the candidate for the presidency
as a condition of fusion on silver. He
sees no disposition on the part of the
Peoples party to make the fight on the
single silver issue. When the fact that
the silver party had nc organization was
called to his attention, and would not be
in a position at St. Louis to dictate either
candidate or platform, he admitted that
that was true, but, he said: We've got
enough votes to elect the next congress
and deadlock every appropriation bill un-
til silver legislation is secured"
Mckinley will be the Republican can.
didate. Wall street has no object in de-
feating his nomination. Certainly it will
no displease the manufacturers. Whit
ney has been here this week in the in
terest Of Cleveland's nomination. He
brought assurances that Wall street pre-
ferred Cleveland's nomination, and the
Democrats are again turning to Cleve-
land as their Moses, and to the Wilson
tariff law as a possible escape from COM
plete humiliation at the coming election.
II there is any settled policy on the part
of silver Democrats to make a fight tothe
death at Chicago it is we'll concealed.
There are radical and conservative DEM
ocrats, but they differ principally as ia
candidates. The radical talk all points
to Bland, Boies and Tillman. They de-
clare their purpose to bolt the Chicago
convention. Tillman would catch the ag-
ricultural Democrats in the South as a
vice presidential candidate and would
probably carry the SouthrHatsf .ron?,O
probably carry his own state. The COM
promisers and straddlers favor Morrison,
Matthews, or Campbell. But the demor-
alization of the party prevents %concentra-
ton on any candidate and it is the policy
of the silver states, consequently, to send
uninstructed delegates to the national
convention. except as to platform. The
Populists and independent silverites are
saving wood and waiting developments.
The consensus Of opinion among them is
that the W old parties will agree on a
tariff fight against the field for currency
reform.