Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-23
REPUBLICAN SCHEME ES.
Bosses. Not the Voters, Will Nomi-
 nate a President.
Public Offices and the Management of Affairs to Be Completely Taken Out Of the Hands of
 the People.

pie Jhis year. They do not intend tbo, the people shall have anything 4o @ ' concerning the nominations to I,e r, . <, at St. Lotus by the republican national convention.
 Those who are observant of political affairs have noticed that Tom pIat+ of New York, Matt Quay. of Penn sylyania, and Ret C1arIson. of Iova are working hand in glove to control the nominations which are to be mads this year. Heretofore they bavo ,,a,, mltted the people to nominate nrasi. dents; and after they have been elected those presidents have not oiven such consideration to the bosses as they da- sire, and hence the managers pronosa 10 name their own candidate this lime
 Of course it is important that tbe bosses should have control of a laree number of delegates, so that they ear cast their votes in any direction which may seem most advisable when the con. vention has been called to order and nominating speeches have been made You Will observe that Tom Platt has brought out Gov. Morton, of New York for the presidency so that the solid vote of that state will be cast for Morton nm der the direction of Platt. In Penn. sylVania it was difficult to find any man for the presidency uponwhom theentire Pennsylvania delegation could unite; so, as a last resort, Senator Quay permit. ted his name to be used as a presidential candidate; and therefore the solid vote of Pennsylvania will be cast primarily for Quay, but seeondarily, under the direction of Quay, for some other can didate. It will next be noticed ghat Boss Glarkson, of Iowa, nearly a. wear ago brought out a candidate in the person of Senator Allison, who will not only command the vote of the state of Iowa, but will have a number of delegates from other states.
 It became apparent recently that Maj. Mckinley was likely to have a number of votes in the state of Illinois and so it has been determined that Senator Cullom shall be brought out as 2 candidate to prevent Mckinley from getting votes, with the ultimate inten- tion of having the Illinois delegation cast solid vote for Allison, or some other candidate yet to be determined upon by the managers.
 There are three other republican can didats in the persons of Reed, of Maine; of Mckinley, of Ohio, and Davis, of Minnesota and all of these candidates are independent of the bosses Of the republican national committee. Each one of them stands for himself and his own individuality. It is the determina- tion of the managers of the republican national committee that neither Davis, Reed nor Mckinley shall receive the nomination; because each of those prominent republicans is of independ- ent spirit and character, and would not submit to the domina- ton of political managers after he should reach the white house. After all of the work which has been done, and which is being done now, and which is to be done by the repub- lican manipulators, even if they should succeed in nominating the man of their choice, it will yet be long way off be- fore election day, or before they can secure the success of their ticket.
 Until very recently 1t has been as- stunned by well informed republicans that the legatee of the triumyirate would be Senator Allison. It has long been well known that he is preferable to the others in the eyes of the big pc litical manipulators who have deter mined to control affairs this year.
 But since the announcement by Sen ator Quay that he will be candidate for the presidency there has been de- eided lull in the Allison stock. Senator Quay is not only political manager of great astuteness, but he is a very plain, direct sort of man, and never yet has deceived the people of Pennsyl- yania concerning any public object. Upon all occasions when he has been candidate for office he has announced frankly to the people what he wanted. and then went to work to secure 1t. The prevailing impression is that Sen ator Quay did not announce himself as a presidential candidate until he had looked all over the field and had reached the conclusion that he would be warranted in making an effort to SC cure the prize. Therefore, those who suppose that MT. Allison is to be the fesiduary legatee of the combine may find themselves mistaken when the convention meets. Senator Quay is not in politics for fun. but always for his own self-interests.
 It will be difficult to predict the out come with any degree of accuracy. l. is probable, however, that the bosses have decided to make a strong effort first to nominate Senator Allison; in event of tho failure in that effort 10 secure the nomination of Quay, and IF the event of failure to make success ful combinations on the Pennsylva- nian. they are to turn to New York and endeavor to nominate Gov. Morton.
 When in New York q couple of days ago 1 met several of the Platt mana gers, and they are showing figures and names of delegates from southern S1atac v.4h;ol i,edioat., that Morton IS 10