Evening star., 1896-11-28
PRESIDENTS VIEWS
Mr.. Cleveland on the Future of the
Democratic Party.
BLUNDER At CHICAGO NOT FATAL
To Whom He Looks to Accom-
pIish Reorganization
HOPE FOR RETURN TO POWER

President Cleveland, in a recent CONVEX
sation with a democratic politician of
prominence, detailed at considerable length
his views upon the future of the demo-
cratic party. Upon this occasion the Presi-
dent is said to have talked freely and feel
ingly, and gave his auditor the impress
sion that when Mr.. Cleveland retires from
official life he will not by any means lose
his interest in politics. 7 or his solicitude
for the party at whose head he stood for
so many years.
No embargo of secrecy was laid upon the
conversation which the President held with
the gentleman who thus reports it, and
no confidence is violated in making public
the Presidents personal views upon the
matter
The Blunder ut Chicago,
1t is said that while the President be-
lleVes that blunder was made by the
leaders who controlled the convention at
Chicago last July, he is hopeful that many
Of the men responsible for that action will
be convinced of their folly in the near
future. He expects to see the organization
brought back into the true democratic
path. and he is confident that the party, by
repudiating at the first opportunity the
doctrines proclaimed at Chicago, can quick
ly recover much of the ground lost in the
keenly appreciate the position occupied by
thousands of democrats in every state of
the Union who. having no sympathy with
many OF the declarations of the Chicago
platform, supported the Bryan ticket on
the ground that 1t nominated by a
democratic convention regularly called and
held. At the same time ne heartily justi-
fies the action of the sound money demo-
Gratis. who, putting patriotism above parti-
sanship for the time being, rejected both
the ticket and platform of the Chicago
convention and cast their ballots for either
Palmer or Mckinley.
Looking to the Regulars.
1t Is to those democrats who followed
Bryan colely on the ground of Regularity
and to their brethren who organized the
movement leading up to the indianapolis
convention that Mr.. Cleveland looks for
the reorganization and the rehabilitation
of the democratic party. He Is heartily in
favor of maintaining intact the sound
money organization which was effected at
Indianapolis. He believes. however, that
the sound money leaders in all that they
say or do should be very careful not to
give ofense to those democrats who,
though opposed to the extreme planks of
the democratic platform, were actuated by
mistaken sense of party fealty as he
views it, to vote for the nominees of the
Chicago convention. He is confident that
they will not follow the free silver ex-
tremists into The populist camp. but will
gladly come back into the democratic fold
when the parting of the ways is reached.
as 1t will be very shortly in his opinion.
The number of these democrats is much
greater. Mr. Cleveland believes. than most
persons suspect. 1t is his estimate tina; In
many of the southern states particularly
probably a third of the votes given Mr.
Bryan were cast by democrats VINO We're
influenced in registering their ballots ex
clusively by the idea of regularity"
Tho Ra li col~ vvSIl
Mr.. Cleveland is said to expect that the
radlcal element OF the party, composed as
1t is Of men who enthusiastically indorse
all the dangerous doctrines proclaimed at
Chicago, will shortly be swallowed I'D in
the popultst organization. He assumes that
they will abandon democracy when they
discover that they cannot command the
support of the rank and file of the party,
and he sees no place for them to go ex-
Gept into the populist camp. 1t is the
the better 1t will be for the democratic
party. When they nave transferred their
allegiance where 1t properly belongs ne
mocracy will be accomplished without
serious trouble. He wants the reorganfza-
ton to be effected along the lines laid
down in the Indianapolis platform, which
he regards as the embodiment of essential
democratic principles.
The President insists that 1t Is only to
the democratic party, purified and rejave-
mated as he hopes it will be, by this slough
ing-of process and by accessions from the
republican and Independent voters. that the
people can look with any degree of hope
or confidence for relief from their burdens
He thinks the greatest dangers which now
menace the country are the greed Of Or
ganized wealth and the rapacity of cor
porations. He sees in the return Of the
republican party to power no prospect of
the abatement of these evils.
His View Of the Future.
The President does not seriously appre-
hend any trouble In the future growing out
Of the money question, but he looks for
another era of high tariff, to be followed
by another period Of depression. He is con-
fdent If the democratic party will get back
into the beaten path which it followed
without deviation for clmost century, and
viii remain true to it's principles and ira
ditions, the time will soon come when the
great body of the people will again rally to
its standard and return 1t to power
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