Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-05
TWO SILENT MEN.

BuZzard's Bay. Mass. september Su'
To Daniel G. Griffin. Chairman New AorA
Delegation. indianapolis, ma:
Nv Judgment and personal inclination
are so unalteraby opposed TO your sus
gestion that 1 cannot for moment enter
tain it. GROVER CLb' EbAND'
Thus Mr.. Cleveland answered an ap-
peal to him to allow his name to be pre-
scented to the boilers convention Tor the
presidential nomination.
Read the telegram closely and you will
see that 1t is carefully worded and COM
mits Cleveland to nothing-except not TO
ACCEPT a nomination. Whether ne sym
pathlzes with the boilers or not he does
not say. Perhaps he was waiting to see
who the nominees would be and what
sort Of platform they would fashion.
Perhaps he was displeased at the promi-
nence given Colonel Breckenridge.
However. we expect that in idue time
Mr.. Cleveland will give his support 10
the indianapolis ticket. The Indianapolis
convention would never have been held
If Cleveland had been opposed TO the
movement. Oh. yes, the chances are It
to that he will come out against Bryan
and for Palmer and Buckner.
The silence Of David 3. Hill excites
wonder. He is claimed by both sides.
His invitation TO Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan TO
lunch with him was taken by the general
public as significant of his purpose to
support the Democratic ticket. But lately
Mr. Bryan has spoken of men who would
not announce their position in terms
which the New York World CONSTITUTES as
a hit at Hill. And at the Indianapolis
convention Colonel Fellows said that Hill
was with the boilers. and was going TO
try to bring the Buffalo convention into
line with the national boilers.
Per contra, Hill loves to say, Il am
Democrat" and he cannot say that ana
be q bolter. And well he knows that the
Democratic masses of rural New York
and Of the cities Of New York and Brook
lyn are with the eloquent and earnest
champion of the rights Of 1.-The plain
people" as Mr.. Cleveland used to call
them when he was in politics. SO we
should think that Hill would fall into line
with the Democrats Of New York state;
If he does not, 1t will be all the worse -
for Hill.
Before Bryan went on his speaking tour
through New York no one believed that
he had the ghost of a chance in the EN-
pire State. Now it is conceded that he
has a good fighting chance there. what
Hanna thinks on the subject is clearly
shown by his concentration Of numerous
great orators and many bar'ls in New
York.
Money and men Hanna is throwing
into the State Of New York most lavish
~, and it is well known that when he
went on his collecting tour through Wall
street he told his friends there that
neither New York nor the country at
large was safe unless he QIanna) were
supplied with more money than has yet
been promised him.
Indeed. we begin to fear that so much
Of Hanna's money Will be required in
New York. Ohio. Indiana, and Illinois that
the 100000 promised the Virginia Repuo-
leans and their allies will not be forth
coming. Think of an anti-Bryan cam
paign being conducted in Virginia without
money! Why. the opposition would be
struck with political paralysis and die at
once. Yes. take away the influence OF
money and great corporations and the
anti-Bryan opposition in the Old Do
minion would not have a foot to stand
upon.