The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-02-27
CARLISLE VS.. oINEY.
Between These Two Statesmen the coun-
try will Take TO The Woods.

try Will Take 20 the Heods.
Philadelphia Press: The Democratic
nomination for +Grc presidency cvokes
only the most lanGuid interest. No
body oan get mutlh excited over the
choice for an effort that 10 only forlorn
without any hope. Destined TO detea:
the DemoCEatsG candidate can serve no
other purpose than that Of preventing
the en'fee6led and broken organization
from crumbfng 10 pieces. Who shall
be selected for that o5jeut is a question
OF small moment.
Nevertheless az mere spectacle ana
n mere matter of curiosity a personal
rivalry between two members OF the
Cleveland cabinet may add TO THE gay
city OF the season. II there Is to DC
q sack race between Secretary olney
and Score tary Clrltsle. we shall be glad
10 be diverted. ms we should be by any
other entertaining show. There are
some signs % such an amusing per-
formance. Mr.. Olney has been for
maily launched. II we may change the
figure, as a Presidential candidate. AZ
the Democratic banquet in Boston llSt
week AIr. Josiah Quincy broke the bot
tie and did the christening IN style
which blended iphe scriptural solemnlty
OF JJfEul NSp1l lite AlIuN1lSSa oha
o. Quincy.
Now this "a not to be treated as a
mere passing and unmeaulng episode OF
the moment. Mr. quincy Is not mueh
OF u civil service reformer except IN
pretcIsion. but he Is good deal OF
DemOcrltIc chleftain. In the state de-
pantment he looted the consular service,
and this makes him q leader after me
Democratic heart. He has been elected
mayor of Boston. and his is the sep.
uichral voice and dds the hErsute hand
OF Massachusetts Democracy He Is NOT
nominating Mr.. oluey for President IN
any careless or accidental or tnc0nsid-
crate way. He mems something by u.
He thinks he Is speaking for somebody
and moving toward something. IT was
natural that his ostentaious nomination
should be taken In many quarters as
eliminating Ex-Governor Russell from
the field and as signifying that Mr.
Olney IL an aspirunt with the admins
traL.ion behind him.
BUS lust here comes the query and
the doubt. Mr.. Oiney Is no sooner
launched than Mr. Carlisle appears on
the stocks. He was dined in New
York last night and Is to be received
tonight. His sponsor Is q federal OIL
cIal who represents the administrators
as faithfully and devotedly IN New
York as MI Quincy does In Boston.
This elaborate and ostentalous demon-
stratiOn has not yet eveutuated tn a
nomination OF Mr.. Carlisle as distinct
and formal as that OF Mr.. olney at the
Boston feSsiYity: but It Is well under.
stood that the successive functions OF
which Mr.. Carlisle Is the chief and cen-
ual figure are designed and carried
out for the purpose OF bringing him
forward as a presidential candidate.
THE private LISTERS which have re-
enforced the formal invitations have
made this scheme entirely clea-. Il has
deferred some and 1t he's attracted
Others. There are a1anc!ers in New
York who are not disposed to lend theiF
countenance to his financial manage
mont and there nrc others who are not
ready to sanction a movement TO place
him in the field for the presidency, Z.
II this IS 10 be a struggle within the
Dcmocrutic fold between Mr.. Olney and
Mr.. Carlisle. most OF us Will take the
entirely neutral and !n,partia! attitude
OF the woman in the fight between her
husband and the bear. Mr.. olney. It
is 90 be supposed, will ruH on the plat
form OF panlcky domestic policy. Be-
tween the two the country will take to
the woods: and even as TO the Democ-
racy II Will probably accept neither,