The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-07
0FVEY BOOM
WAS NIPPED
in THE BUD.
.,,ss a Frosty Reception from
'',' p,tb Democrats and Republic
cans at the Capital
SCHEME OF JOHN R. MLEAN
,,s Cleveland Crowd to Defeat
ADD Ds,Son-Mrs. Dewey More Ans
bitious Thar Tactful.

n,,,o,eh to the Intelllgencer.
spes',. I,., ,,sgTSGToN. NJ. D. c.. April 6.-No-
", outside a limited circle knows
what 1 influence was brought to bear
., "1 Admiral Dewey to compel the
.',.n,,, 'r o, his candidacy for the Presi-
HU"" ,., and those who know Will not
..n asDII, The reception which the announce
.,,, .or, received here, however. is frosty
nt,, .so extreme, Democrats and Republl-
" -, oI,Eo regarding his nomination by
.',.o -o,nIor political organization as ut
.,, I,' ont Of the range of possibility,
'',' ", ,roso who admired the Admiral for
,so ,.' wonderful NJ record he made, in Ma
"W, Via Raw content themselves with ex-
D....,nr n.~ regrets, The opinion IS openly
',.ossoa rs, By many that Mrs. Dewey is
sAp, .,.s more ambitious than is her hus-
So,d @ and that she has been a factor
y, ya',+, ,bs moyement to secure his public,
r,,nntary ,r M expression of consent to
mnxe the race. 1t is derisIvely stated
,Sat @ tbe Dewey boom started at an af-
,.rnoon tea.
Dewey A Novice in Politics.
,5mIrol's Dewey's achievements
,ars lost none of the original lustre.
"s5 tho people will ever remember
them with gratitude.
The hero Of Manila Bay is a novice
IN nolIucs however and 1t is painfully
manifest in the fact that the declara-
lion Of his intention to so after the
rrs.Idepcy and the partial platform he
made public, are treated with almost
brutal rldicule.
81 much for the initial proceedings.
Tho delivers after the real motive in
,be matter profess to have discovered
# They have put this and that to-
rstber and have evolved the conclus-
lon that Dewey was selected by the
ond.Bryan Democrats as the only man
who could be depended upon to beat
,be Nebraskan in the convention at
Kansas City.
Scheme Of the Mclean Crowd.
The Whitney Cleveland -Gorman
crowd of eastern Democrats is said to
have conceived the plot, and Mr.. John
r. Mclean is named as the agent Sc
lscted to secure the admiral'S consent.
II is said, also, that the platform to be
urged at Kansas City was or is confin-
ed largely to the protest against Tex
ecutlve dictauon": for an absolute sep
aratlon Of the legislative and executive
branch of the government and con-
fning the Presidents duties to the ex-
ecutIOn Of the laws. This was fore
Bhadowed in Admiral Dewey's inter-
view, wherein he stated that the Pres
indent has no right to dictate to Con-
gress, etc. The plan OF the scheners is
said 10 have been and may still be, to
secure enough votes to deprive Bryan
Of the requisite two-thirds, then so into
wrangIe over the platform, and in the
event Of failure to stampede the con-
VentIon, to bolt and place Dewey in the
field as an Independent. Color is
given to this view by the determined
efforts in certain sections, including the
District OF Columbia, to secure unin-
structed delegations to Kansas City.
That the Bryanites suspected some
thing is attested by the notice served
upon all Democrats everywhere by
the national committee to insist upon
Instructions OF delegates.
The PlOtters Have Blundered.
But the plotters have blundered and
the slight respect shown the r1ention of
Dewey's name has the present effect Of
retardIng the boom. What Will occur
after the publication of Dewey's post
script, which he promised to make pub
lie later on, remains TO oe seen.
Admiral Dewey up to the time OF
making public his desire TO be Presi-
dent was almost universally .egarded
as holding to the Republican Views Of
politics. The hesItatlng, haltlng Ray in
which he recently declared himself to
Dc Democrat is remembered with
amusement He is an cxpunsionist
and has gone on record as indorsing
'Ae Presidents courec In the Philip
zines The ultra Democrats, notwIth-
mndIng their Willingness to grasp at
anything which gives any promise OF
Success, have gone too far along the
'o'd blazed by Bryan to retrace their
l'sps and cannot II they would, get
~ the Dewey band wagon. A split in
me Democratic convention and Dewey,
s' a" independent Democratic candi-
uate, ggnms tbercrnr, tn b,. tb. ,,,t,,