Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1887 — EX-GOV. PALMER. [ARTICLE]

EX-GOV. PALMER.

He Thinks Cleveland Will Be .Renominated and Re-elected. In a published interview, ex-Gov. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, Bays, after having a long interview with the President, that he is delighted with him chiefly on account of his superb common sense, and he adds that he is the more pleased to say this because he was not originally a Cleveland man. He went to the Chicago convention in the interest of Joe McDonald, of Indiana. The principal act of the President’s administration whicn impressed him favorably was the veto of the dependent pension bill. That, he says, was an iniquitous measure, and when the President vetoed it and therein disclosed the explanation of his present call to Washington I sent him a telegram of congratulation. I could do so consistently. I had served in the army from the beginning to the close of the war. No man is in heartier sympathy with the soldier element than I. But this bill was going too far, and so when the President set his seal of condemnation upon it, I saw we had a man at the head of the Government with a proper appreciation of what was right and what was wrong. It was a brave act, and doubly so from the fact that the pressure in favor of the bill was almost irresistible. In answer to the question who would be the choice of the Democrats of Illinois for President, Governor Palmer replied: “Cleveland, beyond a doubt. Illinois has no ‘favorite sons’ from a Presidential standpoint. I don’t think there is any question that our delegation will be a unit in his favor at the next convention.” “Will Illinois put forward a candidate for the Vice Presidency?” “It is not improbable that we may. The candidate for this place ought to be a soldier and a Western man. General Black, the present Commissioner of Pensions, would make a superD candidate. Since General Logan’s death the Republican organization is becoming much less aggressive than it was during the lifetime of that gentleman. Logan was the cleverest Republican politician in the State. He coaid always command a large soldier vote. Thousands of Democratic soldiers voted with him habitually. Now that he is gone they are ready to return to the Democratic fold and support one of our own soldiers, and we have none more prominent than General Black. Yes,” continued General Palmer reflectively, “I think with Cleveland and Black as our ticket there is little doubt of our swinging Illinois into the Democratic column in 1888.” Mark the Contrast. The protectionist journals in the United States have for months past been asserting that the system of free trade was undermining and destroying the entire industrial and commercial fabric of Great Britain, while protection was building up that of every other European state. Now, how much of truth there is in this statement may be ascertained from the fact that while the revenues of every Continental European state, without exception, are exhibiting a declining tendency and their exchequers large yearly deficiencies, those of Great Britain were scarcely ever before in so flourishing a condition. Thus, a few days since Air. Goschen, the British Chancellor, was able to report a surplus of nearly* $9,000,000 for the current year and to forecast a larger one for the ensuing year. He adds that the revenues have largely exceeded the estimates, and that there is every reason to look for a reduction of that bete noire of the English plutocratic and middle classes, the income tax.—Exchange. ♦