Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.

Tlie Democracy Are In a Bad Way for , a Deatjer. Apropos of the third-term gabble concerning Cleveland —where will the find an available presi- j dential candidate other than he? Campbell is no longer a possibility, i The. Ohio election settled that. , Nor is Gorman in the line of party promotion.“No” sane demoera4'“w'-oiihi l'SlCin(a man who is the senatorial creature of the trusts, and whose state has gone republican by way o's protest against his political methods: Carlisle is not an available quantity. His state has gone republican. He is in accord with Clcvclnnd on the money question. He is therefore weaker than j his chief. The same thing is true of Whitney. While he shares Cleveland's views on finance, his affiliations with the standard oil trust and the rank and file of the demoeraoy would not support a man identified with the biggest trust in the world. Nor is Stevenson, the vice president, an available man. He is a nonentity. The eastern democrats laugh at him, aud in the west he has no following. “Horizontal Bill” Morrison is a figure from- the past, and the situation demands a strong, aetive man of affairs, No free silver man will get the nomination, and this cuts out Senator Morgan, of Alabama; Bland and Vest, of Missouri; Crisp, of Georgia, and a shoal of other demagogic backers of •erankism. 'y Hill, of New York, cannot carry his own state, and New York is a necessity to the democrats in order to win next year. Brice, of New York, has presidential aspirations, but his late defeat in Ohio has rendered him unavailable, say nothing of his record in the senate. Secretary Olney is a pretentious humbug, and awakes no enthusiasm in the party. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana, is several sizes too small, Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, is too sympathetic with anarchy. socialism anil similar dangerous tads. We do not take much stock in the third-term boom; but when you come to look over the field, it is plain there is not a democratic possibility who is any stronger than is Cleveland. It is this fact which alone gives the talk of renominating Cleveland any importance whatever. —Toledo Blade, KT’The chances are that the administration type of finance will rule in the democratic national convention. ’J’he recent outvoting of the free coinage democrats in Nebraska is reason enqugh to expect that result of the in ternal conflict in the party. Thut wrU mean th® virtual expulsion from the democratic ranks of so great a portion of the party in the west and south that there will bp a fair cliance for The re! publican ticket to carry every state Ir. the union. If a new silver party should win in Nevada it would at least be within the probabilities that the Candida tea of the deiuocratitc party should fail to get a Single electoral vote. That would ; be the most remarkable and interesting I wreck of a pnrty w hich had swept tlie j country only four y ears'earlier that j was ever seen in the United States. The democrats are certain to be beaten very badly, and it looks more and more as if they might be “shut out” entirely, as the baseball phrase is. Cleveland leader.