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Show MONDAY, ONE WEEK. COMMENCING GREAT 6AAN6E5 CONFERENCE VISITORS NEW YORK CASH STORE Will the Ichurch have the stamina to withstand the efforts of this unholy syndicate that will again endeavor to debauch Utah? Will the independent Gentiles have the stamina to repudiate a man who has prostituted himself in the mud to gain church influence? Let us see! o Cleveland paper, with Republican that is to say it is Repuball at lican times, save when Mr. Clevelands name is mentioned as a candidate, when it at once becomes serious and grave, ridicules the idea of Gorman being selected. After a matter in the commenting upon manner terrific in its gravity, it says: Few things could do more to deprive the national campaign of next year of all possibility pre-deliction- awe-inspiri- NATIONAL POLITICS. Bryan is not alone s; ng in his fight of disturbing business than the nomThe Nebraskan has ination against Gorman. Gorman. It could not found allies in what he has, hither- be said ofof Mr. him at any time that he to, designated as the enemys coun- was for he would never try. The candidacy of the Maryland start. running, over this without any man, having received an impetus attempt Passing to argue the point, Truth will through the efforts of the Atlanta say that the editor of the Commercial-AdConstitution, has caused the eastern vertiser seeips to be doing his press both Republican and Demo- full duty toward for Gorcratic to sound a note of alarm. man is not the Cleveland, man he only attempts Even the magazines have engaged in to hold to ridicule. The up the conflict. There seems to be A e o papers echo and concert of effort on the part of those this assertion on of the part the C. A. whose ideas are conveyed to the peo- The across the bridge, sings Eagle, ple through the medium of printers ink around sanctum at a furious its ink to belittle every man whose name and even the conservative rate, Times has been mentioned in connection has a few lines in which it asserts its with the Democratic nomination, belief that there are candidates more with the exception of Alvin B. Park- available than Mr. Gorman. er and Grover Cleveland. New York J Jl wants to be the battle ground, and in Editor event of the Atlanta ConHowell the candidate of her choice the is nominated, she agrees to cast her stitution, when he declared for Gorvotes in the electoral college for the man, furnished the New Yorkers Democratic candidate. Hence, when of material to which plenty upon the name of Gorman became too work. To use an idiom of the lower prominent, New York promptly he threw the boots into turned her batteries on Gorman. classes, Grover. to the movement Neither partys papers withheld their to nominateAlluding him for the fourth expressions of judgment, but on the the Constitution .said; or rathertime, its contrary volunteered them freely. It editor said, in an interview: Clevemust have puzzled the statesman at lands nomination is an utter, absoLincoln, Nebraska, to see his own lute His impossibility. candidacy, if opinions so freely reflected, in con- such a thing were possible, would nection with the discussion of the the Democratic totally disrupt organquestion: Shall we nominate Gorman, izations in s of the southern or shall we not? states, not to speak of the western Jl Jl. and other states. Up to this time a pro-- the able editors of eastern journals. The Commercial-Advertiseso-call- up-stat- re-ech- . two-third- r, ed who are so wise, oh, so wise, have claimed that it made little difference with the south who was nominated; that the southern states would go Democratic. That if Cleveland should be nominated, with New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and one other northern state, the candidate would be elected. They have argued that Cleveland could and would carry New York. That so many business men operating in New York City live in Connecticut and New. Jersey that those states would fall in line, and that a shrewd chairman would have no difficulty in capturing the vote of another state and making the victory complete. But here comes an emi- 2 what he is talking about. But it does not believe Mr. Gorman would run as well as either Cleveland, Parker, or Judge Gray in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or Indiana, it admits he would do as well as Mr. Olney, but believes, or professes to believe, that the doubt it raises should be fatal to Gormans candidacy. The paper speaks, of course, from the point of view that the Democrats should nominate their strongest man. JK Jl The staid Public Ledger of Philadelphia which is independent, with leanings toward the Democracy of the late Samuel J. Randall, thinks Mr. Gormans chances are good, and that nent southern authority with the as- he run as well as any candisertion that Cleveland is distasteful datewould who could be named. to the south and his nomination would eastraise a ruction and disrupt the party. ernAfter all said and done by the much press, the question of how No wonder the New York state painfluence Bryan has is troubling it. pers have something to write about. Beginning at the time the national Jt JK convention of his party closes, the eastern acpress takes great delight in Washington politicians claim, cording to the statements of the cor- shying bricks at the Nebraskan, but as the date for respondent of the Brooklyn Eagle, the papers cease another draws near, throwing things and who seems, by the way, to be a very to begin Just now they are speculate. d man, that when the showhow much good or harm down comes, 'New York state will cast wondering can do. Bryan Harpers sums up its its vote for the nomination of Judge conclusions in the following: Parker. He predicts that on the first Should attention be paid by a any rollcall, California will place before Democratic national convention to the convention the name of William Mr. We have Bryan's opinions? R. Hearst. Illinois will giye her vote never been counted among those who to Carter Harrison; Massachusetts make of his political imporlight will vote for Richard B. Olney; and who tance, profess to think that Maryland will name Gorman; New the Jersey will sing out for Cleveland and his Democracy would be benefited by voluntary withdrawal from the New York for Alvin B. Parker. Then there will be something doing. The party. There is only one man in the United States who, if nominated by Washington politicians assert that the Democracy, would find his prosParker will be acceptable to the south, pects materially improved should Mr. and that he is very likely to be nombolt his nomination in favor of Bryan inated. Mr. Roosevelt For every Democratic JK jl vote that Mr. Cleveland lose Harpers Weekly, commenting upon under such conditions he might atwould the Gorman boom, concedes that Mr. tract two votes from the Republicans, Howells of ihe Constitution knows and might have a possible chance of fair-minde- |