Show EXlnCSIDEXT CLKtEAJtt intcnieKecI on IlninrllouofTBrlri Before Etc NASHVILLE Feb IThe American can tomorrow will contain a lengthy Interview with exPresident Cleveland Cleve-land had by Editor Cormack In substance Mr Cleveland said that he felt moro confident than over before of the triumph of 111t reform on the lines marked out by the democratic dem-ocratic party Defeat had only strengthened the purpose and Increased creased the energy of the Urifl re flirniersand confluence in tlie result of the next contest appeared t to grow a the signs distensions appeared ap-peared in Uiu protectionists ranks One of the mot serious troubles the republican party will have to encounter en-counter i the revolt of file Kcw England manufacturers against the republican policy while now several sev-eral Jforthn istern iltotesamo held ai doubtful la the republican cal umns only by reason sectional prejudice f bloody shirt 03J valiant service In Ute Mat campaign in counUracUng tho effect of the tarifl reform arguments and unless that could gain save the Republican could Repub-lican party from defeat nothing else TiE RErUOUCA of the 2tew England and Northwestern North-western Slnt who had been hoping fur a reduction of tariff duties at the hands cf the Republican party a bound to rcaliro sooner or later that such hope I vain What then will they do abut I ThtT aru already ary beginning l realize that Lbs party which persists In a course hostile to their I Interests is their enemy and tile party which Is fighting to give them whnttheywaht I their friend no matter if I does contain Confederate Confed-erate lirigadlers Cleveland said he had thought the Republican party might make hl some effort to conciliate the low tar Il sentiment in Its own ranks but the Indications now a rnksL to m t g this contrary The r leaders evidently ev-idently thought I wiser to stand by their contract with the protected manufacturers tliaii l endanger hit solidity of the rich and powerful combination which had led I E often t victory by departing 1 hairs breadth from dpng THE LETT13IOK THE BOND In Uie course of conversation the question of ballot reform was touched antI Cleveland Inter 10uclIl upon ant GeTcland Inlr rogated the editor in regard to the details of the Dortchs law in Tennessee Tennes-see Ho Is intensely interested in the question and said it was one of the mOt important reforms that had been attempted for years and Its importance was becoming greater a the assaults upon the purity of the ballot became fiercer I asked him I lib thsUght tho cause of tariff reform would profit by such legislation Honest government would profit by 11 said Mr Cleveland and so would every worthy cause The franchise it not II b dcbauehed In the interest of good lawidnd honest government It Ii by those tuio have a special aim t suhti rye at the Ilples expense and not by UIOM whose interests are in common with themuKS thai ties IsUlt Id corrupted rupted There are no rich and powerful corporations Interested iu uu lifg floater or forcing em ployes to vole for a reformation of our tarllrlaws The powers of corruption cor-ruption are cmpo > ed upon tbeotlier tI io J side and tariff reform as lo other reforms must depend upon the un bought suffrage of the eople If the people a capable of ixlfguv I eminent and are lo remain so tlicru cannot be lo many safeguards about the expression I of their will |