THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1871, 19 June 1888, Page 3

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

■♦ MISTAKES IN CABLING. The Press ABBoc!ation have blnndered Badly over the cablegram from Waablngton m reference to tho Presidential canvass. The election of President doea not take place till November. What haa happened la that the Democrats, m Convention Resembled, have carried by acolamitlon tho nomination of Cleveland for a second term, and endowed his policy of Tariff Reform, which will be the crucial qaeßtlon of tbe coming campaign. It wonld Boom that the Republicans are m a quandary through Blatne refusing to ro-snter tho llatu. Thty have vainly approached ex Governor Ftinford, the millionaire of Cilih r jiaand representative of tbat State m the Seqito, who ha 3 a good record aud is vcy popular on the Pac'fio Slope Tho Republican Convention have yet to mee 1 , and we hFHircl the opinion that whaa they do, they will declare for Sena'or Sherman, of Ohio, who, beaideabeing the EUcoasaful Treasurer of tho Haye3 Administration, waa a prominent candidate at his party's Oonventlona In IS^O and 1884, bat failed on both occasions to secure the nomination. — "Star." The "Dilly Tlmea" saya :— Tho telegram probably referred to President Cleveland being aelected by the Democratic Convention witbont opposition as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, and was wrongly interpreted either at Wellington or Sydney. The news about Senotor Stanford declining the Republican nomination Ib rather stale as he had definitely deollned more than a month ago.