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The Commoner.
VOlitMB 3, NUMBER 20.
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Rungo (Tox.) Ngwb: Grovor Cleve
land can invent moro ways of saying
"yes" than any man in the Unitod
States.
Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel: And
neither will ho bo permitted to again
tear tno democratic party in two and
glvo his faction ovor to the republi
cans.' There will bo no moro tearing
cithor for or by Grovor.
Carrollton (0.) Chronicle: Mark
Hanna has announced ex-President
Cleveland for the democratic nomina
tion in 1904. Mark has been consid
erably dazed since Tom Johnson left
bo many hammor marks on him.
Hillsboro (Tox.) Record: Grovor
Cleveland's brand of democracy won't
wash in southorn democratic waters.
His affection for Wall street money
brokers, as oxhiblted in his bond is
suing fondness, is yet fresh in the
minds of the people.
Chilton (Wis.) Times: In accord
ance with the teachings of tho "hon
est money" party oxperts who thor
oughly understand tho art of boodling
should be called in to frame laws to
Btop boodling. Wall street was called
when financial laws woro needed.
Sulphur Springs (Tex.) Democrat:
The Cleveland boom for president In
1904, started by the Brooklyn Eagle
and Now York Sun, is said to havo
Grover's approval. Down hero in
Texas It looks smaller than "30 cents"
just about tho sizo of a rat's tail
stuck in a mug.
Hastings (Mich.) Journal: Clovo
land says ho has no desire to run for
prosident, but will ho accept a nomin
ation is tho question. Perhaps ho
could bo induced to lead a forlorn
hope, if the consideration could b?
made largo enough. He would stand
about as much chance of election as
Greoley did.
Lamar (Colo.) Sparks: General
Miles' report on conditions in the
Philippines does not reflect much cred
it on tho army or the administration
It is easy to understand now why tho
bureau officials at Washington were
so anxious to deprive tho commanding
general of all power and keep him at
home.
Fulton (111.) Journal: Tho repub
lican editors who worked overtime in
their endeavors to got tho Cleveland
boom started so that It could waik
alone after '.'pointing with pride" to
bis past record now "view with alarm"
tho action of tho national democratic
committee who repudiated Grover in
a most heartless manner.
Falrhavon (Wash.) Times: We,
who have bragged so much about our
watch-dogging of tho western hemis
phere, and about our aloofness from
European "entangling alliances," havo
as little business in tho jackal skirm
ish in China as a flea on a flywheel.
Wo have better sons oven though
our conscience bo warped and wob
bled by the worst end of "successful
conqudst"
Blackfoot (Id.) Democrat: How
ever much tho passing of time may
vindicate Mr. Cleveland's former ad
ministrations, he can scarce expect to
occupy a place in his party's counsels.
Ho Btands convicted of bolting and
It is scarcely probable that with such
a record he would stand any show in
the convention. In addition to thte
Mr. Cleveland has not tho sort of a
record on the trust questloh that west
ern democrats will insist their candi-
dato havo In the next campaign. As a
distinguished citizen and ex-president
the people will always bo glad to wel
come Mr. Cleveland; and his splendid
stand on tho Monroe doctrine will go
down in. history as one of the big
things of tho century, but as a presi
dential candidate the people have had
quite enough of Grover.
Mesquito (Tex.) Mesquiter: Grover
Cleveland has been acting of late like
a prospective candidate for the presi
dency. Whatever else may be said of
him it can not be said that he is i
fool and he is probably wise enough
to know that tho democracy wouk'
not nominate a man they had twice
honored with that high office who af
terwards went fishing on election day
when the party needed him.
Terrell (Tex,) Times-Star: Grove
old boy, is all right on the negro ques
tion, but oh my, how far he Is off
when it comes to other questions that
affect the people more than the negro
question. Ho Is a goldbug, a pluto
crat and a trust man of the deepest
dye. Ho is the man that assisted Mc
Kinley to the presidency. He cannot
expect anything from tho hands of
true democrats that fight the battle?
and vote the ticket. ,
Antlers (I. T.) News: The friends
of Mr. Cleveland who are trying to
nominate him for a third term know
that a majority of the democratic par
ty dislike and distrust him. They fig
ure on impressing upon these people
their idea of Mr. Cleveland's avalla
bllity. The position is an immoral
one, held, largely, by men who con
demn the "politician" as such, while
thoy aro working to place selfishness
ana spoils above principles.
Paragould (Ark.) Soliphone: The
democrats of the United States will
in due season, present a ticket that
will be worthy the support of every
true democrat and the platform will
appeal to every lover of liberty and
country. The retirement of Mr.
-Cleveland will not be disturbs hv
any call to leave the classic shades of
Princeton to lead them. The demo
cratic hosts will seek a "Jonathan"
and not a "Methuselah" in the year
1904 to lead them to battle and victory.
Christiansburg (Va.) Messenger: It
will be in vain for the democrats who
aro now advocating Grover Cleveland
for tho next dempcratic candidate to
attempt to foist him upon the demo
cratic party. Cleveland has had his
day as a politician, and no amount of
panygoric will reconcile him to the
rank and file of the people as their
candidate. The people have not such
short memories as not to remember
his last term in office. No amount of
praise appeals to their hearts or judg.
ment .
Jerseyville (111.) "News: The reor
ganization, or republicanization still
goes blithely forward. Of course it
does not get far beyond tho bunch of
gold-bug Cleveland admirers and the
press In the pay of Wall street, but
democrats should remember that this
outfit, through its great vonal press,
speaks daily to millions of people,
and as patent as is its purpose to run
oumu mun ukq uorman or Hill to
make tho election of tho republican
candidate absolutely certain, the ory
of "harmony" will deceive many dem
ocrats. Locally, reorganizing gold
buggery has had things entirely too
much Its own way. It has sot up it
pseudo-democracy as, the genuine dem
ocracy too long. Its dominance local
ly may not greatly effect the prin
ciples of the party at large, but it
should bo "batted" as an example and
an instruction, for, brethren, these,
counterfeit democrats are far more
hurtful to the cause than republicans
can ever be. When these men talk"
"harmony" remember that they ara
the same gang who disrupted and de
feated the democratic party in 189G
and 1900.
Prescott (Ariz.) Courier: The dem
ocratic party is in need of a big
grubbing vLoe to grub republican lead
ers out of its ranks. This thing of
talking democrat, voting republican,
and running big corporation trains
over and through, democratic plat
forms will not, can not, pass for dem
ocracy. It is about time to commence
to wont tho grubbing hoe, sound thtf
fire alarm, and put an extra million
or so candle-power in the beacon of
the democratic light house.
Olney (111.) Democrat: President
Roosevelt was once a free trader, but
has since learned that "the doctrine of
extreme protection is essential to tho
life of his party, so after trying to
be that Impossible thing, a free trade
republican, he settled down into u
protectionist of the most advanced
typp,. and insists upon maintaining the
existing exorbitant rates of duty
which are so enormously Increasing
the cost of living to tho people of this
country.
Shenandoah (la.) World: In figur
ing that Cleveland will make a strong
democratic candidate because he will
get the hearty support of J. P. Morgan
and a lot of the other rich campaign
contributors who don't like President
Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Eagle, and a
lot of the other aristocratic demo-re-publican
papers of the east forget that
there are moro real thorough demo
crats in the west than J. P. Morgan
could control in a thousand years,
democrats who will not stand for tho
republicanization of the democratic
party even by the latest improved
Cleveland process.
Sidney (la.) Herald: The Brooklyn
Eagle, the champion of Grover Clev?
land for president, has not supported
a democratic state ticket in New York
in the past twelve years, says the
Brooklyn Standard. Neither did it
support the national ticket in 1896
and 1900, and this is the kind of pa
pers that are trying to dictate who
the democratic party shall nominate
for president In 1904, but no true dem
ocrat or democratic paper will be led
or Influenced by such wolves, but they
turnlsh a little "sop"- for republican
papers to dish up political news from.
Neligh (Neb.) Yeoman: The Brook
lyn Eaglo Is booming Cleveland for
the presidency with wonderful per
sistence and vehemence, claiming that
he needs no platform, being a plat
form In hlmBelf, his record speaking
for him. This is lamentably true. His
record should be sufficient. It is rank.
"It smells to heaven." It claims also
that his leadership is called for by
democrats of the east, south, north
and west The Omaha Bee, though a
republican organ, states tho condition
in tho west with as much accuracy aa
it can well be stated when it says:
ou iur as mo republican party la
concerned, it would heartily welcome
the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, who
would be more easily beaten than al
most any other man who could bo se
lected as tho democratic standard
bearer next year." The keen eye of
the Eagle may have discerned a de
mand for Mr. Cleveland not visible to
others, but wo can assure it there is
no such demand heard in this section.
It is safe to say that not one western
democrat in ten desires the ex-president
as the party's candidate in 1904.
Benton Harbor (Mich.) Times: Tho
impression that he could carry New
York because Wall street is dissatis
fied with the present incumbent, and
has confidence in Clevelatfd, would
mean that because Mr. Roosevelt was
aiding the democrats in storming the
citadel of combines, the democratic
party will desert the people's cause,
and under a leader whom they repu
diated in other days, help the com
bines. Such fool logic usually ema
nates from some unreliable political
windmill and if Grover Cleveland is
ip, his dotage, he may be influenced by
its seductive zephyrs, and be lured f.o
his political destruction.
Dayton (Wash.) Courier-Press: Let
those who wish to become registered
onMhe'roll of faithful democrats ab
jure instantly this mushroom third
term talk and combine in the great
patriotic duty of bringing all wise op
ponents of republicanism into a solid
phalanx. Then it should be easy for
the imminence of victory to produce
the man o the hour the democrat
whose record as such is unquestion
able, whose loyalty to the party in
any event is unimpeachable, and
whose wisdom, prudence and patriot
ism will guarantee hinuto honest re
form voters as the Cincinnatus of tho
first national emergency of the twen
tieth century.
Ukial (Utah) Dispatch-Democrat:
While the American people are, en
thusiastic and progressiver they aro
also practical. More than that, wheu
given time to cool off after an ebuT
lltlon of enthusiasm evolved under a
misapprehension, they are eminentlv
inclined to be fair-minded and just.
It is already demonstrated that the
Islands are costing us more than they
are worth, and it is fast being proved
that our experimental government Is
not suited to the races that inhabit
the islands. Nor can wo devise a sys
tem of American control which will
fall in with the modes of thought of
the Filipinos. Such attempts have al
ways failed, and, in tho nature of
things, must always fail.
Benton (111.) Standard: There is
some talk now of old Grover for the
democratic candidate for president
next year. Why? Tho men who are
wot king up the Cleveland boom are
all, or nearly all, men of the John P.
Hopkins stripe, who worked and voted
for McKinley. Grover Indirectly did
all ho could for MnKinlev. There is
no difference between Cleveland and
McKinley In policy. The men behind
Cleveland claim that tho men who
stood with Bryan were not democrats,
that they went off and voted with tho
populists. What Is Cleveland's party?
Palmer and Buckner. They did not
get votes enough to even get on a tick
et by petition. Most of the Palmer
and Buckner men voted for McKinley.
Will such men dictate to tho 6,500.
000 votors who stood with' Bryan?
Nay, nit If Cleveland should be nomi
nated he would be worse beaten than
Palmer and Buckner. We want no;
third-termers. Tho leaders of tho
democratic party would not stand for
CWeland, He turned the democracy
down when h was president Th
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