New-York tribune., 1886-06-10
POSSIBLE RFNOMIN1TION.

President Cleyelands denomination has been
predicted by several people of late, on c1rlOusly
different grounds. One urges that, stree he has
taken wife, the hearty sympathy of the people
for the President and his young bride Will lead
to more kindly Judgment CT his acts 1t is
thought that this sympathy will bring MIN
stronger approx al of his course, If 1t proves un
popular with the politicians Another, an oD-
server so sagacious as Mr. ElIins, is reported as
saving that the Presidents nomination Is likely
to be in sured by his control of the patronage al
the South. and in New-York and few other
Northern States. Still another, OF the Ke-
formr variety, observes that a prominent
Democrat at Washington, according to accounts
in The Louisville Courier-JOurndl proposes that
Cleveland shall be bOycOtted by the Democratic
party. and left in helpless condition, as An
drew Johnson was by the Republicans, ana con-
cludes that this would insure him the delighted
support of all :he people who belong TO no
party. Now if Mr.. Cleveland is going to have
the support of all the refOrmers' because he
ressts and enrages the politicians, and OF all
the politicians because he uses his patronage to
win and control them, and OF all the people OF
hearty human sympathy because he has lovely
and loving wife, any opponents Will nave
hard time in the convention.
1t nav occur to some that the Presidents sup
port on these various theories would be a little
inharmonious, not to say inconsistent. 1t would
be hard for him, one would say, to offend the
politicians so eiiectually as to win all the re-
formers and all the people who have human
svmpathes, and at the same time to win the
politicians by his use of patronage. But that
h.. his oil ppf
1854 by the Jealous cooperation of Hubert ..
Thompson and George William Curtis, on
basis of Civil Service Reform; of Seven-Mulc
Barnum and Mr.. Beerher, OF basis OF resist
ance to corruption of Mr. Randall and Mr..
Carlisle, on the basis of a protective free-trade
reform of the tariff. Many people of many
classes chose to pull the wool over their own
eyes in 1854 why not again?
1t is true that was matter of promises in
1884; in 1883 it will be a matter of perform
ance. To promise sey yeral contradictory things
has been found easy by many slippery poll
tcians. But it will require all the ability that
Mr.. Cleveland possesses, to say the least, to do
several contradictory things. He cannot use
the patronage to secure his own nomination
and at the same time refuse to use 1t, though
possibly some refOrmers are bat-eyed enough to
be made to believe that he has performed this
miracle. He cannot win the support of poll
tcians of his party, and at the same time cap
tvate the people by enraging those politicians.
He cannot keep Garland and Lamar in the
Cabinet, and cling to the odOr of telephone and
new selling scandals, and at the same time put
these scandals far from him. He cannot please
the workers in iron mines and mills, and the
millions who are employed in industries which
depend upon the maintenance of the tariff, and
at the same time insist upon the "refOrm
which he indOrses in his letter to Mr.. Manning
the collection of the entire revenue from
duties OH " a few score articles"
That is Mr.. Cleveland's radical difficulty. He
has behind him a heterogeneous concatenatiOn
of wranging and al tagOnistic elements, which
by no possibility can be united in hearty action.
On the basis of desire for spOils the old Demo-
cratic element can be united whether free
traders or not, but not the Independent voters
who really want reform of the service. He has
put himself nearer the ultra trsde senti-
ment of the Democracy at the West and South
than any other public man living if his declara
ton to Mr.. Manning means anything. Bat he
cannot do that and at the same time satisfy
voters of New York, New Jersey and Connect