Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-09
MONDAY, JANUARY 9. 1888.
A SECOND TERM FOR CLEVELAND.

MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1888.
 A SECOND TERM FOR CLEVELAND.
 In the slang phrase of theSday we may be deemed "too previous" in forecasting the Democratic decision of the midsummer of the year-but our justification is in the justice of what we believe to be an assured certainty Campbell tells us that looming events cast their shadows before" and the shadows that have presented themselves in indication of Cleveland's second term in the Presidency of the United States beto- ken substantially behind them which will be felt when the time of choice shall have come.
 We are not as rule in favor of second terms. The Constitution, while not pro- hibiting, evidently did rot design such a departure from it's programme of govern ment. A one term affords opportunity for the elevation in succession of a given num- Der of foremost citizens and statesmen within an ordinary lifetime; whereas a monopoly of the offices inclines to a sort of bastard imperialism. Grant had nearly run the assumption to the ground in his aspirations for third term; and his un- scrupulous and despotic rule for eight years led men, half in fear and half in fun, to refer to the great soldier, who had sur rendered his great fame to the intrigues of selfish party, as His Imperial Majesty Ulysses the First. Grants first selection was tribute to the brave man who had helped men as brave as he was, to save the Union; his second was reward for the falsifcation of his soldier record at the footstool of chicanery and corruption-of official plumber and personal greed. The proposed third term was saved, but not with any accompaniments to the credit of the Nation; for in avoiding one evil it plunged into another of even greater deg radation. The country escaped the Scylla ofvenality to be shipwrecked in the Charyb- des of fraud; and it a question whether our Republican system of government was more dishonored in the greed and guilt of Grants administration than in the turpi- tude which falsified the votes of the people for the election of Tilden, and pitchforked the unreturned Hayes into the Presidential chair by the perjuries of partizan Re turning Board. We are, we repeat, as general rule, unfavorably inclined to thu second term idea; but in the special in stance before us there is sufficient reason for departure.
 ''To the victor belong the spoils," is no an exalted maxim in morality. There Ii the meanness of motive in it which take from high achievement it's highest merit Cleveland, at the risk of mourning ill-feel ing within his own party lines, took thu bold step of recognizing public servic' rather than of rewarding personal zeal; ant to-day, however partisan clamor may de cry, there is wherever honest conviction is allowed utterance, but one estimate o his impartiality. We paraphrase the max I'm that has fallen into Democratic disfa vor, and proudly proclaim, "To virtue be longs the victory.' The virtue that res cued our administrative system from tn depths of dishonor the virtue that in tn chair of the chief magistrate placed the in terests of whole people before and be yond the demands of a mere party; tn virtue that while clinging to all the associ .| Democracy of his life-love
 .ok the fact that Republi caps% ylr individuality-a even il their political organizations - were par and Sparcel of the sovereignty committed t. his cA Are The most reputable Republican journals, the country over, pay willing ac acknowledgement to President Cleveland principle and policy; and we are pleased t. say our own city, in it's oldest paper, give instance @f the generous justice.
 But, foS still more cogent reasons thai these, we Ahus early sound the bugle-not of second term. The President ha "fiutter ed\ the Volsces" in the Corioli O capitalist cupidity; he has dared-we d not mean it as joke on the raw materia propositic As-to take the wool from th ears ands A,om before the eyes of long de luded worAkqen, and show what the pro hibitive proteation tariff of the taskmaste does as against the purchasing power o their hard d-earned{ wages; to prove that tn cry of guarding home industries simpl means the increase of the manufacturer money bags. The Presidents message wa at first startling in it's boldness and it's nov city; then it challenged calm consideration then it's unanswerable facts and figures le to an acknowledgements of it's statesmanshil and now it's justice is admitted on ever hand-by Democracy as an entirety; b Republicanism in circles earnest and hor est enough to step beyond the bounds C mere party. Our anxiety and advocacy for second term spring from desire to see M Cleveland the embodiment of the People sovereign rule when his proposed reform in our Tariff system shall have the endors' nent of legislation for the Peoples good.
 THE POPE AND THE QUEEN.
 All England is excited over the story ( probable revival of diplomatic relation between the Vatican and Westministe It is clrcumstantially stated that His Grae