The sun., 1888-01-29
THINGS WARMING UP PRETTY FAST
why Mr.. Cleveland shou,d Not ne Kenomi.
mated.


mated.
From TIE Albany Times.
The election OF President is only about
ten months away. The holding Of the party
conventions for the nomination OF candidates
for that Office and the Office of Vice-Presldent
Is hardly six months distant. 1t Is time for the
Democratic masses to mako their voices heard
as to their choice. The National Convention
should bo guided by the demands OF the voting
population of the party, and doubtless will bo
II tho demands arc placed squarely, persistent
ly, and intelligently before the members of
that Convention. Ono OF the most earnest
demands OF the great portion OF the five
or six million Democratic voters in this
country Is that President Cleveland shall
not DO renominated. The portion OF the
voters joining in this demand includes busi-
ness men, anti-free traders Thy which we mean
that large contingent OF Democrats who arc
afraid that revenue reform means free trade,,
workingmen. Irish h-Americans, Union Veterans
Of the civil war, and politicians who want party
success. There may be all sorts of arguments
with which to meet the opposition Of these
people, but there are none which will turn their
opposition into jealous support. They may
even be blinded. fatuous, unintelligent. not
alive to the great reforms which friends OF Mr..
Cleveland believe that gente oman has in his
mind. but all the same, they are voters. and
their decision In the contest before us may
easily be enough to turn the scale. ,
. The impoicies OF Mr.. Clevelands Administra-
tion have been numerous, Just as were his I'M
policies as Governor, and the latter resulted In
the the lowering of tremendous plurality OF 1872 !.
600 for him as Governor to an insignificant
plurality of 1.047 for him as President In Just
two years In the three years Of his national
administration he has done nothing to assure
to him for a second term the votes OF those rep
resentatiye business men who. organized for
him In A 1854. He has Internationally done g
great deal by his message on the tarin to split
up into antagonistic factions those business
mems and workingmen's clubs which canvass;
issue. three and hall years ago, On the
political expectancy of that message. this paper
commented rs doubter when il was issued.
II had some qualities that commanded admira-
tion, though we were soon compelled to recog-
nize Its disturbing force in a party where
recently been reinforced by the new South in
tective @ theory. Mr. Cleveland has not strength.
farmers. His Guiliord rd Miller letter in re regard
to the rights of settlers on public lands and
has been Offset in disastrous way by his COM
promise, on the Pacific l.ailroad funding scheme,
and by the curious coincidences. of Pacific Rail-
He has made no new friends among our Irish
American citizens, whose opposition in 1884
and secured his election. by the rapid political
manipulation which the State and National
Committees COMMITTEES gave to zealots oyer zeal. The
without sentiment of revolt, recall the com :
placency OF the national administration in its
rebel flag order or its It; nersistent eXaltation Of
reasoning men. and in the Grand Army
records Of this State there are $4,000
Ing the Quarter q, when the excitement existed
the politicians. it is true enough that politi-
clans no longer carry elections. The march of
reform has been SO rapid that politicians are
no longer counted as desirable factors in poru-
name or the stigma Of politicians are men who
have an acute political foreknowledRe: men
who want party success: men who sound the
depths Of the voting sentiment as q. part Of
their business, lust as n sanitary engineer in
yestigates drains and pipes. Now. take out
the oHceholders of the Administration. and
where do you find the politician willing to bet
on Mr.. Cleyeland's success, should he be re-
nominatedp
These suggestions are not fanciful nor su-
perflcial. They are the outcome of careful
observation and review Of President Cleve-
lands Administration since he entered tho
White House-free. untrammelled. independ-
ent views. We invite to them the considern-
tion Of our Democratic friends Of every party
shade and grade thrOuphOut the Union