The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-15
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lie opinion.
THE NEXT CANDIDATE.

The smoke of the late battle of the
ballots had not cleared away before the
party organs were out with nomina-
tons for 1892. Almost without excep-
ton the Republicans say that General
Harrison will be the candidate four
years from now. Of course this is iCle
speculation. Absolutely nothing is
known as to Harrison's ability as an
executive. He may prove grievous
failure as President, and is very apt to
do so. It is not improbable that before
his term has run half through his party
will be as tired of him as it was of
Hayes. 1t was good deal easier to
elect Harrison this time than it will be
to elect him again, unless he should
prove eminently successful in his ad-
ministration. In 1892 he will be known,
and will be judged by what he has done
AID not by what it is hoped he will do.
1t will be easy enough for him to make
fatal mistakes during the four years,
and it will be very difficult for him to
avoid blunders.
But the Democrats are scattering
"all over creation" with their nomina-
tons. Samuel ]. Randall is mentioned
as a mighty Democrat, who stands
head and shoulders above all others in
his party. David B. Hill, OF New
York, is pointed at as the man who
must be placed in the position of his
party's leader. 1t is already urged that
he carried the pivotal State" for Gov
ernor when the State went against his
party on the national ticket. Gov. rnor
Gray, of Indiana, is being doomed as
man who can carry his State. And so
it goes. Within six months all the
prominent Democrats in the land will
be trotted out, and their special qualiti-
cations set forth IN glowing colors. But
before the convention of '92 shall con-
vene, things may be as they were
this year, when only one man
was even mentioned for the
place, and that msn vas Grover Cleye-
land. Mr.. Cleveland is either right or
he is wrong in the position he has taken
on the tariff question. The vote on the
9th inst. did not decide. 1t decided
shat the people thought he was wrong,
but not that he was in fact wrong. The
people did not know. They voted |
ignorantly, and good many of them
voted blindly through fear. There was
not time to reason with and enlighten !
them. A good deal OF teaching can be
done in four years, and there can be
much illustration.
Now, 1t seems that the Democratic
party stands committed to the plat
form upon which Grover Cleveland
went down to defeat. If that party |
shall remain true to itself and faithful |
to the cause which it has espoused and |
made It's own, four:years from now it |
will be battling for the same prir ciples
which brought it disaster on the 9th
and if it shall stand then as it does
now, how can it avoid continuing for
its leader the man who built its plat
form and shaped its policy ?
Mr.. Cleveland must change, or
the Democratic party must believe
in more or less than it now processes,
or he will naturally and necessarily be
the nominee in 1892. To take another
man would be confession of weakness
and cowar lice.
There is another thing to be taken
into account. There is not true Dem
ocrat in the land VINO does not sir
cereIy believe that the Democratic doc
trines, as set out in the st. Louis plat
form and preached from the stump
during the campaign just closed, are
progressive and progressing; there is
not a Democrat who does not believe
these doctrines will be much stronger
with the people four years hence than
they are now. If there is protesting
Democrat who does not believe this, he
must confess that the party is in error,
and his place is with the enemy. Then,
if this universal Democratic belief is
verified, what man can possibly be
more popular than Grover Cleveland
The spread and acceptance of the prin-
ciples which have just cost the disting-
uished statesman a reelection will be
an acknowledgement that he was right
all the time, and the people are in the
habit of standing by man whom they
believe to be right. 1t was because
they feared Cleveland was not right
that they voted against him on Tues
Day. Four years may convince them
that their fears were groundless. If
these years will not thus convince
hem, it may be in order to ask if II
will be worth while to continue the or J..
,anization of the Democratic party.
It seems to US that the Democratic
1arty cannot seriously think of shelving
Grover Cleveland, without at the same
.me contemplating change of base So
o its principles; and it cannot think of