New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-12
MR., oLyyBLA.Ds DINNER.

Mr.. Cleveland will be entertained at dinner
by the Young Mems Democratic Club OF this
city on the eth inst, and, with that event, no
doubt, his canvass for the Democratic nomina-
ton in 1892 will formally begin. The osten-
slhle object Of this gathering is TO celebrate the
momentous circumstance that Mr.. Cleveland has
decided to make his living hereafter by prac-
Using law In New-York. There is no town in
the United States where moro law can be found
to practise, and we wish Mr.. Cleveland all pos
sible success in his new occupation. But the
suggestion that the mere fact OF his coming 70
take up his residence among US calls for some
extraordinary demonstration such az his more
extravagant devotees have urged, seems to be
without adequate foundation. Ex-PresIdents
have come to New ! ork TO live before, and
have been allowed to do 70 without any beating
Of drums about it, James Monroe, one OF the
most successful, most respected and most ami
able of Presidents, who stands next to Wash
ington in the fact that he was reelected with
only one dissenting electoral vote, WAS per
mitted to come to New York to live without any
fuss being made about it, aud, for that mattel
was allowed TO die very much in the same way
General Grant, whose tomb will be the Shrine
Oh Iunb dlUSI ~ uaS DVSl 1OI bObpCu tnAI
Mr.. Cleveland was ever born, settled down
quietly in New York without any discharge Of
cannon speeches or fireworks II can hardly be-
claimed that Mr.. Clevelands public career calls
for recognition which was not granted to these
great men. The secret Of the demonstration no
doubt is that MIR. Clevelands admirers mean to
| keep him in the public eye candidate for
the Democratic nomination three years hence.
II he should succeed in obtaining that nom
nation, in the dearth Of leaders which now
affiicts his party, II would be almost beyond
precedent in our political history, and for him
| to win at the polls after having been NOM
| mated, would be an event the like Of which
| we have never seen. There are conspicuous
| instances Of men who have been beaten rs can
didates for the Presidency, but have been final
| Iy elected, such rs Jackson and William Henry
Harrison, but no man has ever been returned
| TO the Presidential chair after once leaving t.
| In fact, no man, after having failed to secure
a reelection as President, either because he
could not get q denomination, or because he was
rejected at the polls, has ever been able TO Sc
| cure the regular nomination Of his party. Mar
| tin Van Buren, was the most persistent can
| didate for the Presidency among all our eX-
Presidents, most OF whom, II must be observed
have clearly recognized the feet that Their
public careers were at an end. Mr.. Van Burer
was defeated at the polls by Harrison, Just "a
Mr.. Cleveland was, and he was never able
afterward even to obtain the united nomination
of his party. -Four years afterward he was the
| first victim of the two-thirdS rule, and in 1915
be received only a split nomination, and hat
the satisfact don merely of defeating the regular
candidate Of his own party. Mllsrd Fillmore
also came before the people az candidate, afte'
an interval Of retirement from the Presidency
but IL was as the candidate OF the American Of
Know Nothing party, the subsistence Of thu
Wing party having left him apparently without
any other standing ground. These were the
only two citizens Of Nev-York who bad occu
pied the Presidential chair down 10 the incum
bency Of General Arthur, who failed TO obtair
denomination, and died soon after his retire
ment Mr.. Cleveland may find some food TO
meditation in tbs careers Of his predecessor
from New-York.
1t Is not TO be forgotten either that Mr.
cleveland has rival for the nomination in tn
person Of thai dminusve but lively statesman