Telegram-herald., 1891-08-28
IN ,sss.


While the Democrats may be uneer
tain as 10 whom they will nominate
for President next year, IL is certain
that the logic OF their experience
points 10 a particular individual with
whom only the victory car be secured
BY them. The last Democrat who
occupied the Presidential chair, until
the incumbency of Cleveland, was
James Buchanan. although persons
eminent in the party's councils. union
generals and others were nominated;
a variety OF principles enumerated;
and in case OF Mcclellan in 1864, a
union general was run upon the plat
form which declared the war a failure.
but all the different expedients adopted
by them were OF no avail. until their
success in 1854. This would naturally
lead a student o. political history 10
hook into the matter, and find, il pos
vented Democratic success in the inter-
val between Buchanan's administra-
ton and that OF Cleveland. We do not
intend 10 enter upon a lengthy and
or may not have prevented Democratic
success in that interval, which would
call out differences OF opinion, upon
which. perhaps, no two persons might
exactly agree. There would seem to
be no special concentration of various
circumstances which contributed TO
the election OF both Buchanan and
Cleveland. or which defeated Demo
istrations- But there was one point
OF similarity between Buchanan and
Cleveland which, il IL had been for this
point only. unsurrounded by any other
circumstances. might have been deemed
a mere coincidence. but fortified By
events. which occurred previously and
subsequently TO Cleveland's admins
tration, may be more than a passing
coincidence, not TO be taken into con-
sideration. What. then, was this point
OF similarity between Buchanan and
Cleveland? 1t is n similarity which
once existed. but has no longer an ex-
isterce. In short Buchanan was a
batcheIor when he was elected Presi-
dent and remained so until his death.
and so was Cleveland when he was
elected President. but during his term
OF office he took unto himself wife.
The point OF similarity is that they
both were bachelors when elected
President. This may seem trivial TO
a person who bestows no thought
upon the subject. But do not events
which occurred permit person In pre-
dieting something more than an empty
theory upon this batchelor business?
In 1850 the Democratic party put
the Little Giant. OF Illinois, and other
nominees into the field all married m n.
but none OF them were successful. and
a man. who was then comparatively
unknown. but whose name and fame
are now world wide, was placed at
the head of our nation. And so it con-
tinued from that time on until 1876.
the Democratic party making its nomi-
nations from the ranks of married men.
taken from civil, military and various
oallings In life, with no avail. one in
1S72-poor Greely-being taken from
the Republican party. But he could
not stand the associations of the
Democratic party, and for his rash.
fll considered act. he paid the forfeit
OF his life. In the year 1876 the Demo-
cratic party nominated Tilden, OF New
York. Now who ever saw n Demo-
crat who did not claim, by all the old
horn spoons, that Tfiden was not the
rightful President OF the United States?
Ard perhaps II he had put little more
futile dalliaace" in Oregon, he might
have occupied the White House. But
n ne were elected President. what
broke the Democratic record. and
made him successful Why. he was a
batchelori The next nominee was a
married man. and he failed OF election.
Cleveland was nominalty lawyer,
but actually the sheriff and common
hangman OF Erie county, New York,
but being a bachelor he was elected
Governor OF New York By nearly 2Oo,-
600 majority. Then tn 1884 he was
nominated and elected President. In
IsSs he was re-nominated for Presi-
dent. and great endeavors were made
20 elect him. but Tchabod was written
eli over these endeavors. his Sampson
locks were shorn. and his tenancy Of
The White House ended in the spring OF
1SSa. VIII any Democrat admit that
there was any good reason why he
should have been defsateds But they
will have 20 admit that he was not
hatcheior when he ran for the Presi-
eency the second time. II would seem.
then. that the Democratic party. like
the renowned Mrs. Bardell, must look
- single gentlemen. and who fills the
bin better than that duplex Governor
senator. David p. Hins Haven't the
events here hurridly grouped demon
strated that hs Is the only one 20 lead
the Democratic hosts IN 1892. who has
anv show of slecess7
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