The Indianapolis journal., 1895-11-13
FOR A THrRD TERN.
boomcd by Omce-HoIders. Cleveland
Takes the Idea Seriously.

Washington Special in Chicago Post.
Third-terni talk Is incense to the brain
OF president Cleveland. For more than =
every possible way that he thoroughly en-
yoyeu H. NO enraptured. well-fed house
Sat s.s ever took greater pleasure In the sooth-
ing stroke or loving hands than President
Cleveland does in the administration OF
third-teiln tary. 1t cannot be spread on
,s too .nlck lie fairly purrs with satisfac-
ton and contentment when the subject Is
Mentioned to him. although Stimulating IN
sn,, ait,nrence- Many OF his best friends, orig
inalI unable TO make themselves believe
that ne was really giving the matter seri-
Gus thought. rushed headlong into print
With hct deniais that he had given OF
consideration, supplementing such denials
with volunteer statements that the idea
was dislasteful to him and that he had
stand that he looked with abhorrence upon
snrh an unpatriotic proposition.
IA turns out that all these gratuitous de-
malls were without sembiance OF authority
and that the people who professed to rep
resent the Presidents sentiments were act
Ing. entirely upon their own responsibility
aid upon wholly erroneous conclusions
Tier has not been a moment in any day
for :. wear that President Cleveland has
soiute confidence OF fatalist to the day
when his party should call on him as the
only living human being who could lead
victory. The political charlatans were the
first TO discover his appetite for third
term taify and they have fed him with a
prodieality that knows no limit. All the
political lame ducks, and. the visitors with
sAes TO grind. VINO could get audience
with ihe chief executive since Congress ad-
jour Cd have found IL TO their immediate
pes 0rai advantage to tell the great man
bHN ineispensable he was 10 the Demo-
Z RAJ Ilc. party and to the country Nothing
{ l9c ce,.d be said along that line stag
eerei his' credulity for moment or aroused
a suspicion. in his mind OF the visitors
honesty
Beyond a doubt the third-term mania
has taken a more acute turn since the
election last Tuesday. The hostile sugges-
ton that Mr.. Cleveland be given another
has been accepted i'm all seri-
ii is amusing TO see how the very people
who were so swift in denying last summers
thir 1-term gossip are becoming. converts
TO he gospel they so earnestly denounced
only a little while ago as breathing disre-
spect to the President, IL not open treason
To their recently enlightened understanding
President Cleveland is the cloud by day
and the pillar of fire by night TO guide the
Democracy out of the wilderness. With
his open enemies and his worshipping
friends working 10 give him fourth NOM
former that they may help
bury him at the polls and the latter De-
cause they sincerely believe him 10 De the
as vast and luminous truth that "Ciexe-
land for a third term has assumed the
nroportions of formidably active force
in national politics. Nothing but an eA-
plicit statement from the President can
now stop the movement. for II has taken
deep and spreading root and the ONCE
holding host is i'm training 10 take up the
hue and cry and give IL positive form
throughout the length and breadth OF the
land