The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-09-17
THIRD TERM soPHIsrRY.
senator George Gray says n Cleveland II
Again Elected IL VIII Not be

Again Elected II VIII Not be
Third Term.
New YORK. Sept. 9.-The World has
the following: The United States Sem
ator who has had closer pereonal and
political relations with Cleveland than
any other man Is Senator George Gray,
of Delaware, the Presidents spokes-
man and champion in the Hawaiian
debate and later in the tariff struggle.
He declared himself to be in favor of a
third term for Cleveland. Al cannot
admit he said. "that there is any such
issue as a third term issue"
"By third term he continued, II
assume is meant three consecutive
terms in presidential office. The issue,
as l understand it, is two terms for
Mr.. Cleveland. The President was
first nominated and elected in 1884. In
1888 he retired to private life, became
a plain citizen and devoted himself to
affairs of personal business. During
the four years he was one of people
and possessed no public Office.
"In 1892 he again accepted the NOM
ination and was triumphantly elected.
1t cannot, therefore, in view of the
lapse of four years between his second
and third nominations be logically
argued, should he receive the nomina-
ton at the hands of his party and be
elected that he would be serving a
third term. 1t would be only his sec
ond consecutive term of Office, there
fore third term talk is illogical and
misleading. believe Mr.. Cleveland
to be the logical nominee next year of
the Democratic party. He has, by his
devotion to his duty as he understood
it, twice saved the country from plung-
ing into a course that would have been
most disastrous to our institutions.
And while / would not pretend to say
what Mr.. Cleveland's ideas are with
reference to this third term talk, yet
he might refuse if a unanimous offer
of nomination were rendered to him.
Under the circumstances should ia
vor his nomination"
"With Mr.. Cleveland out of the race,
whom do you desire to be nominated"
"Mr. Whitney"
The above is a fair sample of the
transparent sophistry with which the
people are so often imposed upon by
their political leaders and newspapers,
when bent on carrying out some sell
fish or corrupt scheme. 1t is true, if
Mr.. Cleveland were to succeed him.
self at the end of his present term, it
would be only his second term in sue
cession, and that is about all the truth
there is in Senator Gray's false argu-
ment. AS matter of fact, it would
be the third time he had filed the
presidential chair, distinction never
yet accorded to any other American,
whether it were proposed that the
three terms should come in direct sue
cession or after an interregnum.
Gen. Grant, with all his military
prestige, could not be nominated for
a third term after he had rested four
years from his second term. Cleve-
land has already been thrice nominal
ed by his party for the presidency, a
distinction never before accorded to
any other party leader in the United
States, and fourth nomination, es-
pecially on top of the miserable fail
ure of his second administration, would
completely nauseate thousands of the
best men in his own party and the
masses at large.
Yes! the country has had quite
enough of the Sunday duck hunter and
fisherman from Buzzard's Bay, whose
chief concern is to carry out the man
dates of the money lords of Wall and
Lombard streets; but if Senator Gray
and other Democratic leaders think
otherwise, they should not try to mis-
lead the people by such absurd stuff
as is quoted in the above interview.