Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-14
SCHEMING
GrOyerFiguring on a Third
Term.
POSES AS THE MOSES OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
THE ONLY SALVATION
CABINET FAMILY COME TO THE
FRONT SINCE ELECTION
WITH THE BOOM.
Say Bankers Are Behind Him, and
Therefore -. Would he =
Sure 'cr.

Il.
shadows cast over the Dem.S " lie par
~ by last weeks elections that of
the third term. 1t looks now as II an
organized effort Is TO be made by the
Cleveland wing of the party to thrust
a fourth nomination and third term
upon their ideal. This effort is to be
started and directed from the cabinet,
and with the knowledge and apparently
with the approval of the president.
Doubtless every federal ofiiceholder in
the country will be expected TO do his
share Of the work. The third term ex-
pertinent is now on, sure enough.
In one week there has been a change
of base on the part of the administra-
tion, amounting to revolution. Before
the election the members of the cabi-
net, almost without exception. believed
and said the president did not want a
third term, that he did not believe
In third term as matter OF prln-
clple, and that in case circumstances
seemed to require II he would make
public announcement Of his views and
of his refusal to run again. Now it
is different story.
The day after the election the mem
bers of the administration began talk
ing of fourth nomination. They said
the president, In view OF the result
of the elections was the only man who
could lift the Democratic party out of
Its slough OF defeat and dependency.
The volume Of this sort of talk has
visibly increased for some days. 1t
l.. ..t s.HAN ~ INtst
days cabinet meeting at which II is
known the President and his official
advisers spent nearly two hours talk
ing over the political situation. II
II In fair to infer the motives and plans
of an official family by what the MEM
bers of II have to say. then n move
ment for n third term was virtually
decided upon at that meeting Of the.
cabinet and may now be considered
afoot.
The third term movement defended
by the Presidents personal and Off
cial associates. is as follows
Mr. Cleveland In the only man who
can be elected as the candidate of the
Democratic party. He Ia the only man
In the party who Is greater than the
party He is the only Democrat whose
personality IL platform in Itself. and
who Is able to command n great vote
from the independent or Republican
elements, or at least from elements
which go to the Republican ticket
when Mr.. Cleveland is not a candidate.
Mr.. Cleveland believes he can be cleo
ted. He believes IL he had been run
running last Tuesday the Democratic
party would have carried
which IT lost on that OCCASION
New York, New Jersey. Maryland and
Kentucky. Mr.. Cleveland is not Ger.
tain that he would not have carried
OHIO.
The president believes the people re.
| buked the Democratic party last week
| by such tremendous adverse majorities
not because It was dissatisfied with the
national administration ut Washing.
| ton, not because OF the Hawaiian oil
| the general foreign policy not because
| of the two bond Issues. but wholly ant
| solely because OF popular disgust Will
Democratic bosses who have stood oul
| against the president, and because OF
| the manner in which certain Demo
| Gratis have insisted upon running th'
, false god OF silver, against the presi
| dents wishes and requeYts.
These premises laid down, the ex
| Founders of the third term DOCTRINE
| proceed to declare that 1t Is obvious
Mr.. Cleveland is the only man in tbs
| Democratic party who possesses th'
| confidence of the people to a degree
| sufficient TO induce the people to pu
| that party back into power There
| fore. there Is nothing to do but to re
| nominate Mr.. Cleveland.
| At this juncturc comes from th'
same sources the explanation that Mr.
| Cleveland personally does not want {
third term. lie Ia tired of work ant
wants to rest. Mrs. Cleveland Is tlref
| OF the White House and wants to re
| tire TO private life. II Will be tire
mendous sacrifice for the president ant
| his family TO consent to remain foul
| Years more in the executive mansion
| But Mr.. Cleveland. from the beginning
OF his public career. has placed dut,
before everything else.
According to these men. whose rlgh
i to speak for che president no one VIII
| deny, the thirl-term prejudice does no
| apply with any force TO MIR. Clevelar d
because he has not yet had two term
| continuously. Moreover they say th'
anti-thlrd term tradition has pracu
cally disappeared from the country
and now exists only in certain news
papers. 49, -,
Uaying thus swept away these Oh
stacles. the organizers Of the thir'
term movement rsturn to consideration
| of other features OF the situation me
say Mr.. Cleveland has the cpnndehc'
| NJ the business men OF the country
ana that he has led with signal cour
are and ability the fight against IN
free silver heresy. They think he ma
won that battle and that only "
| nomination OF the victorious leAue
viii insure confidence IN the Denio
cratic party In 1895. 49,,
sidorltions. they say Mr.. Cleveland u
-. aa,,lfsafe for the Democracy cal