New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-12
THE NECESSARY" NAN.

What refinement Of cruelty, TO propose that
Grover Cleveland should be fastened upon the
Democratic party for a fourth nomination. And
vet the suggestion breaks out in good many
journals and interviews. as if there was Il wide
snread conspiracy TO force Democratic opinion
into that direction before anybody else could
rally any following The story always runs the
Same way. president Cleveland does not want
~ Int he ha. become absolutely necessary to
sthe Democratic party absolutely necessary TO
..the country" One man proves to his own
satisfaction that no Democrat can be elected
President if Cleveland cannot. The obvious an
swer. that no Democrat can be elected, he seems
70 overlook Another declares that there is no
Democrat. except Mr. Cleveland, in whom the
business interests of the country can repose
confidence. But it is matter of profound salts
faction to the business interests OF the country
that they will not be called upon to repose con-
fidence in any man nominated or elected u!
Democratic votes
Even at this hour when II would seem '"''
q man of common sense must realize that none
tary agitation in every form Is superi"uNe'!
undesirable, President Clcvelands Secretaf! oi
the Treasury, according TO official accounts from
Washington. is preparing another report au'o-
eating the abolition Of greenbacks ana the SUI
stitution of State bank notes. or course the
President could stop this performance ID! Il
word if he wished. Unless he is lacking i'll per
ceptlon Of facts, he must know mat reheWeu
agitation on that subject can only increase uh
certainty and apprehension, which the STATE vi
things abroad makes too great already. Neiuler
the President nor the Secretary can possibly
believe that a Republican Congress VIII vote
for such a plan. If it were possible at any o'her
time it would not be possible this year; hrst De
couso of the serious financial disturbances IN
Europe which would render grave change
here exceptionally dangerous; ana, secohd' pe-
cause of the approach Of Presidential eecuoh'
in which the Republican party Will assurediy
not take its monetary policy from the hands OF
a Democratic President. But TO start agitation
M a time when it must increase embarrassment
and cannot possibly do any good is an act OF
such folly that the country would not expect II
from any other Democrat. Yet the country does
eXpect that act from the President Men know
his obstinacy his contempt for public opinion,
his fixed idea that all Democratic defeats have
been caused bv Congress and not by him. III
would be Just like him, many reason, to set
forth once more Lis notion of q financial settle
ment in the conviction that nothing else could
save his party or the country. That it would
be untimely, nobody expects him to consider.
Nothing ever could be more untimely than his
persistence in the effort TO change the tarin
after the prostration Of 1893, but that was Mr..
Clevelands way The men who think him wise
and trustworthy evidently Imagine that II all
the universe gets in the way Of one OF Mr.. Cleve-
lands notions it is simply wicked misbehavor
on the part Of all the universe.
The State bank scheme was brought out a
year ago with much flourish of trumpets as the
one method of preventing Democratic disruption
on the money question. 1t was failure. The
silver people refused to regard it as in any sense
q compromise or concession to them. The hard
money Democrats saw that it would substitute
forty-four kinds of paper, all bad, for one kind
indisputably good. Still Mr.. Cleveland persist
ed, as he always persists. Because of his adher-
ence TO a plan Of settlement which he could not
get either party in either house TO adopt, he
presently found himself begging international
bankers TO take care of the United States Treas
ury as receivers No other Executive has ever
made such mess of it in financial matters, and
vet there are persons capable Of believing that
Grover Cleveland is the one and only man whom
the business interests Of the country will trust!
They are so strangely constituted that his one
good deed resistance 10 free-silver coinage,
makes them utterly blind to all his plumbers OF
method and his errors Of belief. 1t is not i'm
probable that the country may have another
practical Illustration of the eXpensiveness OF
Mr. Cleveland as n luxury before the year ends.
If he manages TO get up enough monetary agita-
ton to cause real apprehension In December,
men may again be reminded that there can be
no steady progress toward Improvement so long
as anv branch of the Government remains in
Democratic hands