Arizona republican., 1895-05-25
PHGNIX. MAY 25, 1895.
THE THIRD TERM.


That arch enemy of Mr.. Cleveland,
the Sun, assisting the Philadelphia
Press ingeniously traces down by the
reductio ad absurdum process, the origin
of'the third term nonsense" to coterie
GLASSES who congregate under the name
and style OF the New York Reform
Club. They are guilty, argues the Sun,
since no one else ia sufficiently silly.
Says the Sam;
In two recent proclanations from the
White House, Mr. Cleveland has Of
fered his services to the people as the
fgurehead of cause vaguely describe
by him as that of "sound money and a
safe currency" For several weeks it
has seemed likely that these mani
testoes had direct, if subterranean,
connection with certain cautious yet
systematic efforts to test ublic opinion
on the question of third term.
Tae observant and ingenious CORES
pondent in New York of the PhiladeI
phia Press has been trying to trace this
connection, by following up to their
probable source the little riyulets OF
thrd.term sentiment which now
trickle across the editorial pages of
the Cuckoo newspapers of the more
reckless sort. The task is worth the
trou BILE. Nothing that increases our
knowledge OF the psychology of Gu
ckooism is without value as material
for the political history of these times.
In the first place, the Press CORES
poudent acanits Col. Dan Lamont OF
any part or interest in the third-term
nonsense. A man who has had very
intimate relations with Mr.. Cleveland's
administration, and who has been ap
preaching some of the editors in west.
ern New York on the subject of third
term for Mr.. Cleveland, admits that the
matter has been mentioned to Lamont.
That astute person "replied instantly
that it was useless to attempt to re-
kindle third term sentiment. Mr..
Cleveland, in his opinion, would not
listen to such a suggestion. Ii there
seemed to be any serious growth Of the
third term plan, Mr.. Cleveland would
take, in his own way, steps to put an
end to it"
Now, while it is undoubtedly true
that Col. Lamont would talk that way,
at the present stage of the game, if he
were at the very bottom of third-term
movement, we do not believe that this
very adrot and sensible politician is
revolving any such idea, even in the in
Dermoet machinery of his able mind.
Mr.. Cleveland as statesman is in pc.
culiar sense the creation of Col Dan
Lamont's genius. When Mr.. Cleveland
foil ho T1lo,oJ1e ID,
political matters. he has generally pro-
flied by his docility. When he has
chosen to go it alone, he has frequent.
ly come to grief. Nearly every body I'm,
derstands this except Mr.. Cleveland
himself; and nobody understands it
better than Col. Lamont. His own fu-
ture fame as the creator and manager
OF all historical parsonage of broad
dimensions is now involved in the task
of getting his large friend successfully
through the next twenty-five months
without any irremediable break, and
then landing him intact in dignifed 1e-
tirement. Col. Lamont has no con-
ceivable motive for assisting to wind up
Mr.. Cleveland's public career with an
inglorious and ridiculous attempt to
grab an honor which Washington re-
fused, and which has been within the
reach of no president since Washing
ton. 1t would be as. if a sculptor
should deliberately smash his own
masterpiece when it was nearly COM
pleted and almost ready for exhibition.
Clearly. it is not Dan Lamont. And
yet somebody is now industriously at
work sowing in fertile Cuckoo soil the
seed thought that the financial emer-
gency and the preservation ofo credit
in Europe may justify departure next
year from the no thirdterm principle
and compel the nomination of the Hon.
Grover Cleveland as the only American
Statesman able to handle the emer-
gency. and keep US right in the credit
books of the European bankers!
If it is not Col. Lamont, who is it?
We cannot say that the correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press has fully an
swered this question. The result of
his Investigations up to date seems to
be that the fountain head of third
term sentimPn Mt is in "a small group in
the New York Reform Club" He