Middletown transcript., 1895-09-14
THE THIRD TERM.

1
says: 81 cannot admit that there il
any such issue as a third term," ani
insists that a third term means three
consecutive terms, but the Erera
Ereninq with it's usual fatality heads
the interview in bold type
SIN FAVOR OF A THIRD TERM"
Mr.. Gray says that "Mr. Cleveland
is the logical nominee next year of the
Democratic party" He declares that
the tariff will not be an issue, moi
even tariff reform we suppose, and
claims ''f0r an issue in 1896 We shall
60 back to basic principles. The
Democratic party was founded on the
principle that is the sole purpose OF
the governmental protect the people
in the pursuit of life, liberty and hap
piness."
1t is not surprising that Senator
Gray and his friends desire to cut
loose from tariff discussion. They
declared "protection fraud and un-
constitutional" and then after bring
ing financial distress upon the country
by the threat that they would wipe the
tariff laws off the statue books, and
consequently paralyze all manufactur-
ing interests, passed tariff law whose
chief corner stone is protection. Ger
tainly they do not desire the tariff to
be an issue, or their pledges and their
performances to be contrasted. But
Mr.. Gray's platform is pretty rough on
the EUery Evening. 1t would put the
average honest paper outside its party.
It will be remembered that the Every
Evening on March 10th, referring to
the tariff bill passed by Congress which
it now SO Inconsistency boasts of,
and which was SO disappointing to
President Cleveland that he would
not sign it, said:
"The Constitution Infringed-Our
Boast Of the Protection of Liberty
and Property Against the Excesses
and Passions of Legislature Multi.
fed-If the Income Tax Law Be Sus-
tanned By the Supreme Court Upon
the Olney-Carter Arguments the
Most Important Rights of the People
VIII Have Vanished"
This was the chief product of the
overwhelming Democratic Congress
elected with Mr.. Cleveland. If Mr..
Gray's platform is adopted and the
Every Evening has the least consistency
it must oppose the return to power of
party guilty Of so gross charges. The
Every Evening was the judge and jury,
and that was it's opinion of the only
out and out Democratic administration
in the past thirty-six years. The in
come tax, which according to Every
EUening so seriously threatened the
"life, liberty and happiness" of the
people. which Mr.. Gray makes his
platform for the next campaign, was
the instrument in Democratic hands
to destroy protection. Thanks to the
judgment of Supreme Court, not to
a Democratic Administration, the
country is safe and the whole people
stand on Mr.. Gray's platform. SO fit
tingly preserved to the country by the
Party in the '60's and
cherished by it ever since. 1t is anus
ing to see with what regularity our
Democratic friends climb on the Re-
publican platforms of preceding years.
Welcome, Mr.. Gray, to this one.
But to leave these matters to the
contemplation of Brother Handy,
what is the mental comment of all |
public men upon the leaders of the |
Democratic party when but one man
in the party for period Of sixteen
years is presented to the people as the
party standard bearerl And this too
in the face of the fact that Mr.. Cleve-
land is not the idol of his party that |
his partisan benefciaries would have
the public believe. Less than a twelve
months ago there was none so humble |
upon the Pacific Coast as to do him
reverence, save his Office holders. He |
commands respect, or silence at least,
fromthem by official accommodation
Of such as have the manhood to criticise
his Administration. Certainly this
is an exhibition of one man power, an
acknowledgment Of Ia domineering in
duence that has never had it's equal in
this country. Will the Democratic
Party submit to it? Washington saw
The danger of third term and refused
it. Grant, mislead by his nearest ad-
visers, attempted if, and was turned |
down by the wisdom of his party. And
behold 4 lesser than a Grant or
Washington seeks to accomplish what
one could not and what the other
would not. 1t will not be. Without
regard to Mr.. Cleveland's ability or
his qualification, the people of this
will not endorse his ambition,
and it matters very little whether he is
turned down by his own party in con-
or by the people at the polls.
There IS ne third term, neither cen
'ecutive nor non-consecutive.
THE SAME ELSEWHERE.
The TRANSCRIPT did not expect the
least acknowledgment of an error or
,he smallest proof on the part of the
Every EVENING" for its unfnnnded