Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-26
FRIDAY. ....JULY &c, 1895
About n Third Term.

II is the ghost of third term that the
politicians now see--not a third term.
MIR. Cleveland no doubt thinks that II
would be unbecomng in him to decline
an honor that has not been offered to him
by any man or eny set Of men autho-
rized TO approach him on the subject OF
a third term.
We have seen nothing to cause us 10
change the opinion We have several times
expressed that Mr.. Cleveland'S name Is
not likely to go before the Democratic
National Convention at all. We Know
well what delight the people seem TO
take in applauding TO the echo every
reference 10 him which public speaker
makes. whether in Georgia or virginia.
or Kentucky. or on the Pacific coast but
we are inclined 10 look upon those de-
nonstrations as intended TO testify to
Mr. Cleveland that though II would not
do 20 nominate him for President In 1885,
he sill enjoys the confidence Of the men
who twice placed him in the most eX-
allied station in the world.
we suspect that the Republicans fear
Mr.. Cleveland He has twice defeated
theyn. and they tremhe In their shoes
AZ the prospect OF having TO encounter
him n third time Senator Quay thinks
he Will b. nominated next year. and de-
clares that ne Is dangerous man." and
will not be hurt by the third-terIn cry.
The Cincinnati Commercial plays the part
OF a wizard. and makes the inconsequen-
tial remark that when Garfield died he
probably had never heard the name of
Cleveland, and yet Cleveland was his
first elected successor. our Cincinnati
contemporarys logic is at fault. The
proper inference for that paper TO draw
from the fact 81 states would be that
Mr.. Clcveland's successors name has
never yet been heard Of by Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr.. Cleveland's strength lies in his
hold on the imaglnauons of men, says
one of our Republican exchanges. Now
we venture to say that the whole third
term spectre is "a man In buckrain''
II David J.. Hill. or William c. Whitney.
or any other good Democrat, were In Mr.
Cleveland's place, his name would be re-
ceived in every Democratic convention
that might be held in the whole country
with Just such demonstrations as now
greet everywhere the mention OF Mr.
Cleveland's name.
An men are man-worshippers, said the
great Thomas Carlyle. II they cannot
find ready-made object of worship they
proceed TO manufacture one. And who
So conveniently circumstanced 10 become
that one object of alteration as the first
man in the land-the President of the
United States and shepherd OF his
people?
The Cincinnati wizard says that when
MIR. Cleveland went TO Washington city
In 1856 to be inaugurated President he
saw that city for the first time. "Argal,"
saws the wizard aforesaid, he will visit
Washington again in 1897, though he VIII
have trayersed its streets hundreds of
times before that date.
The wizard says that Mr.. Cleveland
put down his foot and patronage made
men yield TO his direction" That remark
belongs to practical politics"
But above all. the condition In which
the year 1896 will find the silver question
renders IL improbable that MI cleveland
will be nominated for President. The
silver Democrats are numerous host
in this country, as are also the sound
money Democrats. No man prominent In
either faction will be nominated unless
indeed the situation shall have so changed
by June OF next year as TO render both
factions Indifferent as to who shall fight
"a battle which win be lost before 1t Is
fought. t.r