The evening times., 1895-12-07
'clEVElIID Is inbII0Us
Ne Wants TO Lead d New Democ-
tacy to Victory.
WHAT Is SAID ABOUT IT
Some Politicians Clnim TO Have OBJ
served the Tendency Significant
Utterances ofthe New Y ork Afeform
Club Echoed at the White House.
Pulling From Party Conditions.

The Presidents message to Congress Is
still being discussed in a quiet, -desuItory
sort OF way by the members OF the House,
who are somewhat puzzled inSextractffig
whatever hidden political significance
may he contained in 1t.
A great many OF these seekers after the
innernost truth have arrived at the conciu-
sion that the latest communication from the
President. when taken by large and small,
as would be said In the remote West. in
dicates that his position hereafter will be
that OF "a reformer pure and snhpi1
All of Mr.. CieyeiaDd's declarations and
convictions Will, they believe, hereafter be
made upon the lines Of reform and in
dependent politics and tEat in the next
national campaign an effort will be made
to feorgaDize The Democratic party SO as
TO meet the teDets already set form by ii
chief Recognized leader. 1t will be q
case In which the party must come to the
man and not the man go 10 the party.
Influential meu among tile Democrats,
both those who are engaged in politics
and in business, are speaking OF the mes
sage, not as state paper, but asa RIVE
lation OF political conditions and OF MIR.
Cievelands personal qualities.
INDICATES HIS POLICY.
The suggestion has been made many
times that it is altogether possible that
Mr.. Cleveland had in mind the reorganiza-'
ton either oi the Democracy or the crystal.
IiZation into new organization OF po-
Iitical force which would be- powerful
enough to raise a commanding issue in
future political struggles.
That is exactly the policy which his act
i've friends have for more tban year hoped
he would be influential IN bringing about.
1t is the policy OF the Reform Club OF New
York which, more than any ether asso-
ciaiioIi. either political OF noD-poiitical has
been Identified with Mr.. CIevelands pub
liccareer. A year ago that turganizatlonpro-
mulgated its view OF what tue later Dtnoc-
racy should do and mean.
The gentlemen UI tue keform Club under
took 10 prepare the pu bilc for exactly such
made in his message. They attacked the
grecnbacks with piai sibllity ol reasoning
equal To that which characterized Secretary
Cariisle's speech before tue chamber OF com-
merce, and In vigorous and lucid d1ctlon
which Is not observable in MI. Cleyeiand's
message.
Tney were for the absolute gold standard
and FOR the use OF silver only AS subsidiary
coin. They favored remitting 10 banks.
both national and State, tue exclusive
right OF ISSUING notes. and they nropQsed 70
convert the greenbacks and Treasury notes
into long time government bonds, braring
small rate OF Interest.
The omy point in which they differed with
Mr.. Cleveland was this. They favored the
employment OF a reserve fund as security
for hank notes. whereas Mr.. Cleveland 1nti-
mates that the long time bonds may be used
Tor that purpose.
NO CONCEALMENT MADE
Many OF the members uf the Reform Club
do not attempt TO conceal their purpose
So to reorganize the Democratic party
that IL will stand for this p,ilicy, and they
profess Ia believe that such party viii
attract to it a ma jurity of the business men
of the United States within a few years.
Knowing this purpose OF the Reform Club,
il Is very natural that SOME surfnises should
have been expressed that Mr.. Cleveland
Is III sympathy with the Reform Club and
earnestly hopes that parties may be s., re-
organized or that the now shifting lines
may i'll the near future be so well straight
ened that upon one side will be found all
OF tri,se who are ready u take np this new
issue and make II Il distinctive party policy,
and upon the ,ither side Will be distovefed
those WIN are opposed to this reformation.
That Is the pollucui view nicn mas been
suggested to many persons who have care
iuny read the MESA ge- Whether MIR.
Cleveland himself is ready 10 accept the
leadership which such Organization would
entail, or whether lie proposes To leave
TINS policy as legacy Iur those who
succeed him TO use for party purposes,
OF course no one can decide.
Some men think IL is not irrational to
suppose that Mr.. Cleveland woud accept
the nomination for the Presidency from
a party which made the chief plank in Its
platform The financial recommends ations
are more inclined Ia think that it Is his am
btion tn leave a distinctive policy TO his
successor. in imitation of the example of
Jackson.
Iu addition to this political -yiew or
these suggestions which have Il political
flavor, another result OF the message is
a comment which relates to Mr.. Cleve-
lands intellectual and moral quality.
For it must be said that the suggestion
has been frequently made that the message
even in its Phraseoiogy gives impression
either n effanYp in Mr. ClaypIlnd's
tellectual character or else u revelation of
elements which many persons have not
suspected existed.
CONFESSED THEIR SUSP ICION.
1t is true that some of those influential
Democrats who We're, during his first
in intimate relations with
him have confessed i'll confidence their
suspicion that Mr.. Cleveland, in spite of
popular opinion, was not man of high
moral courage. One of those W no was IN
the past most closely associated with him
had, as he thought. reason to believe that,
while Mr.. Cleveland WIS an obstinate MN.
he was not a fearless one i'll Tie highest
sense OF that word.
Some have thought that the message
reveals either weariness, which may sug-
gest that Mr.. Cleveland's friend Benedict
was correct when he said for pubicati ton
the other day that the President is. and has
else mental confusion, as indicated by the
specfous logic contained in some OF his
pleas,
Almost every one who has commented
upon the message from the personal view
point has said tnat il cannot be compared
In vigor, virility, enthusiasm and force with
the tariff message OF 1887.
That. ii has been said, was like q trumpet
CALL and it stirred up the people so that later
the calrelation o fparties was reversed.
considering tue correctness of the
principles set forth. II is isesteemed perhaps
the best example of fOrcible, plausible, and
writing which Mr. Cleveland
has ever furnished.
The last message, as ii seems to many. is
of statement, uncertainty of rea
soning, foggy mental vision, in comparison
with the ringing message OF 1857. Men
are asking what the reason OF this is.
They say, "has the President felt the
overwhelming force OF public, opinion as
expressed in the elections OF 1894 and
lss6?' rs he struggling to apologize. de-
rend, or to change frOnt."
Some OF the scholars who have read the
message or parts OF the me ossage for study
of Mr.. Clevcland's literary style feel free
to say that it is only a rather feeble
echo OF those qualities which in the days
of Mr.. CIeveland's enthusiasm and faith
in what he represented were conspic-
uous characteris;ics Of his writing.
But ON the other hand there be those who
still mainIain that Mr.. Cleveland pos
sesses in an unatatesi degree those quail
tiles which earned him reput alton for
ing the courage Of his convictions.
foundation upon which he will erect a
great personal political structure with
the keystone OF reform. Around this
structure the reoIgaEized Democratic party
Will be expected TO rally I'D the next cam
paign.
Dreyfus May Have Escaped.