The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-06-26
Mr.. Cleveland is n Candidate.

! 1t is absurd to suppose that Mr
. Cleveland is not candidate 70
the nomination at Chicago. H
has been plotting and working ant
scheming for ii ever since he enter
ed upon his second term. He ha
eXacted slavish personal service il
that direction from all who hole
Office under him. Under the guist
Of saving the country from a return
to bimetallism, he has had his em
i5saries at work for him in every
state ever since 1893. He has sem
his Cabinet officers out to stumI
the country to indirectly labor fol
his nomination, as witness Carlisle
in Kentucky, Tennessee and Hi.
nois: Hoke Smith in Georgia; Her.
bert in Alabama: Wilson in West
Virginia and j. Sterling Morton in
Nebraska. He has set up Comp
troller of the Currency Eckels as II
schoolmaster to instruct the people
and has sent him about the country
like tin peddler or a street fakir,
to offend the ears of the public with
the brawling Outcry of his nos.
trums. In short, Mr.. Cleveland
has all along been working as open,
~ for the control Of the National
Convention of 1896 as he did for
those Of 1888 and 1892. 1t is plain
case, and how anybody can be
made to think otherwise passes all
understanding.
The gold trust-which has used
his Administration to supply the
foreign demand for gold, by selling
it to the Treasury in exchange for
interest-bearing bonds, to the ex-
tent of $262,O0O,00J in two years,
and which is now puckering its
mouth for another $lO0,000,000-
the gold trust which after 50 sell.
ing this gold to the Treasury draws
il out again in exchange for green
backs, which the law makes pay.
able in silver or gold at the Gov
ernment's option-this gold trust
has all its machinery at work to
control the convention for Mr..
Cleveland's nomination. 1t bullies
coaxes, threatens, predicts untold
disasters if opposed, and drafts in
TO its service able and adroit men,
as well as vulgar mercenaries, and
that stupid class of smoothbore
known as thermometers.
1t has a band of newspapers VIII ich
scream like hundred caliopes,
and set upon the advocates of sill
YER as though they, and not their
assailants, were banditti.
Mr.. Cleveland has been urged
time and again to say the simple
words that he would not again be
u candidate. Grim and self satisfi-
ed, he has sought the oflic @ by the
silence which gives consent. When
even his dull perceptions taught /
him that the Democratic masses
we're taking control of the Demo-
,ratic party, and would have no
more of him or his syndicates, he
himself and wrote a let
er to that calm and reflective
ournal, the New York Herald say
ng that the sacred cause of the
,old standard was in danger, and
hat he so loved the Democratic
,arty that he wanted it to go on
loing the bidding of the gold trust
Is IL had under his Administration.
Ie inserted u phrase to conceal
lis candidacy, but thereby only
My made it more apparent. II
Ie had not an unconquerable de-
ire for another term he would
ave said so in simple words,
which none could have mistaken.
instead of that he merely referred
D himself as a prospective "private
n the ranks OF the party" This
vas a palpable bid for the nomina-
ion. II way a coy reference to il,
nd no intimation Of a distate for
!. The mere mention that he Is
My TO be private hereafter Is a
i'd for the cuckoos TO cry aloud for
is continued !, adership. lie is as !
usy as ever in his eager and hope 8
,ss chase for the possession o. the 8
'ational Convention. He thinks !
hat he has only TO muster all the I
)rces he can against silver and :
nat the gold power will buy
nough to supply the deficiency.
lie reasons that If a gold platform
an be made, by hook and by crook
may by many crooks-he will be
-he logical candidate" He be- ,
ewes in his destiny, and that only :
imself can be his parallel.
There is nj more danger of his
omlnation than there IL Of a gold
latform, and there IL no more
anger of II gold platform than