The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-17
THE WORLD AND GROVER.

THE WORLD AND GROVER.
The New York World is perhaps the
most sensational paper in the United
States. 1t likes nothing better than to
make a hobby Of some project or other,
bend all its energies-which whatever
else may be said OF it, must be adj
mitted to be great-to its ACCOMPLISH
ment. That it is adroit at this kind of
work, goes without saying That gem
orally it succeeds cannot be gainsaid.
But when it undertook to boom Mr..
Grover Cleveland for a presidential
third term, it had no appreciation of
the magnitude of the undertaking it
had ON hand
When a popular soldier and a safe
man such as General U. S. Grant was,
tried that third term trick and failed,
the World should have known better
than to have championed the effort to
give Grover Cleveland fourth nomin-
alton and third term.
We do not believe that any man
either should or ever will be elected
third time to the presidency Of these
United States, and least of all such
man as Grover Cleveland.
The World begins to realize that it
has something more than a white ele-
plant on it's hands, and begins to talk
in a sort of a discouraged tone of Gro
ver's prospects. Through it's numer-
GUS agencies it has been investigating
the presidents chances for a third
term with the result as given by itself
as follows:
1t must be admitted that the re-
sponses from the south and west to
the Worlds question, rs not Mr.. Cleve-
land the logical candidate?" reveal am
extraordinary amount of opposition to
his nomination. Four years ago there
was bitter opposition, but it was con-
fined mainly to this state. He received
ON the first ballot in the national con-
vention Git of the 900 votes. or ten more
than the necessary two-thirds. The ex-
pressions of preference by leading poll
ticians now give him less than one
third Of the states.
The World insists that the opposition
to Mr.. Cleveland comes from opposition
from any objection to third term.
That may be; still we are of opinion
that if his financial record was out of
the way, that is, had it been all the
country could have expected or asked,
we think the anti-third term sentiment
would of itself be strong enough to de-
feat him or amy other man for a third
term for the presidency.
And we are equally sure that if Mr..
Cleveland were a candidate for a sec
ond instead of a third term, his record
ON the financial question would be
sufficient to defeat him. Yet the World.
with stupidity that is astounding
says:
AS to silver, they cannot see why
Mr.. Cleveland's views should be any
more distasteful to free coinage men
than they were four years ago when
they helped elect him. His views on
the currency were just as pronounced
then as now. Meanwhile the number of
silver dollars in the country has in
creased some 15,000,000, and the price of
silver has fallen from so cents to 6S
cents an ounce-increasing the danger
and the dishonesty of free coinage.
1t may be that Mr.. Cleveland S
views on currency are the same now
as they were four years ago, but the
country is better aware of them now
than it was four years ago. Moreover.
money has become more distinctly the
paramount issue than it was four years
ago. Tariff was the issue on which Mr..
Cleveland was more especially elected;
the platform on money was a straddle,
which Mr.. Cleveland made indecent
haste to interpret in favor of the sim
gle gold standard. For, ignoring the
pressing need for the repeal Of the in
famous Mckinley tariff law, he con-
vened a special congress to do what he
was certainly not elected to do-repeal
the purchasing clause of the Sherman
law; and we have not forgotten how he
misused the great power of his Office
to accomplish his wishes in respect to
that law, showing that he was most
unfit man to be trusted with those
powers
And silver during his administration
Has 11IiS4l IL OIll on " 20 OSAANo
and therefore we ought to elect him
third time president of the United
States!
We know that the World says that
this fall in silver increases the danger
and dishonesty of free coinage, and its
implied argument is that this circum-
stance should win silver advocates
from what it considers the heresy OF
free silver. But we remember that il
was this act which repealed the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman law that
brought the reduction; and for this in
jury to the country shall we bow low
and in bondsman's key say Thou art
worthy a third time to have term in
the White House?'' A distinction which
Washington with patriotic wisdom de-
clined? That neither Jefferson MOI
Jackson would aspire to, that Grant
could not get? Out upon such a
thought! Grover Cleveland merits no
such distinction; and he will give evil
dence of his unworthiness If he either
seeks it, or permits for one moment the
idea to be seriously entertained by his
fool friends