The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-06-11
WHAT WILL THEY DOT
Cloveland's Silence Q Fatal Embarrass
 ment to the Democracy.

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 Cleveland's Silence . Fatal Embarrass-
 ment to the Democracy.
 Maj. Mckinley being apparently nom- mated. with quiet understanding be. tween him and Mark Hanna that the
 campaign is to be made as far as possi-
 ble on the tariff, attention turns to Chi
 cago. What will the democrats do? | This question is frequently asked,
 but never answered. No officeholder, no member of congress, no leader, is
 willing even to guess. A few weeks ago
 the administration and the mugwumps had it all circumstantially laid out, the lines drawn and fixed. Then the plat form was to be for sound money and the candidate was to be named by Grover Cleveland, in the event of his determin- ing at the last moment not to take it | himself.
 | But all that is changed. The condi- tion of the administration is almost for lorn. If any hopes are entertained for the nomination of the president for 2 third term, they are nursel secretly and
 by those only who turk in the very shadow of the candidate. That they are entertained at all is inferred only from his refusal to speak when to speak, If not candidate, would. relieve his party
 and his faction of almost fatal embar- | rassments.
 Mir. Carlisle's candidacy has withercd
 under Cleveland's deadly silence. Billy Russell's is dying under the suspicion that he was brought out as sort Of forerunner of the third term schemers The power which Mir. Cleveland seemed to have six months ago to shape the convention and frame the issues has been frittered away and lost, or worse; for the active favor of the administra- tion and its peculiar friends would now injure more than it could help any can didate.
 The termination of the Cleveland reign would be relief to the party if the collapse, just on the eve of the conyen- ton. did not involve certain disaster to the cause of sound money. If the sill yer men are in a majority nt Chicago, and in temper to reject all compro- mise. and thereby insure the election of Mckinley. with a republican congress uncertain on the money question. the sound-money democrats may thank Mir. Cleveland and his agents and officehold- CTS for their plight. Three things have recently contributed heavily to depress the sound-money side and to raise the silver side, or, thanks to Mir. Clevelands course. the anti-CleveIand side, in the democratic fight.
 If President Cleveland is not can didate for a third term is there any req son why he should not say so? He knows that the party is staggering under the weight of the charge that he. its official head, three times honored by it's nomination and twice elected by its votes. coEtemplates this assault upon the cherished traditions of the republic He knows that the cause of sound money is failing because it is, by his silence, identified with the third term; and that the outgivings of his friends and office. holders encourage the belief that his nomination at Chicago is to follow the control of the convention by the sound money wing. In all the great states where the fight for sound money is be- ing made against growing odds the sound-money men encounter the in- vincible conviction that sound money. and the third term are to be combined if the administration can command G majority. It knocks them over in piles. It is doing more than anything else fn T1Iiroic Tn1,ono nL;a ,,,I lucky over to free silver. Senator Bricc started in to stem the tide in Ohio, but the very fact that he did so at Cleveland's request was handicap, and now he ayers that he and all other sound money men are paralyzed. and every thing is going to the devil everywhere | for want of q letter from the presiden. saying in plain English that he is no | better than George Washington and | Thomas Jefferson and that there must | be no nomination for third term.
 Brice's experience is only that of every one else. It is doubtful if any relief | is practicable at this time of day. Should the president now decide to get off the neck of the party and give it q chance. it would be too late to afford much relief. The damage is done, the delegates are elected, or the fight is about over. No wide-awake democratic politician in Washington has the least idea that Illinois, Ohio, Indiana or Ken-; lucky can be saved. The administration is simply amazed and maundering. |
 If sound money is killed at Chicago it will have been killed chiefly by Mir. selfish silence on the third term.--N. Y. Sun (Dem).