The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-18
NR. CARLISLE a CANDIDATE.

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personal friend authorized to speak for
| the secretary; and that public an
nouncement of the candidacy of Mr..
Carlisle is only withheld TO give Presi-
dent Cleveland an opportunity to
formally state his purpose not to per-
nit his name to be used in the con-
Vention in connection with third
term 1t was further stated that Mr.
Carlisle's candidacy will have the sup
port of Mr. Cleveland and members
cf the cabinet In other words. If is
doubtless proposed to make the secre-
tary Of the treasury the administration
candidate before the convention. and
IN the event, of course. of his securing
the nomination there would he q
sualght sound money platform drawn
Tor MN as against the probable Re
publican straddle platform.
IL is useless waste of time for Mr.
carlisle or his friends to wait upon the
movement OF ar. Cleveland to declare
himseh not a candidate for a third
term Grover Cleveland could not get
the nomination for a third term how
ever ambitious he might be to secure
L. Custom regulates more things than
| iaw-that is than statutory law-cus-
tom is law, and it is not less power
Iui because it is not written in books.
IL HroVer Cleveland was all he thinks
himself to be he could not get a third
term nomination; and If, by some mis-
carriage of fortune. he secured the
nomination his defeat would be assured.
HOW much less likely is he to get the
nomination when there is such a wide
disparity between what President
cleveland presumes to think he is and
what in reality he is, and what his
1olfow citizens are learning to esteem
him at
AS to the candidacy of Mr. Carlisle
mat Is another matter. In many re-
spects he is the most interesting per-
sohailty in public life in the United
states. His intellectually commands
the respect of everybody. That he has
a judicial mind goes without saying.
fhat he is broad, liberal and philo-
sophical none viii question. That he
made a splendid speaker of the house
none will attempt to deny That he
made even better and almost an
ideal senctcr n will concede; but
that he Possesses the executive quail
ties in that degree that would enable
nim to fill successfully the office of
president of the United States none
who have followed closely the career
of the man and read Alright his char
acter can believe. We do not believe
that the best friends of John G. Car
Isle are urging him to this step since
it is destined whether he get the
Democratic nomination or not to end
in humiliation. In the first place we
do not think he can get the nomination
of the Chicago convention; to at
tempt it and fail would be humiliation.
If the friends of the admins tration
could so far dominate the convention
as to secure for him the nomination.
the free silver Democrats would most
certainly walk out, the party would
be defeated, Mr.. Carlisle would be de-
feated; and that would be humiliating.
Not that defeat is always humihating.
but in this case it would be for the
reason that Mr. Carlisle would most
likely be defeated by the detection his
candidacy would create in the party
by which he would be defeated. If
ne is wise his serious second thought
Will lead him to close his ears to the
whispers of his ambition and the
promptfngs of mistaken friends. 1t is
wrong, it is positively cruel for a man
to be urged to seek a place for which
he is not fitted by the nature of his
character
And yet We hope Mr.. Carlisle's
friends and the single gold standard
men will press his nomination in the
Chicago convention; for nothing that
could be done would so certainly re-
suit in a square issue being forced
upon the convention in relat ton to the
money question. Mr. Carlisle could
not be nominated except on a straight.
single gold standard platform He
would accept nothing less than this.
His nomination would mean an abso-
lutte endorsement of the administra-
tons financial policy: and just as
surely as MIR. Carlisles supporters
could demonstrate their ability to
nominate him, just that sure would
the great body of the pro-silver men
leave that convention They would
not support this administrations finan-
cial policy and that is all there is to
it. The Democratic majority in the
last congress refused to follow the
suggestions of the administration and
it was only by appealing to the Re
publieans in congress that the admin
istration could go as far as it did in
its financial policy; and Mr. Reed. of
Maine, declared himself that if the
executive was left to the members of
his own party in congress, the country
would witness the strange spectacle
of seeing him overthrow by the party
charged with the administration of the
affairs of the government Eastern
Republicans have gone quite as far as
eastern Democrats in approving the
presidents financial policy.
We would deplore the effort of Mr..
Carlisle to secure the Democratic nomi-
nation for Mr. Carlisle's sake; but
nothing would so bring on a square
issue in the Chicago convention and
for that reason we would welcome It
believing that Mr.. Carlisle would be
Overwhelmingly defeated in the gem
eral convention and IL ,,1..